While keeping kids safe online is important, this messaging downplays or ignores the ripple effects. Right now, there just isn’t any clear-cut way to verify someone’s age online without risking a leak of personal information or hampering access to the internet. Until lawmakers stop and think about the bigger picture, everyone’s privacy is going to be at risk.
There is a bigger issue here in that there is simply not enough science to make a definitive recommendation, and this is dividing the scientific community - despite a strong societal push to limit children's access.
And without set guidelines, are we setting up an uneven playing field for children who are already tech-savvy by adulthood, and others who are not and are arguably more vulnerable as a result?
Interestingly, while the Skechers website and an announcement Instagram post say the product is designed to make it easy to locate your kids' shoes, a promo video from the company specifically talks about using the shoes to track your kids.
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Shoes that track kids' location could be a godsend for parents who are nervous about losing track of their kids in a crowded place, but products like this also raise potential privacy concerns.
So is it Apple’s place to yank the app? It feels wrong to me that Apple should completely remove Tea from the App Store, but it’s also true that one of Apple’s fundamental pitches for the App Store — and the App Store’s exclusivity for app distribution in most of the world — is that iOS users can trust any and all apps in the App Store because they’re vetted by Apple. But here’s Tea, sitting at #3, providing a service that many woman want, and the entire thing is shockingly untrustworthy.
Spotify’s design assumes everyone wants to share everything with the entire world and makes it difficult for users to protect their privacy.
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Spotify collects a lot more personal data than most users realize. Search queries, streaming history, browsing history, interaction with other users, location data, device IDs and even data about how you hold your devices are among the information for collection listed in the company’s privacy policy. It is not possible to make a private profile; your profile name and photo are always available to any Spotify user you haven’t blocked.
With these new features, Spotlight is a great deal more powerful than before, but it isn't a one-for-one Raycast replacement. The biggest advantage Raycast has over Spotlight, at this point, is the Raycast store, which makes the launcher compatible with way more applications and services than Spotlight will have for a long time.
With the redesigns, iOS was obviously always going to be the priority. But I had hoped that they would take more care in translating the new design system to the Mac than they have demonstrably done so far. The Tahoe UI feels unfinished, and unloved.
The service connects customers with an Apple Store team member via a secure, one-way video call to browse the latest Apple products, including the iPhone 16 lineup; discover new features; and learn about Apple’s trade-in program, financing options, and more — all from the comfort of their homes. As more Indians shop online, the service brings a secure and personal way to shop for Apple products — anytime, from anywhere.
Happiness is a new trailer for “Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical,” premiering Aug. 15 on Apple TV+.
A new streaming app that gives public TV stations more customization tools has launched in Washington, D.C., and is coming soon to at least nine other cities.
The app, WETA+, was developed for WETA by Cascade PBS, the Seattle-based station that’s leading a streaming initiative now known as Local Public. The software application is built on top of PBS’ streaming technology and gives stations more flexibility to enhance the user experience.
Unfortunately, the trends of the past many years have not been kind to studios like theirs, and a future of thoughtless generative design and enforced mediocrity is ominous.
Apple has a new 'Shot on iPhone' billboard design that combines iPhone photography with iPad sketches, but as one Reddit user noticed, the result is decidedly phallic.
Security researchers play a crucial role in software development, identifying and discovering vulnerabilities. It’s so important that Apple Security Research runs a Security Bounty Program that offers payouts to researchers for their discoveries. Depending on the severity of the vulnerability, a researcher can make as much as $2 million for spotting a bug, but, as one researcher shows, Apple’s perception of severity doesn’t always make sense.
It’s mostly an inspired hack that would have earned applause from the MacHack crowd.
Ah… MacHack. That's a name I haven't heard for quite a while.
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While I might not be thrilled with how the Liquid Glass design concept has been halfheartedly implemented by Apple in the macOS Tahoe Public Beta, another way to look at this cycle is that Apple has focused on what the Mac is, and what it does best: It’s a productivity platform that ought to get new productivity features. The improvements to Spotlight, Shortcuts, and Control Center all feel like good additions that will make the Mac better at what it does, what we all need it to be.
At least in this case, it feels like Apple’s priorities are in the right order.
One of this summer’s Hollywood blockbusters, 28 Years Later, was largely shot on the iPhone. Today in a new behind-the-scenes video from Apple, we get an inside look at how that happened.
Apple has released updates to all its current operating systems, advertising them as providing “important bug fixes and security updates.”
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For users in the European Union, these updates also introduce significant changes to App Store rules, adding a new interface for installing alternative app marketplaces or downloading apps directly from developers’ websites.
Though you may not feel like your data or security is at risk, Apple has packed iOS 18.6 full of fixes that help ensure things stay that way.
“The complaint’s theories, if vindicated, would reduce consumer choice and erode competition. The lawsuit could set a dangerous precedent, empowering the government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology,” Apple says.
Spain's antitrust regulator said on Tuesday it was expanding its investigation into possible anti-competitive behaviour by Apple for allegedly imposing unequal commercial conditions on developers of mobile applications sold at its app marketplace.
Apple is running a Summer Deal of the Day promotion in its Apple TV app, offering discounts on movie bundles through the Apple TV Store.
The core reading experience is excellent, and the app’s availability across Apple devices, the web, and Android covers everything from e-ink readers to desktop systems to smartphones and iPads. That’s a great start for an app that hasn’t been around for very long. Whether Folio can find a niche for itself among its many read-it-later competitors remains to be seen, but its prospects look good so far.
Adobe today announced several new and enhanced AI tools for Photoshop, with the additions aimed at making it easier for creators to tweak and clean up their images.
The shutdown process begins on August 28 when the mobile app and browser extension will both move to view-only functionality. That means you won’t be able to add new passwords into the tool on that date, and you won't be able to edit existing credentials.
Will Smith, the Emmy-winning creator of “Slow Horses,” is exiting the Apple TV+ spy thriller after Season 5, Variety has confirmed.
Smith served as writer and executive producer on the Gary Oldman series and was the showrunner in everything but name.
A new Apple Manufacturing Academy has been announced by the company, launching in Detroit on August 19. The iPhone maker says it will offer free training in “smart manufacturing” for small and medium businesses from across the country.
JPMorgan Chase is in advanced talks to take over Apple’s credit-card program, according to people familiar with the matter.
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First and foremost, is its high exposure to subprime borrowers. That is impacting the price that JPMorgan would be willing to pay Goldman to take on the balances, the people said.
Wounds are slower to heal, it seems, as I gets older. And when things continue to not feel right, my brain went haywire and went thinking of worst case scenarios.
And it sures seems it is getting rarer that I wake up without any bodily things to complain.
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Apple has fixed the security flaw tracked as CVE-2025-31199 (reported by Microsoft's Jonathan Bar Or, Alexia Wilson, and Christine Fossaceca) in patches released in March for macOS Sequoia 15.4 with "improved data redaction."
While Apple restricts TCC access only to apps with full disk access and automatically blocks unauthorized code execution, Microsoft security researchers found that attackers could use the privileged access of Spotlight plugins to access sensitive files and steal their contents.
In the event of severe weather, natural disasters, and other emergencies, receiving accurate information from official sources in a timely manner can be life-saving. Your smartphone can alert you to everything from public safety issues like widespread power outages to imminent threats like flash floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes, giving you a buffer to get out of harm's way.
As a power user, I find Mac window management clunky and broken when using the options built into macOS. Switching between apps, and snapping apps into desired screen locations, should not be so frustrating.
So, I took matters into my own hands — streamlining how I snap, switch and manage windows to finally make macOS work for me, not against me.
Travelers used to find themselves at a loss for cheap mobile data when traveling outside of their home country or region, and often wound up paying dearly for it. You now have an enormous range of options, but it’s always better to make plans before you leave.
Not only does it remind me to get up and move, but it also gives me something helpful to do while I’m up, like stretching or squatting.
The company said on Monday (Jul 28) that it will shut its Parkland Mall store in the Zhongshan District of Dalian City on Aug 9, citing a changing landscape at the shopping complex. It has about 56 stores in the Greater China region, making up over 10 per cent of its footprint of more than 530 outlets globally.
“We are always focused on providing an exceptional experience for all of our customers both online and at more than 50 Apple Store locations across Greater China,” the Cupertino, California-based company said. “Given the departure of several retailers at the Parkland Mall, we have made the decision to close our store there.”
Living in a crowded city, the emergency alert that I want is when the subway lines are facing problems. And I wish that Apple can crowd-source their phones to figure out when trains are breaking down and alerts me. (The official alerts from the train operators often come late when everything is already chaotic.)
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One of the narrators in the audiobook I am currently listen has a Scottish accent, and it is so beautiful to listen to that I almost missed my stop during my evening commute tonight.
