{"id":67477,"date":"2025-08-08T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67477\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:31:07","slug":"apples-lock-on-iphone-browser-engines-gets-a-december-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/67477\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/706569\/apple-ios-iphone-alternative-browser-webkit-owa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">malicious compliance in the EU<\/a> has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan\u2019s Smartphone Act could change that. Not only do they set a December deadline for restrictions to be lifted, but also specify that Apple can\u2019t enforce alternative rules that make it difficult to adopt alternatives to the company\u2019s own WebKit browser engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">\u201cImposing unreasonable technical restrictions on individual app providers while allowing them to adopt alternative browser engines, placing excessive financial burdens on individual app providers for adopting alternative browser engines, and steering smartphone users away from using individual software that incorporates alternative browser engines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[517,4536,3,1343,111,9107,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-67477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-iphone","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-policy","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-regulation","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}