Apple App Store Guidelines Have Some Vibe Coding Apps in Limbo - CNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Apple can't protect its users when apps create unreviewed code for them. A guideline in Apple’s App Store is disrupting vibe coding apps, which has led to the removal and blocking of three in the past month. According to a report from The Information, vibe coding app Anything was recently removed from the App Store. Vibe coding has taken the world by storm and changed the way people look at apps and website creation. You don’t need any technical know-how with vibe coding — you can create them simply by chatting to large language models like Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. With the rise in popularity of vibe coding came new apps, letting you vibe code right from your phone. And this is where the problem lies. Apple says it’s not gunning for vibe coding apps, but rather just enforcing its own guidelines that state delivering unreviewed software within an app bypasses the privacy and security safeguards