We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —
Is TIME Mobile censored by Apple?
TIME Mobile is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on May 13, 2022.
1,093 tests on record·last checked 23 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 it
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
- News apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, 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, unasked
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
- News apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
The developer withheld it
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 broke
a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.
- Gone for 5 years.
A local rule about paying for it
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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TIME Mobile
Developer: TIME USA LLC · Category: News · Released: Sep 1, 2009 · Rating: 1.2★
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Life of this app
- Sep 1, 2009Released on the App Store
- Apr 24, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
- May 13, 2022Last seen available anywhere
- Nov 29, 2023Gone from 121 storefronts
- Sep 17, 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.
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.
| Test now | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfghanistanAF | Unavailable | Mar 8, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| AlbaniaAL | Unavailable | Jun 23, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| AlgeriaDZ | Unavailable | Dec 29, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| AngolaAO | Unavailable | Feb 17, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| AnguillaAI | Unavailable | Mar 5, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| Antigua & BarbudaAG | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 25 days ago | ||
| ArgentinaAR | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 8 months ago | ||
| AzerbaijanAZ | Unavailable | Nov 1, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| BahrainBH | Unavailable | Apr 27, 2024 | 7 months ago | ||
| BarbadosBB | Unavailable | Feb 3, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| BelgiumBE | Unavailable | Aug 17, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| BeninBJ | Unavailable | Apr 23, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| BermudaBM | Unavailable | Apr 14, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| BhutanBT | Unavailable | Feb 5, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA | Unavailable | Feb 27, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| BotswanaBW | Unavailable | Sep 30, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| BrazilBR | Unavailable | Mar 20, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| British Virgin IslandsVG | Unavailable | Mar 3, 2023 | 6 months ago | ||
| BulgariaBG | Unavailable | Jan 17, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| CambodiaKH | Unavailable | Apr 8, 2024 | 10 months ago | ||
| CanadaCA | Unavailable | Apr 26, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| Cape VerdeCV | Unavailable | Mar 5, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| Cayman IslandsKY | Unavailable | Nov 15, 2023 | 3 months ago | ||
| ChadTD | Unavailable | Sep 11, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| China (Mainland)CN | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 34 days ago | ||
| ColombiaCO | Unavailable | May 18, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Côte d’IvoireCI | Unavailable | Jul 10, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| CyprusCY | Unavailable | May 17, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| CzechiaCZ | Unavailable | Dec 28, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| DominicaDM | Unavailable | Aug 13, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| Dominican RepublicDO | Unavailable | Nov 29, 2023 | 9 months ago | ||
| DR CongoCD | Unavailable | May 9, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| EcuadorEC | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| EgyptEG | Unavailable | Apr 20, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| El SalvadorSV | Unavailable | Nov 23, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| EstoniaEE | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| EswatiniSZ | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| FijiFJ | Unavailable | Mar 30, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| GabonGA | Unavailable | Jan 16, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| GeorgiaGE | Unavailable | Mar 24, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| GuatemalaGT | Unavailable | Aug 17, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| HondurasHN | Unavailable | Jul 10, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| Hong KongHK | Unavailable | Aug 5, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| HungaryHU | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| IcelandIS | Unavailable | May 13, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| IndiaIN | Unavailable | Apr 3, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| IndonesiaID | Unavailable | May 17, 2024 | 5 months ago | ||
| IrelandIE | Unavailable | Mar 27, 2023 | 4 years ago | ||
| JamaicaJM | Unavailable | Nov 19, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| JapanJP | Unavailable | Aug 17, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| KenyaKE | Unavailable | Aug 20, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| KosovoXK | Unavailable | Mar 16, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| KyrgyzstanKG | Unavailable | Jun 8, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| LaosLA | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2024 | 23 days ago | ||
| LatviaLV | Unavailable | Jan 13, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| LebanonLB | Unavailable | May 21, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| LuxembourgLU | Unavailable | Jan 21, 2026 | 9 months ago | ||
| MacaoMO | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| MadagascarMG | Unavailable | Aug 14, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| MalawiMW | Unavailable | Mar 8, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| MalaysiaMY | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 10 months ago | ||
| MaldivesMV | Unavailable | Jun 5, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| MaliML | Unavailable | Jun 26, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| MauritaniaMR | Unavailable | Aug 7, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| MexicoMX | Unavailable | Dec 3, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| MicronesiaFM | Unavailable | May 22, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| MongoliaMN | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 8 months ago | ||
| MontenegroME | Unavailable | May 16, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| MontserratMS | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 3 months ago | ||
| MoroccoMA | Unavailable | Feb 27, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| MozambiqueMZ | Unavailable | Apr 3, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Myanmar (Burma)MM | Unavailable | Nov 26, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| NamibiaNA | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 4 months ago | ||
