It’s like when safe area insets appeared in iOS 11: it wasn’t clear why you needed them until the iPhone X came along with a notch and a home indicator. And then it changed everything.
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All of this makes me think that Apple is close to introducing devices where the screen disappears seamlessly into the physical edge. Something where flexible OLED blurs the distinction between pixels and bezel. A new “wraparound” screen with safe area insets on the vertical edges of the device, just like we saw with the horizontal edges on iPhone X.
“Safety, specifically, has been on the roadmap, I'd say probably for three or four years, once we started implementing the DULT,” says Pebblebee’s founder and CEO Daniel Daoura. “So ever since then, we’ve wanted to do it but we just didn't have the bandwidth and ability. We wanted to make sure we've established ourselves as a trustworthy and dependable company.”
The DULT specification, which is also supported by Apple, Google and the likes of Chipolo and is waiting on IETF ratification, is, says Daoura, “very close to being perfect.” Safeguards including the tracker devices buzzing or chiming so as not to go undetected, and notifications to the user being tracked without the need for a dedicated app are ideas the IETF is considering.
Instead of simply dimming your Lock Screen wallpaper, the system now blurs it by default. The tweak makes the clock and widgets stand out more, but it also defeats the purpose of displaying a photo if that’s what you like about the feature. Luckily, there’s also a toggle to bring back the original behavior.
At the root of these concerns is the fact just three US giants - Google, Microsoft and Amazon - provide 70% of Europe's cloud-computing infrastructure, the scaffolding on which many online services depend.
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Roblox can’t keep up. After years of criticism that its platform isn’t safe for the young gamers it caters to, the multibillion-dollar company announced in July that it was rolling out new measures to protect users, including an AI-powered age-verification system and other privacy tools. But researchers, experts, and lawyers have concerns the changes won’t stop Roblox’s bigger problem: staying ahead of individuals using the platform to exploit players.
IMHO, governments and regulators should not focus all their energy in curtailing what dominant players can and cannot do. Rather, spend more effort to make it easier for competitors to emerge and flourish.
Why spend all that effort and capital just to help dating apps and clipboard apps and games and game emulators on the existing platforms? Instead, start figuring how to bring about additional viable mobile platforms. Invest in new companies and people, invest in open standards.
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Think that could never happen to you? You’re probably right. Chances are your Google or Apple account will outlive you. However, the tech world regularly coughs up a horror story that, if it happens to you, will feel like being smashed in the face by a nasty critter from Alien.
The headlining feature of Notify is the ability to detect website changes on device, at scheduled intervals – and that part is fairly self explanatory. You can configure whatever websites you’d like to monitor for changes, schedule how regularly you’d like to check for updates – and easily view change history as they accumulate.
With The Studio and its avalanche of celebrity cameos, the primary challenge was scheduling, which is inevitable when juggling so many famous people’s calendars. Because of that logistical complexity, the team shot all episodes simultaneously, with actor availability playing a major role in how production was structured. And despite the enormity of Kostenbauder’s assignment, she was able to take a grounded approach: “Seth and Evan wanted each guest actor to fit into the scenario,” she said. “They always talked about things in terms of making each given situation successful.” She hasn’t yet started work on season two, but in the run-up to the Emmys, Kostenbauder shared her experience casting some of the biggest episodes of season one.
I sure hope that all these companies doesn't make me talk to an AI when anything goes wrong, because AIs don't know anything, cannot do anything, and different interactions with the AIs will gives you different and contradicting results.
Come to think of it: different and contradicting results: isn't that what the humans over at App Store reviews are infamous for?
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Which means the iPad no longer sits between two extremes—instead, you switch between them. The iPad is now two devices in one, the iPad that Steve Jobs imagined and the machine that pros have begged for. A touchscreen consumption slate and a windowed productivity machine. An Apple spork.
So, yes, an iPad running iPadOS 26 may still contain the soul of the original iPad, lurking deep in Settings, waiting to be turned on. But the Jobs dream of a focused, elegant third device category between smartphone and laptop is effectively dead.
