What is Remove China Apps? Why it became so popular in India and the reason for its removal from Play Store

by Mohan Ram
13 minutes
What is Remove China Apps? Why it became so popular in India and the reason for its removal from Play Store

Recently an uncertain situation is prevailing between India and China. During this unsettled condition, Mitron and Remove China Apps were launched in India. These apps became so popular in India within a short span due to its indigenous appeal, and people started downloading these apps to show their opposition to Chinese apps. Both these apps amused more than 5 million downloads in the Play Store before it was taken down by Google earlier this week for policy violation. We have a separate article on Why Google removed Mitron and Remove China apps from Play Store.  In this post, let's find more about the Remove China app and the future of the app.

Before diving into our topic, let's have a bit of backstory and the reason for a feud between India and China. The main culprit here is COVID-19 pandemic, not only India, many countries are displeased with China on their efforts to prevent Corona spread. According to many people, China could have controlled the Corona spread but, they failed to do so. Adding to this, China has also deployed more troops in the Ladakh China border, and they have also attacked the Indian army a couple of times. 

Due to this, Indians are emotionally stirred against China, and everyone is trying to oppose China in their own way. Netizens have come up with their way of showing their opposition to China by trending Ban China Apps and Chinese products hashtags in social media. As a sign of defiance, many people were uninstalling Chinese apps from their smartphones, and here is where Remove China Apps came into play by helping users to identify Chinese apps in their smartphones. 

What is Remove China Apps?

As Remove China apps name suggests, the app helps the user to identify the Chinese apps installed in their smartphones, and it encourages users to uninstall those apps from their devices. 

How Remove China Apps works?

- Install Remove China Apps from Play Store (Now users cannot install this app since it was removed from   the Play store)

- Open the app and click scan now 

- The app scans for Chinese apps installed in your smartphone

- The app will identify the Chinese apps installed in your device, and it will show an option to uninstall it. 

- If there are no such apps installed on your smartphone, it will display as "Congratulations...You are awesome. No China app found in your system".

Why Google expelled Remove China Apps from the Play Store and the app's future?

Play Store's official spokesperson said that Google expelled Remove China Apps from the Play Store for policy violation. According to Google Play store's policy, a third-party app cannot influence the users to uninstall any apps from the user's device. Since Remove China Apps violated this policy, Google removed this app from the Play Store.

Since the policy violation clause stated by Google affects the app's core functionality directly, it is uncertain to see the app listed back in the Play Store.

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