Jul 19, 2025 10:00:00

A famous leaker has been sued by Apple for sneaking into an Apple employee's house to peek at the contents of a development iPhone, but he denies the allegations

Apple has filed a lawsuit against well-known leaker

Jon Prosser , alleging that Prosser's associates had broken into Apple employees' homes to spy on their development iPhones.

Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks - MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/

Apple v. Ramacciotti and Prosser | PDF | Trade Secret | Legal Remedy
https://www.scribd.com/document/889709146/Apple-v-Ramacciotti-and-Prosser

Prosser has released a lot of leaked information about Apple products on his YouTube channel ' fpt. ' In a video posted in January 2025, he gave a detailed explanation of the then unannounced information that 'Apple will introduce a new design to iOS.'

The video shows prototype images of the new design, '

Liquid Glass .'

He also correctly predicted that the UI of the camera app would be significantly revamped.

According to Apple's complaint, Prosser received leaked information from a collaborator, Michael Ramacciotti, who had tracked down the passcode to a development iPhone belonging to his friend and then-Apple employee, Ethan Lipnik, and had used location tracking to learn when Lipnik would be away for long periods of time, then broken into Lipnik's home and spied on the contents of the iPhone.

After successfully viewing the iPhone's development environment, Ramacciotti used FaceTime to send Prosser a video of the iOS development version in action, which Prosser then recorded and used to create a video. Apple also alleges that Prosser offered Ramacciotti financial compensation.

Following the report, Prosser posted on Twitter, 'Interesting. That's not how it happened. I look forward to speaking with Apple,' denying Apple's allegations.

Interesting. This is not how things went down on my end. Looking forward to being able to speak to Apple about it.
— jon prosser (@jon_prosser)
July 18, 2025

Prosser also claimed he did not know how Ramacciotti had obtained the information, saying, 'I did not plan to access anyone's iPhone. I did not know the passcode or how the information was obtained.'

For the record: This is not how the situation played out on my end. Luckily have receipts for that.

I did not “plot” to access anyone's phone. I did not have any passwords. I was unaware of how the information was obtained.

Looking forward to speaking with Apple on this. https://t.co/NSUlJPMbld
— jon prosser (@jon_prosser) July 18, 2025

In addition, Prosser also posted screenshots of what appears to be chat conversations with Ramacciotti, which appear to show that Ramacciotti suddenly sent Prosser some kind of information.