Apple blocks Fortnite’s return to the U.S. App Store and Epic Games Store in EU, despite ruling (updated)

Epic Games banned Apple from EPIC to apply for Fortnite to the Apple App Store in the United States and the IOS EPIC game store in the European Union.

“Now, unfortunately, Fortnite on iOS will not connect all over the world until Apple cancels its ban,” said Epic Games in a tweet.

The EPIC games were hoping to be able to re -play, which was outside iOS since I lifted Epic Apple due to anti -monopoly violations in 2021. It is expected that a new European Union law is expected to be forced to comply at some point, and Apple’s rule was expected to be imposed by Apple.

[Updated: 11:16 p.m. Pacific time on 5/16/25]. EPIC Games said it has applied to impose a judicial order against Apple.

Epic Games Aid, “Yesterday afternoon, Apple broke her silence for a week to put our application review with a message that it will not work to submit the Fortnite application until the ninth department court rules partial residency.

The company added, “We were transparent with Apple about our intentions while using applications and documentation as an excuse to circumvent a court order for the court and the European Union’s digital markets law,” the company added. A solution “Apple requires us to submit two copies of Apple before we envision us from our hands.

In the new movement, EPIC said on May 1, 2025, Epic Apple notified its intention to take advantage of the upholstery and new instructions. Specifically, Epic Apple was notified that EPIC will use the same developer account that it uses to distribute the EPIC and Fortnite Games Store in the European Union Fortnite to review applications in Apple Apple in the United States to provide it in more direction if Apple preferred that EPIC provides Fortnite to review in another way (for example, through a different developer account). On May 2, 2025, Apple stated – through her external lawyer – that if EPIC wanted to send it using the identified EPIC, you must do so. “

“Although the Apple contracts may allow them to reject the application for legal reasons, it stipulates that Apple may no longer reject any application – including Fortnite – because its developer chooses to include an external purchase link. Likewise, if there are any teeth, Apple cannot reject an application on the ground that its developer brings to the Enforcece Phullist.

“The only interpretation of Apple’s decision to refuse to review Epic Fortnite is that Apple does not want Epic to benefit from the rights that I worked hard to get it and instead you want to take revenge on these efforts.”

Nothing about EPIC condition with Apple The Apple provides any greater discretionary salad to refuse to submit it from EPIC or to treat EPIC transmitters differently from that Apple may treat introductions from any other developer, according to EPIC. More importantly, the Apple Contracted Rights under DPLA does not outperform the irritable matter; On the contrary, the complete goal of the al -Zargi is to reduce these rights, as an epic said.

“A judicial order and the arrangement of the contempt of this court is clear. Apple may not reject the applications because its developers want to direct consumers to alternative payment options through links, buttons and other calls to work. Apple cannot reject its applications because their developers have tried to implement this matter. The flow.

We are waiting for more explanation for the reason for not banning Apple’s return of Fortnite. We have asked Apple to comment, but it hasn’t provided anything yet.

In her legal files with EPIC, Apple said: “The recent conflicts of the parties over a judicial order of the provincial court do not reduce the Apple bases and the legal right to end the” DPLA “epic games, on the contrary, repeated the last order of the alleged court” epic games “that violated” DPLA and ” [had previously] He admitted that Apple has the right to obtain relief if the court found that DPLA was viable and did not violate the anti -monopoly or public policy laws. “

Apple said that the provincial court once again noted that “Apple’s breach to demand the contract also depends on violations of the independent DPLA provisions on the rulings of antiseptic control. Apple has removed the Fortnite from the American store interface in the application store and ended the Epic Games account due to this breach.”