Overview

• Apple filed its complaint on July 17 in the Northern District of California (Case 3:25-cv-06043), accusing Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti of conspiring to access confidential iOS 26 designs.
• Court papers claim Ramacciotti obtained Apple engineer Ethan Lipnik’s passcode and used location data to break into his developer iPhone, then streamed the unreleased “Liquid Glass” interface to Prosser via FaceTime.
• Prosser has denied any plot to hack an employee device and says he did not know how the pre-release information was sourced.
• The suit invokes the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as Apple seeks to block further disclosures and recover monetary damages.
• Apple terminated Ethan Lipnik for violating internal security protocols and failing to report the breach, underscoring the company’s tightened leak prevention measures.