Apple made this change to avoid appearing to approve iPhone porn apps

A technicality had previously given the impression that Apple approved of a porn app being made available to iPhone users in the EU via a third-party app store. That lead to some misleading headlines, but Apple has now solved the problem by changing three words in the email sent to developers … The porn app controversy The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) last year required Apple to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone, and the company begrudgingly complied – though did its best to deter iPhone owners from using them, and made the installation process as clunky as possible. One of Apple’s stated objections was that it would no longer be able to keep certain types of apps off the platform, with pornography one of the categories the company has always rejected. Apple retained the right to vet apps for safety before they were cleared to be made available in third-party stores, and it did this with the porn-browsing app Hot Tub. AltStore subsequently said that Apple “approved” the ... Read full article.