The good news is that if the app you’re looking for isn’t available for any of those reasons, you should still be able to re-download it if you’ve previously had it downloaded (this is especially true for paid apps).
The app becomes more trouble than it’s worth to continue supporting, its features get moved into another app from the same developer (and there’s no need for redundancy), or the developer is dissolved completely. More often than not, this is how it goes. The company claimed lack of resources to support the games “at a level that meets current standards.” Makes sense-if you’re going to do something, might as well do it right, after all. Case in point: Epic Games recently pulled all versions of Infinity Blade from the iOS App Store for that exact reason. Generally, this is a call by the developer the app gets pulled because they no longer support it. Why Do Apps Disappear?īefore we talk about how you can get apps that are no longer available to download from your phone’s respective app store, let’s first talk about why apps get removed in the first place. Here’s what you can do if your favorites disappear. Smartphone app stores are well established at this point, and as much as we love to see new apps become available, that also means the inevitable: sometimes apps go away.
