Mac owners in the European Union (EU) won’t be getting Live Activities on macOS Tahoe as the feature uses iPhone Mirroring which is still unavailable in the EU.
Apple didn’t make the news official, but the company has scrubbed all mentions of the Live Activities feature from its product pages, marketing materials and the macOS Tahoe 26 press releases in the European Union (EU) member states such as Germany, France and Italy, according to AppleInsider today.
Meanwhile, Apple has confirmed to the French technology blog Numerama that the iPhone Mirroring feature, which arrived last year with iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, shall remain unavailable in the EU because of continued regulatory uncertainty over the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
Why the EU Mac owners won’t be getting the Live Activities feature
The reason Apple withheld Tahoe’s Live Activities feature from Mac owners in the EU may have something to do with the fact that macOS Tahoe actually shows live activities from a nearby iPhone (even if it’s on iOS 18, not iOS 26) and that clicking a live activity in the macOS menu bar opens the app in iPhone Mirroring to show more information—and iPhone Mirroring continues to be unavailable in the EU.
In April, the European Commission fined Apple half a billion euros, or about $570 million, for breaching the Digital Markets Act. Apple in its appeal said it made the proposed changes to be in compliance, but the Commission fined it anyway.
As a result, Apple is unsure about the regulatory requirements in the EU and has withheld features like iPhone Mirroring on macOS Sequoia and Live Activities on macOS Tahoe from EU-based Mac owners.
Apple confirms that iPhone Mirroring won’t be coming to the EU Mac owners with iOS 26 and macOS 26 this fall
This isn’t the first time Apple has chosen to withhold certain features from European users over the Digital Markets Act. For example, Apple Intelligence was initially unavailable in the EU, taking six months to arrive for the European users with the releases of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 in April 2025.
No such luck for iPhone Mirroring, which lets you use a nearby iPhone on your Mac, including all its apps, and receive notifications and more. It’s one of the best new features of last year’s Apple operating systems, but it’s still unavailable in the EU and won’t come to European users this fall with iOS 26 or macOS 26.
In a December 2024 document, Apple expressed concern that the EU’s interoperability requirements may force it to allow Android mirroring and provide access to the iPhone Mirroring technology to any third parties that request it. Similarly, Apple also does not permit EU-based iPhone, iPad and Mac owners to use screen sharing during SharePlay sessions. As for SharePlay itself (without screen sharing), it works normally in the EU.