Wishing everyone a safe and happy new year, while remembering to spare a thought for all of those wrongly imprisoned in this nation. We must do better in 2026. It is only “we the people” that can make this change a reality. #resist

Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. It’s called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is it’s Russian. We would never ask for money.

Indivisible Oregon bringing the holidays to the fight. #resist

Check out these amazing people!

NEW: two months after Apple removed @iceblock.app from the App Store at the request of the federal government, its creator is fighting back. I spoke with @joshua.stealingheather.com and his attorney about the federal First Amendment lawsuit they just filed today against five Trump admin members:

We promised you we would fight back. Well, today’s the day we make good on the promise. #resist

“Restore ICEBlock! Rally at Apple Store, Palo Alto” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Couldn’t be more proud of these amazing people! #resist www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving filled with good food, comfort and love. We are very thankful there are so many wonderful people like you willing to help in this country’s time of need. Keep up the fight! #resist

Dinah Temple-Raston’s Click Here podcast with Joshua Aaron talking about #ICEBlock is out today. Listen for free here:

Wishing everyone a safe and happy #NoKingsDay. Be prepared Know your surroundings Always have an exit strategy Use the buddy system #ICEBlock still works if it’s installed #resist

Today is National Coming Out Day and we want you to know that we see you, you are loved, and we are your allies. The best thing you can be in this life is yourself.

Please be very careful about trusting anything that asks for your information. This is why #ICEBlock was 100% anonymous. There are a lot of bad actors out there. Keep yourself and your family safe. #resist

Thank you Wiley for your inspiring and important words. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

ICEBLOCK IS STILL OPERATIONAL! If you have #ICEBlock installed, you and 1.14 million of your friends can still make and receive reports. DO NOT DELETE the app from your iPhone as you will lose access. While we can no longer provide updates, we encourage everyone to continue the fight. #resist

ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron @joshua.stealingheather.com will be speaking with Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com tonight discussing Apple's removal of #ICEBlock.

We just received a message from Apple's App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to "objectionable content". The only thing we can imagine is this is due to pressure from the Trump Admin. We have responded and we'll fight this! #resist

So excited to announce that #ICEBlock has crossed the 1 million user mark and is growing by leaps and bounds every day. #resist

Joshua Aaron is on fire - thank you, @iceblock.app for what you are doing to protect democracy and the rule of law! Here's the talk streaming on YouTube- WATCH IT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm4t...

ICEBlock creator, Joshua Aaron (@joshua.stealingheather.com) will be the closing speaker at the Hope Conference www.hope.net today at 4pm EST. If you would like to tune in you can watch the stream live on their website.

We can’t stop making it better! Version 1.44 is now available. This update implements a fallback if Apple’s reverse geocoding fails, prevents empty notifications from being delivered, corrects a UI issue when centering on a sighting, improves bad language detection, and more. Spread the word!

Update 1.43 Released This resolves a silent background crash and more reliably delivers notifications. It also resolves some smaller screen UI and scrolling issues. Please update asap and spread the word!

Critical Update Released - Version 1.42 This release corrects the issue of no reported sightings showing when you are on the move, as well as resolves a background task causing silent crashes. Please update immediately and spread the word to others. As always, let us know of any bugs asap.

Version 1.41 is now available. Please update asap. This fixes the notification issues.

We are aware of an issue with notifications not translating properly and instead showing code. It’s already been resolved and a new update has been submitted to Apple (1.41). Hopefully it will be approved quickly. Our apologies.

IMPORTANT NOTE RE: v 1.40 This update changes the way data is stored/retrieved. Until a majority of users update you may not see all reported sightings because the new version uses a new database while the old still uses the previous one. It may take a few days but users generally update quickly.

Massive Update, Version 1.40 Download Now Notifications are now solely done on device and sightings no longer query based on your location. This also means that ICEBlock should never be closed. Just leave it running in the background. Tons of new features and languages!

We will not be intimidated. We will not stop. No human is illegal. #resist

There is an account on X called ICEBlockApp that is impersonating us, reposting what we post here on BlueSky, and trying to gain a following. We have reported this to X and are waiting to hear back. This is the only official account for ICEBlock on social media at this time.

We received a disturbing e-mail from someone named Nick Waytowich, who claims to have built an Android version of ICEBlock and wants permission to use our name and logo. We immediately responded denying this request. Whatever name he ends up using, he works for the US government. DO NOT TRUST IT.

A few individuals have been posting links and trying to market their own software to our users. We don’t know who you are nor have we vetted anything you’ve created. If you post this kind of stuff to our users you will be banned.

Once again. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS. IT IS NOT REAL. ICEBlock is only available on the Apple App Store for iPhones that can run iOS 18.2+.

Version 1.2 is now available on the AppStore. Please update immediately as this should resolve the issues of not being able to report, or see reported, sightings. As a bonus, it also fixes the iPhone SE UI issue where the ICEBlock text in the header was wrapping due to the small screen size.

We are aware of an intermittent issue causing people not to be able to report or see reported sightings in the app. Notifications are still being delivered. This was brought to our attention 3 days ago. We figured it out and submitted an update to Apple. Hopefully it will be pushed out shortly.

We have been made aware of numerous malicious entities trying to harm users by posting fake downloads and source code. Our amazing users are alerting us and already reporting these to places like GitHub, but please be aware that ICEBlock is only available on Apple's AppStore. #resist

Good morning BlueSky! As of yesterday we have over 241k users across this country and we’re still #1 in social networking and #3 overall! LET’S GO!!!!

As there has been such heated discussion regarding Android, we updated our website with a message about Android device support. www.iceblock.app

This is NOT real. DO NOT DOWNLOAD

So that everyone feels more comfortable TechCrunch just independently verified that we do not collect any user data.

Posting "why isn't this on Android", is not helpful. User anonymity is far more important than supporting multiple platforms. 54% of the country uses an iPhone. We know people have their own ideas to make it work, but please trust that we know what we're doing to keep people safe.

ICEBlock is not only the #1 Social Networking app on Apple’s AppStore, it’s the #3 app overall!!!!!

We're still #1 on the AppStore but the MAGAts are logging on and giving 1 star ratings and bogus reviews to try to hurt #ICEBlock. We need everyone to give a 5 star rating and an amazing review please! #resist

We’re bigger than Jesus, errr I mean Facebook. Seriously though, I am so incredibly grateful that this little idea has become so popular. All I wanted to do was help protect people and #resist this downward spiral to authoritarianism. Thank you 🙏

Good morning everyone. We have some incredible news to share. ICEBlock is the #1 app in social networking on the Apple AppStore.

Recently, an issue was brought to our attention. It seems multiple notifications for the same address are sometimes being delivered, but when tapped, no sightings are shown. The best we can figure is Apple is blocking spammers as you cannot report an address twice. Nothing we can do about that.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons issues a statement about ICEBlock.

ICEBlock on CNN! #resist

The right wing crazies are now posting 1 star ratings and comments filled with lies to try to lower the app’s visibility on the AppStore. Report all comments like this so Apple takes them down and help out by giving a 5 star rating and encouraging comments.

We need your help! If you can spare 2min go to the ICEBlock AppStore page and give a 5 star rating and a great review. The higher the rating, the higher we rank, which means more new users. The more users we have, the more people we can help avoid ICE. Just tap the link from your iPhone to help.