I förra veckan försvann Telegram från App Store för både iOS och macOS. Anledningen var mycket oklar, de försvann bara och Telegram-chefen Pavel Durov sa bara att det berodde på opassande innehåll.

Nu har en läsare till 9to5mac varit i kontakt med Phil Schiller som berättar varför man plockade bort appen.

The Telegram apps were taken down off the App Store because the App Store team was alerted to illegal content, specifically child pornography, in the apps. After verifying the existence of the illegal content the team took the apps down from the store, alerted the developer, and notified the proper authorities, including the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).

The App Store team worked with the developer to have them remove this illegal content from the apps and ban the users who posted this horrible content. Only after it was verified that the developer had taken these actions and put in place more controls to keep this illegal activity from happening again were these apps reinstated on the App Store.

We will never allow illegal content to be distributed by apps in the App Store and we will take swift action whenever we learn of such activity. Most of all, we have zero tolerance for any activity that puts children at risk – child pornography is at the top of the list of what must never occur. It is evil, illegal, and immoral.

I hope you appreciate the importance of our actions to not distribute apps on the App Store while they contain illegal content and to take swift action against anyone and any app involved in content that puts children at risk.

Exakt vad Telegram har gjort för att se till att detta inte händer igen är oklart.