Apple says that now the Warning Message seen next to the European Union app store listing that uses third-party payment systems are not really new.
As Many recent reportsApple gave a warning pair with a red exclamation mark next to the apps, which was found that it was not using its own “private and safe payment system”. This message seemed to discourage users from using the external payment mechanism, as is now allowed under the new European Union Law, Digital Markets Act (DMA).
However, the iPhone manufacturer confirmed Techcrunch that these user-perfection screens have been live on the European Union’s app store since the introduction of Apple’s DMA compliance scheme in March 2024. They were not new couples, as some reported.
It is understandable that the warning was concerned on the screen, given that Apple suffered a major loss in the court to Fortnite Maker Executive Games. The court’s verdict forced Apple to link app developers in the US to link Apple to Apple without paying the commission. The company is appealing to that decision, and there are many possibilities that the European Union warning was part of some types of subscribing scheme on the part of the Apple. Perhaps the company wanted to send a message to the developers that it would not give commission without any fight?
But since the screen is not new, there is another explanation in order.
The confusion appears from the same Post receiving traction on social network X On Monday. The post shown an app store listing for the European Union-based app, called Instakar, in which a message warning is a user, “(T) His app does not support the private and safe payment system of the app store. It uses external purchase.”
Caution message also points to a link that users can click “Learn more”.
“Seeing this for the first time,” X user Victor Maric wrote, commenting on the warning screen. “Apple will punish the apps with the external payment system (SIC).”
Maric post was preferred by thousands of X users and rearranged by hundreds of people, including those in the mobile developer community. Unexpectedly, most did not care about the message, called it “malicious compliance” and “entitled” behavior on the part of Apple.
Opinion on one side, the user disclosure screen is not new in itself.
Apple indicates us An X post from CEO Jacob Eating CEO of RevenuectWhich, directly responding to Maric, correctly suggested that the revelations are only the European Union and “have been around for a while.”
Stating that people are currently noticeing these warnings as some European Union developers have harassed to take advantage of the external purchase option which DMA permits. (Apple critics have stated as to confuse the company’s DMA compliance scheme and be full of “junk fees”, meaning for lost commission on in-app shopping.)
In his reply to Techcrunch, Apple also noted that it intends to update the message after the initial pushback. In August 2024, the company announced a series of changes in its DMA scheme that would include changes in the user disclosure screen. Instead of warning users of dangers using external purchase, it would have been read in the new message: “In this app transactions are supported by developer and not by Apple.” (See below).
Tech veteran claims that the European Commission (EC) did not raise any objection to the updated message, but instructed Apple to make any changes. Without further guidance, Apple placed the existing screen in place.
In April 2025, EC fined apple € 500 million For non -compliance under the Digital Markets Act. Apple is now Decision appeal,
