We witness live how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) comes to life Transforming iOS and iPadOS in the European UnionThe new legislation has forced Apple to implement things that until recently were thought to be nearly impossible.

We already know that the Tim Cook-led company allows the installation of third-party app stores and that there are many other tweaks coming, such as unlocking the iPhone’s NFC chip. Now we know that more historic changes are on the way.

The latest changes coming to iPhone and iPad

The news was announced by Apple itself, which published an article with all the news for developers. Of course, we are facing the versions of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. They aim to remain unrecognized as soon as possible this year.

New default apps sectionThe iPhone and iPad Settings section will show a special section that will allow us to make changes to the default applications. The categories from which we can choose alternative applications are:

• Dialing phone numbers.
• Sending messages.
• Text translation.
• Navigation.
• Password management.
• Keyboards.
• Search for spam filters

In this sense, users will be able to manage their calls by configuring an application other than Phone, for example. Or, to mention another possible scenario, use another application to send and receive text messages.

System apps can be deletedThe Cupertino company, driven by DMA, will also allow something very interesting: we will be able to remove some applications from the system. Specifically, the following:

• App Store
• Messages
• Photos
• Camera
• Safari

For now, we have to wait for this news to reach the phones of users in one of the countries in the community territory. Although some of them will be included in the first version iOS 18 and iPadOS 18others will come to this system, but some updates will be made later.

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