BlackBerry users whose smartphones wouldn't let them book a date on Tinder or play Candy Crush will finally have a chance to join the crowd through a new software update.

The federal privacy commissioner is calling on tech giants to make it mandatory for app developers to post details of their privacy polices prior to download if the app collects any information from the user.

A technical problem that left some BlackBerry users unable to download content from its apps store has been fixed.