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Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple has removed Telegram's official app from its iOS App Store. The app disappeared yesterday, shortly after Telegram launched a rewritten Telegram X app for Android. Telegram X is currently in testing on iOS, and it was also removed from 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," says Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. "Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store."

86 comments

  1. It's not censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not censorship, but the walled garden sure makes the echo chamber loud.

    1. Re:It's not censorship by Carewolf · · Score: 1

      It's not censorship, but the walled garden sure makes the echo chamber loud.

      So you can't sext on Apple's messenger? I find that hard to believe, so this is just removing cross-platform competitors from their platform.. I guess facebook and whatsapp are up next

    2. Re:It's not censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I *HOPE* Facebook and WhatsApp are next. Facebook and Zuckerdouche are leftist elitists who believe in censorship of dissenting views. Use Signal instead of WhatsApp.

  2. ICO anyone? by GeekWithAKnife · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Couldn't be due to the ICO for telegram and potentially allowing telegram tokens transferred through encrypted chat that cannot be eavesdropped on?

    Good guess? :-)

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  3. Shills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No Telegram Clergy here to try and convert us?

  4. 'Inappropriate Content' by xvan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

    1. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have you seen some of the screencaps pulled from Snapchat?

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    2. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was an advertisement for Apple Addiction Centers.

    3. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Google pulled gab.ai from the Play store because gab.ai didn't have a censorship policy that Google approved of. So did Apple.

      https://www.scribd.com/documen...

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    4. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh Noes!

      News flash, Telegram doesn't force people to join channels. You don't like the content after you join, leave. It deletes itself when you do.

      Is it on a personal level? You can easily block and report people, mark them as "spam" if they message you inappropriately.

      Apple needs to mind their own damn business.
      -- If software encroaches on the OS or underlying programming of the phone then yes, deny the app.
      -- If software encroaches on the person using it, then the person using it needs to cope. The world isn't sugar, buttercup.

    5. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by wardrich86 · · Score: 1

      Difference is that the Android version could be distributed via APK in other, easy ways whereas the Apple version is pretty much fucked.

    6. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      We don't use the initials A P K around here...

    7. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1

      And if you read the document I linked to they explain why that is not the same thing as having it available from the Play Store on page 13 onwards.

      It reminds me a bit of the Chinese Communist Party apologist line that 'well you can access blocked websites via VPN', before the CCP decided to have a crackdown on VPNs. Yeah, you can but not many people do. And websites that need to be accessed via VPN have a competitive disadvantage to ones that you can access without one.

      I.e. you don't need to have an absolutely hermetic seal on non approved views in order to give the approved views a competitive advantage. Even a relatively minor asymmetry can cause a feedback effect. E.g. most Internet echo chambers develop like this

      1) Side A has a slight numerical advantage of Side B
      2) Supporters of Side B are more likely to be downvoted or banned because supporters of Side A apply the rules more strictly to them
      3) Supporters of Side B give up on posting
      4) Quite quickly Side A has an echo chamber where its views are unchallenged

      Anything which can produce the slight advantage in 1) will lead to an echo chamber forming by the feedback in steps 2-4)

      Mind you as the document I linked to points out, Google don't really care about promoting social justice and banning hate speech. They really care about stopping the development of a competitive platform to theirs. "Stopping hate speech" is the left wing version of "think of the children". Just like the religious right types in the 80's wanted control and were probably total hypocrites about religion in private, most Googlers are probably not actually living up to the proclaimed principles.

      Look at all the male feminist types who've be done for sexual assault for example. It's the modern version of religious right types getting caught with a male prostitute boy and a load of crack cocaine, which used to happen regularly in the 80's and 90's, e.g. Ted Haggard.

      If you have an ideology which gives people control over others, a whole load of unscrupulous swine will claim to believe in public even if in private they clearly do not.

