Apple's Now Allowing Users to Rate Its Pre-Installed Apps—Here are the Numbers
Update (10/5 9:42AM EST): The article, including charts and tables, has been updated to reflect more than 20,000 new ratings that came in over the weekend.
Users can now rate apps that come pre-installed on their iPhones via the App Store just like any other 3rd party app. Apple quietly enabled that in their latest update a couple of weeks ago, and we've been collecting those ratings since.
A couple of weeks in, those apps have received nearly 33K ratings. Here's a quick look at the numbers.
Everyone Hates News and Mail
When it comes to average rating, Apple's 28 pre-installed apps we've looked at, range between 2.4 and 4.3, with an average of 3.6 stars across the entire portfolio.
Translate, a fairly new app that still feels a bit experimental, is the lowest rated app in this list, with a 2.42 average star rating globally off of 1,629 total ratings.
News is just a tad bit better, with a 2.55 star average from 592 ratings. Mail (2.98) and Podcasts (2.44) also have an average star rating of below 3, which should be a good gauge for Apple and good news for competitors.
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Music and Maps Have the Most Ratings
When it comes to the number of ratings, Music and Maps lead the way, accounting for 23% of the 32,953 ratings received in the last two weeks. Music, with 4,431 and Maps with 3,207 total ratings worldwide are also the only apps with 3,000+ total ratings. The rest have fewer ratings as of the writing of this article.
At the bottom of the list you'll find Compass (294 ratings), Voice Memos (403), Magnifier (420), Stocks (461), and Measure (497). The five apps that have yet to reach the 500 rating bar, globally. Also, the apps most users either don't use often enough to love or hate.
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All Apps & Ratings
And here are all the apps we've analyzed, their average rating, and total number of ratings. Numbers are global as of October 5th, 2021.
| Avg. | Total | ||
| Find My | 4.35 | 908 | |
| Voice Memos | 4.28 | 403 | |
| Compass | 4.24 | 294 | |
| Measure | 4.2 | 515 | |
| FaceTime | 4.1 | 1,892 | |
| Notes | 4.08 | 1,227 | |
| Fitness | 4.04 | 580 | |
| Apple Wallet | 4.02 | 1,217 | |
| Weather | 3.86 | 1,704 | |
| Tips | 3.83 | 497 | |
| Reminders | 3.81 | 886 | |
| Magnifier | 3.75 | 420 | |
| Contacts | 3.67 | 649 | |
| Files | 3.66 | 1,078 | |
| Watch | 3.6 | 769 | |
| Apple TV | 3.59 | 1,310 | |
| Stocks | 3.57 | 461 | |
| Calculator | 3.55 | 738 | |
| Apple Music | 3.5 | 4,431 | |
| Home | 3.49 | 770 | |
| Apple Books | 3.32 | 913 | |
| Apple Maps | 3.27 | 3,207 | |
| Calendar | 3.27 | 1,121 | |
| iTunes Store | 3.18 | 648 | |
| 2.98 | 1,847 | ||
| Apple News | 2.55 | 592 | |
| Apple Podcasts | 2.44 | 2,247 | |
| Translate | 2.42 | 1,629 |
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