Epic says its EU iOS app store is approved but that Apple wants a change

The Epic Games Store app for EU iPhones has passed Apple’s notarization process, putting the alternate app store a measurement closer to selling apps straight to iOS users extracurricular of the App Store. AppleInsider reports that portion Apple confirmed the app had passed, it has asked Epic to “fix the buttons” successful a aboriginal submission to the company’s app reappraisal process.

But the support is conscionable “temporary,” posted Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, who puts Apple’s petition differently. He says the institution is “demanding we alteration the buttons successful the adjacent version,” vowing that the institution volition “fight this.” The seemingly conditional support is conscionable the latest portion of the back-and-forth saga betwixt Apple and Epic. Previously, Apple reinstated Epic Games Sweden’s European developer licence aft EU regulators started investigating its decision to propulsion it.

Epic had submitted the store (along with Fortnite) to Apple’s iOS notarization process, which Apple requires for apps disposable extracurricular the App Store successful the EU, astatine the opening of the month. Then it posted that Apple rejected the submission due to the fact that the institution felt the crippled store’s “in-app purchases” statement and “Install” fastener hewed excessively intimately to Apple’s “design and positioning” for its ain akin features. (If that sounds familiar, possibly it’s due to the fact that it’s not the lone spat betwixt the 2 that involves fastener design.)