Apple Asks Judge to Toss Fraud Claims Over Siri AI, Epic Compliance

Source: MacRumors

Background

At WWDC in June 2024, Apple previewed two of Siri’s most anticipated Apple Intelligence upgrades – personal context and onscreen awareness. The features were slated to arrive with iOS 18 and were promoted alongside the launch of the iPhone 16 models, but Apple is still working on them. In 2025, CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that developing a “more personal” Siri was “taking a bit longer than we thought.”

Siri AI Fraud Claims

Shareholders have filed a proposed class‑action lawsuit alleging that Apple defrauded investors by overstating Siri’s Apple Intelligence capabilities and by misrepresenting its compliance with the Epic Games App Store injunction. The complaint asserts that Apple’s public statements created unrealistic expectations about the rollout of the new Siri features, which have been delayed.

Apple argues there is no evidence that its executives knew the features would be significantly delayed at the time of the announcements. The company says the fraud claims are unsubstantiated.

Epic Games Injunction

The lawsuit also references Apple’s handling of the Epic Games injunction, which required Apple to allow developers to link users to external purchase options outside the App Store’s 30 percent commission structure.

• Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found Apple in “willful violation” of that injunction last year after Apple introduced a system that still charged developers a 27 percent fee on some external sales.
• A federal appeals court partially reversed her sanctions in December.

Apple maintains that it never guaranteed its compliance procedures would be foolproof and contends that the securities‑fraud allegations are unsupported.

“It is no secret that Apple faced challenges and weathered ups and downs in its stock price in 2025, like many major companies,” Apple said. “But plaintiff takes a massive and unsupported leap by claiming that securities fraud caused the temporary price drops.”

Lawsuit Details

The case covers shareholders who suffered losses between May 2024 and May 2025. It is led by South Korea’s National Pension Service, the world’s third‑largest pension fund. Lawyers for the shareholders have not yet responded publicly to Apple’s filing.

Sources

• Reuters report on Apple’s arguments: https://www.reuters.com
• Original article on MacRumors.com: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/27/apple-asks-judge-to-toss-fraud-claims/