Overview
- Italy’s competition authority, the AGCM, opened the probe on Tuesday to test whether Apple gives third-party consumer cloud services the same system‑level access that iCloud gets.
- The investigation names Apple Inc., Apple Distribution International Ltd and Apple Italia and focuses on whether iOS and iPadOS features that enable full device backups are reserved for iCloud.
- The AGCM said it will forward its preliminary findings to the European Commission, which is the sole enforcer of the DMA and can impose fines up to 10% of a company’s global annual turnover.
- Apple has previously delayed rolling out new Siri AI features in the EU while arguing that some interoperability demands would harm device security and user privacy.
- If the Commission acts on Italy’s report, the case could set an EU‑wide precedent for forcing deeper platform interoperability and change how rival cloud providers serve iPhone and iPad users.