WeChat Ban on Apple App Store Could Result in 30% Drop in iPhone Shipments in China: Report

If the US government forces Apple to remove WeChat only from the US App Store, global iPhone shipments would decline between three and 6 per cent. China, with its population of 1.44 billion people, accounted for about 15 per cent of Apple’s total June quarter revenue. WeChat is a popular Chinese messaging application that is especially successful in China. A global ban would be devastating to Apple, due to its popularity in the country.

Apart from the ban order on Chinese short-video-making app TikTok, Trump also issued another similarly-worded executive order against WeChat, a messaging, social media, and electronic payment application owned by the Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd. Tencent said it was “reviewing the executive order to get a full understanding.”