Weeks later, Google still hasnt added privacy labels to its most popular iPhone apps
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Three weeks after Google promised it would add Apple’s mandatory app privacy labels “as soon as this week,” none of the company’s main apps have the labels, including Gmail, search, Photos, Docs, and YouTube.
There have been some questions about whether Google is purposefully not updating its apps to avoid the labels, so I looked through every Google app in the iOS App Store to find out whether the updates have been coming.
Some have: 12 apps now have the iOS privacy labels, though they may not be as recognizable as YouTube or Gmail:
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