Telegram was able to place the latest version of the messenger in the App Store

Apple allowed Telegram to place in the App Store a new version of the program for users of the company's mobile devices, said the founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov.

Details

• “Amazing news: Apple has just successfully reviewed our latest update for Telegram iOS and we have been able to submit a new version with long awaited fixes and improvements to the AppStore. Thank you, Apple,” Durov wrote in his Telegram channel.
• The new Telegram version 4.8.2, which is also available to Russian users of the iOS operating system, contains a number of innovations, including updating the procedure for processing personal data in accordance with the GDRP (General Data Privacy Regulation).

Context

• At the end of May, Pavel Durov reported that on the latest version of the iOS 1.4 mobile operating system, some Telegram functions, such as stickers, work with errors, but Apple banned Telegram from updating all versions of its iOS application after Telegram was blocked in Russia, and Russian The authorities demanded that Apple remove Telegram from the App Store.
• “We are confident that we did everything right (we are talking about refusing to give the FSB encryption keys. - The Bell), while maintaining the right of our users to privacy in a “problem” country <...> Unfortunately, Apple was not on our side, ” Durov wrote. He noted that Apple has limited updates for all users of the messenger around the world. In particular, because of this, Telegram was unable to fully comply with the new rules for the processing of personal data GDPR , which came into force in Europe at the end of May.
• Telegram in Russia was blocked in mid-April at the suit of Roskomnadzor and the FSB, which demanded that the messenger provide encryption keys to access users' correspondence - Pavel Durov refused to do this.