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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Sunny Demo - 轻量物联网透传平台 censored by Apple?

Gone.

Sunny Demo - 轻量物联网透传平台 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Nov 4, 2021.

213 tests on record·⚠ last verified 1 year ago — treat as historical

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one App Store. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.

  • A government or a court demanded itPossible

    and Apple complied. Apple publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedPossible

    either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Apple's own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Apple kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • The developer withheld itPossible

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Apple's guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Apple's own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.

  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

  • A local rule about paying for itRuled out

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Apple can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.

    • It is free, so Apple sells nothing here.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you

Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Apple's removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.

None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Apple naming a Chinese agency tells you what Apple said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Apple's catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across the App Store. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Apple does not emit.

Apple publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which of its App Stores. For the removals it makes on a government's demand it publishes the agency and the law behind every one — 2,045 of the 166,899 apps it removed during 2025 — and never which app. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Apple's App Store Transparency Report

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Sunny Demo - 轻量物联网透传平台

Developer: Junfei Peng · Category: Utilities · Released: Sep 20, 2015 ·

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0stores where available
45stores where blocked
3.22Bpeople behind the block
45of 175 stores tested
213tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 20, 2015Released on the App Store
  2. Feb 25, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Nov 4, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. Feb 17, 2022Gone from 45 storefronts
  5. Jun 5, 2025Most recent test

Testing history

One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.

2019-022025-06

Found availableFound unavailable

Availability by storefront

Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.

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AlbaniaALUnavailableDec 8, 20193 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJan 1, 20203 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableFeb 17, 20223 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableDec 8, 20193 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableMar 28, 20203 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableAug 13, 20233 years ago
BrazilBRUnavailableNov 8, 20203 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableAug 13, 20233 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableFeb 17, 20222 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableApr 11, 20243 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableOct 21, 20193 years ago
EgyptEGUnavailableMay 5, 20222 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableAug 24, 20242 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableNov 4, 20213 years ago
HondurasHNUnavailableOct 11, 20193 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableJan 1, 20203 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableFeb 26, 20221 year ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableFeb 17, 20223 years ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableNov 8, 20203 years ago
MaltaMTUnavailableJun 8, 20222 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableApr 11, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 24, 20241 year ago
NepalNPUnavailableJun 17, 20233 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableFeb 17, 20223 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableMar 21, 20243 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableMay 4, 20203 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableMay 4, 20203 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableSep 4, 20203 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableFeb 26, 20223 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 5, 20223 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableNov 28, 20242 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableJul 29, 20193 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableJul 29, 20193 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableJun 9, 20221 year ago
SwedenSEUnavailableOct 21, 20193 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableJun 17, 20233 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableMar 21, 20243 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableJun 9, 20221 year ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableSep 4, 20203 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMay 5, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJun 17, 20231 year ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableOct 11, 20193 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 11, 20191 year ago
VietnamVNUnavailableMar 28, 20203 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableJun 8, 20223 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
Hong KongHKNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0

Testing asks Apple whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Apple directly, so the answer describes what Apple serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Apple at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Apple's own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.

How we test

Availability is checked against Apple's own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way the App Store app asks. "Unavailable" means Apple's servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.