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    8. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by spire3661 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is a real fucking issue. At some point we are going to have to force them both to allow ANY legal app or we have a real censorship problem. Google and Apple should NOT be gatekeepers of 'inappropriate'.

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    9. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You side load on iOS. How do you think companies install internal applications?

      Here is some advice, stop commenting on things you know nothing about.

    10. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Google pulled gab.ai from the Play store because gab.ai didn't have a censorship policy that Google approved of. So did Apple.

      https://www.scribd.com/documen...

      Apple pulled a product because they did not have a Google approved censorship policy?

      That may not be what you meant, but that is what you stated.
      English has grammar rules so it can be used for clear communication.Otherwise, gibberish results.

    11. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No problem for Android. Enable "Unknown Sources" and proceed to download app from another trusted site and install. No need to root, so any user can do this.

      As for iOS, well they are just out of luck. [Sure they can jailbreak, but the point is how to get an app easily from a company other than the OS provider.]

      This is the single biggest reason I'll never own an iOS product. Hell, even Microsoft wasn't this evil and allowed installing apps from other places on their Mobile phones (when they had them).

    12. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by wardrich86 · · Score: 2

      I have no idea what you're getting at, but okay... all I was trying to say was that as an Android user, I don't have to fear Mama Google pulling away apps, because the developer has the option to release the program as an APK and distribute the software that way. You can also run Android totally free of Google Services if you really wanted.

    13. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by houghi · · Score: 1

      I dsagree with that. Please ask /. to remove your comment. Previous actions have shown they are able to do so.

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    14. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Reserved for Alex P. Keaton?

    15. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

      What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

      You didn't RTFA, did you. No, I'm not going to QTFA, RTFA yourself.

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    16. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless you're going to be of value, STFU.

      Now DIAF, See You Next Tuesday.

    17. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      This is a real fucking issue. At some point we are going to have to force them both to allow ANY legal app or we have a real censorship problem. Google and Apple should NOT be gatekeepers of 'inappropriate'.

      Actually, for Apple it's quite easy. If the app is 18+, go right ahead. Most apps that are online communications app are simply marked as 18+ and don't bother censoring.

      If the app is not marked 18+, then you better not allow any form of penis or other thing to be sent to anyone not over 18. For a messaging app, that's pretty much impossible, which is why they get denied for inappropriate content.

      Basically, if you want your app to be open and uncensored, it has to be 18+ (and OS parental controls can restrict apps from running).

      The big problem is a lot of apps like SnapChat etc require tweens/teens to be able to use them (marketing reasons of course), so it forces those companies to censor.

      So you don't have to censor a single thing, it just means Apple will refuse it unless you set the age restriction to 18+. Many apps have fallen afoul of this over the years and some have basically fallen afoul so badly they had to be removed before they were fixed. I think there was one where the reviewer got a screenful of porn on running the app which did not go over well.

    18. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

      So no problem, censorship-wise. Only problem is number of apps they can sell in the reduced 18+ market?

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    19. Re: 'Inappropriate Content' by ourlovecanlastforeve · · Score: 1

      If they're banning Telegram for inappropriate content they should also ban iMessage and Mail and iCloud storage because you can send porn through that too.

  5. Removed from App Store by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's hope it's not also removed from iPhones currently using it,

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    1. Re:Removed from App Store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why? It's obviously an inappropriate app that can't be permitted on any Apple property.

    2. Re:Removed from App Store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like you bought into the platform for idiots that need their hands held. You should have gone with Android if you wanted to be able to have decent control over the software on your phone. Better luck next time.

    3. Re:Removed from App Store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not. Source: Have iPhone and Telegram.

    4. Re:Removed from App Store by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      Proof?

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    5. Re:Removed from App Store by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      No it is not ... it runs on my iPhone and iPad just fine.

      Never heard about Apple removing already installed apps from a users device. That would be illegal in EU I guess, no idea about USA, though.

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    6. Re:Removed from App Store by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

      No, they're not like Amazon. However, if you remove your copy, you won't be able to install it again.

