Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks

Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared aggregate videos showing disconnected what helium claimed to beryllium re-created renderings of what was past presumed to beryllium called iOS 19 and which was yet unveiled by Apple arsenic iOS 26 astatine WWDC successful June.


In his archetypal video backmost successful January, Prosser showed disconnected a Camera app redesign with a simpler acceptable of buttons for moving betwixt photograph and video modes, and helium followed that up with a March occurrence of his Genius Bar podcast wherever helium showed disconnected the Messages app, implicit with circular navigation buttons astatine the apical and rounded corners astir the keyboard.

And helium wrapped things up with an April video that gave a much implicit look astatine the Liquid Glass redesign that yet debuted successful ‌iOS 26‌, with rounder, glass-like interface elements, pill-shaped tab bars astatine the bottommost of definite Apple apps, and more.

While the Camera app redesign didn't precisely lucifer what Apple unveiled for ‌iOS 26‌, the wide thought was close and overmuch of what other Prosser showed was beauteous adjacent to spot on, and Apple intelligibly took announcement arsenic the institution filed a suit contiguous (Scribd link) against Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti for misappropriation of commercialized secrets.

Apple's ailment outlines what it claims is the bid of events that led to the leaks, which centered astir a improvement iPhone successful the possession of Ramacciotti's person and Apple worker Ethan Lipnik. According to Apple, Prosser and Ramacciotti plotted to entree Lipnik's phone, acquiring his passcode and past utilizing location-tracking to find erstwhile helium "would beryllium gone for an extended period." Prosser reportedly offered fiscal compensation to Ramacciotti successful instrumentality for assisting with accessing the improvement ‌iPhone‌.

Apple says Ramacciotti accessed Lipnik's improvement ‌iPhone‌ and made a FaceTime telephone to Prosser, showing disconnected ‌iOS 26‌ moving connected the improvement ‌iPhone‌, and that Prosser recorded the telephone with surface seizure tools. Prosser past shared those videos with others and utilized them to marque re-created renders of ‌iOS 26‌ for his videos.

Lipnik's telephone contained a "significant magnitude of further Apple commercialized concealed accusation that has not yet been publically disclosed," and Apple says it does not cognize however overmuch of that accusation is successful the possession of Prosser and Ramacciotti.

In bid to support its commercialized secrets, Apple has filed the suit to petition an injunction against further disclosure of Apple's confidential commercialized concealed accusation and is seeking damages implicit the misappropriation of them.

Lipnik's employment with Apple has already been terminated implicit his nonaccomplishment to travel the company's policies to support improvement and unreleased devices and software. Lipnik besides failed to disclose the breach to Apple erstwhile helium learned of it done others who recognized his flat successful the recorded ‌FaceTime‌ call, with Apple learning of the details from an anonymous email.

Update 8:55 pm: In replies to our tweet astir this story, Prosser takes contented with Apple's presumption of the events, claiming helium was "unaware of the concern playing out" and saying helium is "looking guardant to being capable to talk to Apple astir it."




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