Italy's antitrust regulator probes Apple over cloud services under Digital Market rules

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Reuters

Tue, June 16, 2026 astatine 1:20 AM CDT 1 min read

MILAN, June 16 (Reuters) - Italy's contention regulator said connected Tuesday it had ‌opened an probe into Apple implicit ‌compliance with interoperability obligations, nether the European Digital ​Markets Act.

Under the rules, Apple indispensable guarantee that third-party providers of user unreality services tin inter-operate efficaciously and escaped of ‌charge with hardware ⁠and bundle components controlled done the group's iOS and iPadOS ⁠operating systems, and person adjacent entree arsenic Apple's iCloud service.

The authorization said successful the ​statement that ​it had ​proof that different providers ‌of user unreality services could not beryllium successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic iCloud, arsenic they did not look to person entree to the aforesaid components utilized ‌or made disposable to ​Apple's service.

The probe is ​the archetypal ​opened by the Italian watchdog ‌under the Digital Markets Act, ​which allows ​national regulators to behaviour preliminary investigations.

The authorization said the results of its ​investigation would ‌be sent to the EU Commission.

(Reporting ​by Cristina Carlevaro, editing Giulia Segreti ​and Louise Heavens)

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