Apple purifies applications without contact information from EU App Store as DSA Deadline hit

The change requiring applications developers to disclose their address, telephone number and email information to users have come out live at the Application store within the European Union. Apple on Tuesday declared He has removed all EU apps that have not yet met Digital Services Act (DSA), a regulation that has added a requirement in Articles 30 and 31 that application developers must provide their “merchant status” to send new applications or updates to distribution applications to this market.

In message For developers, Apple says that as of Tuesday, February 18, all applications without a merchant status have been removed at the EU Application Store and will not be restored until their merchant’s condition is provided and checked by Apple.

A number of developers have been influenced by change, data show. Probably, this is because at least some do not develop applications like their full -time work. According to the App Intelligence Provider AppfiguresNearly 135,000 applications have been inactive in all state stores for an EU member in the last 30 hours.

Developers knew about the deadline on February 17, 2025. For a while, so today’s message should not be a surprise.

However, the EU law has had a more impact on the smaller ones and the developers of the India applications, who usually do not publish their addresses or telephone numbers to deal with complaints or inquiries of the users. Often these developers work from the home and generally just list an email address on their feedback and customer support website.

According to the DSA, any application that makes money through the App Store can be considered a “merchant”, whether these revenue comes through paid downloads, purchases in an application or even advertising. Also, the app will be ranked if used in connection with “trade, business, craft or profession” – which means that everything that is not a hobbyist application will be covered by this direction of DSA.

Organizations posted in the EU Application Store must display their phone, email and address related to their Duns numberS In the meantime, individual developers also had to include an address, telephone and email, the instructions said.

The smaller developers have found yourself The need to register addresses and telephone numbers through third parties to give them some protection and confidentiality as a result of the new regulation. For example, some developers used fork stains, virtual offices or PO boxes as their business addresses, while others registered for virtual telephone numbers instead of giving their private publication numbers at the Public App Store.

At the EU Application Store, the new information about a “merchant” is already located below other details of the application such as its age assessment and maintained languages, but above the link to the developer website.

Updated after publication with newly reported data on the number of removal from figures.