On June 10, 2024, Apple placed a meeting on Toby Boardman’s calendar. Boardman had just returned from a month of protected medical leave. He had asked to discuss accommodations for anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. He had also repeatedly complained about his manager, whom he accused of punishing him for raising a customer privacy concern.

Boardman believed the meeting would finally address both issues. Apple fired him the next day. A former Apple engineer alleges he was fired after refusing AT&T requests for device identifiers without customer releases. Apple denies wrongdoing.