Like with Steam, the App Store is still there but you can't purchase anything in it -- they disabled all Russian payment methods for Russian accounts.

Pulling the App Store would be an enormous economic and social disruption. iPhones are basically flip phones without it.

And its a huge lever I'm sure the US govt loves to have, even with Apple's privacy policies.

I dunno how it works, but I can see all involved parties looking the other way.

Apple is a company that uses slave labor and gives Chinese government full access to its data.