Wednesday December 14, 2022 8:42 americium PST by

As portion of a larger communicative astir Apple's plans to let third-party app stores connected the iPhone and iPad successful EU countries, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claimed that Apple is besides considering removing its request for iPhone and iPad web browsers to usage WebKit, the unfastened root browser motor that powers Safari.

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Gurman said this imaginable alteration comes successful effect to the EU's Digital Markets Act. It's unclear if Apple would driblet the request successful different regions.

"Currently, third-party web browsers, including ones similar Chrome from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, are required to usage WebKit, Apple's Safari browsing engine," wrote Gurman. "Under the program to conscionable the caller law, Apple is considering removing that mandate."

Gurman did not supply immoderate further details oregon a imaginable timeframe for Apple dropping this requirement, but the determination would let for web browsers and in-app browsers connected the iPhone and iPad to usage alternate browser engines similar Google's Blink (used by Chrome and Microsoft Edge) and Mozilla's Quantum (used by Firefox). As a result, these browsers would nary longer beryllium tied to WebKit's features and improvement schedule.

Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and different fashionable web browsers similar Opera and DuckDuckGo are each presently forced to usage WebKit connected iOS, resulting successful constricted differentiation with Safari. Apple has antecedently stated that the WebKit request is enforced chiefly owed to information and privateness considerations, but immoderate find the argumentation anti-competitive.

Earlier this year, a radical of bundle engineers from the UK and different countries said Apple banning non-WebKit browsers connected iOS is "deeply anti-competitive" and encouraged the institution to region this limitation. The radical besides complained that Safari has respective features unavailable to third-party web browsers connected iOS that bash usage WebKit.

Gurman's study besides said that Apple is not presently considering adopting the RCS modular alongside iMessage, and said that the institution is moving to supply third-party apps with constricted entree to the iPhone's NFC chip, but helium did not elaborate.

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