Apple is suing Youtuber Jon Proser about iOS 26 Leak

In January, Youtuber Jon Proser showed early representations of Apple's iOS 26 on his Canal FrontPagetech. First was a newly designed camera rendering. In March he teased the “liquid glass” R a redesign of Apple before he threw a more thorough appearance in April.

In a lawsuit submitted on Thursday, Apple said that ProSser's leaks were poorly negotiated. Apple sued ProSser and another man, Michael Ramacciotti, for abuse of business secrets.

ProSser refused Apple by the retelling of the events in an X contribution.

In the lawsuit, Apple received an anonymous tip that ProSsers leaked with Ethan Lipnik, a software engineer at Apple, from 2023-2025 with Apple. Apple said it received the tip on April 4, months before the software at WWDC, the company's annual conference on which it launched products on the market.

Apple claimed that ProSser had commissioned Ramacciotti to collapse in Lipnik's development telephone. Ramacciotti was a friend of Lipnik, the suit says.

Apple says, while Ramaciotti lived in Lipnik's house, he waited that his friend received the password for his device and achieved a video call to ProSser that presented the functions.

Apple claimed that ProSser then recorded the video call on the screen, reproduced the functions in new renderings and published its copies on YouTube. Apple also says in the lawsuit that ProSser showed the video to other people, of whom a Lipnik's apartment noticed in the background and prompted it to tip off the company.

“Apple is very careful to protect the secrecy of its unpublished products and characteristics,” says the lawsuit. “These protective measures can only go so far to protect against bad actors who are determined to steal Apple's business secrets.”

Apple says in the lawsuit that has terminated Lipnik's employment since then. Apple did not respond to a request for Business Insider's comments. ProSser, Ramacciotti and Lipnik did not respond to e -mail and social media messages that were looking for a comment. Lawyers from ProSser and Ramacciotti have not yet been identified in the court file.

“So it didn't go at the end,” ProSser wrote in response to a Macrumor story about the lawsuit on X.

In his lawsuit, Apple asked the court for not specified damage and an order to prevent ProSser from disclosing other unpublished business secrets that could have been on the device.