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Caldbeck says that when designing the feature, they took "a similar approach to what we’ve done with the Activity app and our health features like sleep tracking. We tend not to send you a notification if you didn’t meet your sleep goals. But if you did meet your sleep goals, you’ll hear from the watch to give you that positive reinforcement. We’ll work to find moments that are positive.
"The power of workout buddy is that because it’s generative and because it draws on years of sweat equity, there are motivational moments in there that the feature will find and deliver to you. All the other features in the workout app coexist with Workout Buddy, so your pace alert will tell you if you’re falling below a set pace, you can still have those types of features that will push you towards a goal you’re trying to reach. However, we wanted to keep Workout Buddy motivational and inspiring."
While there has been no official survey or data on how many iPhone users in Korea viewed the device as incomplete, the frustration was very real, and very specific for some.
The iPhone has always been premium, but wasn't 'Korean' enough.
It’s a neat little app that delivers a range of science-based practices, including breathing, tapping, humming, affirmation, micro-meditations, therapeutic soundscapes, and more. The combination of these is designed to support you before, during, and after moments of stress.
There was, however, one important games-related announcement during WWDC that might have gone a little bit under the radar. The announcement came from UL Solutions, with the launch of a new Mac version of its 3DMark benchmarking app.
This is an important development for Mac gamers, as 3DMark is one of the most popular tools used to test the graphics performance of gaming PCs - and its arrival on the Mac reflects the fact that Macs are finally being taken seriously as a gaming platform. With that in mind, I'd like to take some time to discuss how exactly you can go about benchmarking the best MacBooks and Macs.
Apps offering virtual private networks — which route a smartphone or PC’s internet traffic to another country, bypassing local network providers — made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend, according to Apple’s rankings.
There is an amalgamated mashup nature to Perl, all in service of its motto: “There’s More Than One Way to Do It.” Just as there are synonyms in English, Perl has a variety of approaches to writing the same thing. While this is a common feature of programming languages to a certain degree, Perl seems to want to knock you over the head with it. There are multiple ways, for example, of writing conditional statements, from using the traditional “if” to “unless”; to writing an if statement backward in a single line; to even a three-part operator that involves a question mark and a colon. I have a distinct memory, in the early 2000s, of writing code in Perl one day, and the next day not understanding what I had written.
I am just grateful we don't have to write Java applets anymore. :-)
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Tea, an app that lets women anonymously comment and review dates with men, said it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 user images.
A Tea spokesperson confirmed the hack to Reuters on Saturday, saying they had detected "unauthorized access to our systems" and about 72,000 images had been exposed, including 13,000 selfies and photo identifications submitted for account verification purposes, as well as 59,000 images from posts, comments, and direct messages.
As the name suggests, Pics2PDF lets you select a bunch of photos from your photos library, and convert it into a PDF. This can be great if you want to quickly print out photos from your photos library in one swift process, or if you’re otherwise trying to share multiple photos at once in a more formal manner.
Don’t be surprised if normalization of profitable layoffs becomes the next big Silicon Valley export to broader economy.
I am not sure what's a good strategy going forward, but programmers must be made to jump through hoops and whatnots in order to write applications that accesses online databases and object storages and file systems. Make it difficult to access, and make it difficult to loosen these restrictions.
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Apple may well be making the right decision to please the largest pool of people who want to get work done on its tablet. But it’s also moving decisively away from some of the philosophies that attracted me to the platform in the first place, and I’m trepidatious about where that might lead.
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While Apple has given iPadOS 26 a full-screen-only mode for people who are just as happy using it as, well, a giant iPhone, it hasn’t tossed many bones in the direction of those who liked the Split View and SlideOver features, which it has now retired. Even the fastest methods of filling the screen with two apps now take more steps and feel like work. Meanwhile, using the menu bar remains optional, though I worry that developers will begin to see it as the primary interface, not an alternative one.
It’s unsettling when the very tech designed to tackle our social media dependency ends up adding to the problem it’s trying to solve. Is this boom a sign of rapid technological development, or a desperate attempt to stay necessary and keep selling us something? It’s like the paradox of dating apps, whose business depends on us staying single. Apps that sell us the fix of curing social media addiction probably don’t want us to stop needing them.
Blender, the widely used open-source 3D creation software, is getting a tablet-first redesign, starting with full support for the iPad Pro. Here’s what to expect.
Dutch antitrust regulator ACM said in a statement on Friday it has postponed a ruling on Apple over fees the iPhone maker charges dating app providers as it awaits the outcome of ongoing discussions between Apple and the European Commission over a similar issue.
Meta supporters argue the app stores should be responsible for figuring out whether minors are accessing inappropriate content, comparing the app store to a liquor store that checks patrons’ IDs. Apple and Google, meanwhile, argue age verification laws violate children’s privacy and argue the individual apps are better-positioned to do age checks. Apple said it’s more accurate to describe the app store as a mall and Meta as the liquor store.
I do still occasionally get confused between the iPhone simulator and the iPhone mirror on my Mac.
(Why is my list not scrolling? Is my app hang? Ooops… wrong gesture.)
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Want to live dangerously, get a glimpse of the future, and help Apple find bugs? You can now install public betas of nearly all Apple’s v.26 operating systems: macOS 26 Tahoe, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and HomePod Software 26. There’s even a public beta of the next version of the AirPods firmware, but none for visionOS 26.
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If it sounds like I’m trying to dissuade you from installing the public betas, I am. If you don’t know what you’re getting into, you could lose data or waste time recovering from problems. Conversely, if you’re comfortable with the technical implications, have fun exploring and reporting bugs! I certainly intend to.
I’d like to reiterate something: being fine with Liquid Glass does not mean that I think it’s great. After using it for a few weeks, I feel neutral toward it, which is better than I anticipated. Liquid Glass started with the Vision Pro’s interface, where windows appear to float on top of background elements as if they were on transparent glass. Makes sense for a VR headset. But then someone at Apple watched Minority Report and decided that every OS the company makes should adopt the look.
As with any change this sweeping, it’s always going to take some time to adjust. There are some who will decry it as change for change’s sake, but as undesirable as that might be, the countervailing argument is that you shouldn’t keep things the same just because it’s the way you’ve always done them. My experience with Liquid Glass has had its ups and downs, with interactions that feel both interesting and dynamic to those that are downright frustrating.
It’s like a weight has been lifted from the soul of the iPad. It remains a very nice device to use in full-screen mode with all the simplicity attendant to that mode, or via a single tap it can turn into a multi-window, multitasking device that’s appropriate for the Mac-class hardware underpinning today’s iPads. The iPad no longer feels like it’s trying to live up to the promise of being the Future of Computing; with iPadOS 26, it’s more comfortable being itself.
I’ve gone back and forth over the years on whether or not I can actually work from an iPad. The answer has always been: sort of. I can write on an iPad. I can edit on an iPad. So, I guess I’ve always been able to “work” from an iPad. But with a Magic Keyboard and an iPad running the iPadOS 26 beta, I can work like I would right on my MacBook or Surface Pro, using a bunch of windows plastered all over the place.
After a month using early builds of macOS Tahoe full time, I can confidently report that this is an upgrade that feels like an upgrade. The additional power of Spotlight and Shortcuts is going to delight a lot of longtime Mac users, and I’m really liking the direction Apple is taking Control Center in the menu bar.
That said, it’s also clear that the Mac is the lowest priority platform when it comes to Apple’s new design language. The beta interface feels messy and unfinished, and worse, it feels like an iOS design that’s been imported without enough consideration for how it should manifest on the Mac. I understand that the iPhone is the top priority, but the Mac deserves a version of this design that fits how the Mac is used. So far, it doesn’t feel like that.
Ever since Apple first introduced us to macOS Tahoe26 I've been excited for all the changes coming to Macs in 2025, and I might be most excited about the supercharged new Spotlight Search.
I know, Spotlight Search is hardly the most exciting part of macOS, but with Tahoe it's becoming a lot more like the Windows 11 Start button—and I couldn't be happier.
I bet most people, whether trying the public beta for Tahoe or waiting on the full release in the fall, will upgrade and think, “This is fine.” And they won’t be wrong. But Sequoia’s flatter, simpler design felt cleaner and more purposeful — and every time I see or use a Mac that’s not on the beta I want to go back. Liquid Glass feels desperate, like Apple was fishing for ways to freshen things up for the sake of doing something different. Hey, everybody, look at the shiny new UI! No, don’t pay attention to how underwhelming Apple Intelligence still feels, despite the endless overselling in TV ads.
For all of that, Liquid Glass is generally less prominent on the Apple Watch, given the more limited screen size and content. If you don’t like it for the clock on the Photos watchface, good news: you can easily switch the tint of the colors to solid white or any color you like.
For 95% of these examples, this is all sensible and respectful, understanding musical phrases and rhythm to put two songs together in a way that breathes. There are one or two bad examples here - but in both cases, those examples are tracks that are a little confusing in terms of how they end. No excuses for that ending of Joe, though. Oh, my.
