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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Subway CA censored by Apple?

Gone.

Subway CA is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Feb 1, 2021.

183 tests on record·⚠ last verified 5 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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Subway CA

Developer: ZippyYum LLC · Category: Food & Drink · Released: Mar 31, 2012 · Rating: 2.7★

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0stores where available
42stores where blocked
2.59Bpeople behind the block
42of 175 stores tested
183tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Mar 31, 2012Released on the App Store
  2. Mar 19, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Feb 1, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. May 14, 2022Gone from 42 storefronts
  5. May 28, 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.

2019-032026-05

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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AustraliaAUUnavailableDec 15, 20193 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableDec 23, 202510 months ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableNov 13, 20233 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableMar 19, 20194 years ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableMay 28, 20265 months ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableSep 21, 20203 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableDec 2, 20213 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableDec 15, 20193 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableJul 17, 20224 years ago
GambiaGMUnavailableOct 9, 20224 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableJul 17, 20224 years ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableDec 25, 20213 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableDec 31, 20213 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableAug 24, 20242 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableDec 2, 20213 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableApr 18, 20243 years ago
MaliMLUnavailableDec 25, 20213 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableSep 9, 20242 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableJan 20, 20222 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableOct 2, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 24, 20245 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMay 14, 20223 years ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableOct 14, 20192 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableOct 14, 20193 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableMay 14, 20222 years ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableDec 3, 20213 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableJun 18, 20224 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableJan 20, 20243 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 13, 20223 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableApr 9, 20203 years ago
SpainESUnavailableSep 9, 20242 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableNov 12, 20233 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableDec 3, 20213 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableApr 9, 20203 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableOct 1, 20233 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableDec 1, 202511 months ago
ThailandTHUnavailableNov 24, 20233 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableAug 24, 202514 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMay 13, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableOct 1, 20235 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableDec 2, 20215 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableMay 13, 20224 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
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Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
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St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
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TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
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United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot 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.