Apple (AAPL) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 28, 2022

Registration No.        

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Apple Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

One Apple Park Way

Cupertino, California 95014

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Apple Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Katherine Adams

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Apple Inc.

One Apple Park Way

Cupertino, California 95014

(Name and address of agent for service)

(408) 996-1010

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering additional general unsecured obligations of Apple Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) to pay deferred compensation in the future in accordance with the terms of the Apple Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan”). The Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on August  23, 2018 (File No. 333-226986) (the “Prior Registration Statement”) relating to the Deferred Compensation Plan. This registration statement relates to securities of the same class as those registered under the Prior Registration Statement and is being filed in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding the registration of additional securities under the Deferred Compensation Plan. Pursuant to such instruction, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference in and made part of this registration statement, except to the extent supplemented, superseded or modified by the specific information set forth below and/or the specific exhibits attached hereto.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cupertino, State of California, on April 28, 2022.

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Katherine Adams and Luca Maestri, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to the Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.