Rather than try to distribute every Apple executive’s company news to every possible social media feed, Apple has made its own solution.
Apple regularly shares new iPhone, iPad, and Mac wallpaper to celebrate Apple Store openings. But for the first time, the company has now launched an online tool where you can create your own custom Apple logo wallpaper.
Apple is notifying developers about automatic changes to the age rating of their apps and games, as it introduces more granular tiers as part of the upcoming expanded family tools.
Today, Apple published on its Machine Learning Research blog, select recordings from its 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning (HCML), highlighting its work on responsible AI development.
Today, Apple Original Films announced a new documentary feature “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost,” from Emmy and DGA Award-winning director, producer and son Ben Stiller (“Severance,” “Escape at Dannemora”). “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost” features the inspiring story of comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and is set to premiere in select theaters October 17, and stream on Apple TV+ October 24, 2025.
If you have to ask whether you should install the public betas, you probably shouldn't. And if you are just curious to try out liquid glass, I'd suggest to wait further. No harm waiting, especially since Apple may still do some major tweaking. And there are plenty of examples out on the net to see what's going on.
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Apple is announcing a new AppleCare subscription called AppleCare One that lets you cover multiple products with a single plan. For $19.99 per month, AppleCare One covers up to three products, and tacking on a new product costs $5.99 per month each.
With the products covered under AppleCare One, you get the same coverage you would under AppleCare Plus, including battery coverage, unlimited repairs for accidental damage, and 24/7 priority support.
Where the new service shines is if you own some of Apple’s most expensive products, like the iPhone 16 Pro, the Apple Vision Pro, and a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the M4 chip. [...] For a more typical product buildout — like the base iPhone 16, AirPods Pro, and the latest 13-inch MacBook Air — the savings are far more modest.
Separately, Apple is also introducing individual AppleCare+ Theft and Loss plans for Apple Watch and iPad for the first time.
Apple News+ Audio is primarily designed for Apple News+ subscribers, and it provides professionally narrated versions of the best stories from Apple News. [...] In Australia, Canada, and the UK, Apple News+ Audio includes audio stories from local publications as well as stories from the U.S.
We learned earlier this month that a new Apple store was coming to Osaka, Japan, and the company has today shared photos ahead of Saturday’s official opening. Accessibility is cited a key factor in the store design.
Apple is expanding the capability of its In-App Purchase framework with a new retention messaging API. This means, for the first time, developers will be able to show offers to users when they go to cancel a subscription in the global Subscriptions screen inside the Settings app.
Apps will be able to show a simple static message, display dynamic progress based on the user’s app state, or present a special offer to try and dissuade the user from cancelling their payment altogether.
In the fourth beta of iOS 26, there's some curious wording for a HomePod setting that references a HomePod with a display, perhaps hinting at a future product that could come out sometime in the not too distant future.
In a 3-0 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said reasonable consumers in the proposed class action would not have been misled by Apple's promises about storage capacity in its iCloud+ plans.
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To be fair, The Emoji Movie may not really have been the act of a deranged cabal of art criminals bent on destroying our culture. But emoji themselves may represent something darker: a shift to communicating without context, to being reduced to simpler and more emotional responses. Every day, more and more people allow chatbots to intercede in their word-making, and it is not hard to imagine a time when the companies who run these machines have a far greater command of human speech, emotion and behaviour. They will run the world then, and all we’ll be able to say about it is: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I have had four back-to-back meetings at work today; one face-to-face, two Teams, and one Zoom.
I can't wait to be never ever have to launch any of those apps ever again.
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Apple's changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that would stave off potentially hefty daily fines for the iPhone maker.
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Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK's competition regulator.
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The companies have a month to make their cases to the CMA before the decision is finalised.
If it is finalised, the companies may have to make changes to their services in a way that the regulator says promotes competition and gives more choice to consumers.
Apple says that it has improved notification summaries in iOS 26, addressing issues that could cause confusion with news headlines.
All notification summaries for News and Entertainment apps that are generated with Apple Intelligence will be italicized and will be annotated with a "Summarized by Apple Intelligence" notice.
iOS 26 beta 4 has just been released, and one of the biggest question on many testers’ minds has been answered. After dialing back its redesign in beta 3, Apple has now infused more ‘liquid’ into the Liquid Glass design once again.
If you’re in the Los Angeles area and a fan of the Apple TV+ comedy series Platonic, you might want to clear out a spot on your calendar for next Monday evening. Apple is hosting a special panel, with cast members and creators of the show.
This application lets you connect any two desktop windows so they remain side by side even as you move them around. If you vertically resize one, the other one will grow or shrink to match it.
The results is that the two windows basically act like one. How useful this is depends entirely on your workflow, but I can imagine all sorts of handy pairings. You could glue your to do list app to your email app, so you can keep your daily tasks top of mind. You could paste your AI application of choice to your browser, or the document you're working on. Or you could pin a Terminal to your Finder window. The point is, you can connect any two applications in a way that visually suggests they're part of the same workflow.
Mobile editing powerhouse VSCO made a name for itself with film-inspired mobile presets – but iPhone photographers no longer need to wait until after taking the shot to get the film-like look. VSCO Capture is a new iOS app that applies presets before you shoot, giving photographers manual exposure controls and even dials in the glow and halation of old film lenses.
Infuse 8.2 is now available with support for user profiles on Apple TV, the ability to stream content directly from iCloud Drive, and more.
Beginning April 2026, watchOS apps uploaded to App Store Connect must also include 64-bit support and be built with the watchOS 26 SDK. To enable 64-bit support in your project, we recommend using the default Xcode build setting of “Standard architectures” to build a single binary with 64-bit code.
Despite strong lineups of indie games, neither Netflix nor Apple could really cut through the noise, and their offerings are no longer unique. Worse still, the unique games they did have now have fewer places to go.
The phone’s 8,000-mile journey around the world wasn’t even the strangest thing about the ordeal. It was the location in downtown Miami where the stolen phone appeared to have been kept for several days.
At 1:38 a.m. on Jan. 28, 10 days after it had been taken from him in Charlotte, the device first pinged from Christ Fellowship Downtown.
The underlying problems persist because Apple relies on these external sources rather than genuinely investing in its own internal ratings, reviews, or photo capabilities. As such, their data remains largely unhelpful.
I am not sure if anyone is really happy with whatever is in place for Apple in the EU.
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When I try to examine the threat of facial-recognition software dispassionately, I see the problem boiling down to two basic questions. The first is: Do we trust the government agencies that have access to such systems? If we do, then the benefits of preventing terrorism or child abuse might well outweigh the potential abuses and inaccuracies. If we don’t, then it seems our first task should be to bring these agencies under democratic accountability. After all, if the government is out to get us, it has enough tools to do so even without AI.
The second question is: How much do we value our privacy? There’s been renewed discussion in recent years of the putative “right to privacy” that, in a celebrated 1890 article, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis argued was derivable from existing U.S. law. But if it exists—and this remains debatable—such a right comes, even in its original formulation, with a host of exceptions. A right to privacy can in many cases come into conflict with the better-established First Amendment right to free expression. Most of the photos held in vast corporate databases (think of your Facebook photos) or government databases (think of your passport photo) were gathered with the explicit or implicit permission of the subjects. Experts have long been familiar with the “privacy paradox,” whereby we say we value our privacy while uploading our photos to public forums, opting into requests to monitor and share our online behavior, and so forth.
But does this fear (my fear) help or hinder my kids from growing up and finding their feet – and their autonomy? How much should we really be tracking our kids online?
Apple TV+ has announced that shooting on the fourth season of the beloved sports comedy series has begun in Kansas City, with additional filming due to take place in London. [...]
It was previously reported that Jason Sudeikis would be returning as Ted Lasso for Season 4. Now, it is confirmed that original cast members Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift will all be back as well.
Apple today updated its Sports app with support for the FA Community Shield, the annual English football pre-season opener where the reigning champions of the Premier League take on the FA Cup winners.
One of Apple’s key selling points for decades has been its warranty service. Yes, the company has had some notable points of irritability—some of which have led to apologies or consumer lawsuit settlements—but, by and large, you don’t have to fight or fight much less hard to get your devices repaired.
When it comes to stuff you buy that works with Macs, iPhones, and iPads, the track record is a little murkier, partly because it’s not always clear what warranty service is available and under what terms.
Apple today announced that South Korea's Tmoney card can now be added to the Wallet app, allowing users to pay for public transportation with a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch at subway stations and on most buses throughout the country. The card is also accepted at many major convenience stores in the country.
The online store launched today, seven months after Apple announced that a direct online purchasing option for Saudi Arabia was in the works. Prior to now, Apple users in Saudi Arabia could only shop from Apple Authorized Resellers.
The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things.
