A $3.9 billion (£3 billion) class action lawsuit against Apple, brought by consumer group Which?, was cleared for trial in the UK. The action accuses Apple of breaching UK competition law by giving its iCloud storage service preferential treatment and "trapping" customers with Apple devices into using iCloud. Forty million UK iCloud users could be owed up to $100 (£77) each. The Competition Appeal Tribunal gave permission for the case to go to trial, with the first available trial date in October 2028 and the legal fight expected to last nine weeks. Apple must file its defense papers by July 31. Separately, Italy has launched its own antitrust probe into Apple’s iCloud dominance under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, examining whether Apple has failed to open up its iOS and iPadOS ecosystems to rival cloud services.