Apple Tests EU, adding screens to a pair to the applications using third -party payments [u]

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Now, as the developer Viktor Marik noted, Apple added a warning to the App Store lists for applications that contain their own payment systems.

for the first time seeing this. Apple will punish the applications using the external payment system pic.twitter.com/mbeqi8huw5

— Viktor Maric (@maric_viktor) on May 12, 2025

Apple uses what he calls his cautious symbol, the exclamation mark in the triangle. His developer’s documentation describes that only in the MacOS section of its leading principles for the human interface, but still emphasizes that it should be used economically.

“Use the symbol only when additional attention is really necessary, since when confirmed by an action that can lead to an unexpected loss of data,” it says. “Do not use a symbol for tasks, the only purpose of which is to overwriting or delete data, such as preservation or empty garbage.”

there are no recommendations for displaying warnings in the application store itself, although the developers receive extensive instructions on what notifications their applications may contain.

Therefore, it seems that Apple has not violated the letter of its own rules, but it deploys its highest level of warnings in a situation that does not guarantee.

similarly, Apple, it seems, does not contradict any obvious instructions from the EU. Since the warning is contained in the APP Store leaflet, and not on a separate screen, it may technically not even violate the recent solution of the United States.

answer Apple

in the application for Appleinsider Apple said that the displayed warning is not a new addition. According to reports, he was in place since March 2024, and his details were included in the Apple discussion with the European Union.

Apple also said that the European commission does not mind the screen. This was part of the general offers of Apple to comply with the requirements, which, the EU, told him not to implement at this stage.

As Apple previously stated in its appeal against the fine of the EU of 570 million US dollars, the EU did not give any additional instructions. Allegedly, he fined Apple specifically for not introducing the measures proposed by the company.

the EU did not respond to covering the warning screen, but earlier he refuted Apple's statement about the European Commission, which did not respond to proposals. EC representative Leo Zuber said that the commission of the commission “considers only the decision that Apple decided to expand, and not any other hypothetical approach that the company could consider.”