Now with building pressure from lawsuits, regulators, and lawmakers over anticompetitive behavior in the App Store, Apple has quietly enabled reviews and ratings for its built-in apps. However, Apple's native software listings differed from those of other developers, as Cupertino disabled the store's ratings and reviews on its first-party apps. He mentioned that that could change in the future, and it did with iOS 14 last year.Īs of last September 2020, you can delete built-in apps and re-install them later from the App Store. In 2015, Tim Cook explained the reason for that was that some of the pre-installed software on the iPhone and iPad was interconnected and that removing them could cause problems elsewhere in iOS. In context: For years, iPhone users have had to live with unremovable native iPhone apps.