| NauruNR | Unavailable | Jun 22, 2024 | 23 days ago | ||
| NepalNP | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| New ZealandNZ | Unavailable | May 25, 2025 | 5 months ago | ||
| NigerNE | Unavailable | May 29, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| NigeriaNG | Unavailable | Apr 5, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| North MacedoniaMK | Unavailable | Dec 18, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| NorwayNO | Unavailable | Jun 28, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| OmanOM | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 23 days ago | ||
| PalauPW | Unavailable | Apr 8, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| PanamaPA | Unavailable | Aug 26, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| Papua New GuineaPG | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2025 | 8 months ago | ||
| ParaguayPY | Unavailable | Jul 22, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| PeruPE | Unavailable | Jul 4, 2023 | 31 days ago | ||
| PhilippinesPH | Unavailable | May 24, 2023 | 11 months ago | ||
| PolandPL | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| QatarQA | Unavailable | Jun 17, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Republic of the CongoCG | Unavailable | Jun 11, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| RomaniaRO | Unavailable | May 20, 2024 | 6 months ago | ||
| RussiaRU | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 9 months ago | ||
| RwandaRW | Unavailable | May 15, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| Saudi ArabiaSA | Unavailable | May 12, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| SenegalSN | Unavailable | Nov 16, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Sierra LeoneSL | Unavailable | Jan 9, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| SlovakiaSK | Unavailable | Apr 21, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| SloveniaSI | Unavailable | Aug 22, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Solomon IslandsSB | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 1 year ago | ||
| South AfricaZA | Unavailable | Aug 18, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| SpainES | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 7 months ago | ||
| St. Kitts & NevisKN | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 11 months ago | ||
| St. LuciaLC | Unavailable | Jun 5, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| SurinameSR | Unavailable | Mar 9, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| SwedenSE | Unavailable | May 16, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| TaiwanTW | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| TajikistanTJ | Unavailable | Sep 6, 2026 | 34 days ago | ||
| TanzaniaTZ | Unavailable | Jun 22, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| TongaTO | Unavailable | Jan 19, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| TunisiaTN | Unavailable | Oct 20, 2020 | 2 years ago | ||
| TürkiyeTR | Unavailable | Jul 12, 2024 | 25 days ago | ||
| TurkmenistanTM | Unavailable | Feb 13, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| Turks & Caicos IslandsTC | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 31 days ago | ||
| UgandaUG | Unavailable | Apr 11, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| UkraineUA | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 4 months ago | ||
| United Arab EmiratesAE | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 23 days ago | ||
| United KingdomGB | Unavailable | Nov 8, 2023 | 5 months ago | ||
| United StatesUS | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 23 days ago | ||
| UruguayUY | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 7 months ago | ||
| UzbekistanUZ | Unavailable | Feb 25, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| YemenYE | Unavailable | Feb 24, 2023 | 1 year ago | ||
| ArmeniaAM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustraliaAU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustriaAT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BahamasBS | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelarusBY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelizeBZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BoliviaBO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BruneiBN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Burkina FasoBF | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CameroonCM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChileCL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Costa RicaCR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CroatiaHR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DenmarkDK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FinlandFI | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FranceFR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GambiaGM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GermanyDE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GhanaGH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GreeceGR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GrenadaGD | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Guinea-BissauGW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GuyanaGY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IraqIQ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IsraelIL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ItalyIT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JordanJO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KazakhstanKZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KuwaitKW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LiberiaLR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LibyaLY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LithuaniaLT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MaltaMT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MauritiusMU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MoldovaMD | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NetherlandsNL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NicaraguaNI | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PakistanPK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PortugalPT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| São Tomé & PríncipeST | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SerbiaRS | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SeychellesSC | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SingaporeSG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| South KoreaKR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Sri LankaLK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SwitzerlandCH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ThailandTH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Trinidad & TobagoTT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VanuatuVU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VenezuelaVE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VietnamVN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZambiaZM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZimbabweZW | Not 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.