Apple will face a £3 billion iCloud class action lawsuit in the UK

Glonghui, June 24｜According to MacRumors, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has officially issued trial orders and case instructions, approving the consumer rights organization Which? to proceed with a class action lawsuit on behalf of approximately 40 million UK iCloud users against Apple. This £3 billion case is expected to go to trial in October 2028, with court proceedings lasting about nine weeks. The organization submitted this lawsuit to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in November 2024, accusing Apple of locking users into its own iCloud service by restricting the integration of third-party cloud storage services on iOS devices since 2015, thereby charging excessively high subscription fees.