Apple fined €150M over App Tracking Transparency
€150M
≈ $162M at the time
Autorité de la concurrence
France · 2025
Status: Under appeal
What happened
France's competition authority found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency consent design over-burdened third-party apps while Apple's own advertising faced lighter requirements, an abuse of its dominant position.
How it affected users
Consent flows were asymmetric, and smaller app developers' advertising businesses were disadvantaged.
Status timeline
Mar 31, 2025
Decision 25-D-02 imposed a €150M fine.
Apr 16, 2026
In Apple's appeal, the Paris Court of Appeal refused to exclude the advertising associations that brought the complaint; the merits are still to be decided.
Sources
- Autorité de la concurrence: EUR 150M fine on Apple over ATT (25-D-02)regulator
- Autorité de la concurrence: 2025 decisions under appeal (25-D-02 before the Paris Court of Appeal)regulator
- Clubic: Paris Court of Appeal keeps advertising groups in Apple's ATT appealnews
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Deepak Gupta, "Apple fined €150M over App Tracking Transparency," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2025-03-31. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-france-att-2025/