#MY APP STORE APP DISAPPEARED WINDOWS 8#
#MY APP STORE APP DISAPPEARED DOWNLOAD#

#MY APP STORE APP DISAPPEARED DOWNLOAD#

Download numbers are still only ~30% of what they used to be before the incident.

#MY APP STORE APP DISAPPEARED WINDOWS 8#

Customers with a direct link to the appвЂ™s listing can still download it, except on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Either the tester is doing something wrong or they are purposefully flagging the app so it behaves like the 2nd Visibility option ' When The case it would happen in between updates and it always happens right after an update. Microsoft claims it is the search indexer dropping the app, but if that were The reason being is that my apps have only disappeared from the store right after I updated them. I don't think the review/download ratio has anything to do with it. I almost gave up on Windows Phone development after this incident.ДЇast forward 2 years later, my app still does not reappear in top rank, typing a few letter of its name still does not give suggestion about the existence of the app. The reason I suspect is that my app prompt users to rate/review the app, so it got a very high review/download ratio, thus the algorithm flagged it. It suddenly disappeared from top rank in entertainment category. Developers publish to stores so the stores can promote the app through searches and rankings. I've been told that I need to promote my apps through social media and the deep link, which is ridiculous. If I select theДЄnyone can find your app in the Store, then ANYONE should be able to find it. You should in the very least be able to find an app by searching for it by title or by clicking on the company name. This appears to be a bug in the indexing algorithm because surely no platform would completely drop an app from the

In fact I selected the Anyone can find your app in the Store option when publishing. When publishing Hide this app in the Store. Both apps are functioning like I selected the second visibility option: One of the apps was consistently ranked in the top in the Entertainment category for the past couple of years, now it is gone. Neither app can be found byД¬licking on our company name. I contacted developer support and they are telling me this is a normal function of the store. They can still be found through the deep link. Two of our apps disappeared from the Store by searches and ranking.

My app store app disappeared