{"id":122591,"date":"2017-12-09T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122591"},"modified":"2017-12-08T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:42:46","slug":"top-games-on-the-apple-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/122591-top-games-on-the-apple-app-store","title":{"rendered":"Top games on the Apple App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has revealed the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/apple-reveals-2017-most-popular-apps-music-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most popular apps, movies, and music<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on its App Store for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular album on Apple Music was Drake\u2019s More Life, while the top song for the year was Ed Sheeran\u2019s Shape of You.<\/p>\n<p>Moana was the top movie of the year, followed by Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular TV shows on iTunes included Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Big Little Lies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Editorial app awards<\/h3>\n<p>Apple also selected its favourite games and apps of 2017, detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2017 iPhone App of the Year \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Splitter Critters<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017 iPad App of the Year \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Affinity Photo<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017 iPad Game of the Year \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Witness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular apps<\/h3>\n<p>The most popular apps on the App Store included social media apps like Snapchat, Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Bitmoji and Wish also made an appearance in the list of most popular apps, along with both Uber and Lyft.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s most popular apps of 2017 are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bitmoji<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Snapchat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Messenger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Maps<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Netflix<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spotify Music<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uber<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gmail<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pandora Music<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WhatsApp<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wish<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SoundCloud<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Chrome<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Waze<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lyft<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular games<\/h3>\n<p>Super Mario Run and Snake VS Block topped the charts of most popular games for 2017, along with 8 Ball Pool, Ballz, and Subway Surfers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Super Mario Run<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>8 Ball Pool<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Snake VS Block<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ballz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Word Cookies!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Subway Surfers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode ft. Pitch Perfect<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rolling Sky<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Block! Hexa Puzzle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paper.io<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Solitaire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bowmasters \u2013 Multiplayer Game<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Color Switch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Piano Tiles 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Choices: Stories You Play<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Roll the Ball \u2013 Slide Puzzle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clash Royale<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ROBLOX<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Word Connect<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Candy Crush Saga<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/241066-amazon-prime-video-now-on-apple-tv.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon Prime Video now on Apple TV<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has revealed the\u00a0most popular apps, movies, and music\u00a0on its App Store for 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":104603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[1655,959,1966],"class_list":["post-122591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}