Telegram Briefly Removed From App Store

Apple concisely removed Telegram from the App Store connected Monday nighttime aft a reappraisal recovered contented that violated its guidelines against kid intersexual maltreatment worldly (CSAM), but restored the app a abbreviated portion later, according to Reuters.


Reports of the removal began circulating astir 9:30 p.m. ET connected Monday, with searches for Telegram connected the ‌App Store‌ returning thing and the app's nonstop listing showing a "page can't beryllium found" error. Existing users were not affected and could support utilizing the app throughout, and Telegram remained disposable connected the Mac App Store. The app returned to the ‌App Store‌ astir 40 minutes later, astir 10:10 p.m. ET. Apple confirmed the crushed for the takedown successful a statement:

We concisely removed Telegram from the App Store aft our reappraisal recovered contented that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting kid intersexual maltreatment material. The app was subsequently restored aft the developer promptly removed the contented and banned the idiosyncratic who posted it.

Telegram said the enactment stemmed from a azygous account. "Apple reported 1 idiosyncratic sharing CSAM, who was instantly banned," the institution said, adding that it has removed much than 337,900 groups and channels related to CSAM successful 2026, connected apical of 29,640 removals successful 2025 pursuing reports from groups including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.



Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a longtime professional of ‌App Store‌ argumentation amid his ain antitrust combat with Apple, argued connected X that the takedown showed the request for much contention successful app distribution. "Apple's ‌App Store‌ desperately needs contention worldwide," Sweeney wrote. "Apple capriciously removes a captious connection and privateness instrumentality from availability to a cardinal users, and sadly this is concern arsenic usual." He went connected to question the consistency of the modular Apple applied, noting the institution "did not elaborate connected how, if that is the modular for app removal, immoderate communications app could run astatine scale, including iMessage."

Monday's enactment echoes a February 2018 removal, erstwhile Apple pulled some Telegram and its Telegram X lawsuit implicit what laminitis Pavel Durov described astatine the clip arsenic "inappropriate content," restoring the apps lone aft Telegram added other safeguards.
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