Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

Mar 07, 2025 08:41 AM - 1 week ago 11665

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Apple has been told it has to let replacement app stores connected iOS successful Brazil wrong 90 days, arsenic reported by Brazilian publication Valor International and 9to5Mac. Apple has already been forced to allow third-party app stores connected iOS successful the EU owed to the Digital Markets Act.

The judge who issued today’s ruling said that “Apple has already complied pinch akin obligations successful different countries without demonstrating important effect aliases irreparable harm to its economical model,” Valor reports.

Brazil’s investigation into Apple began pinch a title revenge by Mercado Livre successful 2022. In November, Brazil gave Apple 20 days to fto developers connection replacement in-app costs options and let sideloading, but successful early December, the injunction was overturned.

The institution plans to entreaty the ruling, according to a instrumentality translator of Valor’s article. Apple says successful a connection to Valor that it “believes successful vibrant and competitory markets wherever invention tin flourish” and that “we look title successful each segments and jurisdictions wherever we operate, and our attraction is ever the spot of our users.” Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark from The Verge.

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