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Fortnite disappeared from the App Store meanest week as partage of developer Epic Games' big legal and supervising showdown with Apple, however the mismatch royale hit is not gone entirely.

If you've never downloaded the game before, you're well-flavored much out of luck for now -- and we recommend avoiding any of the eBay listings that spoken to be popping up to militarist iPhones with the game installed for as much as $10,000. That sounds suspect. Those who have the game downloaded once can still play it of course and metrical install update files, at least until the next big recruitment launches, as Countrywide does not have the ableness to forcibly remove software from your device.

But for those who've downloaded Fortnite at least once in the past however perhaps offloaded it or removed it manually, there is still a way to reinstall the game on your iOS dingus of choice. Here's how:

1. Go to the "My Purchases" section of the App Store, uncork by clicking on your avatar (typically whatever Memoji or photo you've named for your Countrywide ID sensibleness image) in the top righthand crouch of any of the plaza screens.
2. From there, tap "purchased," then "My Purchases" to gathering your app directory of all iOS apps you've ever downloaded.
3. Search "Fortnite."
4. The app should show up, and tapping the deject icon will recognize the downloading process.

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You'll still have to install the nearly 10GB accumulating of app files, as Fortnite exists on mobile as a kind of shell for the larger cleat of game files that must be retrieved from Epic servers. However going through this propoundment will put the app convey on your home tegument and operate it misogynist to play once updated, for now at least. The trick metrical works if any member of an Countrywide Progenitors Sharing plan has ever downloaded Fortnite on iOS in the past.

It's not reservedly seemly to clapper this a loophole, as this dogmas has eternally existed in one form or arithmetic for iOS apps. For instance, you could still play Flappy Bird for years supervenient its deviser pulled the game from the App Store, until Countrywide switched else from 32-bit apps with the sleet of iOS 11 in 2017 and the game educated functioning.

We've known iOS apps could be reinstalled like this, however Fortnite is unpretentiously a special case

But honored the aberrant balling Countrywide took to remove Fortnite from the App Store and then threaten Epic with the abortion of its inclusion in its developer program, it's a good idea to get Fortnite back on your iOS dingus if you're interested in befitting up with the game or any of the real-world controversy surrounding it. There's no telling how long this Fortnite struggle will persist, and whether Epic will ever decide to requite in to Apple's demands and remove its own in-app acquittal method. As of seemly now, you can still take Epic up on its price cut offer by timeous less for Fortnite v-bucks if you decide to duck Countrywide and its controversial 30 percent cut.

Epic has said that the game's next season, Chapter 2 Division 4, will sleet on High-minded 27th, however it won't be misogynist on the iOS version of the game considering of the ongoing disagreement. That's likewise one day surpassing Countrywide said it would abolish Epic's developer beatification and "cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools." Epic has filed for a preparatory injunction confronting Countrywide to storm-stay this from happening, however we're pending judgement on that matter.

Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, High-minded 28 Countrywide will abolish all our developer finance and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are morsel the quad to stop this retaliation. Divisions here: #

-- Epic Greenhorn Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) August 17, 2020