Apple revealed on May 27, 2025 that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone, highlighting its ongoing efforts to keep users safe.
Some of the other noteworthy statistics shared by Apple for 2024 are:
- Detected and blocked more than 10,000 illegitimate apps on pirate storefronts.
- Stopped nearly 4.6 million attempts to install or launch apps distributed illicitly outside the App Store or approved third-party marketplaces.
- Rejected more than 1.9 million App Store submissions for failing to meet Apple’s standards for security, reliability, privacy violations, or fraud concerns.
- Removed more than 37,000 apps for fraudulent activity.
- Rejected over 43,000 app submissions for containing hidden or undocumented features.
- Rejected over 320,000 submissions that copied other apps, were found to be spam, or otherwise misled users
- Rejected 400,000 app submissions for privacy violations.
- Removed more than 143 million fraudulent ratings and reviews from the App Store.
- Identified nearly 4.7 million stolen credit cards and banned over 1.6 million accounts from transacting again.
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