Tesla offices threatened to ban iPhones, to be impressed: Elon Musk’s response iOS 18 vs iOS 26
Alon Musk has adopted a particularly more positive attitude on Apple’s latest mobile operating system, exactly one year after alleged safety risks threatened to threaten blanket ban on Apple devices in their companies, iOS 26Last year, after Apple’s intention report to integrate Openai Puffy In iOS 18, K. CEO TeslaSpaceX, and X expressed deep rejection. In a public statement, Musk labeled the Chatgpt integration as a “unacceptable security violation”, to announce that Apple devices would be banned in their various corporate complexes.Apple’s all new iOS 26 operating system brings new ‘liquid glass’ design, enhanced Apple Intelligence and Major System upgrade. All new features of iOS 26 are available for testing by developers from today Apple developer program On Developer.apple.com
Alon Musk’s response to iOS18
Last year, Musk strongly opposed Apple’s partnership with Openai, called the integration of chat in iOS18 a “unacceptable security violation”. He went to Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink offices to threaten to ban apple equipment, stating that visitors would have to check their iPhone at the door. “If Apple integrates OPEAI at the OS level, Apple devices will be banned on my companies. This is an unacceptable security violation,” wrote by Elon Musk on X.
“And visitors will have to check their apple equipment at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” said Musk.At that time his concerns focused on Apple’s idea “You were also feeling it without handing your data to Openai.”
Alon Musk’s response to iOS 26
Rapid forward to WWDC 2025, where Apple unveiled iOS 26, a sweeping “liquid glass” showed a host of visual redesign and new features, including increased AI capabilities such as live translation and more integrated approach to Apple Intelligence. Following a post by Apple CEO Tim Cook, highlighting the new iOS 26 interface, Elon Musk allegedly offered a brief, yet positive, reaction: “Cool.”
The new design, which is characterized by transported UI elements and dynamic motion effects, affects musk, which marks a clearly a clear form of their previous criticism.Whereas Musk has not been told in detail what has preferred especially about iOS 26. But it seems that Tesla’s CEO is affected by the design growth of iOS 26 and improvement in the AI-operated system.
