Here we have the first iPhone emulator to be approved by Apple... and then removed.
It seems that iGBA is the first Game Boy Advance emulator to be available on the App Store since Apple began allowing emulators globally.
The one catch is that creator Mattia La Spina doesn't appear to have worked on iGBA alone.
According to MacRumors, Apple appears to have confirmed this after removing the program for copyright and spam rule violations.
Riley Testut, the app's developer, claimed in an email to The Verge that it is a copycat of his open-source iOS emulator GBA4iOS,
which he made more than a decade ago and has since revived for the Vision Pro.
He mentioned that the GNU GPLv2 license is used by his app. According to a Mastodon user, iGBA might be in violation of the licensing terms as it doesn't mention it.
Joe Rossingnol of MacRumor met with an Apple representative, and he said that the tech giant removed iGBA from the App Store because the game violated Apple's copyright and spam policies.