Apple has postponed plans to deploy artificial intelligence in Europe because the US giant is unhappy with the continent's privacy regulations.

In a statement on Friday, the iPhone maker argued that these rules would make its products less private, in some ways, and said it is concerned that the European Digital Markets Act (DMA) "could force us to compromise the privacy of our products in a way which risks users' privacy and data security."

We've asked Apple to clarify aspects of that announcement, made via carefully selected media outlets including Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

The affected services are said to include Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing and Apple Intelligence – the Tim Cook-led company's belated attempt to join its rivals by weaving machine learning models into their software.