It's the morning news: Telegram has disappeared from the App Store. Both the classic version and the new Telegram X developed entirely in Swift have disappeared from the App Store, making it impossible to download them at this time. After a few hours of uncertainty in which there has been speculation with all kinds of possibilities, it seems that Apple has decided to withdraw.
It has been confirmed by the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, on his Twitter account. It has not been that they are preparing an important update, or that someone by mistake has pressed the wrong button, as many media claimed. Apple has requested the withdrawal of Telegram from the App Store and this has happened. We tell you the details below.
UPDATE: Now available again.
We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store.
- Pavel Durov (@durov) February 1, 2018
We have been advised by Apple that inappropriate content was being made available to our users, and the two applications (Telegram and Telegram X) have been removed from the App Store. Once we have solved this problem we hope to have the applications back in the App Store.
This is the explanation that Durov has given to users using his Twitter account. On Reddit and other websites, there has been talk of a failure to launch an important update that would have caused the application to have been withdrawn instead of the new version, but after this tweet that problem is ruled out.
This fact occurs just when Telegram was preparing one of the most important updates for iOS, of which we do not know any details but that has generated a lot of expectation in the users of the messaging application. always in the wake of WhatsApp, Telegram is gradually becoming an application increasingly used by users thanks to the continuous improvements that are being implemented, so we hope this problem will be solved soon and we will have it back. Meanwhile, those who have it downloaded should not worry because it is still 100% functional.
