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App Store Rating Drop Diagnosis

ReelWave is a mid-sized mobile streaming app offering short-form music documentaries and artist interviews to about 3 million monthly active users. The product team ships app updates roughly every 4–6 weeks and tracks app store ratings as a top-line health metric.

Our app store rating has dropped meaningfully over the past quarter.

The business question

Our app store rating dropped from 4.6 to 4.2 over the past quarter — what happened and what should we do?