Third-party Reddit apps coming back online after being removed for NSFW content
Earlier today, Apple started cracking down on third-party Reddit apps on the App Store for NSFW content. Apple said that the Reddit clients violated clause 18.2 of the App Review Guidelines as they contained "user generated content that is frequently pornographic."
While the timing is coincidental considering that the official Reddit client for iOS made its debut earlier this week, the two events are unrelated. The developer behind popular app Narwhal said, "Reddit did not request this. This is solely because of Apple." The Narwhal app is now back on the App Store after the removal of NSFW settings.
Similarly, the developer of Eggplant Reddit was asked to remove the NSFW toggle present within the client:
Reddit also received a notice to do the same on its official apps:
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