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The change that requires application developers to detect their addresses, phone number and email information for consumers has been broadcast in the application store within the European Union. Apple on Tuesday Declare It has removed any applications in the European Union that has not yet complied with Digital Services Law (DSA), which is a list that added a condition in Articles 30 and 31.
in advertisement For developers, Apple says that as of Tuesday, February 18, all applications that do not exceed the trading status in the European Union App Store have been removed, and they will not be returned until the trading status is provided and verified by Apple.
The data indicates that there are a number of developers affected by the change. Most likely, this is because at least some do not develop the application as its full -time job. According to the intelligence provider, the application ApplicationsNearly 135,000 applications have become inactive to all the European Union state -member applications for the past thirty hours.
Developers I knew the deadline on February 17, 2025 For some time, so today’s announcement should not be a surprise.
However, European Union Law had a greater impact on the developers of smaller and independent applications who usually do not spread their addresses or phone numbers to deal with consumer complaints or inquiries. Often, these developers work from home and only generally recount an email address on their website to get comments and customer support.
According to DSA, any application that makes money can be considered through the application store “merchant”, whether these revenues come through paid downloads, purchases within the application, or even the advertisement. Also, the application will be qualified if used in relation to “trade, business, crafts or profession” – this means that anything was not an amateur application that is covered by DSA.
Institutions that are published in the European Union App Store must display their phones, e -mail and the associated address Duns number. Meanwhile, individual developers had also had to include an address, phone and email, as the instructions mentioned.
Their smaller developers Find themselves The need to record addresses and phone numbers through third parties to give them some protection and privacy as a result of the new organization. For example, some developers used work points at work, virtual offices or Po boxes as their business addresses, while others registered to obtain virtual phone numbers instead of giving their own numbers to publish on the public application store.
In the European Union App Store, the new “Trader” information is now below the details of the application such as its age rating and subsidized languages, but above the link to the developer site.
Updated after posting with newly released data on the number of removal operations.