I promise you, if every Apple leaker and rumour site disappeared tomorrow, Apple would celebrate. And keep making great products.
During WWDC25, Apple announced new versions of its on-device and cloud-based foundation models. Now, they have published a tech report detailing how those models were trained, optimized, and evaluated. And the report includes some genuinely interesting under-the-hood tidbits.
Apple was a charter member of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) and an early proponent of using a smartphone for digital car key functions, launching that capability as early as 2020. Last week, the company played a key role in an event that will spread digital key capabilities to more vehicles and mobile devices.
The tech giant hosted the CCC’s 13th Plugfest at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, where a broad range of companies from the automotive and mobile device sectors convened to test Version 4 of the CCC’s Digital Key specification. The Plugfest activities were aimed at further improving cross-platform interoperability and cross-version compatibility as digital key adoption continues to grow rapidly.
It seems inevitable to me that, firstly, our faces will all get captured by CCTVs and whatnots, and secondly, face recognition software will be good enough to link all our face captures up.
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The ecosystem of hype and speculation surrounding every Apple launch inevitably generates more buzz and more interest. It feeds on itself. And while the company understandably doesn’t want the iPhone 17 to be completely revealed before launch day, it would, I think, be sorry to lose the worldwide interest that starts to build long in advance.
There are many apps for tracking what people eat. Few have what RxFood does: serious credentials, and the blessing of major health care players who are referring the app to diabetics.
It is backed by a dozen clinical studies that show people using RxFood have significantly improved the accuracy of their carb-counting efforts, reduced their glucose levels and saved time managing their diabetes by reducing the amount of time needed to monitor and record their food intake.
One Second (1SE) [...] is a dedicated app that helps you manage your daily memories so you can focus solely on capturing the required content. I thought this could be just the app I needed to finally make the movie of my life. With that in mind, I put on my imaginary director’s hat, downloaded the app, and cracked on with my life’s movie.
Beware of websites claiming rumors are good for Apple. Especially when said websites also sell you rumor articles with advertisements.
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Could I switch away from Apple? Sure, I could ditch my iPhone and buy another phone, and I could ditch my Mac and buy a laptop with Linux, I guess. But the only thing I’d be accomplishing is to make life easier for myself, and I’d also stop using software developed by those developers I care about. And also, nobody would care. Because nobody should. Tools are tools; they either do the job you need them to do or they don’t. And the sad reality of this world we live in is that most big companies out there are awful. If you spend some time digging, you’ll find despicable things done by probably 99% of CEOs of big companies.
At the same time, though, whether people care or not about tech companies, they end up purchasing their products, and perpetuate a vicious circle at the macro level: these companies remain in business, thrive, and grow. And keep being bad actors. That’s why I’m always glad when there’s governmental regulation aimed at protecting the citizens and customers. But that’s not enough.
Many people want to do a better job monitoring their diet and eating habits, but don’t exactly know where to start. Nunch is a fantastic new app to make the process a lot more seamless.
A big part of Notion’s appeal is its versatility. It’s like Google Docs, Trello, Wikipedia, and Apple Notes, all rolled into one app–with a dash of artificial intelligence on top. You can use it in a host of different ways, for everything from grocery lists to project management, and you get all the basics for free as an individual user.
The EU’s preliminary findings had flagged that Corning may have abused its dominant position by locking OEMs and glass processing companies into exclusive or near-exclusive supply arrangements, unfairly shutting out competing glass manufacturers.
However, while Corning does supply Apple with specialty cover glass, the Commission found that those particular products fell outside the scope of the investigation, “as these have special compositions and are only used by Apple.”
Good art often comes from bad people. Because people are bad.
And don't get me started about companies and corporations full of people.
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Apple is famous for its design sense, having produced a bewildering array of gorgeous gadgets over the years. But perhaps no device has embodied that sense as truly as the Power Mac G4 Cube, a sleek block of aluminum and plastic that turned heads and wowed onlookers when it launched in July 2000.
Unfortunately, it was also a commercial flop, lasting just one year until it was discontinued forever. Steve Jobs later admitted that it was overdesigned and overpriced, and while it stands a perhaps the purest expression of Apple’s design sensibilities, it’s also a cautionary tale of what can go wrong in the world of computer design.
When Apple themselves have not yet reasonably prescribed what standard UI elements look like in this new design system, how can any developer responsibly implement them in good conscience? Isn’t there something about this that just reeks? Adopting a standard control means it can change without your involvement. This has always been true to some extent, but the stink of it keeps getting worse as trust in the company’s vision erodes over time, right?
Another reason that the industry is showing signs of reluctance is because Alan Dye did not prove he understood the platform, any platform, before he assumed the role of its lead designer. He’s not just a newcomer to these platforms, but to software design as a whole. He never had any experience creating anything for Apple platforms before he was entrusted with this position. That’s crazy.
To be a leader at a company, one merely needs the job title. But to be a leader in an industry, you must earn its respect. Steve Jobs earned that respect. Many developers had little issue with following his vision. To a large extent, Jony Ive earned that respect, too. I don’t see that ever happening with Alan Dye, however.
It’s expensive, but Cyberpunk 2077 creates an atmospheric and exciting futuristic world for you to explore. Whether you’re hanging out with Keanu Reeves, tackling side quests, or collecting fancy cars, there are all sorts of activities to keep you busy. The varied skills and abilities you can learn will keep even die-hard RPG fans busy for weeks – and there’s not a dragon in sight.
In the age of near-sweeps, this trend has become a norm. And as a pundit who’s covered the Emmys for years, I’ll admit: it’s getting harder not to expect it. But should it be this way?
If past is prologue, Apple TV+’s cerebral drama “Severance,” the high-concept satire “The Studio,” and the gritty British crime miniseries “Adolescence” are poised to be the next major sweepers.
Plenty of great apps have been created using the Mac’s scripting languages, but commercial developers have largely relied on compiled languages used and supported by Apple for app and system development. Over the years those have included Object Pascal, C/C++, Objective-C and most recently Swift. This article provides a brief overview of how those changed.
The G4 Cube remains the best-looking Mac computer ever. I wanted it, but I didn't need it, and I definitely didn't have the spare money for it. It may be fortunate, because best-looking doesn't mean much for a computer.
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Ultra extends beyond the strictly “phone” functions of traditional CarPlay to now encompass more robust vehicular integration, including climate control, drive modes, and the entire gauge cluster readout. Running Ultra, therefore, requires a digital gauge cluster. So far, not many automakers other than Aston have signaled their intent to join the revolution: Kia/Hyundai/Genesis will adopt Ultra next, and Porsche may come after that.
Before future partnerships come to fruition, I spent a week with a DB12 Volante to test Ultra's use cases and conceptual failure points, most critically to discover whether this generational leap actually enhances or detracts from an otherwise stellar driving experience.
Apple Arcade is celebrating SpongeBob SquarePants this month, and several Apple Arcade titles will be updated with special SpongeBob-themed events.
Apple today shared a new iPhone 16 ad that highlights the Clean Up feature that's available in the Photos app. In the spot, a man snaps a photo of a woman with her cat, and then removes the cat from the image using Clean Up.
Both the cat and the woman are upset with the change, so he undoes it, demonstrating the reversible nature of the feature.
Flo is branching out to help people track symptoms of perimenopause, the transitional period between menstruation and menopause. The new in-app offering will be called "Flo for Perimenopause," and provide personalized guidance for those who are in, about to enter, or curious about this stage of life.
Video hosting and sharing platform Vimeo today announced the launch of an updated Apple TV app, bringing Vimeo back to the Apple TV App Store for the first time in two years.
In order to protect its trade secrets, Apple has filed the lawsuit to request an injunction against further disclosure of Apple's confidential trade secret information and is seeking damages over the misappropriation of them.
If I recall correctly, the last time Apple sued a rumor website, Think Secret, a settlement was reached and the website closed down.
But that was when Steve Jobs was still the CEO.
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The Emoji Game was initially unveiled at WWDC earlier this year as an iOS 26 feature, but to coincide with World Emoji Day today, Apple has released the game for all Apple News subscribers running iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, or newer.
"The reason we have emoji is that words alone don't really convey the emotional meaning or content of what we're trying to express," Dr. Helen Riess, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of Empathetics in Boston, told ABC News. "In digital texting, all of that is missing, and so there's just so much opportunity for misunderstandings."
OpenAI has expanded access to Record Mode in ChatGPT for macOS, bringing the AI-powered transcription feature to Plus subscribers after its initial rollout to business users last month.
Google has announced that version 138 of its Chrome browser for Mac is the last version that can run on macOS 11 Big Sur. According to a support document, Big Sur is “outside of its support window with Apple,” and that “running on a supported operating system is essential to maintaining security.”
We’re pleased to announce enhancements to our Listening Reports in Apple Podcasts Connect for creators offering a subscription on Apple Podcasts. We now provide four reports: Episode, Show, Channel, and Provider Listening reports. All are available to download daily, weekly, and monthly.
