Starting today, app developers will be able to distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set of changes to the app distribution and payment rules in the country. Here are all the details.
Late last year, Apple reached an agreement with Brazil’s competition watchdog, CADE, resolving a dispute that began in 2022 after Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre filed a complaint over the company’s App Store rules.
Under the settlement, Apple agreed to open iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and allow developers to offer payment methods outside its In-App Purchase system.
Those changes take effect today for users running iOS 26.5 and up, and come alongside a new commission structure similar to the one the company introduced in Japan last December.
Also like the changes introduced in Japan, Apple says that Brazil’s new rules offer stronger privacy and security protections, particularly for children, than those required under the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
