You missed step 3 - click the first result, which is an Ad for a some shovelware app with an almost identical name and icon to the real thing and which displays

You missed step 3 - click the first result, which is an Ad for a some shovelware app with an almost identical name and icon to the real thing and which displays ads. For example, my friends told me about wordle and said they play it on an app on their phone. I search "wordle" in the app store, and the correct app is the 4th result, after an ad and some other gunk. My friend told me I should use "Google Authenticator", the first result is an ad for another paid authenticator app that uses the Google logo in its first screenshot to try and confuse people into downloading it instead. The Apple App Store is actively hostile to users. I thought the point of iPhones was you could give them to your technologically illiterate parents without them getting phished, but I guess those times are gone. It's gone from "search something in the app store and install the first result" to "google '<term> iOS app store' and click the first result", that gives you better safer results.