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users will get new default settings for dialing phone numbers, sending messages, translating text, navigation, managing passwords, keyboards, and call spam filters
Additionally, the App Store, Messages, Photos, Camera, and Safari apps will now be deletable for users in the EU.
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https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=zglax7gc
Instead being on top of things and pre-empting the inevitable, they are just reacting.