Yandex Pay Vanishes From App Store After EU Sanctions Hit Yandex Bank in 2025
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Updated · Meduza · Aug 12
Yandex Pay Vanishes From App Store After EU Sanctions Hit Yandex Bank in 2025
3 articles · Updated · Meduza · Aug 12
Summary
Yandex Pay has disappeared from Apple’s App Store, leaving existing iPhone users unable to reinstall or update the app.
Yandex said installed versions still work as before and customers’ money is safe, but urged users not to delete the app.
The removal follows EU sanctions on Yandex Bank in July 2025, later folded into the bloc’s 21st sanctions package; the bank provides services inside Yandex Pay.
Apple had already pulled Yandex Pay from foreign App Store versions in July 2026 while keeping it in Russia, and other Russian apps including VK, Mail.ru and Odnoklassniki were also removed around recent EU sanctions.