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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 01v96 Remote LE censored by Apple?

Gone.

01v96 Remote LE is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Nov 26, 2020.

225 tests on record·⚠ last verified 8 months 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 itLikely

    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, unaskedLikely

    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 itUnlikely

    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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01v96 Remote LE

Developer: John Milner · Category: Music · Released: Jan 18, 2011 · Rating: 1.4★

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0stores where available
44stores where blocked
2.66Bpeople behind the block
44of 175 stores tested
225tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jan 18, 2011Released on the App Store
  2. Nov 26, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Nov 26, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Nov 10, 2022Gone from 44 storefronts
  5. Feb 12, 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.

2020-112026-02

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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CameroonCMUnavailableNov 6, 20223 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableJul 8, 20233 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableJan 29, 20234 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableJan 21, 20243 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableOct 6, 20224 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableSep 21, 20242 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableAug 27, 202513 months ago
GabonGAUnavailableSep 3, 20224 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableSep 8, 20233 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableMar 24, 202213 months ago
HungaryHUUnavailableJul 26, 20224 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableJun 27, 20233 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableMay 8, 20251 year ago
LaosLAUnavailableJun 12, 20228 months ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableJul 22, 20221 year ago
MacaoMOUnavailableNov 10, 20224 years ago
MaltaMTUnavailableJun 1, 20242 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableDec 17, 20222 years ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableJul 22, 20224 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableSep 25, 20242 years ago
Myanmar (Burma)MMUnavailableJul 9, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 20, 20248 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 17, 20222 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableFeb 19, 20252 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableApr 19, 20222 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableMay 23, 20222 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableMar 30, 20243 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableApr 19, 20222 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableFeb 12, 20268 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableJul 26, 20222 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableNov 10, 20222 years ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableSep 3, 20224 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableAug 23, 20248 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableJun 12, 20223 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableMay 4, 20222 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableFeb 8, 20252 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 24, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableAug 10, 20228 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableMar 24, 20228 months ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableFeb 26, 20252 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
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BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
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BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
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BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
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BulgariaBGNot tested——0
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CanadaCANot tested——0
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ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
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CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
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DR CongoCDNot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
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GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
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JordanJONot tested——0
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North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
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PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot 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
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot 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.