It’s made capturing, sorting, and finding my lectures so effortless that I can’t imagine going back.
You can now access and navigate trails offline, track your activities and monitor your performance all from your wrist.
Les Amis uses AI to pair users with similar interests and encourages them to join local events offered within the app, such as pottery classes, book clubs, wine tastings, and Pilates.
I think that one thing I could do for [Apple TV+] with this show was just to bring a real, old-fashioned craft of songwriting, which is dying out. That doesn’t mean that there’s not good songs these days, but there are different kinds of songs, far less about the craft, which is a good thing. But it makes me think of something specific: David Bowie and Bing Crosby sang that famous duet (“Peace on Earth”/“Little Drummer Boy”). Well, the story, roughly, behind that was that Bowie walked into this whole thing and was like, “I’m not singing ba rum pum-pum-pums.” And they were like, “Well, what if we made it something— a little bit expanded?” So a staff writer just wrote the half of the song. They call it a mashup, but the song didn’t exist. So the other one, where it says “Peace on Earth,” or whatever, the other they’ve mashed up, the staff writer pulled that out of his ass And that’s the kind of craft that existed in that era, where people who were just writing on staff were writing better than stuff that people make now.
Every company is trying to become an everything company, in other words, which means Apple’s moves here are less about forging new paths than filling gaps in its own omni-conglomerate portfolio (more urgently, perhaps, as its core product, the iPhone, approaches its 20th anniversary).
It shouldn't be difficult to decide whether you want to buy a MacBook, or if you want to buy an iPad. Or both, as Apple likes to remind us again and again.
If this decision ever becomes difficult, Apple has blew it.
With all the new multitasking and windowing stuff thrown in iPadOS 26, and with whatever new Mac devices Apple is planning for, the "No" answer that Apple has previously answered about merging Mac and iPad may continue to be a No, but an asterisk may increasingly play a larger role.
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Indeed, a couple years ago, Apple was the No. 1 method by which podcasts were consumed, followed by Spotify. But a recent study by Coleman Insights and Amplifi showed that YouTube is now No. 1, Spotify is second and Apple is third. “There is an expectation that all content lives on YouTube,” Goldstein says. “And I was shocked how much of podcasting is now consumed on big-screen TVs at home.”
Yet the rise of YouTube has some in the industry concerned that podcasts — along with their independent advertising streams — could effectively become yet another Google subsidiary. “What worries me is if the ‘podcast industry’ becomes just an unclear subset of YouTube video-makers, then we don’t have a podcast industry anymore,” says Podnews editor James Cridland. “We’re literally just a bunch of YouTubers.”
As part of its exclusive deal with Peanuts, Apple TV+ today premieres Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. This is the latest original Snoopy special to air on the platform, and this one stands out as it is a song-filled musical. The last time Peanuts premiered a new musical episode was more than 37 years ago.
Instead of scrolling until you nod off — and inevitably drop your phone on your face — Loóna encourages you to disconnect from the stresses of the day another way. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean putting your phone away or trying to fall asleep in the dark. With this app, you can still stare at a screen as you settle in for the night.
So, if you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed in a sea of content, knowing there’s stuff you’d love but with no idea how or where to find it, read on, as we outline our five favorite apps designed to help you navigate the streaming landscape.
So here’s the tricky part: to square the circle between the Official Secrets Act and NCND ("Neither confirm nor deny policy") while still allowing the court to be open, Apple’s case will be heard based on what the IPT (Investigatory Powers Tribunal) calls “assumed facts”.
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There also seems to be a “back door” in the whole “assumed facts” construct: the lack of transparency into how they are agreed. The actual facts will only emerge if the tribunal finds in Apple’s favour. But if the court sides with the government, the rest of us will be left with questions over exactly what the Home Office asked of Apple, why it did so and whether it is making the same demands of other tech companies.
Yes, most of the podcasts that I follow are essentially a bunch of people talking to each other on microphones in a Zoom meeting.
