{"id":1003779,"date":"2026-04-18T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003779"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:58:36","slug":"centre-drops-proposal-to-mandate-pre-installation-of-aadhaar-app-on-smartphones-after-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/centre-drops-proposal-to-mandate-pre-installation-of-aadhaar-app-on-smartphones-after-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre drops proposal to mandate pre-installation of Aadhaar app on smartphones after pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple , Samsung and others to pre-install the Aadhaar app on phones, UIDAI said on Friday, a move that had been opposed by the smartphone giants. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported last month that UIDAI, had asked the IT ministry in January to engage with Apple, Google and other leading smartphone makers to consider mandatory pre-installation of the Aadhaar app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple , Samsung and others to pre-install the Aadhaar app on phones, UIDAI said on Friday, a move that had been opposed by the smartphone giants. Reuters reported last month that UIDAI, had asked the IT ministry in January to engage with Apple, Google and other leading smartphone makers to consider mandatory pre-installation of the Aadhaar app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}