Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, reports Reuters. The tech giant says it can’t rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send ...

Google has been paying Apple for this default search engine status since 2002. Google's payout has increased dramatically over the years, rising to around $20 billion in 2022.

In 2022, Google paid Apple $20 billion to be Safari’s default search engine. Last year, they expanded their partnership to add Google Lens to the Visual Intelligence feature on new iPhones.