But I hope that so long as RSS feeds still exist, so long as podcast listening apps still exist, there will always be podcasts outside of YouTube?
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Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today.
Users with these models in the U.S. who currently do not have the Blood Oxygen feature will have access to the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature by updating their paired iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1. Following this update, sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Watch will be measured and calculated on the paired iPhone, and results can be viewed in the Respiratory section of the Health app. This update was enabled by a recent U.S. Customs ruling.
This means your Apple Watch can collect data in the background and pass it off to the iPhone for calculation.
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Apple explains that this move comes after U.S. Customs issued a ruling stating that Apple may import Apple Watch models with this new software design for the Blood Oxygen feature.
The general conundrum of art versus commerce is a theme that we really like and will continue to lean into. But how it manifests itself in how the season is structured will evolve. We do have a lot of ideas as to how to explore different elements of that.
Apple is working on a next-generation version of the iPad mini (codename J510/J511) that features an A19 chip, according to information found in code that Apple mistakenly shared.
Based on Apple's code, it looks like the next-generation Vision Pro will use the M5 chip.
Apple has today previewed its latest retail store ahead of its opening on Saturday. As usual, the company has created a funky new wallpaper to celebrate the opening, and made it available for download.
Too often, people take Jobs’s move to simplify an overcomplicated product line a bit more literally than they should. The Mac product line Jobs found on his return was too complex, yes, but as he rebuilt Apple, he knew he would have to simplify and focus things to get started. After the Power Mac, PowerBook, iMac, and iBook all shipped, Jobs was happy to toss in all sorts of Macs that didn’t fit into the grid, including the G4 Cube and Xserve.
Similarly, as modern Apple has grown in the years since Jobs, it has done so in part by dropping the simplicity and offering many different variations of its products. It just makes sense. And over the next few years, we may find new versions of familiar products that go far beyond what we’ve come to expect from Apple. Does this apply to the future of the Apple Watch? Let’s look at what history may tell us.
Today, the crisis in streaming makes this clearer than ever. With titles scattered, prices on the rise, and bitrates throttled depending on your browser, it is little wonder some viewers are raising the jolly roger again. Studios carve out fiefdoms, build walls and levy tolls for those who wish to visit. The result is artificial scarcity in a digital world that promised abundance.
Whether piracy today is rebellion or resignation is almost irrelevant; the sails are hoisted either way.
Apple and Cook could really lead by deploying a different playbook: the one business has always used to drive change in society. That approach uses power, voice, lobbying force, political influence, money, marketing machinery and customers to create the right social, economic and legal incentives to drive desired outcomes.
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I traded one obsession (looking at my phone) for another (not looking at it). In my second week, I was down to two hours of screen time a day. By my third, it was an hour and a half – and I became determined to get it below 60 minutes. Part of me was impressed that I could appear normal while quietly (nobly?) wielding this superpower. However, I was unable to keep my gift a secret. I soon began boring friends, acquaintances and service workers with tales of my herculean discipline.
Before long, my quest was disrupting my day in new ways. I resented having to open Maps on my phone, so I found myself getting lost while cycling to appointments. If I wanted to show someone a picture or a meme, I would ask to Google it on their phone, rather than my own. I refused to order Ubers after nights out (the painstaking process of watching a cab crawl towards my location while the minutes of screen time racked up was torturous) and instead offered to transfer the money (later, on my laptop) to whoever did.
Just in time for the start of the upcoming NFL season on September 4, NFL Retro Bowl '26 features authentic NFL players and rosters with retro styling. In this year's version of the game, there is a new Retro Bowl Championship Leaderboard that tasks players with competing against each other in weekly matchups, in line with the NFL schedule.
Older Apple TV+ titles including Sofia Coppola's 2020 movie "On the Rocks," Sian Heder's Academy Award-winning 2021 film "CODA," and Aaron Schneider's 2020 World War II drama "Greyhound" are now available to buy or rent in 4K HDR options within the store section of the Apple TV app.
