Apple is quickly embracing the requirements of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company will let iPhone users in the EU delete native apps, including the App Store and Safari, and allow more third-party tools to replace its own. The iPhone maker showed off redesigned browser choice screens it said would be coming to iOS and iPadOS “later this year” with version 18 of its mobile software platforms.

Though users can only make these changes in the EU, it highlights how quickly Apple can change its strategy to comply with new laws. The company will even allow applications developed by other companies to replace its phone call and messaging programmes. The company already allows third-party apps—browsers and contactless payment methods — to replace its proprietary Safari and Apple Pay products, but the software update will bring new screens and special sections in the device’s settings.

The tweaked browser choice screens will offer users a toolbar on the left-hand side of the list where they can select a browser directly from the choice screen, which will then be pinned to the top of the list as they scroll through the full list of options.

Another update: Users will be required to scroll through a list of available browsers though it shows the top 12 browsers available in their country displayed in a random order. If a browser other than Safari is chosen, the new icon will automatically replace Safari in the dock.

The tweaks don’t end there: The choice screen will probably be displayed more often as Apple will show it on every device, where an iOS or iPadOS user has Safari as the default (and not just once per user). At the moment, once a user has updated to iOS 17.4, the choice screen is only shown the first time the user opens Safari on their device.

A few days ago, Fortnite returned to iOS just over four years after Apple kicked it from the iOS App Store. The game has launched on both a new iPhone version of the Epic Games Store and through AltStore PAL, another third-party app store. (The Epic Games Store has also launched for Android users worldwide.) EU’s Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow alternate app stores. Epic plans to eventually bring its games to Aptoide’s iOS store in the EU and the ONE Store on Android.

In June, the EU alleged that Apple’s App Store breached the law by hindering developers from freely directing customers toward alternative purchase methods. The company was threatened with a fine of up to 10 per cent of its worldwide revenue if regulators found that the company broke the bloc’s rules.