    7. Re:Removed from App Store by Falos · · Score: 1

      Then they'll simply remove a pipe dependency (check-in, API block, whatever) they control, rendering the un-touched MUH PROPERTY software inert.

    8. Re:Removed from App Store by Falos · · Score: 1

      Edit: Would*, if they sufficiently cared. Store removal will achieve their ends, temporary or long-term.

  6. This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is why we need to use the open source Diaspora platform for all of our online communication needs. According to Wikipedia, Diaspora is "a distributed social networking service". Diaspora is written in Ruby, using Ruby on Rails, which I personally find very reassuring. It also uses semantic versioning for its version numbers. It's also under very heavy development. According to Wikipedia, the 0.7.0 release, which came out in August 2017 not only has 22 refactors, but it also includes 6 bugfixes, and 12 features. These are exactly the kinds of things I look for in a distributed social networking service.

    1. Re:This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Khyber · · Score: 1

      "These are exactly the kinds of things I look for in a distributed social networking service."

      You know what I look for? A release that begins with a 1.0, because until it reaches that stage, I don't want to fucking touch it.

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    2. Re:This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Diaspora is written in Ruby, using Ruby on Rails

      That's enough reason not to use right there. If you want to be taken seriously try using a language that is statically typed and has reasonably fast implementations.

    3. Re:This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Rakarra · · Score: 1

      This is why we need to use the open source Diaspora platform for all of our online communication needs. According to Wikipedia, Diaspora is "a distributed social networking service".

      Is it possible to talk about naughty things with Diaspora? Because that's why Telegram was banned from the App Store -- users were able to set up adult-oriented chat channels.
      Open source, closed source, doesn't matter -- if you want on iOS devices, and everyone does, apparently, you have to concede to Apple's strong-arm tactics.

    4. Re:This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      do not be so strict.
      openssl in 0.9.8 was long time usable standard.
      It is more about what we consider "complete" edition and what is working and available now.

    5. Re:This is why we need to use Diaspora! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why not Signal?

  7. "What hath God wrought" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That telegram clearly violated the separation between church and state.

  8. Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by yuvcifjt · · Score: 2

    Far too many apps on the AppStore which utilise trackers of all sorts, most famous being Google analytics and other Google adware tools, but more so other companies that use advanced forms of fingerprinting such as playing sound / detecting sound outside the human listening wavelength as well as watching movement of fingers across the screen.

    But seeing as Android and Windows 10 are now the most dominant OS globally, most sheep obviously don't care about their privacy (or they're clueless of it).

    1. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by CaptainDork · · Score: 3, Funny

      You left out your anti-sheep solution.

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    2. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You left out your anti-sheep solution.

      Revert to a nomadic lifestyle in the arctic circle and manipulate cosmic rays with the flapping of butterfly wings to flip the bits on the HDD hosting the slashdot DB in order to continue communicating with the community about life in the new world.

    3. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by tepples · · Score: 1

      I guess anti-sheep is to buy a device that supports Replicant OS and obtain apps from the F-Droid repository.

    4. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1

      You forgot Hot Grits and Natalie Portman.

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    5. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How dare we app makers try to figure out what features our users really use, how well they use them, and any bugs or crashes that might occur!

    6. Re: Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's called beta testing bunk. I am not your beta tester.

    7. Re:Wish Apple would also block trackers in apps! by Carewolf · · Score: 1

      Far too many apps on the AppStore which utilise trackers of all sorts, most famous being Google analytics and other Google adware tools, but more so other companies that use advanced forms of fingerprinting such as playing sound / detecting sound outside the human listening wavelength as well as watching movement of fingers across the screen.

      But seeing as Android and Windows 10 are now the most dominant OS globally, most sheep obviously don't care about their privacy (or they're clueless of it).

