Apple has stepped in to warn that EU proposals to force Google to open up Android to competing AI services pose serious risks to user privacy, security and safety.
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Apple's latest submission to the EU comes in response to the European Commission's call for comments on measures designed to help Google comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The proposals would allow competing AI services to interact with Android apps to perform actions like sending emails, ordering food or sharing photos.
Google has already opposed the plans, arguing that they would undermine key safeguards for the privacy and security of European users.
Apple, which is now itself subject to EU measures requiring it to open up its own ecosystem, said it had a strong interest in the case, given its own operating systems for iPhone, iPad and Mac. In its submission, Apple said the measures “raise urgent and serious concerns,” warning that if confirmed, “they would create risks to the privacy, security and protection of users, as well as to the integrity and performance of devices.”
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Apple also singled out the rapidly evolving state of AI as a particular source of concern, arguing that the risks are “particularly acute in the context of rapidly evolving AI systems, whose capabilities, behaviors, and threats remain unpredictable.” The company questioned the EU’s technical expertise in drafting the proposals, stating that the Commission is “replacing the judgments made by Google engineers with its own judgment based on less than three months of work,” and implying that the only identifiable goal of the draft measures is “open and unfettered access.”
Apple has a long history of clashes with EU regulators over the DMA. The company challenged the regulation in court in October 2025 and called on regulators to repeal it entirely last month, arguing that it created security gaps and worsened the user experience. The EU has said it has no intention of repealing the law in response.
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The comment period for the proposals ran from April 27 to May 13, 2026. The European Commission has said it will carefully assess all submissions and may adjust the proposed measures as a result, although its final decision must be adopted within six months of the opening of the specification procedures, giving a deadline of July 27, 2026. The EU separately concluded in May 2026 that the DMA had had an overall positive effect, brushing aside Apple's pressure to revise the regulation.
