»Why Has Google Not Updated Its iPhone Apps In Weeks? Is It Because Of The App Store Privacy Labels?
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Why Has Google Not Updated Its iPhone Apps In Weeks? Is It Because Of The App Store Privacy Labels?
At the time of writing this, popular apps including Google Search, Gmail, Google Chrome, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Meet, YouTube and Google Pay have not been updated for 4 weeks or more, for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. Some of these apps have received updates on Android during this time.
Last Updated:January 06, 2021, 12:30 IST
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Google has not updated a single app on its roster, for the Apple iPhone, for four weeks or more now. That, in this day and age, is an abnormally long time to leave an app untouched without updates, bug fixes or functionality tweaks. Unless all of Google’s apps for the iPhone are absolutely perfect and perfection doesn’t need any updates, it seems a tad perplexing why this is happening. At the time of writing this, popular apps including Google Search, Gmail, Google Chrome, Maps, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Meet, YouTube and Google Pay have not been updated for 4 weeks or more, for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. Which means the last updates arrived in early December 2020, that is December 7 or before. Hold on for a second, that somehow coincides with the rollout of Apple’s mandatory privacy labels for all apps updated post December 8, 2020?