{"id":698,"date":"2025-05-21T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:33","slug":"fortnite-becomes-top-free-game-on-u-s-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/fortnite-becomes-top-free-game-on-u-s-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite becomes top free game on U.S. App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/IMG_1677.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>Epic Games made good on its recent promise by bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone and iPad in the U.S. after a federal court injunction forced Apple to change App Store rules around payments and commissions. Nearly five years after its removal, the game returns with a major change. Still, Fortnite is only available through the App Store in one region, and there are several reasons it could be removed again.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"app-store,epic-games,fortnite,ipad,iphone\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1002228\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/21\/fortnite-becomes-top-free-game-on-u-s-app-store-overnight-but-nothing-is-settled\/#more-1002228\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games made good on its recent promise by bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone and iPad in the U.S. after a federal court injunction <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/fortnite-becomes-top-free-game-on-u-s-app-store\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}