OpenCall call for evidence outcome

Proposed commitments from Apple and Google: app certainty and interoperable access

From:
Competition and Markets Authority
Published
10 February 2026
Last updated
1 April 2026 — See all updates
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CMA response to stakeholder views

PDF, 313 KB, 22 pages

The App Association

PDF, 136 KB, 5 pages

App developer

PDF, 38.4 KB, 1 page

Chamber of Progress

PDF, 90.7 KB, 5 pages

Coalition for App Fairness

PDF, 201 KB, 13 pages

Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems

PDF, 248 KB, 10 pages

Consumer Choice Center

PDF, 923 KB, 7 pages

DMG Media

PDF, 399 KB, 6 pages

Free Software Foundation Europe

PDF, 94.5 KB, 9 pages

Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte

PDF, 390 KB, 2 pages

Guardian News & Media

PDF, 77.1 KB, 3 pages

Hobby Software Limited

PDF, 65.2 KB, 3 pages

Individual responses

PDF, 586 KB, 37 pages

Media organisation

PDF, 261 KB, 2 pages

MobileUK

PDF, 360 KB, 4 pages

Movement for an Open Web

PDF, 19.3 MB, 68 pages

Mozilla

PDF, 138 KB, 8 pages

News Media Association

PDF, 241 KB, 4 pages

Online Dating and Discovery Association

PDF, 170 KB, 2 pages

Open Web Advocacy

PDF, 1.49 MB, 68 pages

SCiDA

PDF, 282 KB, 9 pages

UK developer

PDF, 47.1 KB, 2 pages

Vivaldi

PDF, 1.19 MB, 3 pages

VodafoneThree

PDF, 100 KB, 1 page

Which?

PDF, 106 KB, 3 pages

Detail of outcome

We’ve published final commitments from Apple and Google in relation to their mobile platforms to provide more certainty for developers in the areas of app review, app ranking and use of data, as well as to enable developers to request interoperability access from Apple.

Original call for evidence

Summary

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on proposed commitments from Apple and Google to provide more certainty for developers on app distribution, and to enable developers to request interoperable access to functionality from Apple.

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Call for evidence description

Apple and Google are designated as having strategic market status in the provision of their respective mobile platforms.

We are now seeking views on proposed commitments from Apple and Google to the CMA, to provide more certainty and transparency for app developers developing and distributing apps on Apple’s and Google’s mobile platforms.

Apple’s proposed commitments also enable developers to request interoperable access to key functionalities within Apple’s mobile operating systems.

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Documents

Call for evidence

PDF, 238 KB, 18 pages

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Apple's proposed commitments

PDF, 1.84 MB, 14 pages

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Google's proposed commitments

PDF, 217 KB, 20 pages

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Annex to Google's proposed commitments

PDF, 109 KB, 5 pages

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