New iOS purchase history brings all your porn home to roost?

By Rene Ritchie
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Announced during the WWDC 2011 keynote and already available on all iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads running iOS 4.3.3, purchase history lets you go into the App Store and easily re-download all your previous apps, including your porn adult apps, and where by "you" it also means your significant other, kids, or anyone else on your iTunes account.

Yeah. Um. Awkward.

Of course Apple doesn't allow real porn or even nudity on the App Store, but there's an endless amount of "adult" apps with titles you may not want anyone else to know you ever downloaded, and aren't prepared to make excuses for. "I was drunk." "The app meant nothing to me." "I came from Android, dagnabit!"

Should Apple offer a "permanently delete" option, where apps are removed from your iCloud locker? Even if it means you'd have to buy them again if you really wanted to re-download them?

[Thanks -- and sorry! -- Michael!]

Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie
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Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.