4 years in the past, Apple shocked avid gamers world wide when it fully eliminated Fortnite from all iOS units for violating App Retailer pointers. Now, after a prolonged battle between Epic Video games and Apple, Fortnite is lastly set to return to iOS units. At the least, throughout the EU and UK, anyway.
Should you’re questioning why Fortnite will solely be returning to iOS units throughout the EU and UK, it is due to a brand new EU legislation often known as the Digital Markets Act. The legislation got here into impact final 12 months and requires corporations reminiscent of Apple and Google to “open up their providers and platforms to different companies and builders,” based on the BBC.
The Digital Markets Act has allowed Epic Video games to deliver its fashionable storefront, identified merely because the Epic Video games Retailer, to iOS units, together with the potential of downloading Fortnite by way of Epic’s personal storefront.
Whereas the Digital Markets Act doesn’t apply to the UK, a invoice often known as the Digital Markets, Competitors and Customers Act was handed by the UK authorities earlier this 12 months. The legislation works similarly to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and can permit Fortnite to return to iOS units throughout the UK.
Epic Video games took to X (previously Twitter) after the UK invoice was handed to substantiate that Fortnite could be returning to iOS within the UK “within the second half of 2025.” But it surely’s excellent news for the EU, as Fortnite appears to be like set to return to iOS units within the subsequent couple of months, based on a brand new publish from Epic Video games.
On the official Epic Video games Newsroom account, the studio confirmed that it had now submitted the Epic Video games Retailer and Fortnite to Apple for the required notarization course of. This implies, if all goes properly, that Fortnite will probably be obtainable on iOS units throughout the EU in “the following couple [of] months,” based on Epic Video games.
Epic additionally mentioned that it desires to “deliver [its] video games to different cell app shops” and said that it desires to “speak with all shops that supply nice phrases to all builders.”
UK customers will nonetheless want to attend till the second half of 2025 to leap again into Fortnite on iOS, whereas the remainder of the world must proceed utilizing GeForce NOW in the event that they wish to play Fortnite on their iPhone or iPad.
