The Fortnite video game returns to the iPhone App Store in the USA and ends the exile of Apple

The popular video game Fortnite has returned to the iPhone App Store in the USA and ended a longer exile that was triggered by a legal showdown about the lucrative fees that Apple has collected for years through a payment system that was forced to change.

Fortnite welcomed the long-awaited restoration of his app to the iPhone and the iPad in a Tuesday and marked the first time that it will be available on these devices since it was displaced in 2020 because he tried to avoid 15% to 30% commissions to collect the Apple during in-app transactions.

The video game with a virtual struggle on a digital island is returning to the iPhone just a few days after his parent company Epic Games, in which a federal judge was asked to organize his return in the context of a civil contempt for Apple's judicial strength against Apple at the end of the last month.

In a brief explanation that was submitted to court late Tuesday, Apple, the dispute that Fortnite kept away from his iOS software for the iPhone, said. The company Cupertino, California, did not immediately answer further comments.

The legal wrangling is part of a bitter feud that is still cooking.

Epic filed a lawsuit in which Apple had been transformed his app store into an illegal monopoly-a claim that it had lost judgment in 2021 as part of a federal judge.

Although she decided that Apple did not violate antitrust rights, the US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered the company to loosen control over in-app payments and enable connections to other options that may offer lower prices.

After Apple triggered an appointment procedure last year, which went to the Supreme Court of the United States, he presented a new system last year that opened the door for links to alternative payment options and at the same time imposed a 27% commission for in-app transactions that were carried out outside of its own system.

Epic dismissed himself back by revealing the nose stupid and another round of court hearings in the legal system, which lasted almost a year before Gonzalez Rogers took its stinging consideration, which included a ban on the collection of commissions for alternative payment options.

That seemed to clarify the way for Fortnite's return to the iPhone and iPad, but Epic said last week that the video game was still blocked by Apple. After Apple claimed that keeping Fortnite was still permissible, while it is initiating a calling against Gonzalez Roger's decision, the EPIC forced the problem by asking the judge for another arrangement that would make it clear that the video game on the iPhone and iPad should be left behind.

Gonzalez Rogers asked on Monday why Apple Fortnite still blocked without the order of the Court of Appeal and authorized this lawsuit. She planned a hearing on May 27 in Oakland, California, to hear the latest application from Epic and to determine that “Apple is able to solve this problem without further briefing or hearing.”