Beats is rolling out a fresh limited-edition version of its recently relaunched Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker, teaming up with Bulgarian-born fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov.
To use the app, you virtually “load” one of the tapes laid out across the screen by selecting the year’s videos you want to view. The videos are labeled with what look like handwritten stickers with the year attached to the VHS tape’s cover sleeve.
You can then watch your life unfold on the screen with no further interaction required on your part.
My favorite Dory feature is the ability to permanently assign certain keys to launch certain apps.
Alert Alive expands your automatically contacted Safety Circle from just a single person to up to five, and it shares your real-time location with them until you’re safe and turn it off.
The collection of items, titled “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution,” is currently being sold by RR Auction, and will remain live until August 21. It’s one of the company’s 12 annual speciality auctions, which focus on specific subjects like space exploration, the Olympics, and animation.
Lowering your screen-time of your device is, I feel, not a worthwhile goal. Rather, it should be lowering your screen-time of specific apps that you choose.
My iPhone is not just a phone and an 'internet communicator'. It is also my book, my book-on-tape, my on-demand radio, my walkman, my newspaper, my magazine, my camera, my telegram, my map, my notebook, and my calendar. Why would I want to decrease the usage of any of the above?
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So while, yes, the current top iPhone is better for the environment than five years ago (and the figures for some of the base models show even greater improvements), most of that progress was made between 2020 and 2022. As Apple has pushed forward with AI and introduced emissions-heavy technological innovations to support it, the company has been left mostly treading water.
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As the kids say, the bar is in hell. At least Apple hasn’t backtracked; Apple’s still playing. But as Tim Cook doubles down on Apple's commitment to AI, can Cupertino keep up with its climate goals while pushing forward in its AI ambitions?
First, the “Classic Mode Switching” toggle found in the Camera section of the Settings app has been removed. So did Apple simply remove the rather clunky option? Nope. That’s the second change in today’s developer beta release. The swipe direction has returned to the way it has been since the dawn of time.
The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through.
In addition to the standard Reflection ringtone, there are now six variants: Buoyant, Dreamer, Tech, Pop, Reflected, and Surge.
Apple seems to have significantly sped up the animation used when you tap an app icon on your Home Screen.
Next to the UI chrome is a 3D loupe, just like the one you can see in the app icon. It looks cool as is, but the real easter egg is you can actually pick up this loupe with your finger and drag it around.
However, note that the full Apple TV+ content library is not available. At least right now, only the first season of flagship shows will be offered. This means flyers can check out the first season of Severance at no extra charge, but season two is not available to select.
I recently wrote about duplicating iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to a network-attached storage (NAS) system. This struck a nerve for folks who want to keep full-resolution backups of their Photos Library when they don’t have enough local storage. (That column was focused on not needing to keep your Mac powered up to handle these iCloud offline backups when the Mac was otherwise not in use.)
Readers wrote in or replied via social media with strategies and workarounds, as well as suggesting three software options that can let you sync iCloud Photos outside of Apple’s limitations. Meanwhile, a developer dropped a line to Jason about his new app, which can sync and archive iCloud Photos and files from iCloud Drive.
A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app.
Like wireless chargers for the iPhone, the M30 magnetically attaches to the back of supported iPad models, but instead of transferring power through wire coils and induction, it uses the same Smart Connector pins that iPad accessories like the Magic Keyboard rely on.
We are bad at deloads, across all aspects of our life. Many of us struggle with shutting off work — when we’re home, when we’re on vacation… We’re always connected and we can always see our inboxes and Slack, and there’s always more work. And so we feel obligated or even motivated to always be on, all the time.
That motivation itself isn’t a bad thing. But you know what’s even better? Self-care.
Will we see a return of translucent computer cases, perhaps with a hint of bondi blue, from Apple? And how frosted will the translucency be?
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Launchpad is unique in that list for one important reason: its entire purpose is app launching. Every other option displays running apps, mixes in files and folders, or offers another world of complexity.
