Apple has just published a historic press release this Thursday evening. The apple brand announces that it will comply with new European laws at the beginning of March, as stipulated by the DMA, Digital Market Act. In addition to causing big changes in the App Store, this European law should modify a lot of things regarding Safari.
Indeed, the default browser, and today the only solution available on iPhones, will soon no longer be alone. Other solutions, such as Chrome or Firefox should arrive with the release of iOS 17.4, all of the new features areto be found here.
Safari, the big loser
This measure, which will undoubtedly mark a halt in the deployment of Safari, should allow consumers to have more freedom and choice when it comes to software solutions to use on their iPhone. At least that is what the European Union, at the origin of this change, wants.
Concretely,it is already possible to download Chromeor Firefox from the App Store, but these web browsers (like all others) are subject to a closed operating principle. In addition, it is possible, since iOS 14, to choose a browser other than Safari such asdefault solutionon iPhones.
Two big changes coming
But next March, things will change again. When launching Safari for the first time on a new device, Apple will ask the user which browser they want to use “by default”. People faced with this choice will then have a list of popular solutions in front of them including Chrome, Firefox but also Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera and DuckDuckGo.
Another big change is that these browsers will no longer be required to use the Safari web engine. They will therefore be free to run their application on other models. In the example of Chrome, Google will be able to choose to use Blink, its engine on all platforms. Today, Google is forced to use Webkit, the engine provided by Apple for web browsing.
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