Google Play Store Deletes 'Remove China Apps'

The 'Remove China Apps', the app was trending on top in India, and since May it was downloaded more than 5 million times. After Mitron the Remove China Apps also has been removed from the Google Play Store.

The app was developed by the Indian firm One Touch AppLabs, as the name suggests, the app precisely removes China apps. You can run a scan through your phone when you download the app. During the scan, it will detect the Chinese apps on your phone and give you an option to delete them. If you click on the red bin icon next to the particular app, the app will get uninstalled from your phone.

In India, more than one million people had installed the application on their phone to delete Chinese apps present on their smartphones.

Remove China Apps gained popularity in India when there is a rising anti-China sentiment among many Indian citizens as tensions between two countries has increased in recent days over border stand-off. Though, the Google interfered on Tuesday to remove the app from its Play Store after millions of Indians had downloaded the app.

OneTouchAppLabs, developer of the app announced on Twitter that their app had been suspended from Google Play store. The firm is not aware about the reason why Google has removed the app from the Play Store.

If you have already downloaded the 'Remove China Apps' application on your handset, it will still work for you, but new downloads are not possible.

Remove China Apps went live on Google Play on May 17, and the app has more than 5 million downloads and thousands of positive reviews. 'Remove China Apps' had 4.8 ratings on the Android Play Store. However, it was not available for Apple devices.