IFTTT extends automation beyond your Apple ecosystem by connecting your iPhone and Shortcuts app with third-party services, actions, and triggers that are not readily available within Shortcuts' scope.
AOL dial-up is ending on September 30th according to a statement posted on the company’s website. It marks the end of the service that was synonymous with the internet for many since its launch in 1991.
When the store opened in 2015, it was situated in Dalian’s most prominent commercial district. In its early days, it indeed attracted large numbers of Apple enthusiasts, and given its prime location, many tourists visiting Dalian also made it a must-visit destination, contributing positively to Apple’s brand promotion and customer service. However, with urban expansion and the restructuring of functional zones, this once-premier shopping district has been replaced by multiple emerging commercial centers over the past few years. Both foot traffic and the infrastructure of the shopping complex have declined significantly, with current visitor numbers less than one-tenth of peak levels. Within the same district, numerous international brands have also adjusted their presence or withdrawn entirely.
So even if you only listen to indie artists, your money still mostly goes to the big names, because the payout is based on total listening across all users, not just you.
Speaking of launching apps, why hasn't the iPadOS' App Library arrived on macOS' dock yet?
My guess: since most apps for macOS doesn't come from the App Store, Apple has no idea how to recreate the App Library with its categories of apps yet.
Maybe Apple Intelligence -- and some web crawling -- will help in the coming future?
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Society is having a reckoning about noise. Hearing is a sense we can’t physically turn off, and until recently, unless we were willing to cosplay as a construction worker by wearing ear defenders, we just had to suck it up. But as active noise-canceling technology goes from good to great, it’s become easier than ever to protect our ears from dangerous sound levels. Noise blocking has gone from yellow foamies to glittering style accessories seen all over this year’s Coachella. We’ve increasingly turned down the volume on the world—and our mental and physical health might depend on it.
With macOS Tahoe, Apple will be adding a bunch of new screen saver options, which you can also set as wallpapers. There are a couple new variants of the previously introduced Tahoe screen saver in beta 5, as well as around a dozen other options introduced in a previous beta that flew under the radar.
Does this serve as evidence that Apple is slowly phasing out its HomeKit brand in favor of Apple Home, or did Apple simply realize that Apple Home was the better wording in these instances? It could be the latter, but it would not be surprising if Apple eventually did retire the HomeKit name in favor of the more generic Apple Home for both its smart home app and framework, especially as the company prepares to launch an all-new home hub.
The simplicity of Stickies is the key to its greatness. The app is less than 2MB in size and has no significant features. It won't sync your notes to your other devices over iCloud, and doesn't even have a Settings option in the menu. If you're looking for more, you're missing the point. But what is here makes it genuinely useful.
The fourth episode, “Orangutans,” puts the viewer face-to-face with young orangutans at a rehab center in Borneo, a giant, rugged island in Southeast Asia.
It will connect to the scale and your weight will be logged inside eufy Life, which then also sends it to the Apple Health database. You don’t have to press any buttons, just have the app open, so it’s pretty painless.
Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it’s a nearly impossible task. If it’s for a big, meaningful event, I get even more anxious. When you find the right place for everyone, though, it’s even more satisfying than a great jigsaw puzzle. Chasing that feeling is what Is This Seat Taken? is all about — and it does so in a low-stakes and relaxing way.
“A more complex model like GPT-5 consumes more power both during training and during inference. It’s also targeted at long thinking … I can safely say that it’s going to consume a lot more power than GPT-4,” said Rakesh Kumar, a professor at the University of Illinois, currently working on the energy consumption of computation and AI models.
There is something magical with apps that do just one or two things well. As opposed to 'super' apps that cram everything plus the kitchen sink into tiny tiny screens.
(I have old eyes. Every screen that is smaller than the monitor on my desk is a tiny tiny screen.)
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Researchers found almost no relationship between the stress levels reported by the smartwatch and the levels that participants said they experienced. However, recorded fatigue levels had a very slight association with the smartwatch data, while sleep had a stronger correlation.
