“hot-or-not” voting), making physical threats, or bullying do not belong on the App Store and may be removed without notice,” the iOS guidelines add. “Apps with user-generated content or services that end up being used primarily for pornographic content, objectification of real people (e.g. Published contact information so users can easily reach you.The ability to block abusive users from the service.A mechanism to report offensive content and timely responses to concerns.A method for filtering objectionable material from being posted to the app.A sub-section here, regarding user-generated content (which would apply to any messaging app with a public broadcast facility, as Telegram has), notes these types of apps “present particular challenges” - and must therefore contain: We’ve reached out to Apple and Telegram with questions and will update this story with any additional information.Īpple’s developer guidelines for iOS apps include a section on safety that proscribes “upsetting or offensive content”. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store,” he wrote. “We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. But responding to a Twitter user’s question, about why both its iOS apps are AWOL, Telegram founder Pavel Durov tweeted that it relates to “inappropriate content”. It’s not entirely clear what the problem is. 9to5Mac spotted the absence yesterday, having been alerted via a Reddit thread.Īt the time of writing a search for Telegram on the App Store returns Viber, Skype, Messenger and WeChat chat apps, as the top results, but not Telegram.īoth the original Telegram app and a rebuild, called Telegram X, which the messaging company officially announced for Android yesterday - billing it as a coding experiment aimed at speeding up development of the platform - have been taken off the iOS App Store for now.

The Telegram messaging apps appear to have breached Apple’s App Store guidelines and are currently unavailable for download on iOS. Update: Both Telegram iOS apps are now back on the App Store.

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