The FAS found that Apple, using its dominant position in the market, “consistently limited the tools and opportunities” for the creation and distribution of parental control applications. On this basis, Apple was found to be in violation of antitrust laws.

Apple must remove from its requirements the clause whereby it may reject and exclude any third-party application from the App Store for any reason.

Apple needs to provide developers of parental control applications for the iOS operating system with the organizational, technical ability to develop, create, and distribute applications with the necessary functionality, including those lost due to identified violations.

Apple must not allow its own applications, including preinstalled software, to be pre-empted in terms of functionality over third-party products with the same or similar functionality.

Apple has time till end of November.

Similar EU and Chinese demands will come soon.