Apple stopped online fraud worth whopping $2.2 billion on App Store in 2025

Apple's robust security screening, which involves an advanced Artificial Intelligence-powered mechanism and also human reviewers, weed out two million malicious app submissions from threat actors in 2025.

Cupertino-based technology major Apple on Wednesday (May 20) revealed that it has successfully managed to safeguard millions of customers from fraud worldwide.

In 2025, Apple reportedly prevented over $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions, adding to a total of more than $11.2 billion over the past six years.

Other platforms allow users to side-load apps, with risks of malware infecting the smartphone. However, Apple in most of the 170-plus countries, where it operates, doesn't allow such practices, and this has shown visible results.

Also, Apple has set up very robust security screening, which involves an advanced Artificial Intelligence-powered mechanism and also human reviewers to weed out malicious app submissions from threat actors.

As per the latest data, App Store hosts 850 million weekly visitors across 175 markets.

Thanks to such measures, the company was able to block more than two million bad app submissions last year.

Apple’s Trust and Safety teams also stopped multiple large-scale attempts to create fraudulent accounts. In 2025, Apple’s systems rejected 1.1 billion fraudulent customer account creations — blocking bad actors at the outset — and deactivated an additional 40.4 million customer accounts for fraud and abuse.

Apple iPad Air 5th Gen.

To prevent such bad actors, Apple permanently banned 193,000 developer accounts over fraud concerns and rejected more than 138,000 developer enrollments.

That's not all. Beyond the Apple App Store, the company detected that third-party digital marketplaces were selling fake apps. It blocked 28,000 illegitimate apps, which include malware, pornography apps, gambling apps, and pirated versions of legitimate apps from the App Store.

In April 2026, Apple saved millions of device owners, by preventing 2.9 million attempts to install or launch apps distributed illicitly outside the App Store or alternative app marketplaces.

Besides stopping bad apps from entering the ecosystem, Apple was able to prevent criminals from using 5.4 million stolen credit cards to make fraudulent purchases, and banned nearly two million user accounts from transacting again.

Also, Apple is keeping a tab on unfair practises of criminals and bad app developers from writing fake reviews on genuine apps and preventing them from getting negative reviews.

In 2025, Apple processed over 1.3 billion ratings and reviews. Using proactive detection tools, Apple identified and blocked close to 195 million fraudulent ratings and reviews from ever appearing on App Store.

Also, to protect underage children from accessing age-inappropriate apps, Apple has set up strict guidelines for app developers.

In 2025, Apple rejected more than 5,000 apps from appearing in the Kids category for failing to adhere to the App Store’s strict rules.

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