After several years of ignorance, Apple has finally launched the Apple Store app for iPhone and iPad in India. This comes five years after the launch of the Apple Store online in 2020, and follows the opening of its first physical Apple Store in Mumbai in 2023.

Note that this wasn’t just an availability problem — even if you downloaded the Apple Store app from any other region, you could not select ‘India’ as a country in the app. Apple has now officially enabled support for India in the App Store app.

After Mumbai and New Delhi, Apple is planning to launch physical stores in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi-NCR and another one in Mumbai.