You either follow the (clearly defined) iOS App publishing guidelines or your app gets pulled. Telegram is a Russian app, so take most of the negative feedback in this thread with grain of salt as Russians constantly use bots to promote their fake narrative. If you don't like the rules of the App Store, which for most part, kept its users safe, you are free to leave the ecosystem. Apple should keep doing what they do best -- protect its users.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Pulls Telegram Messenger From App Store for 'Inappropriate Content' [Update: Returned]
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
So, just to be clear - Apple pulls Telegram (yet another private texting app) from the App Store for 'inappropriate content', yet does nothing about Twitter - whose materials are available for viewing by anyone - and who recently argued why they allow some to breach their own Rules. And no, not for any possible profit rationale.
And guess who was mentioned positively in recent State of the Union...
And guess who was mentioned positively in recent State of the Union...
Curiously, the Twitter application is rated age 17+ in the app store, while Telegram is rated 4+.
Perhaps the issue here is that Telegram should rate themselves 17+ since it can be used to access "inappropriate content".
I should add that I hate that term because what is "inappropriate" is so extremely subjective. Like, I don't find tasteful nudity to be inappropriate in any way, but other people might. Maybe we should be using the term "illegal content" instead, since that's well defined as being against the law in a specific jurisdiction.
From their own statement though:
"objectification of real people (e.g. "hot-or-not" voting)" well then ALL the dating apps like Tinder and Bumble should be gone right now. Do they get around it because the apps actually do not say "swipe left for not, and swipe right for hot? I mean get those apps off of the internet, it is just creating a bunch of teenagers who have no clue how to act sociably with anyone in person, however, give them their iPhones, iPads, Macs etc...they will hop on those and feel like they are actually talking in "person!"
Just my opinion, but you can tell. I see it in my nephews. In person they have no clue how to act "normal" in basically any social situation. Church for the 11 year old because his parents take the iPhones/iPads from him physically. You can tell he is bored at Church, and I can understand that in a way for an 11 year old, and the two five year old identical twin boys, however, I will add that they go to Church every Sunday and love it....but that is because they have known nothing else, they have been going to Church with their parents since they were babies.
We are dumbing down our children and most of younger society with all these devices! However, please do not take me wrong though, as our iPhones, iPads, and Macs have also help advance this world in many ways. There is just a balance that needs to struck. I mean I will go over to my sisters house with the 11 year old for dinner, and they all sit there on their phones, or her son will eat fast and instantly go play on his Xbox One. Have some REAL damn family time...talk at the dinner table like when I grew up.
Situation was way different for me since I did not get a cell phone until I was 15, and I was one of the first to get one so I did not have really anyone to text, haha. Also, back then I am sure most of you know that we had like 200 texts a months (sending AND receiving) but obviously they were nothing like todays phones. My first phone was a Nextel i1000 flip phone, if anyone remembers how thick those were, haha!! Push-to-Talk was great though once most of my friends got on Nextel. I still have all my Nextel phones, do not know why, they are worth nothing as the iDEN Network does not even exist anymore, 99.9% sure.
Anyway, end rant.
Motorola Nextel i1000's, 
"objectification of real people (e.g. "hot-or-not" voting)" well then ALL the dating apps like Tinder and Bumble should be gone right now. Do they get around it because the apps actually do not say "swipe left for not, and swipe right for hot? I mean get those apps off of the internet, it is just creating a bunch of teenagers who have no clue how to act sociably with anyone in person, however, give them their iPhones, iPads, Macs etc...they will hop on those and feel like they are actually talking in "person!"
Just my opinion, but you can tell. I see it in my nephews. In person they have no clue how to act "normal" in basically any social situation. Church for the 11 year old because his parents take the iPhones/iPads from him physically. You can tell he is bored at Church, and I can understand that in a way for an 11 year old, and the two five year old identical twin boys, however, I will add that they go to Church every Sunday and love it....but that is because they have known nothing else, they have been going to Church with their parents since they were babies.
We are dumbing down our children and most of younger society with all these devices! However, please do not take me wrong though, as our iPhones, iPads, and Macs have also help advance this world in many ways. There is just a balance that needs to struck. I mean I will go over to my sisters house with the 11 year old for dinner, and they all sit there on their phones, or her son will eat fast and instantly go play on his Xbox One. Have some REAL damn family time...talk at the dinner table like when I grew up.
