Apple did not return Parler, a conservative social media app, to the App Store.

"After reviewing the new information, we have determined that these changes are not sufficient to comply with App Store Review Guidelines 1.1 Objectionable Content and 1.2 User Generated Content," Apple stated in a February This was stated in an email sent by Apple to Amy Peikoff, Parler's Chief Policy Officer, on February 25.

The email was in response to a request to return to the App Store. Apple had previously told Parler that if the app changed its moderation policy to exclude hateful content, it might do so.

"From your stated moderation policy and the reviews of your app, it is clear that your moderation practices are insufficient to comply with the App Store Review Guidelines," the email added.

"In fact, we have found that a simple search can easily identify highly objectionable content, including offensive use of derogatory terms regarding race, religion, and sexual orientation, and Nazi symbols.

"For these reasons, we cannot distribute your app back to the App Store until it complies with our guidelines," the email said.

The Input posted a gallery of images that Apple allegedly attached to the email as evidence. These images are screenshots of search results for several derogatory terms and Nazi-related images and phrases taken with an iPhone running the Parler app.

There are few clear timestamps on the screenshots, and it is not clear exactly when most of them were taken, but they seem to clearly indicate that Parler does not remove much racist, homophobic, or Nazi-oriented content.

Bloomberg News reported yesterday (March 10) that Parler fired its three remaining iOS developers.

Nevertheless, Parlor plans to continue fighting to get back on the App Store.

"Parler expects and wants to continue working with Apple to get back on the App Store," Peikoff said in a statement to The Verge and the New York Post.

"We are optimistic that Apple will continue to differentiate itself from other 'big tech' companies by helping customers choose to "think differently" while using Apple products to exercise their constitutionally protected freedom of thought, speech and association."

Parler was kicked out of Apple's App Store and Google Play Store the weekend after the January 6 riots in Washington, D.C. On January 10, Amazon shut down the leased servers running Parler's app and website.

Before the site was taken offline, activist hackers managed to archive nearly all of the publicly available posts made by Parler users, totaling 70 TB of data.

The Parler site has been reopened with a different hosting service, and the website now includes sideloading instructions for the Android app. Judging from the screenshots purportedly provided by Apple, Parler's iOS app still appears to be functioning properly, but it will not attract new users until Apple restores it to the App Store.