Apple’s digital store – App Store – removed programs in Russian, including “Vkontakte” (VK) and Mail.ru.
As reported by Ukrinform, Meduza reported this.
In addition, other VK holding programs – VK Music, VK Clips, VK Messenger, VK Play and VK Admin – disappeared from the App Store.
Mail.ru mail application, which is part of the VK ecosystem, has also disappeared from the app store. At the same time, the “Classmates” application and the Tam-Tam messenger are still available for download.
VK apps are still available in the Google Play app store.
VK has directly confirmed that Apple has blocked several companies’ apps that are not currently available in the App Store.
It is noted that in April 2022 the Sberbank mobile application was removed from Google Play and App Store (Apple store also removed clones of Sbera applications). In September, the application of Sberbank’s 2GIS mapping service disappeared from the App Store.
As Ukrinform reported, Apple announced that RT News and Sputnik News programs are no longer available for download from the App Store outside of Russia.