Situation was way different for me since I did not get a cell phone until I was 15, and I was one of the first to get one so I did not have really anyone to text, haha. Also, back then I am sure most of you know that we had like 200 texts a months (sending AND receiving) but obviously they were nothing like todays phones. My first phone was a Nextel i1000 flip phone, if anyone remembers how thick those were, haha!! Push-to-Talk was great though once most of my friends got on Nextel. I still have all my Nextel phones, do not know why, they are worth nothing as the iDEN Network does not even exist anymore, 99.9% sure.
Anyway, end rant.
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/05/apple-telegram-illegal-content/
Told you you don't need more information. It's obvious.
Not sure what your problem is, LOL, but you just confirmed my original point
- Apple pulls the app and gives a vague explanation
- People jump to all kinds of erroneous conclusions
- I state that I (not your royal high horse-ness) would like additional information due to the inconsistencies others were citing
- Apple apparently provides additional information that clarifies their decision
Again, I fully endorse going against those practices, I just don’t understamd what makes Telegram different from WhatsApp....
Still a vague response and an illogic one from Apple, there is nothing technical in telegram that makes it different from iMessage or WhatsApp in a technical sense.
Let’s forbid Ford from selling cars because 1 guy ran over people with a Ford....
You have no point. It was obvious that it is related to sexual abuse or something similar. Nothing else would raise any flags.
LOL, you must be a joy to be around in real life
Give it rest, not everyone in life is gonna bend over for you
No, I will not give it a rest. I said in my first post that this is wrong regardless of the content and you played the "i need more information" card as if you need to go to the moon to know that it is not made out of blue cheese. I specifically mentioned child pornography which turned out to be the case here as I expected. But Apple was wrong to pull the app from the app store just because someone used it for something very sickening. Just like it is bad to sacrifice everyones privacy, because a terrorist used an iPhone.
No surprisingly, you continue to be totally oblivious and miss my point entirely because you love the sound of your own words
I don't know if that's a sarcasting remark but you and the other 29 members here really don't have any class as this joke is seriously out of taste. You can go and enjoy this particular kind of inappropriate content yet I feel sorry for you children and those children in your 'hood.
should've banned them indefinitely.
Protections? WHERE THE F where these protections in the very FIRST PLACE! This is freaking CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ... Pavel Durov you've got not damn soul, no morals. The fact that this was there in the first place, I'd quit ... SCREW the money! Nothing is worth being associated and being disgusted with this F*ckery!
MobileSyrup.com said:
Schiller ... This is how you run a service and business with morality:
Phil Schiller said:
Schiller then goes on to write:
Phil Schiller said:
Yes late on seeing this yet I don't use that many social apps to take notice. I feel like vomiting that this even was happening.
Curious ... what happened on the Android side of this app? Hmmm.
[doublepost=1517887966][/doublepost]
And you're arguing about Apple's decision to protect children under a CRIME called Child Pornography on a forum as Apple pulled the app, reported to appropriate authorities and had the company FIX the issue and ban the users (which is in ANY companies OWN interest - except a pedophile). You're arguing your point about all of this in this particular thread?
Are you the guy running the coffee shop in the first scene of first season and episode of Mr. Robot hosting such content? Gads.
Don't feel sorry for me or any child I know / have met, but I was dead serious, it is impossible to clean the internet.
Does that mean I approve child pornography? Definetly not, so I don't know what are you fighting against (windmill perhaps?).
You should learn not to assume things as I do not approve that kind of content as you imply, perhaps if you came down from the pedestal you built yourself to look people from up above you might learn that the world is not all black and white.
The fact remains, will removing this app solve the issue? NO!
will users that want to see that kind of content use another app? YES!
Instead of removing app, they should let people report users with such behaviour, and then denounce them to the police, no need to ban the app.
I repeat myself:
You do not forbid Ford from selling cars because 1 guy ran over people with a Ford, you arrest the guy!
So BAN the user not the app!
Nothing, because it is not Android (well Alphabet) responsability, it is Telegram's.
Telergrams responded and made appropriate moves as expected and rightfully so, but it was their responsability not Alphabet or Apple!
Last edited: