{"id":377861,"date":"2026-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377861"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:00:09","slug":"xchat-elon-musks-new-app-has-disappeared-from-all-stores-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xchat-elon-musks-new-app-has-disappeared-from-all-stores-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"XChat, Elon Musk’s new app, has disappeared from all stores: here’s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"

XChat, X\u2019s standalone messaging app, has disappeared from the App Store and Google Play just a few months after its launch. The app launched as a separate extension of X\u2019s direct messages, it was even presented as a replacement for that feature, although they have remained available in the main app, and now it has simply vanished. This is what we know.<\/p>\n\n

XChat disappears from the two main app stores<\/h2>\n
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According to 9to5Mac, XChat disappeared first from the App Store and, shortly afterward, also from the Google Play Store<\/a>. The removal, as far as we know, comes directly from the app\u2019s developer<\/strong>, according to a source familiar with the situation, leaving Apple and Google out of the decision.<\/p>\n\n

XChat launched earlier this year as a standalone version of X\u2019s direct messages, a feature that has become more prominent on the platform. It offered one-on-one and group chats, disappearing messages and end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n\n

Everything points to a change in strategy<\/h2>\n\n

X has kept messaging inside its main application all this time, where even today we can still access our conversations. The disappearance of the dedicated XChat app, therefore, fits with a possible streamlining of the service<\/strong>, once again bringing everything back into one app and\/or abandoning the possible plans to separate the social network from its messaging side.<\/p>\n\n

If Elon Musk wanted to make X a superapp, one that offered all its services under a single umbrella, the disappearance of XChat makes sense. While we may be left wondering whether it made sense as a dedicated app in the first place, we\u2019ll have to wait to see how the company\u2019s plans evolve to learn more.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XChat, X\u2019s standalone messaging app, has disappeared from the App Store and Google Play just a few months after its launch. The app launched as a separate extension of X\u2019s direct messages, it was even presented as a replacement for that feature, although they have remained available in the main app, and now it has … Continue reading “XChat, Elon Musk’s new app, has disappeared from all stores: here’s what we know”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":377860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377862,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377861\/revisions\/377862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377861"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377861"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377861"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}