It’s almost unheard of for Apple to comment on an individual iPhone app, but it’s just done so in response to the first porn app, just arriving on European iPhones.

AltStore PAL said in a social media post that Hot Tub is “the world’s 1st Apple-approved porn app.” Apple rejects that claim.

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Apple has allowed the first pornography app onto the iPhone.“Hot Tub” markets itself as an “adult content browser” that allows people to find and watch sexual material. That kind of content is still explicitly banned under the App Store rules.

A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe's Digital Markets Act

The Hot Tub adult content browser is launching on AltStore PAL today.

The European Union wanted to create alternatives to Big Tech control. The Hot Tub app is the fruit of their efforts.

Earlier today, third-party app store AltStore PAL, announced that a porn app called Hot Tub was now available to iOS users in the European Union. The marketplace, which enables people in the EU to sideload apps outside of Apple’s App Store, described it as the “first Apple-approved porn app.”