Jon Prosser Still Not Fully Cooperating in Apple's iOS 26 Trade Secrets Lawsuit

A associated presumption study filed yesterday successful Apple's commercialized secrets suit against YouTuber Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti shows Prosser is inactive failing to comply with discovery, prompting Apple to question a tribunal bid to compel him.


The latest filing, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California yesterday, covers developments since the parties' past update successful February 2026. It notes that Apple served Prosser with papers and deposition subpoenas connected February 3, and that portion helium has provided immoderate responsive materials, helium has failed to afloat respond to definite requests and has not responded astatine each to others. Apple has extended his deadline aggregate times and says it has inactive not received the constricted find it needs to recognize the afloat scope of what confidential accusation Prosser and Ramacciotti obtained and however they got it. Apple says it present intends to record a Motion for an Order to Show Cause successful the Northern District of Ohio to unit his compliance.

The filing besides reveals that Prosser has indicated helium is retaining counsel and intends to determination to acceptable speech the default judgment entered against him successful October 2025, aft helium missed the tribunal deadline to respond to Apple's complaint. At the time, Prosser told The Verge helium had "been successful progressive communications with Apple since the opening stages of this case," a assertion Apple subsequently disputed successful tribunal documents.

Apple filed the lawsuit successful July 2025, accusing Prosser and Ramacciotti of misappropriating commercialized secrets by gaining unauthorized entree to a improvement iPhone belonging to erstwhile Apple bundle technologist Ethan Lipnik. According to Apple's complaint, Ramacciotti accessed the instrumentality portion Lipnik was distant and showed Prosser the contents implicit FaceTime, revealing details astir what was past called iOS 19 and aboriginal unveiled astatine WWDC 2025 arsenic iOS 26. Prosser published videos connected his YouTube transmission showing recreated renderings of the software's Liquid Glass plan months earlier Apple's announcement. Lipnik was terminated for failing to travel Apple's policies for securing improvement devices.

Ramacciotti's posture successful the lawsuit stands successful opposition to Prosser's. According to the filing, helium has allowed Apple to forensically reappraisal an further device, agreed to supplement his interrogatory responses, and offered to beryllium for a follow-up deposition erstwhile Apple completes its third-party discovery, including immoderate deposition of Prosser. Apple and Ramacciotti person been informally discussing a imaginable settlement since astatine slightest October. Apple is seeking monetary damages and an injunction barring some defendants from further disclosing immoderate of the company's confidential information.

The parties person scheduled a further presumption update with the tribunal for June 10, 2026.
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