![]() ![]() I hope you appreciate the importance of our actions to not distribute apps on the App Store while they contain illegal content and to take swift action against anyone and any app involved in content that puts children at risk. Most of all, we have zero tolerance for any activity that puts children at risk – child pornography is at the top of the list of what must never occur. We will never allow illegal content to be distributed by apps in the App Store and we will take swift action whenever we learn of such activity. ![]() Only after it was verified that the developer had taken these actions and put in place more controls to keep this illegal activity from happening again were these apps reinstated on the App Store. The App Store team worked with the developer to have them remove this illegal content from the apps and ban the users who posted this horrible content. After verifying the existence of the illegal content the team took the apps down from the store, alerted the developer, and notified the proper authorities, including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children). The Telegram apps were taken down off the App Store because the App Store team was alerted to illegal content, specifically child pornography, in the apps. According to 9to5google who cited an email shared by Phil Schiller who manages the App Store, Telegram and Telegram X were both yanked off the store for serving child pornography.īelow is the email in full, per 9to5google: The much we knew at the time was that the apps were removed for posting “inappropriate content,” but now we have an update. ![]() “ Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store.” “ We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store,” Durov said on Twitter, per The Next Web. Telegram along with Telegram X, its sister app that was launched last week were both removed from the store for posting “inappropriate content.” Telegram is back on the App Store after it was taken down last week by Apple. ![]()
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