Epic Games has revealed that it doesn't know whether Fortnite will be returning to the iOS platform in the UK, following the release of two CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) roadmaps regarding Google and Apple's mobile platforms.
In a post on its website, Epic says that Fortnite's "return to iOS in the UK is now uncertain" thanks to the CMA's decisions, and that it "can't bring the Epic Games Store to iOS in the UK this year (if ever)".
For context, the CMA laid out roadmaps for market status investigations into Google and Apple respectively today, and in both cases, requiring the two companies to allow developers to point users to other app stores and payment methods falls under measures the authority "will consider from the first half of 2026".
Epic calls this a "missed opportunity to introduce competition into a currently-monopolized market". It's a decision that's contradictory to one recently made by the European Commission, which saw Apple slapped with a €500 million fine and forced to "inform customers, free of charge, of alternative offers outside the App Store".
According to Epic, Apple and Google must be "completely blocked from imposing fees and discriminating against apps using out-of-app payment"...
