The ongoing legal battle between Epic Games and Apple has fired up again recently after a district-court injunction led Epic to attempt to get Fortnite back on the US App Store for the first time in five years. Apple has since blocked the submission, and Epic is appealing to the court to uphold its injunction against Apple.
After Apple left the Fortnite submission unaddressed for over a week, it finally responded to Epic to block Fortnite’s return in the US. Apple has said that it won’t take action on the Fortnite submission „until after the Ninth Circuit rules on our pending request for a partial stay of the new injunction,“ a move Epic believes is in violation of the injunction itself. In response, Epic has filed a second Motion to Enforce Injunction with the California district court in question.
Epic Games managed to get Fortnite back on iPhones in Europe last year, thanks to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, but the game is currently offline again in the EU due to the ongoing drama with the US App Store.