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App Store Installations and Deletions

Analyze details on the number of times users install and delete your apps.

Overview

Use the data in this report to estimate the number of times people install and delete your App Store apps.

  • Territories: Worldwide

  • Platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS

  • Availability:

    • Daily: Every day

    • Weekly: Every Friday for the previous week (Monday to Sunday).

    • Monthly: On the fifth day of the following month.

  • Completeness: Within five days. Weekly and monthly reports are complete by default.

  • History: On request, data is available beginning from January 1, 2024.

  • Privacy:

    • Includes data from users who have opted to share their data with Apple and developers. Data is provided only when events exist from at least five users for the respective report.

    • Data is available in two reports: standard and detailed. Standard reports include fields not easily related to uniquely identifiable user data. Detailed reports include all fields and also include additional privacy measures for the data, to help protect uniquely identifiable information for individuals. Download the standard report unless you need to analyze the unique fields in the detailed report. To learn more, see Protecting user privacy in report data.

App Download Date

  • The date on which someone downloaded the app onto the device. This field is only populated if the download occurred in the previous 30 days, otherwise it is null.

The Analytics Reports framework delivers new portions of report content as instances. Each instance can contain one or more batches of data, to accommodate late-arriving events, or in rare cases, data corrections. To learn more, see Data Completeness and Corrections.

Report Fields

Report Field

Description

Data Type

Summary Report

Detail Report

Date

Date on which the event occurred. For weekly and monthly instances, this column represents the first day of the week and month, respectively.

date

App Name

The name of the app provided by you during app setup in App Store Connect.

string

App Apple Identifier

Your app’s Apple ID.

integer

Event

The type of usage event that occurred.

string

Download Type

The type of download event that occurred.

string

App Version

The version of the app being associated with the instalation or deletion.

string

Device

The device on which the app was installed or deleted.

string

Platform Version

The OS version of the device on which the app was installed or deleted.

string

Source Type

Where the user discovered your app.

string

Source Info

The app referrer or web referrer that led the user to discover your app.

string

Campaign

The Campaign Token of the campaign created in App Analytics. Column available starting November 19, 2024.

string

Page Type

The page type which led the user to discover your app.

string

Page Title

The name of the product page or in-app event page that led the user to discover your app.

string

App Download Date

The date on which the app was downloaded onto the device. This field is only populated if the download occurred in the previous 30 days, otherwise it is null.

date

Territory

The App Store country or region where the installation or deletion occurred.

string

Counts

The total count of events, based on users who have agreed to share their data with Apple and developers.

integer

Unique Devices

The number of unique devices on which events were generated, based on users who have agreed to share their data with Apple and developers.

integer

Glossary

Dimension

Value

Definition

Event

Install

Your app was installed on the device.

Event

Delete

Your app was deleted from the device.

Download Type

First-time download

The first time a user downloaded your app. Based on the user’s Apple ID account. Counted when a user taps the Buy or Get button on the App Store.

Download Type

Redownload

A subsequent installation of an app onto a device by an Apple ID account. Counted when a user taps the redownload button on the App Store.

Download Type

Manual update

The process of manually replacing an app on a device with another version of the same app. Counted when a user taps the Update button on the App Store.

Download Type

Restore

The process of restoring an app onto a user’s device from iCloud Backup.

Source Type

App Store search

Users who discovered your app within search results on the App Store. Includes Search Ads results. Doesn’t include the Suggested section of the search landing page.

Source Type

App Store browse

The user viewed your app or tapped to download it while browsing the App Store (for example, in the Today, Games, or Apps tabs, and results in the Suggested section of the search landing page).

Source Type

App referrer

The users tapped a link in an app that brought them to your App Store product page. Includes apps using the StoreKit API to load your product page. Includes Apple apps, such as Messages, except Safari.

Source Type

Web referrer

The user tapped a link from a website that brought them to your App Store product page. If a chain of redirects in Safari leads to your App Store product page, the referring website will be the last URL in the chain. For iOS apps, taps from websites in non-Safari web browsers, such as Chrome, are attributed as that web browser app in App Referrers. For macOS apps, taps from non-Safari web browsers are attributed to Web Referrers.

Source Type

App Clip

The user tapped a link in your App Clip that brought them to your App Store product page.

Source Type

Unavailable

The source from which the user downloaded your app is unavailable.

Source Type

Institutional purchase

The user downloaded your app from Web or Web.

Page Type

Product page

The user downloaded your app from your app’s product page.

Page Type

In-app event

The user downloaded your app from an in-app event page.

Page Type

Store sheet

The user downloaded the app from a store sheet in the App Store.

Page Type

No page

Your app was presented in a list view to the user and there was no page title associated with the download.

See Also

App Usage