Again in April, we realized that the EU would drive Apple to deliver the similar App Retailer adjustments to iPad that beforehand arrived for iPhone. These embody app sideloading, different app cost, different browser engine help, and extra. Now the second iPadOS 18 beta brings the power to check these EU adjustments on iPad for the primary time.
Apple shared the information on its Developer web site as we speak alongside launching the second spherical of betas:
The adjustments for apps within the European Union (EU), at the moment accessible to iOS customers within the 27 EU member international locations, can now be examined in iPadOS 18 beta 2 with Xcode 16 beta 2.
The corporate additionally famous particulars concerning the Internet Browser Engine Entitlement Addendum for Apps and the Embedded Browser Engine Entitlement for Apps within the EU:
Additionally, the Internet Browser Engine Entitlement Addendum for Apps within the EU and Embedded Browser Engine Entitlement Addendum for Apps within the EU now embody iPadOS. In case you’ve already entered into both of those addendums, remember to signal the up to date phrases.
In case you want a refresher, Apple has a Developer help web page devoted to the EU App Retailer adjustments that already apply to iOS and can formally apply to iPadOS this fall.
Apple has made a variety of main adjustments to adjust to the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Nonetheless, the EU might rule Apple’s strategy as non-compliant:
In the meantime, Apple is dealing with the same antitrust stress in Japan and India:
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