Telegram removed from Apple’s App Store due to ‘inappropriate content’

Apple has removed Telegram’s official application from its iOS App Store. Yesterday the app disappeared, after Telegram launched a rewritten Telegram X application for Android shortly. Telegram X is in screening on iOS currently, and it was taken off the App Shop also. “We had been alerted by Apple that inappropriate articles was distributed around our users and both applications were removed the App Store,” says Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. “Once we have protections in place the apps are expected by us to be back on the App Store.”

It’s not yet determined when Telegram shall go back to the App Store, or what inappropriate content was on the messaging services. TechCrunch reviews that Apple’s iOS recommendations make it clear there should be filters for objectionable materials, mechanisms to statement it, and the ability to block users from the ongoing service. It’s possible that it was being made by some content through any filters in place.

Telegram offers risen in popularity because of its concentrate on advanced security features and the capability to hold key conversations with end-to-end encryption. Most rival messaging solutions support end-to-end encryption now, but that wasn’t the case when Telegram debuted back 2013. Durov founded VKontakte Russia’s largest social networking also, and originally released Telegram “to create a means of conversation that can’t become accessed by the Russian protection agencies.”

Because of the secretive character of messages about Telegram, it's been widely criticized by governments all over the world for growing to be the messaging “app of preference” for terrorists. Telegram was pressured to create a group of moderators in Indonesia to eliminate “terrorist-related content” following the Indonesian government threatened to ban the messaging app.