---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-005876"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAPL"
cik: "0000320193"
company_name: "Apple Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T05:09:08.449118+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Apple shareholders elect all 8 directors, ratify EY, approve executive pay

## Summary
- All director nominees elected; Tim Cook received 8.97B votes for, 153M against, 3.04B broker non-votes.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for FY2025: 11.91B for, 221M against.
- Executive compensation advisory vote approved: 8.40B for, 691M against, 3.04B broker non-votes.
- Four shareholder proposals all defeated: AI ethics (1.04B for), CSAM software (802M for), DEI (210M for), charitable giving (169M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-005876
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAPL
- cik: 0000320193
- company_name: Apple Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036125005876/0001140361-25-005876-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036125005876/ef20044022_8k.htm

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