Phillip Shoemaker

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The Sticker Clause That Quietly Licenses Apple Your Entire Content Stack

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Phillip Shoemaker
May 14, 2026
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It looks, at first glance, like a feature-enablement paragraph. A small carve-out covering how Apple’s Spotlight image search service interacts with the web domains you associate with your iOS app. The kind of clause your eyes skip over on the way to something more obviously consequential.

It isn’t.

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