# Bottled (بوتلد)

> Bottled is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: limited
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Bottled](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/bottled.md)
- Categories: Messaging, Social Media
- Official site: https://www.bottledapp.com
- Community votes: 6
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/bottled

## About

Social app for meeting people worldwide by sending messages in virtual bottles that drift to random users and open one-on-one chats

## Activity summary

Limited in Syria as of 20 July 2026. Community testing showed the Bottled app opens and displays its main interface, but loading the user profile fails with an in-app error pointing users to support. The same volunteer emailed the company that day requesting that access be enabled for Syria. No response yet.

## Community reports

- 2026-07-20 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer emailed Bottled at contact@bottledapp.com requesting that service access be enabled for users in Syria. The email cited the December 2025 U.S. Treasury announcement lifting the comprehensive trade embargo, Syria's removal from OFAC's embargoed country list, the parallel EU sanctions lift, and supporting documentation on unblocksyria.com. This is the first outreach to Bottled, sent the same day as the community report that the app opens but fails to load user profiles from Syria.
- 2026-07-20 — Investigated. Community testing found that the Bottled app is only partially functional in Syria. The app opens and displays its main interface, but loading the user profile fails with an in-app error asking the user to check the connection and contact support. Core screens load while some account features return errors. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/q9o5ievxn2rlj7c58pzi6iuc/fkc9egqxk7gqlxc3numnvfgf-photo-2026-07-21-02-15-35.jpg)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/bottled?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/bottled/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/bottled
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/bottled.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/bottled.md