The bottom line: Apple blocked over 2.2 billion dollars in fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025. The company rejected two million problematic app submissions, suspended 193,000 developer accounts, and disabled 40.4 million suspicious customer accounts.
Apple announced that it has blocked over eleven billion dollars in fraudulent App Store transactions over the past six years. In 2025 alone, Apple thwarted over 2.2 billion dollars in potentially fraudulent transactions.
The iPhone company stated in a press release that it rejected over two million problematic app submissions in 2025 and blocked more than 1.1 billion fraudulent account creations. Apple terminated 193,000 developer accounts on suspicion of fraud, rejected over 138,000 developer registrations, and additionally disabled 40.4 million customer accounts under suspicion. In the past year, the company stopped over 5.4 million stolen credit cards and suspended nearly two million user accounts. “Apple uses both manual review and advanced technology to detect and prevent the use of stolen financial information,” the company explained. The company relies on machine learning to accelerate fraud pattern detection and quickly assess new deceptive tactics. The App Review team evaluated over 9.1 million app submissions in 2025, with Apple rejecting over 443,000 due to privacy violations. Over 371,000 applications were rejected as duplicates or misleading apps, more than 22,000 for hidden or undocumented features. Nearly 59,000 apps were removed from the App Store in 2025 due to fraudulent tactics – almost three times as many as the 17,000 in 2024. In combating fraud in app discovery, Apple processed over 1.3 billion ratings and reviews, blocking nearly 195 million fraudulent app ratings. The company also prevented almost 7,800 deceptive apps from appearing in search results and blocked 11,500 others from App Store charts. Apple also blocked 28,000 illegitimate apps on pirate storefronts.