Hi is there a way to make it so you don't have to see the prompt "rate this app" in some apps? I really don't want to rate apps. I just want to use them and it would be nice to not have that message come up.
I usually get three options in those requests. Either rate it, remind me later, and no thanks. I wonder if you tapped no thanks the request would not be repeated.
The rating prompts you get in apps cannot be completely removed, though most apps are kind enough to give you an option to say not to remind you. Unfortunately, that only works for the current version, and you will get another prompt after the app is updated.
Developers like to ask you to rate their apps because that has a significant impact on the app's visibility in the App Store, or at least that is the theory. The problem is that it promotes rudeness, since apps that are the most aggressive at getting you to rate them end up with more ratings, and people who don't like the app are more likely to stop using it before the first rating prompt comes up, resulting in an artificially high rating for the app.
I did respond to the rating prompts for a while, until I realized that doing so merely encourages the practice. An unsolicited rating should have more value than one that is asked for, and Apple doesn't have any means to distinguish between the two, so it is my opinion that you should not rate an app, either positively or negatively, simply because the app asked you to, and instead to give ratings on your own, as you feel like, independent of what the app developers want you to do.
Really, the rating system used in the App Store is a joke as it is currently implemented, and it makes it that much harder to find good apps among the crowd.
I think those are good and valid points. Also, I have said no thanks and it hasn't stopped the persistent request to rate the app whatsoever. in various apps.
It's akin to another very annoying practice these days where businesses insist on receiving a survey, either by email or phone.
The worst thing about the request for a rating is they donn't even program it properly so that it wouldn't interfere with the operations of the program itself. I have had a request to rate this product directly interfere with what I was doing at the time.
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No Thanks?
I usually get three options in those requests. Either rate it, remind me later, and no thanks. I wonder if you tapped no thanks the request would not be repeated.
Rating prompts cannot be silenced completely
The rating prompts you get in apps cannot be completely removed, though most apps are kind enough to give you an option to say not to remind you. Unfortunately, that only works for the current version, and you will get another prompt after the app is updated.
Developers like to ask you to rate their apps because that has a significant impact on the app's visibility in the App Store, or at least that is the theory. The problem is that it promotes rudeness, since apps that are the most aggressive at getting you to rate them end up with more ratings, and people who don't like the app are more likely to stop using it before the first rating prompt comes up, resulting in an artificially high rating for the app.
I did respond to the rating prompts for a while, until I realized that doing so merely encourages the practice. An unsolicited rating should have more value than one that is asked for, and Apple doesn't have any means to distinguish between the two, so it is my opinion that you should not rate an app, either positively or negatively, simply because the app asked you to, and instead to give ratings on your own, as you feel like, independent of what the app developers want you to do.
Really, the rating system used in the App Store is a joke as it is currently implemented, and it makes it that much harder to find good apps among the crowd.
Agreed
I think those are good and valid points. Also, I have said no thanks and it hasn't stopped the persistent request to rate the app whatsoever. in various apps.
It's akin to another very annoying practice these days where businesses insist on receiving a survey, either by email or phone.
The worst thing about the request for a rating is they donn't even program it properly so that it wouldn't interfere with the operations of the program itself. I have had a request to rate this product directly interfere with what I was doing at the time.
I'll try that
I haven't seen the no thanks button but maybe I'll have to tap around instead of swiping left or right to find it perhaps.