Apple quantifies the 'grace period': European iPhones cannot use third-party app stores after leaving the EU region for more than 30 days

According to news on March 8, Apple recently released a blog post stating that in order to combat the leakage of European iPhones, Apple users will not be able to use third-party app stores if they are outside the EU for a "long period of time." Apple updated its blog today to quantify this "long time" and confirmed it to be 30 days.

Translation of Apple’s official statement reads as follows:

Users who leave the EU member state can still continue to open and use applications previously installed through third-party app stores. Within 30 days after users leave the EU region, they can continue to update these applications through the third-party application market, or they can continue to use the third-party application market to manage previously installed applications. However, users must be in the EU to install third-party app markets and new applications from third-party app markets.

Apple clearly stipulates that iPhone users who wish to install applications outside the App Store must be located in an EU country and their Apple ID must also be set to an EU country or region. Apple uses privacy-focused device processing to determine whether users are eligible to install third-party app marketplaces. Related reading: "Combating the leakage of European iPhones, Apple users cannot use the iOS 17.4 third-party app store when traveling outside the EU for a long time"

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