Apple sued Youtuber because of leaked iOS 26 -renderer

Freedom of the press, they heard about it

The fruity cargo cult has become legal due to the leaked iOS 26 designs and has drawn YouTuber Jon Prosser and his buddy Michael Ramacciotti to court because he supposedly shot business secrets.

At the beginning of this year, ProSser made headlines with videos in which it was claimed to show “newly produced” renders of what was considered iOS 19, only turned out to be that it turned out to be the shiny new iOS 26, which was unveiled in the WWDC in June.

In January he teased a newly designed camera app with fewer buttons for switching between photo and video modes. Until March, he showed a revised news app in his Genius bar podcast with chunky round navigation buttons and a keyboard that was wrapped in softer, rounded corners.

April saw ProSser a polished view of the so-called liquid glass redesign, which was quite close to reality with pill-shaped rabbits, glassy interface elements and a generally rounder feeling. While the details of the camera app were a little off, the rest was uncomfortably precise and asked the mob of job to draw attention.

According to Apple's lawsuit, the leaks from a development iPhone from Ethan Lipnik, an Apple employee and buddy from Ramacciotti came. The company claims that ProSser and Ramacciotti could access the device by grabbing Lipniks Passcode, watching his location to find it when he is on the go, and Facetiming ProSser in his hand. ProSser allegedly picked up the call, grabbed screenshots and built these renders for his YouTube feed.

Apple claims that the device “contains a considerable amount of additional Apple trade secrets information that has not yet been publicly disclosed”, and it is unclear how much prosser and ramacciotti are still hidden. The company now wants an injunction to close further leaks and compensation for alleged embezzlement.

Lipnik has already been booted by Apple because it does not protect unpublished hardware and software. He didn't even tell the company what happened, even though he learned from others about others who recognized his apartment in ProSser's FaceTime video. Apple only put it together after an anonymous tip had ended up in her inbox.

It is not surprising that ProSser is not enthusiastic. In response to history on social media, Youtuber Jon Pro Posser claimed that he was “not aware that the situation was playing”, and he was looking forward to being able to talk to Apple about it.