Apple promptly appealed and requested that the order be put on hold until the legal proceedings were finished. But an appeals court has now denied Apple’s emergency request to block the order. The court said it was “not persuaded” that blocking the order was appropriate after weighing Apple’s chances to succeed on appeal,

Apple will not be able to walk back the anti-steering App Store changes it was ordered to implement in May while the legal process plays out,

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Apple on Wednesday failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker to immediately open its lucrative App Store to more competition.