Eiko Fried, an author of the study, said the correlation between the smartwatch and self-reported stress scores was “basically zero”.
This year, Apple’s latest “Here’s to the Dreamers” campaign features creatives in a wide array of fields, including music but also art, app development, and more.
Apple has also published a new iPhone wallpaper to fit the occasion, available now on its website.
Imagine an incredibly embarrassing text popping up on your screen while you're giving an online presentation. Now imagine you never have to worry about this ever happening again. On Air Mode is a free Mac application that does one thing: It sets your Mac to Do Not Disturb mode whenever your microphone is active.
I find it quite practical and nostalgically beautiful to have such a small control bar for certain frequently used apps permanently floating in the foreground without being intrusive.
HomeCare for HomeKit is designed as a complete toolkit for diagnosing and fixing smart home problems. At its core, it scans your entire setup to instantly identify devices that are unresponsive, slow, or running on low battery. Each failing device shows a “Last Time Online” timestamp to help pinpoint when trouble began.
The answer you've been looking for is a third-party Watch Later app like Play. Play isn’t a fully-featured YouTube client (Google made sure to nerf all of those), but that’s actually a good thing. You use the app to find and sort videos you actually want to watch, without getting bothered by the algorithm. No comments, no feed, and yes, there’s an option to disable Shorts as well.
Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month.
This isn’t a question about whether AI will continue shaping how we speak — because it will — but whether we’ll actively choose to preserve space for the verbal quirks and emotional messiness that make communication recognizably, irreplaceably human.
Today, I've a heong peng for breakfast, ramen for lunch, and ayam penyet for dinner.
Yes, this has been a satisfying day.
(Except for the part where I am wrestling with SwiftUI.)
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When it comes to iOS 26, Liquid Glass and legibility have been the subject of much discussion around the iPhone software redesign. On the Mac, however, app icon decisions have stirred up a lot of feelings for macOS Tahoe users. One change in particular arguably makes the Mac harder to use.
The fact this setting exists at all is wild to me, and even more so that the default is for that toggle to be off, suggesting that having the Camera app defy the fundamental logic of the iPhone’s direct manipulation user interface is the preferred path forward.
Exclusive to Apple Arcade, Play-Doh World lets you create digital Play-Doh characters and more.
I use Sequel to manage my watchlist. It’s great for TV shows and movies, but also handles books, audiobooks, and video games. It’s a full-featured media tracker that taps into databases of content so it shows posters, overviews, and descriptions.
DaVinci Resolve 20.1 introduces support for Apple Immersive workflows, marking a major leap into the future of spatial video.
Overall, these apps can be educational and are a useful entry point for raising awareness about the food you're eating. But, it’s hard to be sure how accurate or consistent the information is. Nutrition is rarely black and white, and apps are not a substitute for tailored, professional, individualised information, especially for complex cases. If you focus on cooking with whole foods and fresh produce, you can be confident you are making good choices without the need for apps.
Following today’s reveal of OpenAI’s latest model, Apple tells me that ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence will use GPT-5 with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26.
“That said, when you’re playing yourself, the crazier you get, the better,” says Franco. “I have no ego about any of this. I just want to make myself look like a complete idiot. When I’m working with Seth and Evan, I feel so safe and protected. I feel liberated to take huge swings knowing that they will reel me in if I ever go too far. But more often than not, they just keep pushing me further and further, and that’s when you get some of this really wacky, fun stuff.”
I have two devices that will not be receiving the 2026 OS updates. I am considering not replacing them ever.
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Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.
Japan last week published legal guidance for its recent smartphone competition law, the Mobile Software Competition Act, indicating that restrictions like Apple's WebKit mandate for browsing apps will not be allowed.
