{"id":978161,"date":"2025-12-03T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978161"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:47:20","slug":"apple-may-say-no-to-preloading-government-sanchar-saathi-app-on-iphones-sold-in-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/apple-may-say-no-to-preloading-government-sanchar-saathi-app-on-iphones-sold-in-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple may say no to preloading government Sanchar Saathi app on iPhones sold in India: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is planning to resist the government&#8217;s directive to preload a Sanchar Saathi, a Department of Telecommunications\u2019 cyber safety application on the iPhones sold in India, three sources told Reuters, citing privacy and security concerns with the unprecedented mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone maker plans to convey its concerns to New Delhi, asserting it does not follow such mandates anywhere globally due to issues within its iOS ecosystem, according to two industry sources familiar with Apple&#8217;s strategy. &#8220;It&#8217;s not only like taking a sledgehammer, this is like a double-barrel gun,&#8221; one source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is planning to resist the government&#8217;s directive to preload a Sanchar Saathi, a Department of Telecommunications\u2019 cyber safety application on the iPhones sold in India, three sources told Reuters, citing privacy and security concerns with the unprecedented mandate. The iPhone maker plans to convey its concerns to New Delhi, asserting it does not follow such mandates anywhere globally due to issues within its iOS ecosystem, according to two industry sources familiar with Apple&#8217;s strategy. &#8220;It&#8217;s not only like taking a sledgehammer, this is like a double-barrel gun,&#8221; one source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978161","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}