Apple recently took the swift step of removing Telegram from its App Store after an internal review uncovered content that violated the company’s strict policies regarding child sexual abuse material. Users initially noticed the app had vanished, with the standard store page displaying an error message indicating that the requested content could not be found.

Following the removal, Telegram confirmed that the app has since been reinstated after the development team took immediate action to purge the offending content and ban the user responsible for sharing it. While the platform jokingly addressed the brief outage on social media by quoting Mark Twain, neither company has provided further details regarding the specific nature of the violation or the internal oversight process that led to the incident.