      Windows 10 was just trying (and failing) to catch up to Mac in collect user data.. They are still far behind since they have trouble getting people to use their app-store, where macsheep are more pliable

  9. Lots of speculation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lots of people are making sensorship comments, but with our knowing what the inappropriate content was it's hard to make any real determination about why Apple removed the app.

    Looking at how many apps you can send pictures, movies or comments with it seems unlikely that was the type of content which led to the app being removed since it sounds like the app is already being fixed and will be back soon.

    With that in mind, the other type of inappropriate content would be a bug that would allow a user to send malware to a user which could exploit functionality in the phone, such as bad links.

    1. Re:Lots of speculation by Rakarra · · Score: 1

      Lots of people are making sensorship comments, but with our knowing what the inappropriate content was it's hard to make any real determination about why Apple removed the app.

      Apple and Telegram have been fighting publicly for quite some time about what to do about "adult channels." Not just one user sending another user adult content, but IRC-style chat channels.

  10. Yeah but just install it outside of the app store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    oh wait, ios...

    Apple sucks again!

  11. People less likely to protest: Immigrants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm shocked, SHOCKED. Yet another reason mass immigration destroys its host. They don't share the same values, never have and never will.

    1. Re:People less likely to protest: Immigrants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean how all those dirty Irish, Italians and others from shithole countries in Europe that completely destroyed the way of life in the United States. I mean Italians and Irish are probably some of the largest criminal groups in the country, if not the world. Send those dirty Italians and Irish back home.

    2. Re:People less likely to protest: Immigrants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny how those Itallians and Irish quickly learned to speak english and dressed like their neighbors. Funny how different than that is than the North and East African immigrants in many parts of the US. Yes, there's a difference, and just for a fuck you, here are some refereed journal sources

      The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants
      ALEJANDRO PORTES, MIN ZHOU

      Muslim Integration into Western Cultures: Between Origins and Destinations. Ronald Inglehart & Pippa Norris, March 2009

    3. Re:People less likely to protest: Immigrants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny how those Itallians and Irish quickly learned to speak english and dressed like their neighbors.

      You've never heard of LITTLE ITALY, you know neighborhoods where pretty much everyone spoke ITALIAN! Full of fucking mafioso. Oh and all of those greasy guidos are fucking Pope worshippers who have ZERO loyalty to the United States. The only reason why they speak English now is that they've been in the US for enough generations. So no, I'm not seeing the difference.

  12. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

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  13. You got to be kidding me. by blind+biker · · Score: 1

    I am not going to address how ludicrous the allegation is in the context of a messaging app.

    But I will point out that Telegram is a fairly popular open source and independent Whatsapp replacement. This is something Fuckerberg hates, and has probably asked Apple to do something about.

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    1. Re:You got to be kidding me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're an idiot.

  14. I just downloaded and installed it by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 1

    Either Apple reversed itself within a couple of hours, or the authors didn't bother to check whether it was still unavailable before publishing.

  15. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh wait, you're a fucking idiot Android fanboy that just spouts bullshit...

    Cydia Impactor

  16. Re:This is why we need to use Moon Man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    GIMP is trash and nobody uses for serious work.

  17. ummmm, somebody should tell Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...about all of the inappropriate content flowing through FaceTime

  18. Re:Memo to self by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

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  19. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto by Rakarra · · Score: 1

    Of course you have to jailbreak it, which comes with a whole huge swarm of other problems. Good luck with that.

  20. creimer spam alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  21. Yes, it is censorship! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's always this one sociopath who doesn't get the concept of coercion and still believes that people are free to want what they want.

    Youtr government *is* your industry.
    Only noobs *force* their population. Professionals, like the US industry, make them *want* it. And then says "It's not censorship.".
    One must be mighty stupid, to fall for that.

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  23. Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? by Dahan · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is why Telegram thinks they should get a 4+ age rating. I think 12+ would be be more appropriate--or even 17+, which I note is what it has on Google Play. Apple wouldn't get on Telegram's case about noods if they didn't claim they were appropriate for kids.

