iPhone and iPad users in the EU will see a host of alteration to the Apple App Store infrastructure when iOS 17.4 pretermit in the come week . However , Brits will not be subject to them , Apple has support .
Due to the Digital Markets Act in the European Union , Apple is being forced to open up to third - party app stores . This stand for , for the first prison term , you ’ll be able to legally download a developer ’s app from a third - party app store or website . Those market place can even be set as the nonpayment store on the machine .
Apple is also allowing alternating payment systems on its wandering weapons platform for the first clip , give developers the opportunity to ring the tidy cut of in - app purchases that have traditionally break Apple ’s way .
However , because of the additional risk of exposure to users Apple says the opening up of its walled garden poses , the company wo n’t be expanding this first step to territories outside the EU – i.e. where it does n’t have to .
“ Apple is not pop the question these changes alfresco of the EU because this is not the safest system for our drug user , ” the party says in apress vent .
“ We ’ve been very unclouded about new threats the DMA introduces — let in increased risks for malware , fraud and scams , illegitimate and objectionable content , and trim down power for Apple to reply to and remove malicious apps . The alteration required by the DMA also involve new technologies and process that are unseasoned and may ask further development . ”
The changes will arrive into caper before the March 7 deadline set in the European Union and Io 17.4 will attempt to mitigate some of those risks .
Apple plans to safeguard user from the underlying danger with ceding control condition of the walled garden . Apple will put in Notarisation for iOS apps , which will be a baseline approving for all apps regardless of where they ’re download from . There ’ll also be authorisation required for marketplace developer , and additional malware protections will occur into caper .
