{"id":421839,"date":"2025-03-19T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/19\/la-commissione-ue-indica-ad-apple-le-misure-necessarie-per-aprire-a-operatori-terzi\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:50:04","slug":"eu-commission-points-apple-to-measures-needed-to-open-up-to-third-party-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/19\/eu-commission-points-apple-to-measures-needed-to-open-up-to-third-party-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission points Apple to measures needed to open up to third-party operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Today, the European Commission adopted two decisions under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) specifying steps\u00a0<strong>Apple must take to comply with certain aspects of its interoperability obligation<\/strong>. Interoperability enables deeper and smoother integration of third-party products with the Apple ecosystem. It is, therefore, critical to opening up new possibilities for third parties to develop innovative products and services on Apple&#8217;s gatekeeper platforms. As a result, European consumers will have a wider choice of products compatible with their Apple devices.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission is helping Apple to comply by specifying the steps needed to enable <strong>interoperability with iOS for third-party connected devices<\/strong> and simplifying the process put in place by Apple to handle future interoperability requests with iPhone and iPad devices.<\/p>\n<h4 id='connected-devices'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">Connected Devices<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The first set of measures covers nine iOS connectivity features used mostly for connected devices such as <strong>smartwatches, headphones, or TVs<\/strong>. The measures will provide device manufacturers and app developers with better access to iPhone features that interact with such devices (e.g., displaying notifications on smartwatches), faster data transfers (e.g., peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections and near-field communication), and easier device configuration (e.g., pairing).<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <strong>connected devices of all brands will work better on iPhones<\/strong>. Device manufacturers will have new opportunities to bring innovative products to the market, improving users&#8217; experience in Europe. The measures ensure that this innovation takes place with full respect for users&#8217; privacy and security, as well as the integrity of Apple&#8217;s operating systems.<\/p>\n<h4 id='effective-process-for-interoperability-requests'  id=\"boomdevs_2\">Effective process for interoperability requests<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The second set of measures improves the transparency and effectiveness of the process designed by Apple for developers interested in achieving interoperability with iPhone and iPad features. It includes <strong>better access to technical documentation on features not yet available to third parties<\/strong>, timely communications and updates, and a more predictable timeline for reviewing interoperability requests. Developers will benefit from quick and fair handling of their interoperability requests.<\/p>\n<p>The measures will accelerate their ability to offer a broader choice to European consumers of innovative services and hardware that interact with iPhones and iPads.<\/p>\n<p>The final measures in the two specification decisions follow <strong>a broad engagement with Apple and third-party input as part of the public consultation, launched on December 18, 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The specification decisions are legally binding. <strong>Apple is required to implement the specified measures in accordance with the terms of the decisions<\/strong>. The specification decisions set out the timeframe for implementation of the specified measures and the steps to be taken by Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company is required to implement the specified measures in accordance with the conditions of the decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[27115,30766],"class_list":["post-421839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-apple-en-2","tag-interoperability-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421866,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421839\/revisions\/421866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}