You don't need to have been following along too closely to know that there are big changes happening to the iPhone right now. Those changes alter the way millions of people use their iPhones every day, but they're only available to people who live in the European Union. The new Digital Markets Act has forced Apple to open the iPhone to third-party app marketplaces and more. And it turns out that there's a way to confuse your iPhone into thinking the DMA applies to you, no matter where you live.
Because the changes brought about by the DMA only applied to EU citizens, Apple has region-locked those tweaks to devices used in that part of the world. The iPhone needs multiple pieces of data to align to ensure that an iPhone really is one based in the EU, so just changing your Apple ID or the iPhone's region won't cut it. However, someone has been able to confuse their Australian iPhone so much that it thinks it's in Italy — an EU member state.
