The popular videogame “Fortnite” has returned to the iPhone App Store in the U.S., ending a prolonged exile that was triggered by a legal showdown over the lucrative fees that Apple had been ...

Fortnite returns to iPhone after being banned in 2020 over App Store payment disputes. Epic Games and Apple have been locked in a multi-year legal battle over alleged monopoly practices.

Fortnite was kicked off the App Store in 2020 after Epic updated its game over the web to take payments directly, instead of through Apple's in-app payment mechanism, which takes fees up to 30%.

Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on Fortnite's return to its App Store. "We back fam," Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney posted on social media platform X.

“Fortnite” has officially returned to Apple’s iOS App Store in the U.S.. The news came on Tuesday afternoon via a post on the official X account for the Epic Games shooter.

Separately, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has said the company would submit Fortnite to the App Store globally if Apple applies the U.S. court-ordered model worldwide.

Epic had originally submitted Fortnite on May 9, and today the company confirmed Apple's decision. "Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the US App Store or to the ...

Apple approved the Epic Games title Fortnite on Tuesday. The move immediately returns the first-person shooter game to the App Store for iPhones and iPads in the U.S., five years after its removal.