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The fashionable Ethereum wallet MetaMask near Apple’s App Store for astatine slightest an hr connected Oct. 14, according to the task itself and third-party reports.
MetaMask wrote connected Twitter/X:
“FYI: We’re alert that MetaMask isn’t presently disposable for download connected the App Store. This [is not] related to thing malicious and our squad is moving hard to resoluteness it ASAP.”
Later, MetaMask announced that its crypto wallet was “as promised, backmost connected the Apple App Store” and apologized for the inconvenience.
MetaMask inactive has not provided immoderate circumstantial reasons for the takedown. In statements to aggregate crypto quality sites, a typical from MetaMask proprietor Consensys stated that the takedown was not related to malicious activity, a vulnerability, oregon the app’s functionality. They besides encouraged users to study immoderate fake MetaMask apps.
Though a presumption update connected Apple’s App Store said that MetaMask developers took down the app, the store has rules that mightiness person required the wallet to beryllium removed until developers could show compliance. Apple’s App Store prohibits inheritance processes specified arsenic crypto mining. It besides has rules that forestall apps from gating contented and features down crypto payments oregon offering in-app crypto purchases.
It should beryllium noted that MetaMask precocious added a caller diagnostic that allows users to deposit funds done a Stripe on-ramp. However, determination is nary denotation that this summation caused the takedown, and the level antecedently offered galore akin fiat on-ramps.
App stores person strict crypto policies
MetaMask has been delisted from different app stores successful the past. It was concisely removed from Google’s Chrome Web Store successful July 2018. Once again, nary mentation was provided. However, the removal occurred conscionable earlier a argumentation alteration affecting mining apps, and immoderate speculated that the store targeted crypto apps overbroadly.
MetaMask was past delisted connected Google Play successful December 2019. MetaMask said that Google incorrectly claimed that the app had mining features successful usurpation of its store policy. In some cases, MetaMask was reinstated connected the app store soon after.
Other apps person had akin troubles with Apple’s App Store. Coinbase Wallet and Trust Wallet were some concisely unavailable successful 2022 earlier being reinstated. Uniswap besides reported trouble obtaining a listing connected Apple’s App Store earlier April 2023.
The station MetaMask is backmost connected Apple’s App Store aft concisely leaving the platform appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.
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