Drudge report is gone from the app store and the app is not working now so *** is going on apple?

This might help someone.

Some time ago on my iPad I deleted the Drudge Report and could not find it in the App Store.

As to why the Drudge Report is not there, no one knows for sure. It is most likely that Drudge pulled it himself. That is not a certainty. I check daily to see if anyone has real proof as to what actually happened.

Yesterday I did a restore on my iPad. I was able to get the Drudge Report back by going to the App Store and retrieving it under products "purchased".

Already did, indicating Apple has chosen to remove their app and to use the mobile website link instead. No explanation from Apple yet.

I deleted my app today as it was getting a weird pop up. Of course it appears to be missing...

There is a solution! Go to drudge on safari and save the site to your home screen. Just like having the app except no signature “D”

Apple is not censoring anything because they are not preventing you from accessing the information you desire. Period. "Freedom of speech" does not mean that a private company is required to provide the Drudge Report, Democracy Now or HuffPo with a platform. All indications are that the respective purveyors (Drudge and Breitbart) pulled their own apps. Apple is not preventing Drudge or Breitbart from decimating information any more than Walmart is censoring Playboy (or similar) by refusing to sell that publication in their stores.

And yes, you can get Breitbart through the Apple News app.

What censorship? There isn't any. Read the thread. The Drudge people pulled the app, not Apple. You can still read their stuff on any apple device you choose via the web browser. Where is this censorship?

Why don't you read the thread you posted to? You might discover that the consensus is that Drudge pulled the app, not that Apple removed it.

If Apple is censoring Drudge, why can you still open Safari and go to the Drudge site?

JohnHolzinger wrote:

So rather than a bunch of swearing, does anyone have an answer?

Have you read the thread? There have been a number of suggestions. But, as neither Apple nor Drudge are participants in this thread, there can be definitive answers. If you wish to pursue the matter, I suggest you contact Drudge. To date, I haven't heard that they've responded to anyone who has asked this question (which lends support to the theory that it was not Apple who removed the app) but, you might get lucky.

There have also been suggestions for alternatives:

It's easily accessible with Safari. Book mark it and add the bookmark as an icon to your home screen:

Bookmark favorite webpages in Safari on iPhone - Apple Support

And

download “the report” app. It’s a conservative news app which you can read drudge on

What mystery? You can still access their website on any Apple device connected to the Internet, so, no censorship. The Drudge people aren't complaining, so they did it. Simple.

download “the report” app. It’s a conservative news app which you can read drudge on 🙂

No one here can even make a wild guess, and anyone who knows is most likely under NDA. In other threads people have said they asked Drudge and did not get a answer. Maybe Drudge did not want to pay to update it to iOS 11. Maybe the contractor who wrote the app (it’s unlikely that anyone who worked for Drudge wrote it) wanted too much money to continue to maintain it. As it required maintaining a database to support it, maybe that became too onerous or too costly. Or maybe Apple discovered it was stealing user data and pulled it. That’s happened with many apps in the past, and it would be a reason Drudge doesn’t want to respond.

But you can still visit the Drudge website with Safari, so you haven’t lost access to Drudge.

You are ignoring the fact that all evidence points to the fact that Apple did not remove the Drudge Report app; Drudge pulled it.

Apple does not make apps for other developers, they supply the tools if a developer is inclined to make an App or not.

https://developer.apple.com/ios/

Now why would Drudge cut off that many viewers, Apple not replying says it all

The fact that Apple isn't replying here only tells you that Apple told the truth in the Terms and Conditions that you agreed to when you registered. This is a user-to-user forum. Apple's participation here is minimal. If you want to discuss the matter with Apple directly, you can use the contact support link at the top right of every page of these forums.

There could be lots of reasons the Drudge Report decided to discontinue the app. Was the app ad or subscription supported? If not, it may have actually cost them money. If the actual website is ad supported, why would they want to encourage people to access their content but not see the adds. Perhaps they parted ways with their app developer and haven't found a new one.

Contact the makers of the app.

Have you actually read the thread? Apple did nothing, Drudge pulled it. Enjoy your new phone.