Overview
- Rave, which filed antitrust complaints Thursday in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the Netherlands and Russia, seeks iOS and macOS reinstatement and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
- The company says Apple pulled its co‑viewing app in August 2025 to push users toward SharePlay, Apple’s iPhone‑only watch‑together feature.
- Apple cited unspecified fraud and vague content‑moderation concerns, and Rave says Apple later blocked its Mac app with a system warning that it contained malware.
- Reporters and users have documented years of weak policing on Rave, including CSAM, pornography, scams and antivirus flags from firms like Kaspersky and BitDefender, with Google also taking down the app at one point.
- Rave says it has built an AI system for moderation and age checks that it licenses at a‑eye.com, and Apple has not commented as the dispute lands amid wider scrutiny of App Store power highlighted by the Epic Games fight.