Apple continued the well -known flight to Jon Prosser for the alleged flight of trade secrets linked to iOS 26. Prosser was accused of having stained another man, Michael Ramacciotti, with secretly accessing the iPhone of development of an Apple employee and using this information to report the planned changes of Apple in the IOS of Apple 26.
According to the trial, Apple claims that Prosser offered Ramacciotti “money or a future job opportunity” in exchange for access to a business phone belonging to his friend Ethan Lipnik, an Apple software engineer working on iOS. Ramacciotti would have learned the Lipnik iPhone access code, used “location monitoring” to determine when it is far from home for an extended period, then access the iPhone running a development version of the mobile operating system. Apple says that Ramacciotti has shown the software to prosser on a video call, which Prosser has recorded, shared with others and used to create new designs.
Apple says he discovered the details of what happened in April from an anonymous email of someone who claimed to have seen the recording of the call by Prosser and recognized Lipnik’s apartment. The company also claims to have a vocal note sent by Ramacciotti to Lipnik, apologizing for the incident and claiming that the subterfuge was the idea of Prosser, which Lipnik in turn provided to Apple. Lipnik was dismissed by Apple for having failed to correctly follow its policies concerning the security of unpublished software.
Prosser responded to the trial on X, insisting that Apple’s account is “not the way the situation took place on my side”, and claiming to have evidence for this purpose. “I did not” plot “to access anyone’s phone. I had no password. I did not know how the information was obtained. ”
In its legal file, Apple requests damages and an order of the court preventing prosser to disclose the commercial secrets of Apple again. The company adds that if iOS 26 has since been announced to the public, its secrets are still in danger because the development phone “contained other unexpected design elements”.
