{"id":416896,"date":"2021-10-04T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=416896"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:16:31","slug":"ios-15-allows-users-to-report-scam-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/416896-ios-15-allows-users-to-report-scam-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"iOS 15 allows users to report scam apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has added back the &#8220;Report a Problem&#8221; button to its App Store and added an option to let users report scam applications, according to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/10\/4\/22705405\/apple-report-a-problem-button-app-store-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> <\/strong>from The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome change after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/06\/06\/apple-app-store-scams-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a><\/strong> that showed 2% of the top-1,000 earning apps available through the App Store were found to be scams.<\/p>\n<p>After tapping the &#8220;Report a Problem&#8221; button, users will be able to &#8220;Report a scam or fraud&#8221; through the following menu, according to FlickType founder and App Store critic Kosta Eleftheriou.<\/p>\n<p>Before iOS 15, users could only choose from &#8220;Report suspicious activity&#8221;, &#8220;Report a quality issue&#8221;, &#8220;Request a refund&#8221;, or &#8220;Find my content&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In a major reversal, Apple quietly added back the \u201cReport a Problem\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AppStore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AppStore<\/a> button in iOS 15: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UopiPDEV7e\">pic.twitter.com\/UopiPDEV7e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kosta Eleftheriou (@keleftheriou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keleftheriou\/status\/1444814469184425988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>None of the options provided a clear route to report a scam application, with the &#8220;Report suspicious activity&#8221; option taking users straight to Apple Support.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse is that users could only select the &#8220;Report a quality issue&#8221; once they had purchased the application \u2014 meaning they had already fallen for the scam.<\/p>\n<p>This change to the App Store allows users to flag suspicious applications without having already paid for them.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 15 was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/414218-ios-15-launch-date-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released on 20 September<\/a><\/strong> and included the ability to rate Apple&#8217;s own applications, including the Apple Maps, News, and Podcast applications.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/416154-spotify-drains-around-30-battery-an-hour-on-ios-15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify drains 30% battery per hour on iOS 15<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iOS 15 adds the ability for Apple App Store users to flag fraudulent applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":416898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2412,605,165,67786,72938,1271],"class_list":["post-416896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-fraud","tag-ios-15","tag-kosta-eleftheriou","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}