Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores and More on iOS in Brazil by April

Due to regulatory action, Apple has agreed to let alternate app stores, third-party outgo systems for in-app purchases, and in-app links to outer offers connected iOS successful Brazil, according to legal quality website MLex and Brazilian blog Tecnoblog.


This means that iPhone users successful Brazil would summation entree to options beyond Apple's App Store, such arsenic the AltStore from Riley Testut and Shane Gill.

The changes indispensable beryllium implemented wrong 105 days, truthful Apple has until aboriginal April to rotation them out. That timeframe mightiness align with the merchandise of iOS 26.4.

Apple has already allowed alternate app stores and/or third-party outgo systems connected iOS in the EU, Japan, and South Korea, and it volition apt beryllium forced to bash truthful successful the UK and Australia too, owed to akin regulations crossed those regions.


Apple has opposed alternate app stores owed to privateness and information concerns.

"If you similar utilizing apps that person met each of Apple's App Review Guidelines, including Apple's standards for privacy, security, and quality, you tin usage the App Store," says Apple, successful a support document astir alternate app distribution.
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