ICEBlock, often described as a “Waze for ICE sightings,” let users anonymously flag immigration agents in their area. It climbed the App Store charts this summer after Trump’s people went after it. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called it an “obstruction of justice” while Attorney General Pam Bondi declared it was “not a protected speech.”

Bondi wasted no time boasting after the takedown. “We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store and Apple did so,” she told Fox News Digital. “ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.”

Developer Joshua Aaron, whose app counts over 1.1 million users, shot back. He said Apple’s excuse that ICEBlock endangered law enforcement was “patently false.”

In a post he added: “We just received a message from Apple’s App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to ‘objectionable content.’ The only thing we can imagine is this is due to pressure from the Trump Admin. We have responded and we’ll fight this!”

Job’s Mob has a history of doing the bidding of governments when it suits them. In 2019 it pulled HKMap, an app used by Hong Kong protesters to track police, with Tim Cook claiming they had “credible information” it was being misused. That move was widely condemned by US lawmakers across party lines, who accused Apple of bowing to Beijing’s demands.

By banning ICEBlock, Apple has indicated that it supports the government's "immigration arrests without due process" policy.

What makes the ICEBlock removal more striking is how differently Apple behaves in Europe. When faced with antitrust fines and competition rulings there, Cupertino throws its lawyers at the problem, appeals every decision and drags regulators through the highest courts for years before it even considers compliance. Yet when Washington growls about an app highlighting ICE agents, Apple rolls over instantly.

ICEBlock  promised an anonymous reporting system without storing user data. Independent testing backed most of that up, though some experts questioned the developer’s security claims. Still, it did what it said on the tin and gave users a tool they clearly wanted.

For a company that never shuts up about “values,” its actions show those values only apply where profit and politics allow.