Russia’s official ban of Telegram has spread, CEO Pavel Durov tweeted on Thursday, saying that Apple had been blocking updates to the encrypted messaging app on a global scale since Russian authorities ordered the company to remove Telegram from the App Store in April: Apple stopped approving Telegram for iOS updates globally 1,5 months ago after Russia ordered a block on Telegram.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… — Pavel Durov (@durov) May 31, 2018 Durov said on his Telegram channel that Apple’s update block meant that some features that were fixed weeks ago – such as stickers – weren’t working correctly under the recently released iOS 11.4.

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