Sovereignty incidents — cloud & data
Apple Intelligence EU delay (October 2024 → April 2025)
Claim
Apple Intelligence features arrived worldwide with iOS 18.1 in October 2024 but were held back for EU users until iOS 18.4 in April 2025, expressly because of the Digital Markets Act’s rules requiring products to work with rivals’ systems.
Sources
- Romain Dillet, “Apple Intelligence is coming to the EU in April 2025,” TechCrunch, 28 October 2024 ↗
- Apple Inc., “The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users,” Apple Newsroom, September 2025 ↗
Referenced in
- Framework §2
- AI-SAF-N Data pillar
- Refining §3.1