{"id":352723,"date":"2025-12-18T06:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:31:06","slug":"apple-aapl-makes-changes-to-ios-software-in-face-of-stricter-japanese-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352723\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple (AAPL) Makes Changes to iOS Software in Face of Stricter Japanese Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Apple Inc. is making changes to its iOS software in Japan to comply with a new local law aimed at fostering competition, part of broader efforts by the iPhone maker to adapt to regulations around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The company announced a compliance plan on Wednesday for Japan\u2019s Mobile Software Competition Act, or MSCA, which was passed last year and goes into effect this week. The changes affect the operating system\u2019s payment options, alternative app marketplaces and browser choices. Apple said it worked closely with Japanese regulators on the updates, which are now available in the country as part of iOS 26.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple Inc. is making changes to its iOS software in Japan to comply with a new local law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7175,1638,49,48,3456,3692,1575,2454,5433,190,5545,995,2940,61],"class_list":["post-352723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple-inc","tag-apps","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-europe","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-japan","tag-law","tag-mobile","tag-privacy","tag-regulation","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}