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Apple Launches iOS 17.4 Update with Major Changes for EU Residents: New Features and DMA Compliance

Wednesday 06 March 2024 01:37 am

Apple has begun launching the new iOS 17.4 update with new features and radical changes directed at residents of the European Union in particular.

These new changes come in line with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the European Union imposed on major technology companies to open their systems and services to other companies and independent developers.

Residents of European Union countries will be able to benefit from these new changes that allow them to install applications from alternative application stores, install browsers with alternative browsing engines with the ability to control the default browsers when opening the Safari browser for the first time, in addition to giving users the ability to pay via payment methods. Alternative.

Apple has made global changes in gaming applications, as it now allows cloud gaming applications such as Xbox Cloud Gaming from Microsoft and GeForce NOW from NVIDIA, and mini-games, chatbots, and additional components are now able to use the in-app purchase system.

The iOS 17.4 update comes with a number of other features that will be available to all users on a global scale, including the addition of some new emojis, and the feature of displaying the text accompanying audio episodes in the “Podcast” application with the ability to synchronize the text with the audio, and this feature currently supports several languages. Limited, such as English, French, Spanish and German.

Apple added a new option to the “Stolen Device Protection” feature that enables the activation of a security delay of one hour when trying to disable it permanently and in all places, not just familiar places.

Through the iOS 17.4 update, Apple provides other features, such as adding music files that the device recognizes to playlists, and displaying battery information on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro in detail, including the date of battery manufacture, the number of charging cycles, the first use of the battery, and others.

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