    1. Re:Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? by Carewolf · · Score: 1

      It is a messaging app...... why would it have any age rating at all? Are you going to be turning SMS features off in phones for kids under 17?

    2. Re: Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      Sending unsolicited nudes by SMS to a minor is likely illegal in various places. It's also not Apple's problem or ability to filter SMS.

    3. Re: Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? by Carewolf · · Score: 2

      Sending unsolicited nudes by SMS to a minor is likely illegal in various places. It's also not Apple's problem or ability to filter SMS.

      Neither is it in a messenging app. It is there job to stop themselves from providing the wrong content to the wrong users, but a messaging app is content free.

      Apple's own solution is supposedly encrypted, and Apple claims they can't decrypt it, if so, it must also be uncensored. So just as "mature" as this other competing messaging app.

  24. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

    Of course you have to jailbreak it, which comes with a whole huge swarm of other problems. Good luck with that.

    Of course you don't have to jailbreak it - click the fucking link, you moron. Second sentence:

    Hope is not lost, however, as there's still a way to install modded and unofficial apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without any jailbreak.

    Do you know what that means? That you don't have to jailbreak it.

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  25. Re:Memo to self by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WARNING! Notorious goat fucker. Hide your goats and kids before it's too late!

  26. Re:This is why we need to use Moon Man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I do professional graphic arts and website graphics. GIMP is my first go to because I heavily lean towards open source. However, he is right... GIMP is light years behind Photoshop. It's not even close in terms of capability, stablity, or compatibility. I have a plain Windows surface pro and it has all kinds of GUI glitches that it is something completely unusable. Sometimes the marching ants "lasso" selection smears across the entire window and there is no way to recover it.

    Many other FOSS programs are even worse. For example, Scribus can't even do bullet lists and their creators say it's something they don't care about!

  27. It's a tradeoff. by jouassou · · Score: 1

    Android gives you the freedom to install what you want, but you're leaking data by default, and the privacy is horrible. iPhone is a walled garden where you only do what Apple wants you to, but at least you get decent privacy by default. If you want both, you basically need to sideload a different Android ROM, and most people don't do that.

  28. Na, only American shills like you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The livestock of US corporations, and proud of it too.

    (And the biggest enemies of America.)

  29. Thank you fro these words of sanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not that the Americans will get any of that.

    It's like telling North Koreans that Kim-Yong Il was not God (as there is no such thing).

  30. Catholiban terrorism. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh noes! A sexual organ!! How will children cope??

    What exactly do the child rapists (religitards) believe will happen, when a child sees a sexual organ or sex?
    Please do explain; using neurology and physics, to establish a (reliably) verifiable chain of cause and effect.

    PROTIP: The ones with the perversities and the harming of childred for sexual reasons is only you.

  31. Proof you exist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please look up the scientific model, before posting such nonsense.

    Because I have no proof you exist. And never will.
    I only have a single case of anecdotal evidence of experiencing something matching the visual pattern of "/. post". No reason to assume it wasn't just my imagination. Or written by me. Or auto-generated. Etc, etc, etc.

  32. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Due to Apple's restrictions on free accounts, any IPA files sideloaded using a regular Apple ID will need to be sideloaded again every seven days. Legitimate Apple Developer ID users need only to reinstall once a year, but we'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it's worth the $100 price of paying Apple for developer privileges, when sideloading is relatively fast and pain-free.

    Great UX, resembling that of legitimate Apple software.

  33. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

    Due to Apple's restrictions on free accounts, any IPA files sideloaded using a regular Apple ID will need to be sideloaded again every seven days. Legitimate Apple Developer ID users need only to reinstall once a year, but we'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it's worth the $100 price of paying Apple for developer privileges, when sideloading is relatively fast and pain-free.

    Great UX, resembling that of legitimate Apple software.

    Still less painful than using Lineage.

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    Of course news about a fake are Fake News.