Last week after waking up with the news of Telegram's withdrawal from the App Store, we finally have more information about it, more information than confirm the information that the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, had published in a tweet shortly after the withdrawal of the App Store, both Telegram and Telegram X.
According to Pavel Durov, the main reason was the inappropriate content that could appear in the application. According to the email to which 9to5Mac has had access and which has confirmed with Apple itself, the withdrawal of the Telegram messaging application was due to the fact that it was being used to distribute child pornography.
In the email that Phil Schiller has sent to the user who asked him about the reason for the withdrawal of the Telegram application from the App Store, we can read:
The Telegram apps were removed from the App Store because the App Store team was alerted to illegal content, especially child pornography, in the apps. After verifying the existence of the illegal content, the team removed the apps from the store, alerted the developer, and notified the relevant authorities, including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).
This answer confirms what Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, was referring to when answering when asked why had caused the withdrawal of the application.
Apple warned us that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were removed from the App Store.
Like Apple Messages, Telegram is a secure messaging platform with end-to-end encryption to protect the privacy of messages sent between users. This means that illegal content is likely not simply a medium shared between users, but it is more likely that the content was served through a third-party plug-in.
A few hours after the withdrawal of Telegram and Telegram X from the App Store, both were available again with the necessary corrections to avoid this type of content make your presence again on the messaging platform.
