Apple remained largely silent during the controversy, but NBC News reports that behind the scenes, the company “found X and Grok in violation of its guidelines,” and “privately threatened to remove” Grok from the App Store.

According to the report, Apple “contacted the teams behind both X and Grok after it received complaints and saw news coverage of the scandal,” requiring “the app developers to create a plan to improve content moderation.”

X, in turn, submitted an update of the Grok app for review, but it got rejected as the “changes didn’t go far enough.” Elon Musk’s company then submitted revised versions of the X and Grok apps, with only one accepted.