Fortnite returns to the App Store for iPhone and iPad in the USA

After an almost five-year Fortnite break, it returns to the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States. Epic Games announced the return of the Battle Royale Gaming application this afternoon, and you can go to the App Store now to download it.

Fortnite also returned to the Epic Games Store and Altstore store in the European Union. Game to get around the Apple purchases system. Currently, the Epic Apple Developer account has also been prohibited. A long -term legal battle followed between these two companies, and the initial decision was announced in September 2021. Both Epic and Apple appealed this solution.

The last major development in EPIC and Apple Legal Cade appeared at the beginning of this month, when Judge Ivonn Gonzalez Rogers issued a lawsuit prohibiting the Apple charging the commission, or otherwise intervened in the ability of developers to send customers to payment methods outside the App Store. The version of the presented Fortnite used both Apple purchases in the application and the external payment option in the Epic Games store

a week later, Epic claimed that Apple “blocked” its Fortnite supply around the world, including its availability in the alternative applications markets in the European Union. Apple, however, said that she was not taking measures to block the availability of Fortnite in the European Union. Instead, he asked Epic Games to renew the EU update without turning on the US store.

Up to this point, however, Apple did not indicate whether it would restore the application in the App Store. Instead, in a letter to Epic Games, Apple said that “she would not take actions on the proposal of the Fortnite application, until the court decides at his request for a pause of the original court prohibition. Apple also officially appeals this decision.

epic Games, then sent a letter to Judge Gonzalez Rogers, who calls the court to demand that Apple “quickly accepted any EPIC application, including Fortnite, to distribute the App Store in the store.”

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“The situation came yesterday, when the judge Ivonn Honshalesisis came Rogers said that Apple official “personally responsibility for ensuring compliance” should appear in court if Epic and Apple could not solve this issue. ” judge. And Apple Wittingly managed to do more than it! This person should be “completely ready to answer any questions on this topic” during the hearing on May 27. Apple did not comment.