{"id":94723,"date":"2025-05-17T03:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/fortnite-is-still-not-available-for-ios-users-for-no-apparent-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T03:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:33:32","slug":"fortnite-is-still-not-available-for-ios-users-for-no-apparent-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/fortnite-is-still-not-available-for-ios-users-for-no-apparent-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite is still not available for iOS users for no apparent reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Even though Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/fortnite_said_to_return_to_the_us_ios_app_store_next_week_following_court_verdict-news-67610.php\">won a decisive court battle<\/a> with Apple earlier this month, allowing Fortnite to be accessible through Apple&#8217;s official App Store, the game still hasn&#8217;t made a comeback for iOS. According to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, there&#8217;s no reason for Apple to delay the review process either.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/18\/08\/fortnite-skips-play-store\/-1200\/gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnite is still not available for iOS users for no apparent reason\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Each app undergoes an extensive review before being published on the App Store, and it looks like Apple&#8217;s review team is purposely holding off on Fortnite despite the court&#8217;s decision to allow Epic Games to offer an external payment system that doesn&#8217;t go through Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began in 2020 when Epic Games submitted a version of the app that included an external payment system, violating Apple&#8217;s rules, which prohibit payment methods that bypass Apple&#8217;s payment system.<\/p>\n<p>The court has since ruled in Epic Games&#8217; favor. Of course, Apple appealed the most recent ruling and is asking the court to pause any App Store changes until the court makes its final decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/fortnite-is-offline-on-ios-around-the-world-131535163.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/fortnite_is_still_not_available_for_ios_users_for_no_apparent_reason-news-67832.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Epic Games won a decisive court battle with Apple earlier this month, allowing Fortnite to be accessible through Apple&#8217;s official App Store, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}