These reports provide more granular, timely, and actionable insights into content performance and audience engagement, empowering you to understand the impact of marketing campaigns, free and paid listener counts, and more.
The Apple escrow account has been closed, resulting in the transfer of almost €14.25 billion to the exchequer, the Department of Finance has revealed.
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Last September, the ECJ delivered its final verdict in the long-running tax case, ruling against Apple’s latest bid to overturn the Commission’s decision. Its ruling “set aside” a ruling by the EU’s second-highest court, the General Court, four years ago, which had quashed the commission’s decision that Apple owed the Republic the back taxes.
Apple has now told us that no iPhones are affected by the ban. This is likely because the ban applies to specific OLED screen types not used in iPhones. The company said: "Apple is not a party to this case, and the order has no impact on any Apple products."
The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by many security tools. Whereas web and email traffic is often closely scrutinized, DNS traffic largely represents a blind spot for such defenses.
I prefer emoticon to emojis most of the time, just because I am lazy and don't want either to take my hands off my keyboard or to switch to another keyboard.
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A plain-text reading of this year’s most-nominated networks and platforms does not tell you the whole story of today’s Emmys announcement. HBO (an umbrella that includes the flagship HBO and its streaming sibling, HBO Max) managed to break its own record with its most-ever nominations, a total of 142. Netflix, as has often been the case during its existence, is chasing with 121. Hefty numbers to be sure, buoyed by wide-net programming strategies (Netflix) and a decadeslong reputation for excellence in dramatic television (HBO). But the real story lies in the 79 nominations for Apple TV+, which, in only its sixth Emmy season, has landed the most overall series nominations — 27 total for the second season of Severance — as well as the most nominations for a comedy with The Studio’s 23.
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Emmys-wise, there are still mountains for Apple to climb. HBO remains the gold standard in prestige television, and that is felt all over the Emmys ballot: seven directing nominations across drama, comedy, and limited series (to Apple’s four) and seven writing nominations (to Apple’s three). But Apple is more than keeping pace in the areas that get the most attention.
It’s in the guest-star categories, however, that The Studio’s dominance starts to feel as absurd as the show itself. Bryan Cranston got a Guest Actor nomination for his fictional character, the former Continental head Griffin Mill, but Dave Franco, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, Martin Scorsese, and Zoë Kravitz all got nominated for playing themselves. Five out of six nominated male guest stars are guys from The Studio. It’s them and Jon Bernthal in noted comedy The Bear. This is also Ron Howard’s first acting nomination! And he was on Happy Days! While Scorsese has three Emmys already (for Outstanding Directing, of course), it’s possible he’ll go home with his first acting award. Imagine you see all those guys nominated and you vote for someone who’s not Scorsese? He looks so sad in The Studio when they tell him they won’t be making his Jonestown movie.
“It’s thrilling and gratifying,” Apple TV+’s head of development Matt Cherniss said. “I think most of all, I’m just happy for the shows themselves, the talent involved, all the time and effort that they put into doing something original and different, and all the risks that they take along the way. To see that rewarded in shows like Severance and The Studio and Shrinking, it’s just great.”
Apple Watches do a lot of things, from tracking your health and fitness to fielding notifications. As with other wearables, we do a mix of year-round experiential testing and benchmarks. So while we may not take a tumble down a flight of stairs, we’ll note if organically tripping during a walk triggers Fall Detection. (Or doesn’t.) We also check to see how accurate sleep tracking, heart rate, and GPS is versus long-term control devices, like the Oura Ring or a Garmin. We’ll also note how the various Apple Watch models compare to each other on factors like durability, performance, and battery life.
The sleep apnea detection feature that Apple's most recent Apple Watch models offer has expanded to several more countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and more.
While the WPC lists Qi2.2 as having been introduced in April 2025, and Apple was reported to be working on a new MagSafe charger with Qi2.2 compatibility last month, no products using the standard have gone on sale yet. That’s set to change soon, with eight products now listed in the WPC’s product database with the latest Qi2.2.1 standard, all certified on July 15th.
A regulatory listing spotted last month indicated Apple may be working on a MagSafe charger than supports 45W, rather than the 25W maximum of the Qi2.2 standard. No current iPhone supports this speed, but that suggests the iPhone 17 line-up may allow even faster wireless charging.
With Hot Corners, you can assign different actions to each of the four corners of your Mac's display. For example, I like moving my mouse to the top right corner to open Notification Center. It makes it easier to see my widgets at a glance, without needing to click. But there's a lot more you can do with this feature.
The inspiration for Opal came from Schlenker’s time working at Google, around 2008. There, he saw how software was beginning to be designed to “hack your attention,” he said, with new interfaces and alert systems optimized to get users hooked. During the following decade, he watched app addiction spread from tech insiders to everyone else, including his relatives, young and old. He founded Opal in 2020 in order to add what he called “productive friction” to online user experience. “The entire tech industry is about removing friction, and we do the opposite,” he said.
In the age of newsletter pop-ups, cookie disclaimers and overloaded website designs, the app formats pages and removes layout clutter to ensure the text is optimally readable on mobile devices.
[Substage] floats under every Finder window, meaning you see it only when you're browsing files in macOS. You can type English-language sentences into it to do things like rename, convert, or compress files. The application uses the large language model to create a command, like what you could run in the Terminal. The application then shows it to you and asks whether you actually want to run it.
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is a complete version of the open-world action RPG in which players control V, a mercenary operating in a futuristic city focused on power, technology, and body modification.
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s feature-complete and runs just fine on modern iPhones, accusing the tech giant of undermining “cultural and artistic products” with arbitrary policies.
A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations.
Apple would be banned from the US sale of any iPhone whose display was made by China’s BOE, after the company was found to have stolen manufacturing techniques from Samsung.
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BOE makes only non-ProMotion displays, so Pro models would be unaffected, but other iPhone 16 models would be.
I enjoy comedies, and I've watched four of the Emmy-nominated comedy series, and I feel that all of the four I've watched are great, but all I really want to say is this: The Bear is not a comedy series.
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Apple Intelligence—really, generative AI overall—emphasizes a sad reality. The history of personal-computer interfaces is also a history of disappointments. At first, users had to type to do things with files and programs, using esoteric commands to navigate up and down the directory structures that contained them. The graphical user interface, which Apple popularized, adapted that file-and-folder paradigm into an abstraction of a desktop, where users would click and move those files around. But progress produced confusion. Eventually, as hard disks swelled and email collected, we ended up with so much digital stuff that finding it through virtualized rummaging became difficult. Text commands returned via features such as Apple’s Spotlight, which allows a user to type the name of a file or program, just as they might have done 50 years ago.
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Using a computer to navigate my work or home life remains strangely difficult. Calendars don’t synchronize properly. Email search still doesn’t work right, for some reason. Files are all over the place, in various apps and services, and who can remember where? If computationalists can’t even make AI run computing machines effectively, no one will ever believe that they can do so for anything—let alone everything—else.
Cloud synchronization makes it easy to have a copy of your stuff everywhere, and, through optimization, to avoid filling your local storage with your least-accessed files or media, which is often the majority of those items.
But what if you want an active, up-to-date replica of these synced files?
Earlier this year, Apple pledged a $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years. Now, the company is further expanding that pledge with a $500 million plan to “launch an all-new recycling facility for processing recycled rare earth elements.”
With this investment, Apple will work with MP Materials and commit to buying American-made rare earth magnets developed in Fort Worth, Texas. The two companies will build out MP Materials’ “state-of-the-art Texas factory” with a “series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.”
Apple recently updated its website with a list of products eligible for upcoming 2025 sales tax holidays in select U.S. states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Hidden Bar is the perfect solution to a cluttered menu bar, so if you’re juggling tons of menu bar items, don’t miss this handy tool.
I love playlists for discovering new music, but sometimes I just want to listen to an entire album. Adrian Schönig’s Longplay app, which makes it fun to browse and play favorite albums, has been a favorite of mine since it debuted on iOS in 2020. At long last, Longplay is now out for the Mac and I got to take it for an early spin.
The ESD420 can be attached to the back of a MagSafe-compatible iPhone and connected using the appropriate cable, such as a USB-C to USB-C cable. It supports iPhone video recording features that require an external SSD, such as 4K ProRes video recording.
Pressing a button on the tracker will activate a loud siren and flashing light to alert anyone nearby that you’re in trouble, while also triggering the app to send a notification to an emergency contact.
Matt Corey has once again gathered indie developers to organize a huge sale today and tomorrow. Corey, the maker of Bills to Budget and Signals, has organized a collection of over 250 apps that will be offered at a discount through Wednesday.
As much as we often may miss Steve Jobs, even with all his flaws, it’s important to recognize that CEOs with a “l’entreprise, c’est moi” attitude are just not great in general and are often an absolute menace.
