iPhone backup: Europe could force Apple to offer alternatives to iCloud
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Italian antitrust authorities have opened an investigation into whether Apple limits interoperability between iOS/iPadOS and third-party cloud services. The case centers on iCloud backup access and whether Apple gives its own service unfair advantages under the EU’s Digital Markets Act. If regulators force Apple to open device backup to competing cloud providers, users could gain more choice and vendors like Google and Microsoft could compete more directly on backup and storage. The issue now moves to the European Commission, which will decide whether Apple must change how iCloud backup works in the EU.
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