Apple says warning messages now appear next to EU App Store listings using third -party payment systems are not really new.
According to Several recent reportsApple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to applications that found that they did not use its own “private and secure payment system”. The message was intended to discourage users from the use of external payment mechanisms, as is now being permitted under the new EU law, the DMA Law (DMA).
However, the iPhone manufacturer confirmed to TechCrunch that these user disclosure screens were alive at the EU Applications Store since the beginning of the Apple DMA compliance plan in March 2024. Some were not added recently, as some had reported.
It is understood that there was concern about warning screens, as Apple simply suffered a significant loss in court in Epic Games of Fortnite Maker. The court’s ruling was forced to allow Apple to allow application developers in the US to connect with external payment options without having to pay the Apple Commission. The company is attractive this decision and many probably suspected that EU added warnings were part of some kind of retaliation on the Apple side. Perhaps the company wanted to send a message to the developers that it would not give up on non -race supplies?
But since screens are not new, another explanation is okay.
Confusion seems to come from a Post that won attraction on social network x Monday. The post shows an App Store listing for an EU -based application called Instacar has a warning message, “[T]Its application does not support the private and secure payment system of the App Store. It uses external markets. ”
The warning message also points to a link that users can click to “learn more”.
“For the first time watching this,” wrote X X user Viktor Maric, noting on the warning screen. ‘Apple will punish applications with an external payment system [sic]. ”
Maric’s position was liked by thousands of X users and was replaced by hundreds, including those of the mobile programmers community. It is not surprising that most did not care about the message, calling it “malicious compliance” and “entitled” Behavior on the Apple side.
Opinions, the user’s revelation screen itself is not new.
Apple showed us A Post X by CEO of Enderuecat Jacob EitingWho, responding directly to Maric, correctly suggested that the revelations are only for the EU and “have passed for a while”.
Considering that people have just noticed these warnings, because few EU developers have bothered to benefit from choosing external markets that DMA allows. (Apple critics have called the company’s DMA compliance plan as confusion and filled with “garbage fees” intended to offset lost supplies in in -application markets.)
In her response to TechCrunch, Apple also noted that she intended to update the message after the initial impulse. In August 2024, the company announced a series of changes to the DMA plan that would include a change on the user’s revelation screen. Instead of warning users of the risk of using external markets, the new message would have read: “Transactions in this application are supported by the developer and not Apple.” (See below).
The technological giant claims that the European Commission (EC) did not object to the updated message, but instructed Apple to keep changes away. Without further guidance, Apple maintained the existing screen in place.
In April 2025, EP is imposed a fine apple 500 million euros for non -compliance in accordance with the Law on Digital Markets. Apple is now Appeal.
