We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Cisco Instant Connect 4.9(2) censored by Apple?

Gone.

Cisco Instant Connect 4.9(2) is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Feb 23, 2022.

405 tests on record·last checked 5 days ago

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

    • Business apps in the United States are unavailable at 4%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • 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

    • Business apps in the United States are unavailable at 4%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
  • 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.

    • Gone for 2 years.
  • 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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Cisco Instant Connect 4.9(2)

Developer: Cisco · Category: Business · Released: Nov 24, 2015 · Rating: 0.1★

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0stores where available
73stores where blocked
4.57Bpeople behind the block
73of 175 stores tested
405tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Nov 24, 2015Released on the App Store
  2. Oct 22, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Feb 23, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Nov 13, 2024Gone from 73 storefronts
  5. Sep 13, 2026Most 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.

2019-102026-09

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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableApr 4, 202439 days ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableAug 1, 20242 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableSep 14, 202512 months ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableAug 11, 202513 months ago
BahamasBSUnavailableJan 5, 20252 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableOct 19, 202511 months ago
BelarusBYUnavailableApr 4, 20242 years ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableApr 4, 20245 months ago
BelizeBZUnavailableMar 18, 20252 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableAug 13, 202513 months ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableApr 4, 202436 days ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableDec 10, 20258 months ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableApr 4, 20247 months ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableNov 4, 202510 months ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableAug 13, 202636 days ago
ChadTDUnavailableApr 14, 20265 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableJun 3, 20242 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableApr 4, 20243 months ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableApr 25, 20251 year ago
CyprusCYUnavailableOct 6, 202414 months ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableMar 8, 20266 months ago
EcuadorECUnavailableJul 31, 20242 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableApr 15, 20265 months ago
FinlandFIUnavailableJun 3, 20248 months ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableApr 4, 20245 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableApr 4, 20245 days ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJun 5, 20242 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableApr 4, 20247 months ago
IsraelILUnavailableApr 7, 20242 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableApr 4, 20242 months ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableDec 24, 20242 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableJun 30, 20242 months ago
KenyaKEUnavailableMay 11, 20242 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableFeb 4, 20267 months ago
LibyaLYUnavailableFeb 26, 20267 months ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableSep 21, 20242 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableFeb 21, 20267 months ago
MacaoMOUnavailableJul 3, 20242 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableApr 4, 20245 months ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableMar 27, 20266 months ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableDec 30, 20259 months ago
MexicoMXUnavailableApr 4, 202414 months ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableAug 6, 20242 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableAug 16, 202513 months ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 24, 20245 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableApr 4, 20242 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableApr 4, 20245 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableNov 20, 202510 months ago
NorwayNOUnavailableApr 4, 20245 days ago
PakistanPKUnavailableOct 29, 20242 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableApr 2, 20266 months ago
PortugalPTUnavailableJan 4, 20268 months ago
QatarQAUnavailableJul 11, 20242 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableMay 2, 20265 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 4, 20242 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableJun 17, 202515 months ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableJul 25, 202514 months ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableApr 4, 20242 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJan 24, 20252 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableOct 24, 202511 months ago
SwedenSEUnavailableMar 28, 20266 months ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableJun 24, 20242 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableOct 12, 202511 months ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableNov 1, 202511 months ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableMay 12, 202516 months ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableApr 13, 20251 year ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableApr 6, 20251 year ago
UgandaUGUnavailableFeb 27, 20267 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableApr 4, 20246 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableApr 4, 20245 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableApr 4, 20245 days ago
VietnamVNUnavailableNov 13, 20242 years ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableNov 25, 20242 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AngolaAONot tested0
AnguillaAINot tested0
ArgentinaARNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested0
BahrainBHNot tested0
BermudaBMNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
BotswanaBWNot tested0
BrazilBRNot tested0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested0
BruneiBNNot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
CameroonCMNot tested0
CanadaCANot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
Costa RicaCRNot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
DenmarkDKNot tested0
DominicaDMNot tested0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested0
DR CongoCDNot tested0
EgyptEGNot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
EstoniaEENot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
GabonGANot tested0
GambiaGMNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GhanaGHNot tested0
GreeceGRNot tested0
GrenadaGDNot tested0
GuyanaGYNot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
HungaryHUNot tested0
IcelandISNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
IrelandIENot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KazakhstanKZNot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
KuwaitKWNot tested0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested0
LaosLANot tested0
LatviaLVNot tested0
LebanonLBNot tested0
MalawiMWNot tested0
MalaysiaMYNot tested0
MaliMLNot tested0
MaltaMTNot tested0
MauritaniaMRNot tested0
MicronesiaFMNot tested0
MongoliaMNNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
MontserratMSNot tested0
MoroccoMANot tested0
MozambiqueMZNot tested0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
NicaraguaNINot tested0
NigerNENot tested0
NigeriaNGNot tested0
OmanOMNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
PanamaPANot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
ParaguayPYNot tested0
PhilippinesPHNot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
RomaniaRONot tested0
RwandaRWNot tested0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
SeychellesSCNot tested0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
SloveniaSINot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
South KoreaKRNot tested0
SpainESNot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested0
TaiwanTWNot tested0
TajikistanTJNot tested0
TanzaniaTZNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TunisiaTNNot tested0
United KingdomGBNot tested0
UruguayUYNot tested0
UzbekistanUZNot tested0
VanuatuVUNot tested0
VenezuelaVENot tested0
YemenYENot tested0
ZimbabweZWNot tested0

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.