Apple Will Delay Bringing New Features to Users in the EU

Apple volition hold bringing immoderate features to users successful the European Union due to the fact that regulations are making it progressively hard for it to bash so, the Wall Street Journal reports.


Speaking astatine a store with EU officials and developers successful Brussels earlier today, Apple's vice president of legal, Kyle Andeer, said, "We've already had to marque the determination to hold the merchandise of products and features, we announced this period for our EU customers." Users' information could beryllium compromised if the institution is obliged to unfastened up its ecosystem to competitors, helium added.

Tools specified arsenic "visited places" successful the Maps app volition not beryllium disposable successful the EU erstwhile iOS 26 is released aboriginal this year. Apple said it is inactive determining which features whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful the EU, and is moving to find solutions to present them arsenic swiftly arsenic possible.

Apple has to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is designed to curb the marketplace powerfulness alleged "gatekeeper" exertion companies by opening up their platforms. Apple profusely disagrees with the implementation of the DMA and argues that it degrades the prime of its products, exposes users to information and privateness risks, and makes rolling retired updates successful the EU much complicated.

Andeer said that the changes Apple has had to marque to bring its products into compliance with the rules "create existent privacy, security, information risks to our users." An EU authoritative contiguous astatine the gathering seemingly said the regulator and Apple disagree connected the scope of the DMA and imaginable information risks.
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