InAPPropriate
Since it opened in 2008 the App Store has been a haven of the latest and greatest apps which open up a world of possibilities on your electronic devices. Some apps are used more for their practicality while others seek to provide you with hours of entertainment, but for a select few their presence never graced the store as Apple banned them before they could be released. The tech giant has strict guidelines that apps must adhere to and the list of rejects includes an odd bunch that involves everything from throwing your iPhone in the air to superimposing your face on religious images. One of the main ways to get your app banned is to include adult or objectionable content. This was the case for iBoobs, an app that involved shaking the phone to make a pair of virtual breasts move, and Pin Points X which plotted the location of sex ads around a city using GPS. Also in this boat was Me So Holy, an app deemed objectionable because it allowed users to overlay a person’s face on famous religious images including pictures of Jesus Christ. You could also expect to not receive an approval tick if your app is likely to cause damage to users or their devices. Send Me To Heaven was billed as a ‘mobile sports game’ where users would throw their iPhones as high as possible. The app would use the phone’s accelerometer to determine how high it went but Apple banned it before it could come crashing back down to earth.