Tim Cook isn’t perfect, but at least he’s boring.
Should tech companies have free access to copyrighted books and articles for training their AI models? Two judges recently nudged us toward an answer.
I like talking to computers because if you say what you meant, the computer will do what you meant. Unlike meat-based lifeforms.
Why do I want to talk to a gen-AI chatbots if they are behaving like unpredictable error-prone meat-based lifeforms? I avoid talking to humans my entire life just so you can invent a stupid-er human for me to talk to?
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The guidance I – and, I’m sure, others – have provided multiple times to Apple is that motion that cannot be controlled by the user should ideally be removed; which, in reality, has meant being replaced by a crossfade – good enough for most users with vestibular issues. You’ll see this if you activate Reduce Motion on your iPhone. The 3D zoom ‘blast’ when opening folders will be gone. As will other animations, such as when you move through menu hierarchies. (At least in software that doesn’t use its own proprietary animations that ignore Reduce Motion, such as RSS client Reeder.)
What people often don’ realise is that even small/fast pop-out menu animations can be enough to ‘blast’ someone to the point they can be made dizzy. Additionally, transforming static to animated UI via refraction is a potential trigger. (For example, when playback controls start animating because the content beneath them is being refracted.) Both of those things are strewn throughout the ’26’ systems. Beyond that, there are bigger issues too, such as the current iPadOS dev beta windowing having zooming/flyout animations when you tap on the ‘desktop’. If I accidentally watch that, I’m dizzy for minutes. Other people have it much worse than I do.
The conclusion here is that if you’re looking for a high-quality purchasing experience with refurbished tech, Apple refurbished can be a great option. It just isn’t the only one, and you should always cross-shop before making a purchase.
OWA says these barriers include insufficient testing tools outside of the US, hostile legal terms, and forcing browser developers to create entirely new apps to ship their own engines, causing developers to lose their existing European user base.
Other people have a day phone and a night phone. Me? I have a day podcast app, and a night podcast app.
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However, the lack of accountability carried by companies that brick customer devices neglects the people who support smart tech companies. If tech firms can't support the products they make, then people—and perhaps the law one day—may be less supportive of their business.
Smart tech businesses have many challenges that, for the sake of innovation, they hopefully overcome. But it’s hard to watch customers shouldering the burden in the meantime.
During January’s unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles, Watch Duty—a digital platform providing real-time fire data—became the go-to app for tracking the unfolding disaster and is credited with saving countless lives. Six months out from the fires, Watch Duty’s founder and CEO, John Mills, shares how his small nonprofit responded in the heat of the crisis and became a trusted source—even for government agencies. As wildfire season rages on and Texas recovers from devastating floods, Watch Duty’s story underscores both our growing vulnerability to natural disasters driven by climate change and the power of community-based solutions to keep us safe and connected when it matters most.
Planning things accordingly can be hard. Timescape aims to make that easier by providing you a big picture look at your entire year, making it easy for you to see what long-term events you may already have booked.
At least for DRM-ed media, there is still a sliver of chance that you can somehow get a tool somewhere that perhaps able to de-DRM the material. Maybe.
But for discontinued IoT devices -- good luck.
What's are the solutions? Time for device makers to do subscriptions/rentals rather than purchases, just like all the streaming services, instead of buying a license to watch or listen or read from iTunes store?
Hmmmm.... service. That magic word from Cupertino.
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There’s no one right way to browse the Web, but looking at the history of where these navigational aids came from and what they were designed to do might help you think about how you interact with online information. We’ll start with multiple windows, move on to bookmarks, browser history, and search engines, take a look at tabs, and then focus on pinned tabs.
Apple updated its vintage and obsolete products list to add several Macs, iPads, accessories, and more. The 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro was added to the vintage list, 12 years after it was first introduced.
The offer remains far above the $85 million to $90 million that ESPN is currently paying per annum, and far beyond what ESPN offered to counter. In the wake of those conversations, I’m told, it now appears that Liberty Media is likely to accept Apple’s offer, though a formal agreement has yet to be reached. I’m also reliably told that Apple and ESPN are the only suitors at the table.
A battle for data sovereignty is brewing from Africa to Asia.
Developing nations are challenging Big Tech’s decades-long hold on global data by demanding that their citizens’ information be stored locally. The move is driven by the realization that countries have been giving away their most valuable resource for tech giants to build a trillion-dollar market capitalization.
Is Apple still throwing money around just to get stuff to show on Apple TV? How about throwing some money outside of U.S.?
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A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal than traditional biometric measurements like heart rate or blood oxygen. To prove it, the researchers developed a foundation model trained on behavioral data collected from wearables, and it performed surprisingly well.
“We’re so grateful for the response that ‘Murderbot’ has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” the Weitz brothers said in a statement.
So Murderbot is fiction, because machine intelligence right now is fiction.
A large language model that pattern matches words, sometimes sort of sounds vaguely like it might be talking to you and sometimes sounds like it’s just putting patterns together in ways that look really bizarre—that’s not anywhere close to sentient machine intelligence.
Chris and Paul Weitz adapt the hero of Martha Wells’ book series “The Murderbot Diaries” with keen awareness of everything their audience has been taught to know and fear about artificial intelligence. We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.
Instead of speaking to that anxiety, however, the show floats an alternate and infinitely more entertaining possibility: What if machines simply didn’t care enough about humans to deal with us at all?
Here's a bunch of apps I regularly use that track your TBR (to be read) pile, the books you DNFed (did not finish), and offer suggestions for your next read. Some are prettier than others, most will allow you to import your Goodreads data.
Belkin has announced that it is ending support for most of its Wemo smart home products. Customers will lose access to the Wemo app, any features that rely on cloud connectivity, customer support, and more. It’s effectively the end of the Wemo smart home brand.
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For Apple users, however, there’s at least one piece of good news. “Wemo products configured for use with Apple HomeKit will continue to function via HomeKit in the absence of Wemo cloud services and the Wemo app,” Belkin says.
Apple, Visa and Mastercard have persuaded a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to suppress competition in the payments network market and causing merchants to pay inflated transaction fees.
U.S. District Judge David Dugan in Illinois ruled on Wednesday that the merchants had not provided enough evidence to support their claim that Apple illegally declined to launch a competing payment network to rival Visa and Mastercard.
I saw a reference to "M5 MacBook Pro", and my old eyes mistaken M5 as MS, and I was very confused for a few seconds.
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In 2023, Apple said that it would spend $1 billion a year on films that would play exclusively on the big screen before hitting Apple TV+. But after several major box office debacles, including Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple retreated. Now, it has come thundering back with the Brad Pitt starrer F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer of Top Gun: Maverick fame. While a win for Apple, it may have trouble turning a profit after costing as much as $300 million to produce.
Top Apple exec Eddy Cue — a Formula 1 fan and a driving force behind the movie — made a splash when meeting with exhibitors at CinemaCon in April. Industry sources confirm that Apple wants to be in the movie business but say the company remains undecided in terms of making a foray into distribution, or whether it will continue to partner with an established studio to release and market its titles (Warners is handling F1).
Children are increasingly taking breaks from their smartphones to better manage their mental health, personal safety and concentration spans, research has revealed.
They are reacting to growing concerns that spending too much time online can be harmful by taking control of their own social media and smartphone use rather than relying on parents to enforce limits, according to experts.
Your AirPods are getting even better with iOS 26 later this year. As well as new features like camera remote and sleep detection to pause media, Apple is also improving the charging experience.
With the new update, your iPhone can automatically remind you when your AirPods are running out of juice. These alerts can show even when your AirPods are not currently in your ears, but stored in their case, that is running low on battery.
Apple's annual Back to School offer for university students and educational staff is now available in many European countries, after initially launching in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Singapore, India, and the United Arab Emirates last month.
Microsoft is rolling out a new backup system in September for its Authenticator app on iOS, removing the requirement to use a Microsoft personal account to back up TOTP secrets and account names.
We’re less than 60 days out from the start of the 2025 NFL regular season, and football fans have something new to get ready for kickoff. Many NFL team iPhone apps are coming to Apple CarPlay, starting with three team apps that are already live.
TrueMeeting’s main focus is on developing technology that allows users to create responsive 3D avatars in real time by scanning their faces with smartphones. These avatars can be used in various video applications.
How patience can Apple be with their movie (and television) business, when there are competitors and regulators breathing down Apple's neck in all their other products?
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As a designer, I’m meant to dislike settings. As a user, I love them. Every year I celebrate Settings Day: a day when I take a look at the options and toggles in all the apps I use. I do this out of curiosity – what was added since the last time I looked? – but also because I love this way of getting to know software: peeking under the hood, walking the back alleys, learning what has been tricky or important enough to be equipped with a checkbox.
During the last Settings Day, I had a realization that the totemic 1984 Mac control panel, designed by Susan Kare, is still to this day perhaps the only settings screen ever brought up in casual conversation.
