Today, it was reported that Google has not updated any of its iOS applications since December 7, the day before Apple required developers to provide a privacy report for each application available on the App Store. However, Google has announced that it will update its iOS apps with privacy details starting this week.
Since December 8, all developers must complete a privacy report that contains all the information about the personal data to which each iOS application has access, such as location, browsing history, contacts, photos and more.
By coincidence, as noted by Fast Company, Google stopped releasing updates for its iOS apps the day before Apple started applying its new App Store guidelines. As a result, none of Google’s iOS apps has the new privacy report.
Although the original report suggested that the company was avoiding App Store privacy labels, Google has now confirmed TechCrunch that your iOS apps will be updated starting this week with this information. According TechCrunch, most of the Google team was shut down at the end of December due to the holiday, so this is why Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated since.
While it may seem that Google is circumventing Apple’s new rules, we should also be careful not to read too much about the update time. A slowdown in application updates in December is by no means unusual. Obtained for comment, a Google spokesman confirmed that the company has a plan to add privacy labels to its application catalog.
The report also mentions that two Google apps for iOS, Google Slides and Socratic, were updated after Apple released the App Store’s privacy labels – although the apps still don’t have the privacy report. This suggests that Apple has given Google a little more time to tailor its applications to the new privacy guidelines, but that Google did not plan to break Apple’s rules.
Google did not provide an exact date to release updates for its apps on the iOS App Store, but the company said it would begin to include the requested privacy report this week or next.
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