You can finally rate Apple’s apps on the App Store

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

For years, Apple has let you redownload many built-in apps from the App Store that you may have deleted, but store listings for those apps had a distinct difference from others: there was no way to leave a rating or review. That appears to have changed recently, though, as you can now review Apple’s apps in the store.

In a cursory, unscientific scan of some of Apple’s apps, many of them don’t have overwhelmingly positive scores. Files, Apple Maps, and Home all had ratings between three and three-and-a-half stars. Apple News is currently sitting at 2.3 stars. As 9to5Mac observed, Podcasts has a whopping two-star rating.

That said, most of Apple’s apps just don’t have many ratings — many don’t break triple...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22700805/apple-app-store-built-in-ratings-reviews-stars

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