#app-store
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Apple tightens App Store rules against AI 'nudify' apps
Updated store rules now explicitly ban apps that use AI to generate intimate images of people without their consent. The changes follow criticism of Apple over deepfakes made with Grok.
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Apple Simplifies App Store Fees in the EU and Eases Rules for Third-Party Stores
Apple is introducing a flat 5% fee for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to open their own app stores — its latest attempt to make peace with EU regulators.
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Apple wants a 15% cut of purchases made through external links in iOS apps
Apple has proposed to a federal court that it be allowed to charge up to a 15% commission on purchases made through external links inside iOS apps.
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Court Orders Google to Make Installing Third-Party App Stores on Android Easier
Judge James Donato sided with Epic Games: Google is still artificially complicating the installation of competing app stores — and he ordered the needless obstacles removed within a week.
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Durov: An extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get Telegram pulled from the App Store
Pavel Durov has explained Telegram's brief removal from Apple's store as an attack by a “takedown extortionist” who slipped banned content into a public chat.
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Apple Sued Over Fake Crypto Wallet in the App Store: $1.8M in Losses
Three users accuse Apple of negligence: they downloaded a fake crypto wallet from the App Store and lost more than $1.8 million between them.