{"id":1040814,"date":"2026-10-05T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040814"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:03:11","slug":"apple-pulls-offline-messaging-app-bitchat-from-india-store-on-it-ministrys-demand-says-jack-dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/apple-pulls-offline-messaging-app-bitchat-from-india-store-on-it-ministrys-demand-says-jack-dorsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple pulls offline messaging app Bitchat from India store on IT Ministry&#8217;s demand, says Jack Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country&#8217;s IT ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store,&#8221; the app&#8217;s developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot of what appeared to be a notice from Apple&#8217;s App Review team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country&#8217;s IT ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post on Saturday. &#8220;Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store,&#8221; the app&#8217;s developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot of what appeared to be a notice from Apple&#8217;s App Review team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040821,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040814\/revisions\/1040821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}