Garena Free Fire, AppLock Available by way of Samsung’s App Store Despite Ban

Garena Free Fire, the battle royale sport that was amongst the cell apps and video games that the federal government banned on Monday, remains to be accessible for obtain in India by way of Samsung’s Galaxy Store. In addition to Free Fire, AppLock developed by DoMobile is out there from the Samsung retailer, with none restrictions. The ban imposed by the IT ministry resulted within the elimination of Free Fire, AppLock, and different 52 apps from Google Play and Apple’s App Store within the nation on an instantaneous foundation.

As initially spotted by 91Mobiles, Garena Free Fire is out there for download by way of the Galaxy Store that comes preloaded on Samsung gadgets.

Gadgets 360 was in a position to independently confirm the existence of Free Fire on the Galaxy Store.

Once put in, the sport is out there for enjoying, with none restrictions. Users can even set up its updates from the Galaxy Store.

Alongside Garena Free Fire, the Galaxy Store has AppLock as a minimum of one different app from the record of apps and video games that had been banned on Monday.

Garena Free Fire (left) and AppLock (proper) each can be found for obtain by way of the Galaxy Store

Gadgets 360 has reached out to Samsung for a touch upon the matter and can replace this text when the corporate responds.

Although the federal government has banned the 54 extra apps and video games on “security threats” grounds, most customers who’ve these apps and video games put in on their gadgets are nonetheless in a position to make use of them.

This is in contrast to the earlier sequence of bans the place the sport builders had been ordered to utterly shut down their servers. Telecom operators and Internet service suppliers (ISPs) had been additionally directed on the time to implement community entry restrictions for customers to entry providers which might be part of the banned apps and video games.

People aware of the event instructed Gadgets 360 that telcos and ISPs weren’t knowledgeable about implementing any such restrictions this time.

Garena in a quick assertion on the matter mentioned that it’s working to handle the scenario and apologised to its customers for any inconvenience.