While complying with the courts and their mandated changes to the App Store as fallout from the Epic vs. Apple suit, Apple has now also filed its appeal against the ruling.
On May 1, 2025, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to immediately make specific changes to its App Store practices, after ruling that it had failed to comply with its previous obligations. The judge specifically refused any delay, but did allow for Apple to appeal — and it has now done so.
As first spotted by The Verge, Apple has filed its notice of appeal to the United States District Court for the district of Northern California. The filing is a short document only listing which case is being appealed against — US District Court case 4:20-cv-05640-YGR — and the names of Apple’s legal counsel.
As yet, there is no schedule for the appeal, nor has there been any public response from the court regarding the filing. It’s just the first required step in lodging the appeal that Apple had already confirmed it would do when it said “we strongly disagree” with the ruling.
Since the ruling required immediate compliance, Apple has had to implement all of the judge’s orders, but will of course be hoping to reverse at least some of them. The appeal is also specifically against the ruling regarding alleged anti-competitive practices with the App Store, and has no connection with the potential criminal contempt proceedings that Judge Gonzalez Rogers is pursuing.
Apple has not commented publicly on its filing.
