Apple pulls offline messaging app Bitchat from India store on IT Ministry’s demand, says Jack Dorsey

NEW DELHI: Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country’s IT ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post on Saturday.

“Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store,” the app’s developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot of what appeared to be a notice from Apple’s App Review team.