I kept wondering about that screen, and about what happened since then. Turns out, the Mac settings have lived a far more fascinating life than I imagined, have been redesigned many times, and can tell us a lot about the early history and the troubled upbringing of this interesting machine.
Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some of which were maddening, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s hard not to be impressed by how far Spotlight has come.
Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever. So let’s celebrate Spotlight for what it was, what it is, and what it’s about to become.
As reported by German tech news website Heise last month, Apple has introduced new APIs that allow for developers to implement support for making cellular phone calls and sending and receiving SMS/MMS/RCS messages in third-party apps, but only iPhone users in the EU will be able to take advantage of this functionality.
Apple TV+ has had its best year ever so far, and it’s bound to continue with returning hits this fall like the recently announced Slow Horses season 5. But with another announcement today, Apple confirmed we’ll keep getting new Slow Horses episodes for a long while yet: seasons 6 and 7 are now both official.
Apple is in talks to acquire the US rights to screen Formula 1 as the tech giant chases the success of its hit movie based on the race car series and delves further into showing live sport.
The iPhone maker is challenging Disney’s ESPN — Formula 1’s current American broadcaster — when the broadcast contract becomes available next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Apple today announced that four additional games will be added to the Apple Arcade library on Thursday, August 7, including Play-Doh World.
Exclusive to Apple Arcade, Play-Doh World lets you create digital Play-Doh characters and more.
Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month. Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.”
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When Williams officially retires later this year, Apple says that the design team will transition to reporting directly to Tim Cook.
The whole thing seems amicable and orderly, and thus completely in line with everything we know about Williams’s and Cook’s seemingly similar personalities. After a long and successful career, Apple’s COO is retiring and his longtime lieutenant is being promoted to replace him this month. Apple’s operations aren’t just world-class, they’re almost certainly world-best. Even their leadership transitions are operationally smooth.
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Post-Williams, Apple’s operations will clearly remain under excellent, experienced leadership under Sabih Khan. But the company will be left with its design teams reporting directly to Cook — who is three years older than Williams. Six years after Jony Ive’s departure, today’s announcements leave it less clear than ever whose taste, ultimately, is steering the work of the company into the future.
I've finally watched Oppenheimer, the movie, now that it is out on Netflix.
Still haven't watched Barbie.
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Sorry or you’re welcome? Apple’s new Liquid Glass visual element is getting any icy design change in some places before it reaches customers. iOS 26 developer beta 3, which will likely be iOS 26 public beta 1 later this month, reduces the transparency effect in a number of places like navigation bars in certain apps.
It is not evidence Apple has been wrong all along when it comes to the ideas behind Liquid Glass, though it indicates the unique problems faced when working with transparency. But, also, you would think a company that has been working with transparent interfaces for twenty-five years would have some institutional memory and know what to avoid.
Apple has increased contrast and eliminated the black bar, making it much easier to spot the active tab at a glance.
This “shake to find” feature comes in handy when you’re not sure where your cursor is at any given moment.
And now in iPadOS 26 beta 3, the same feature is coming to the iPad.
With today’s beta seed, Apple included a new “Tahoe Day” screen saver that glides across the surface of Lake Tahoe’s rocky shoreline, with snow-capped mountains in the background.
Why would his iPhone ignore his attempts to limit charging? We need to dig into how Apple balances battery safety and reducing wear against our stated preferences.
Replacing that M1 Air, possibly with an A18-powered version that uses the exact same design, fills a gap in the Mac lineup that Apple has filled in all of its other product families. Buyers would be able to rest easier, knowing they were buying a modern product with years of software support ahead of it (Apple sometimes cuts off its "cheap" devices a year or two before higher-end ones, but it varies from device to device). And Apple has already proven that it can make and sell a MacBook that serves basic needs for way less than $1,000, without (apparently) totally wrecking demand for new MacBook Airs and Pros.
Apple Inc. successfully challenged a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it violated federal labor law by coercively interrogating a worker and removing union literature from a break room.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the NLRB lacked substantial evidence for its finding that Apple committed those unfair labor practices at its World Trade Center store in Manhattan.
Apple asked a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn a trade tribunal's decision which forced it to remove blood-oxygen reading technology from its Apple Watches, in order to avoid a ban on its U.S. smartwatch imports.
Yes, I do wonder why Apple need to have these betas out in the public to realize some of the problems with Liquid Glass.
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Apple is appealing against a €500m (£430m; $586m) fine handed down by EU regulators over alleged anti-competitive behaviour on its App Store.
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"As our appeal will show, the [Commission] is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users," Apple said in a statement.
"We implemented this to avoid punitive daily fines and will share the facts with the Court."
Apple’s future film strategy won’t hinge solely on the success of “F1.” And more importantly, the racing drama isn’t close to climbing out of the red. “F1” cost more than $250 million to produce and roughly $100 million more to market, which means the tentpole will require multiple laps around the track to justify its massive price tag. But these ticket sales, which are encouraging for any adult-skewing original film, at least give Apple a reason to stay the course. Oh yeah, it also helps that Apple has a $3 trillion market cap and doesn’t face the same financial pressure of traditional studios.
Dropover is a simple app that uses shelves to help you move items like files, folders, URLs, web images, and text snippets, between locations on your Mac more efficiently.
Although !Camera solely exists in software, its unique 3D interface makes your iPhone feel like a new device. The colorful, customizable UI is not intended to look realistic, exactly, but the combination of visual effects and haptic feedback is surprisingly believable.
Apple need to have good and successful movies and shows outside of that billion pockets. Whether they are successful financially or successful award-wise, it doesn't matter. But Apple cannot be seen relying on the iPhone.
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Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd and Drake are just a few of the artists topping Apple Music‘s Top 500 Streamed Songs list, honoring 10 years of the streaming service.
Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the most-streamed song on the tally, which Apple has been rolling out in batches by the hundred throughout the week. As the No. 1 most-played song globally, “Shape of You” had over 1,000 days where the song reached No. 1 on the all-genre Top Songs chart in at least one country, and upon release, it broke the record for biggest pop song in Apple Music history in worldwide first-day streams.
As someone who uses a MacBook Pro all day, every day; I didn’t realize how much use I’d get out of a cheap used Mac mini. As I build up my smart home ecosystem, I’ve taken to using Apple’s “tiny PC” as a local hub.
Though there are plenty of great choices for your Home Assistant server, the Mac mini just happens to be one of the most versatile. Here’s why.
Sequel is an all in one app that makes it easy to keep track of all of the movies, TV shows, books, games, and more that you’d like to follow. It packs an intuitive interface and a number of delightful features to make it the ultimate media manager for your iPhone or iPad.
Cupertino, in collaboration with VTA and Caltrans, can move forward with the Interstate 280 and Wolfe Road interchange improvement project thanks to a roughly $4 million donation from Apple to bridge the remaining funding gap. The $124-million project was nearly canceled this month due to a funding shortfall. The city and transit agency had exhausted state and federal grant opportunities. But with Apple’s contribution, Cupertino can save the project and mitigate traffic gridlock as hundreds of homes come online.
Besides this Intel-based Mac mini that I am using right now, I also have devices that I charge with Lightning cables. All of which I still want to continue to use, but I got to have some 'transition' plans back in my mind.
Some of these 'transitions', I am thinking, may mean eliminating particular devices in my life altogether.
I'm probably reaching the phase in my life where I, once again, have more free time than free money.
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Durability is one of the important parameters that OEMs are focusing on today, as it has a multidimensional impact on consumers and aligns with environmental responsibilities, while increasing device longevity and reliability. During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025, the company gave a select group of participants, including those from Counterpoint, a glimpse into how it builds products to last. We visited one of the 200 labs that Apple operates to conduct rigorous testing of its hardware before it reaches consumers.
Apple quietly dropped a new AI model on Hugging Face with an interesting twist. Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once.
The result is faster code generation, at a performance that rivals top open-source coding models.
I think everyone knows what an “Easter egg” is with regard to software. It was fun to learn about or share an Easter egg that you learned about with other Macintosh fans. Working within Apple was no exception. I mean the engineers that had created the Easter eggs were now in the same building I was in. From time to time someone might pull up a new easter egg that I was not aware of.
The color pickers I had written seemed like a place I could sneak in an Easter egg of my own.
Perhaps you are reading this and thinking, “Ahhh, this is when he almost gets fired.” And you would be correct.
The problem I have with knowing how to do just enough programming is that whenever I get frustrated with any software, my first thought wasn't how to workaround the shortcomings, but to figure out how much free time I still have left in order to write some un-scaleable and un-maintainable bundle of scripts to replace that software.
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A father who said he wanted to find a more positive way of getting his son interested in technology and reading has developed a free personalised story app.
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Jason said that although he loves reading a "good old-fashioned book", the reality is screens are here and part of society's future.
