Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store
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2025-10-03T00: 20: 53z
- Apple has removed the immigration enforcement tracking app ICEBlock from the App Store.
- The app allows users to monitor and track the location of immigration enforcement agents.
- In a statement to Business Insider, Apple said the app was removed due to “safety risks.”
Apple has removed ICEBlock, an app that allowed users to monitor and report the location of immigration enforcement officers from the App Store.
“We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps,” Apple said in a statement to Business Insider. “Based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store.”
The developer of the app did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Apple has previously removed apps from the App Store at government insistence, including an app used by protesters in Hong Kong to track the location of law enforcement.
Fox News reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi requested that Apple remove ICEBlock.
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
