# Game Center gone from iOS 10. What do you all think about this!

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 23, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-center-gone-from-ios-10-what-do-you-all-think-about-this/766681 "2016-09-23T23:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-center-gone-from-ios-10-what-do-you-all-think-about-this/766681/1 "2016-09-23T23:43:42Z")

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I’ve upgraded to iOS 10 and the Game Center is gone. It seems Apple got rid of it on purpose, presumably to get rid of clutter. Now that you can delete the preloaded apps like the stock and weather apps, it seems like they could have just let Game Center be an app that can be deleted. I enjoyed having all the achievements in my games in one place that is easy to access. What do you all think about the demise of Game Center? Do you all think it may return in a different form in a future update?

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-center-gone-from-ios-10-what-do-you-all-think-about-this/766681/2 "2016-09-23T23:56:47Z")

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Hmm. I upgraded to iOS 10 and got excited when I saw this thread. One of my biggest phone diversions is the card game Tichu. I’ve logged over 2000 games and have hit all the achievements I think. Every time I log into this game, I get the Game Center notifications on each achievement I’ve made. It’s a bit annoying. So I just tried it and there were all the Game Center notifications. Maybe it’s more behind the scenes now?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-center-gone-from-ios-10-what-do-you-all-think-about-this/766681/3 "2016-09-24T18:56:52Z")

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[Aye; Game Center is dead. Long live GameKit!

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> Game Center finally met its demise this morning with the unveiling of iOS 10, which effectively kills Apple’s attempt at creating a gaming social network.
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> Starting with iOS 10, the Game Center app will no longer be found on iPhones and iPads, after having been preinstalled on devices for years. Apple isn’t just adding it to the list of stock iOS apps you can delete, though. It’s actually getting rid of the platform altogether in favor of GameKit.  
> Apple’s release notes for iOS 10 beta 1 reveal that developers will have to implement the required interface themselves if they use GameKit.
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> “The Game Center app has been removed. If your game implements GameKit features, it must also implement the interface behavior necessary for the user to see these features. For example, if your game supports leaderboards, it could present a GKGameCenterViewController object or read the data directly from Game Center to implement a custom user interface.”

]([http://www.cultofmac.com/433211/apple-quietly-killed-game-center-app-today/](http://www.cultofmac.com/433211/apple-quietly-killed-game-center-app-today/))