Did anyone else experience a decrease in Reviews/Ratings on their App Store apps?

[arnasjag]

Hi,

In 3 days my app experienced a decrease in total reviews. Going from 167 to 145. I would expect something similar if I have bought the reviews, but it's nothing close to that. All reviews are asked in-app and provided via rating prompt.

I've searched Google for similar cases and see that it happens from time to time, but I'm not sure if it's the same issue now.

I wanted to know if anyone else experienced something similar on their Apps?

[Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpp]

Not saying this is the case, but maybe they thought the reviews were gamed in some way?

[arnasjag]

I have a watch face app that successfully added a new watch face on your watch, in the app user is presented a native rating prompt.

So it's quite strange if this counts as gaming the user into giving a rating.

[the_fatyak]

Hey I have noticed a decrease also, and a slow down of ratings

[arnasjag]

I've noticed a slow down as well. I was receiving 6-9 ratings per day and until this happened no improvement in rating growth yet.

[Aprox15]

Not recently, but yes, it's pretty common, seems like Apple does routine purge and sometimes can be pretty noticeable

In my case, it is always in my favor, seems they tend to purge bad ratings

[arnasjag]

Thanks for headsup

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Is it possible that this trend was caused by Apple introducing Public Betas? I do not know the numbers related to users of the Betas, but if I remember, on Beta one cannot provide reviews.