Apple Sues Leaker Jon Prosser For Stealing Ios Secrets

Prosser is accused of stealing waste and acquisition secrets to leak specifications of iOS 26’s creation earlier its announcement astatine WWDC.

Apple has sued nan well-known leaker Jon Prosser for nan alleged theft of waste and acquisition secrets related to iOS 26. Prosser has been accused of tasking different man, Michael Ramacciotti, pinch secretly accessing an Apple employee’s improvement iPhone and utilizing that accusation to study connected Apple’s planned changes successful nan then-unannounced iOS 26.

According to the lawsuit, Apple claims that Prosser offered Ramacciotti “money aliases a early occupation opportunity” successful speech for entree to a institution telephone belonging to his friend Ethan Lipnik, an Apple package technologist moving connected iOS. Ramacciotti allegedly learnt Lipnik’s iPhone passcode, utilized “location-tracking” to find erstwhile he’d beryllium distant from location for an extended period, and past accessed nan iPhone moving a improvement type of nan mobile OS. Apple says that Ramacciotti showed nan package to Prosser complete a video call, which Prosser recorded, shared pinch others, and utilized to create renders of nan caller designs.

Apple says it recovered retired nan specifications of what happened successful April from an anonymous email from personification who claimed to person seen Prosser’s signaling of nan telephone and recognized Lipnik’s apartment. The institution besides claims to person a sound statement sent by Ramacciotti to Lipnik, apologizing for nan incident and claiming that nan perfunctory was Prosser’s idea, which Lipnik successful move provided to Apple. Lipnik was fired by Apple for failing to decently travel its policies astir securing unreleased software.

Prosser released respective videos connected his Front Page Tech and Genius Bar Podcast YouTube channels covering leaked features successful nan caller type of iOS, which was past expected to beryllium called iOS 19. In January 2025 he released “your very first look astatine iOS 19,” revealing a redesign to nan camera app. In March came a look astatine nan redesigned Messages app, and successful April he published “the biggest iOS leak ever,” pinch a first look astatine Apple’s caller Liquid Glass creation language.

Prosser has responded to nan suit connected X, insisting that Apple’s relationship is “not really nan business played retired connected my end,” and claiming to person grounds to that effect. “I did not ‘plot’ to entree anyone’s phone. I did not person immoderate passwords. I was unaware of really nan accusation was obtained.”

In its ineligible filing, Apple asks for some damages and a tribunal bid preventing Prosser from disclosing Apple’s waste and acquisition secrets again. The institution adds that while iOS 26 has since been announced to nan public, its secrets are still astatine consequence because nan improvement telephone “contained different unannounced creation elements.”