Security News > 2023 > July > Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules
Turns out, Apple's App Store can't accept the new name for Twitter's iOS app because of minimum character requirements.
This week, both Google Play and Apple's App Store pushed updated versions of the Twitter app respectively for Android and iOS users.
The latest app version bears the 'X' logo, and in some cases, Twitter's new name.
This is in stark contrast to the latest version of Twitter's iOS app, which unfortunately couldn't be renamed to 'X' anywhere-and it's got to to with the minimum number of characters an iOS app name must have.
"Twitter was able to change the logo of their iOS app but not the name, since Apple requires app names to be at least 2 characters," mocks San Francisco-based Erik Berlin.
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