"That's why hopefully this resonates with other parents and educators to see how we align ourselves with it [technology] and use it for good," he added.
As part of Apple’s broader initiative to combat spam outreach, iOS 26 provides the option of silencing texts from unknown numbers and hiding them inside a separate area inside Messages.
A new Apple Store is opening later this month in Japan, and alongside the first details, the company has released beautiful new wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac featuring custom artwork.
Angry Birds Bounce is the star of this month’s drop, adding a twist to its iconic slingshot gameplay: rather than simply flinging birds at towers, there’s now an arcade-style brick-breaker mechanic for a faster-paced, combo-heavy experience.
They have a new guest mode system, which allows you to browse and discover new authors, download samples without having to login to your Kobo account. Bookmarks, highlights, notes sync across all Kobo apps and devices. When reading e-books there is a new vertical scroll system, which acts as an infinite scroll.
And that’s it. That’s the issue I’m seeing. I’m seeing repeated instances of exactly this problem. Overthinking it. Pretending this solves problems rather than creates them. Creating a narrative that supports the direction and presenting it in an overly pretentious way.
At the point when you have to blur the content area to make the UI stand out from it, how can you possibly argue that it gets out of the way? It makes no sense.
Sometimes, I have nothing to say. No words. Just sighs.
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Another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call’s video and audio if someone starts undressing.
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It’s unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that’s applying the feature to adults when it should only apply to child accounts.
Canadian frequent flyers like Ms. Tuck are increasingly turning to innovative, often inexpensive, tech tools to support their wellness on the go – from reducing stress to tracking sleep quality or staying present while exploring.
Dory is the latest app switcher application for Mac, one that is as flashy as it is about sheer substance. Instead of asking users to shift their hands from the keyboard deck to the trackpad or asking them to remember a special keyboard shortcut, Dory takes things to the elementary stage.
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All you need to do is hit the button of your choice on the keyboard, or the mouse. After that, you’re just an identifier key away from launching the app of your choice.
There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated.
If I point my webcam to a television playing, say, Oppenheimer (Academy Awards for Best Picture 2023), and start FaceTime, does the video cut off immediately when Apple Intelligence detects nudity, or does the video cut off immediately once A.I. ascertains this is copyrighted materials?
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First off, the M1 MacBook Air can’t be sold forever. I’m sure the margins on a five-year-old product are great, but Apple and TSMC surely want to stop making M1 chips at some point! So how do you make a new product that’s still well below the $999 of the (incredible value) M4 MacBook Air?
Using the same A18 Pro processor found in the iPhone 16 Pro might be a good start.
The M1 Air won’t stick around forever, and I can see a cheaper, USB-C-only MacBook powered by an A Series chip slotting into that low-end price point nicely.
Apple mentioned the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference, but it was highlighted as an AirPods feature. Code discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser suggests that the option is also available for Beats headphones.
The ad shows a photographer quickly grabbing photos with the Camera Control on the iPhone 16 Pro, using gestures to zoom in and change Photographic Styles rapidly.
ToothFairy is a one-click Bluetooth utility that adds a dedicated button for each Bluetooth device right to your menu bar. Click once, and the device will be connected (as long as it’s powered on, and around you). Click again, to disconnect. It couldn’t be simpler. No need to hunt down menus.
The Addigy Prebuilt App Catalog is designed to automate macOS app deployments and updates across your Apple fleets. The catalog includes a growing list of commonly used apps that can be deployed and updated without writing any scripts or configuring profiles. Each app comes prepackaged with all the required device management profiles, including system extensions and Privacy Preferences Policy Control settings.
Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country.
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It’s not immediately clear why Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler sent the workers home. Earlier this year, officials in Beijing verbally encouraged regulatory agencies and local governments to curb technology transfers and equipment exports to India and Southeast Asia in what is a potential attempt to prevent companies from shifting manufacturing elsewhere, Bloomberg News has reported.
The rumored MacBook with A-series chip should come in 12-inch and 14-inch sizes, I say, as I fondly remember the MacBook Air 11-inch that I used to bring to everywhere I went.
I don't think Apple will ever do a 11-inch Mac, but the previous MacBook was at 12-inch size.
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The company’s lawyers said Monday that tools such as an encrypted “visited places” service that tracks and records where users have been won’t be rolled out in the EU when it releases its iOS 26 software update later this year.
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“We’ve already had to make the decision to delay the release of products and features we announced this month for our EU customers,” Kyle Andeer, Vice President, Apple Legal, told a workshop with EU officials and developers in Brussels. Andeer said users’ security could be compromised if the company is obliged to open up its ecosystem to competitors.
“We want this to be an open house for artists, songwriters or any creator to come in, hang out and create content, connect with their fans or connect with other artists,” Apple Music’s top executive Oliver Schusser tells The Hollywood Reporter. “This is our interpretation of the intersection between technology and the arts.”
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“We intentionally made it so it could be highly adaptable to any sort of creative,” says Apple Music co-head Rachel Newman. “It’s a blank space on purpose, so that an artist can come in and create whatever they want. Radio was always a front door for us to work closer with artists, and now they’ll be able to do so much more. Photography, writers rooms. We wanted the ability to scale and fit into any kind of vision the artist might have.”
So there was a growing internal sense that if a crowd-pleaser like “F1” didn’t work on the big screen, Apple would be forced to abandon the movie business in favor of television, where its successes include “Severance” and “Ted Lasso.” Though Apple’s future film strategy won’t hinge on a single film, insiders at the company now believe that momentum behind “F1” gives Apple a reason to at least stay the course.
Something that I really appreciate about the iOS 26 redesign is an emphasis on moving more toolbars and primary controls to the bottom of the screen, bringing them closer to the user’s thumb. Especially for Max-sized phones, starting a search for an old conversation in Messages used to require finger gymnastics to tap on the bar that was placed just below the navigation header. Now, that search bar is positioned at the bottom of the screen, and thereby easily reachable with one-hand no matter what form factor phone you are using.
At the same time, Apple’s new design guidelines also heavily evangelise making these bottom bars recede when not in use, such as minimising when the user scrolls down the page. I don’t appreciate this behaviour so much.
The aesthetics for icon design may have changed dramatically in the intervening years, but I just find it sad that, with the gorgeous displays we have today, Apple recommends simple designs made out of a few boring shapes, and everything is now in service of a ‘liquid glass’ effect the system superimposes on every aspect of the user interface — as if this surface gimmick is more important than the elements it distorts.
Moving from my beloved 27-inch iMac and ancient Thunderbolt Display to the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a pair of Apple Studio Displays has been more than just a hardware upgrade—it has been an opportunity to reconsider some long-standing ways of working. Starting fresh without Migration Assistant, although more time-consuming, has helped me create a cleaner, more intentional setup that should reduce quirks for years to come. Even without Migration Assistant, cloud storage significantly reduced the potential headaches of migrating much of my data. The addition of a third screen to hold ambient apps has proven welcome, and although I’ve liked the MacBook Pro’s keyboard and trackpad overall, I’m still addressing some ergonomic challenges of using it on a standing desk. In the end, what’s important is that the new MacBook Pro feels fast and fresh while still retaining the most essential aspects of my everyday Mac experience.
Pixelmator is now owned by Apple, so it was only a matter of time before the suite of photo apps was updated with Apple Intelligence support. Today, Pixelmator Pro for Mac is the first in Apple’s trio of products to get new AI features alongside accessibility improvements and more.
After twelve weeks of refining the public beta, DEVONtechnologies has released version 4 of its DEVONthink document and information manager. It’s a major upgrade with support for external AI providers (DEVONthink Pro required), an updated user interface, and a bounty of powerful new features.
This free, open source application by developer Uli Kaufmann places your entire second display in a window on your primary display. The basic idea is that you'll be able to see the presentation on your laptop without having to turn around and look at the display behind you. This means you can see the slides in front of you, instead of having to turn around to look at the presentation screen. It also means you can see and scroll through your notes and take control of the presentation, all on one screen.
In the latest beta of iOS 18.6, there is code that says automatic upgrades are coming.
The case’s progress is still early, and the judge isn’t ruling on any of the government’s claims just yet. But he is saying that the allegations are “sufficient” to support the claims that Apple acted in an anti-competitive manner. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The watchdog’s investigation will determine if apps embedded in the handsets at the time of purchase in 2023 and 2024 limited user choice.
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Under the act, handset makers and operators are prohibited from unjustifiably blocking users from deleting pre-installed apps that are not essential to the functionality of the device.
Speaking of moving toolbars and stuff to the bottom of the screen, does Apple know that we still have to move our thumb all the way to the top of the iPhone screen to pull down the Control Center? Is the company doing anything to fix that?
Of all the older iOS designs that is no longer with us, the swipe-up-from-bottom-of-screen gesture to get to Control Center is the one major thing that I still miss.
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