Apple Removes All Reviews From Apple Store

In Apple's online shop all product reviews have been removed. The backgrounds are unknown. If you want to find out in advance about a product, you must look elsewhere.

Until a few days ago, it was possible in Apple's online shop to read reviews on the products offered there. This area has been completely removed from the website. This also applies to the Apple Store website in Germany, Golem.de can confirm. The Apple Insider blog first noticed that all customer reviews were removed from the US website of the Apple Store. When exactly the change was made, it can not be clarified clearly.

Also on the German website of the Apple Store can be found to the individual products no ratings and reviews. Among other things, for the Airpods Pro, there was at least until November 11, 2019, an area entitled "Ratings and Reviews" in the Apple Store. This change only applies to the Apple Store page, while Apple's App Store still has ratings for apps.

The Questions and Answers section can still be found on the product pages. If required, buyers can also obtain a limited overview of the desired product. The reviews and answers can only be found in the Apple Store section. On the Apple homepage, there are these areas generally not.

Apple did not offer reviews for all products

The range of reviews and reviews has historically not been comprehensive on all product pages in the Apple Store. Samples showed that there have been no ratings for the Apple TV or the Homepod in the past. To date, there is no section for questions and answers for Apple TV. Why these categories are not offered for all products, is not known.

By comparison, Microsoft continues to offer ratings for its products in its online store. The Microsoft customer can thus get a better picture of a product, without having to leave the website. Apple customers will have to search for user comments on other websites in the future.

WatchOS 6 Gets Its Own App Store!

Apple makes WatchOS 6 standalone. In the future, apps can be installed and run directly on the Apple Watch. There are also new fitness features and better support for streaming apps.

The upcoming WatchOS 6 will have its own App Store to install third-party apps directly on the Smartwatch. The connection to an iPhone is no longer required. It should also be possible to buy apps directly from the clock and app updates are made directly from the clock. Besides, Apple introduces an API that allows other providers to program apps for the use of streaming services.

With the new version of WatchOS comes a series of new dials that provide more information than before. These dynamic dials allow direct access to specific apps, contacts, or information to make them more convenient than before. Besides, acoustic signals can be played at any hour - just as digital watches from the 1980s have been able to.

With WatchOS 6 comes a calculator app, an app for voice memos and listening to audiobooks. Besides, new functions were integrated around health. The activity app, which shows more statistics, has been extensively redesigned. With a cycle tracking app, women can log their menstrual cycle and read the expected time for the next period and fertile periods. The cycle tracking feature will also be integrated into the Health App in iOS 13.

Those who spend more time in loud environments should be warned with a new noise app. The app measures the noise level in the environment and shows the user when it is very loud in the environment and thus the hearing can be adversely affected. If necessary, the app can continuously measure the noise level in the background and tell when a value of over 90 decibels is measured. To do this, the microphone of the Apple Watch turns on again and again to measure the volume. Apple promises that this will not be recorded by voice.

Apple wants to bring WatchOS 6 in the fall of 2019 on the market. For developers, there is a pre-release version of WatchOS 6. The new operating system will appear for the Apple Watch models Series 1, 2, 3 and 4. The first Apple Watch will not receive the update.