Epic games say Apple prevents Fortnite from USA and European Union stores

Epic Games claims that Apple prohibits the Fortnite application of US and European Union app stores.

after Winning a decisive victory for application developers In a legal battle with Apple, forcing the technology giant to allow external payments in the American application store without charging a committee, Epic Games tried to do so Fortnite Re -submitting to the American App Store On May 9, 2025.

However, Apple failed to accept it for a week, as it led the epic games to withdraw its request and try again. According to the CEO of Epic Tim Sweeyy, The update was withdrawn due to Epic Games need to release a weekly Fortnite update with new content, and all basic systems must be updated simultaneously.

Then the company presented a new version to the United States App Store on Wednesday, May 14, with the updated content.

At a publication on Friday morning on X, Fortnite said that Apple has prevented its latest introduction to the United States and made it from EPIC games cannot issue its application to the European Union as well.

“Now, unfortunately, Fortnite will be on iOS not connected all over the world to separate Apple Publishing from Fortnite readings.

Techcrunch has access to EPIC and Apple toys to comment.

Apple questioned the description of the epic games of the case. The Apple spokesman said the following:

“We have asked Epic Sweden to re -submit the application update without including the American store interface for the application store so that it does not affect the Fortnite in other geographical areas. We have not taken any action to remove the direct version of the Fortnite from the alternative distribution markets in EC.”

Updated after posting with Apple’s comment.