“F1” recently crossed $552 million at the global box office, making it the highest-grossing original feature of the year and Apple’s largest film ever. It lapped Pitt’s previous best movie, his 2013 zombie movie “World War Z” which made $540 million at the box office (not adjusted for inflation). Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, “F1” has made $85 million and counting from Imax theaters alone, which is the highest of any film this year and accounted for 23% of its North America opening and 19% of its global launch.
iPhone and iPad users in Singapore will now be able to get an upgraded Apple Maps experience, thanks to the new Detailed City Experience update that was rolled out on Thursday (Aug 7). Singapore is also the first city and country in Asia to receive the update.
The new Apple Maps experience will let you zoom in to check out a highly detailed Singapore map that features custom designed 3D landmarks that will be familiar to locals and really helpful for tourists, such as the Fullerton Hotel, Lau Pa Sat, the Merlion, as well as Apple’s floating Marina Bay Sands store.
Apple Maps has expanded the availability of cycling routes in East Asia by adding support for Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Apple says the rooftop terrace will be receiving some unspecified "improvements," and it will be closed until Monday, September 1 as a result.
The Tea spillage is emblematic of what’s at risk when we attach our real-life identities to our online activities. Yet the tethering of identity to digital access is precisely what is prescribed by a new wave of laws going into effect around the world and in bills under consideration in the U.S. [...] In theory, such laws protect minors, but in practice they affect all users’ experience of the internet. In order to verify who is a child online, after all, sites must also determine who is not.
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The challenge and the scary thing of that is: You don’t want to lose the original DNA of what the show is, and what people like about it. But it’s interesting with this show,, because different people like different things in it. So we just try to stick to what we feel is the core of the show, but allow it to evolve into something that maybe we never even imagined.
The issue? iOS 26 beta 1 through 4 required an additional tap before entering select mode to choose multiple emails to mark as read or archive. It doesn’t sound like a big deal when you put it like that, but the feedback was more about a general trend of burying primary controls behind “…” buttons.
The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile of an old spinning hard drive, has been replaced with something clearly intended to resemble a solid-state drive (the SSD in your Mac actually looks like a handful of chips soldered to a circuit board, but we'll forgive the creative license).
There is also a new low battery notification that shows a red circle animation that resembles a radar pulse.
In the Apple Support app, the Support Assistant early preview can be accessed by tapping on a dedicated "Chat" button that's been added to the navigation bar. Only a select number of iPhone users will see the chat option at this time.
As in previous years, Apple will challenge users in China to complete a 20-minute workout to unlock a custom animated sticker pack to be used in iMessage, FaceTime, and other messaging apps, as well as a special achievement in the Fitness app trophy gallery.
What we see in the data and from the stories parents send us is both simple and poignant: Kids being raised on screens long for real freedom. It’s like they’re homesick for a world they’ve never known.
I finally did it. I have my iPhone Mirroring up on my laptop screen, and I lifted my finger, up in the air, ready to scroll the content on the mirrored iPhone window, with my finger, on my MacBook.
Something is not quite right, my brain was telling me at that moment.
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Yes, Apple has already added windowing and traffic-lights to iPadOS. Should we all expect touch-screen MacBooks, too, will be out soon?
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‘A Mac’? Which Mac? If I don’t recognise this device (whose name you’re not telling me straight away), I can remove it in Settings. Yes, I can do the extra step of going to Settings > Apple ID (or Apple Account) and look through the — long, in my case — list of devices to see if some new device with a name I don’t recognise has perhaps appeared there.
There are, of course, far worse examples of bad or ambiguous UI; what’s annoying for me in this case is that this is yet another interface regression.
If AirPods never seem to fit quite right, you might find the slimmer EarPods slip into your ears more comfortably than the plumper wireless AirPods.
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They don't need charging, they work with just about anything, and they've quietly aged into a little slice of tech nostalgia.
Everybody loves wireless headphones – but perhaps everyone shouldn't. That's what Kamala Harris suggests, and she knows more than most of us: speaking to Stephen Colbert last week, she explained why her preference for wired earbuds over wireless ones wasn't because she's old-fashioned.
"I know I've been teased about this," she said. "But I like these kinds of earpods that have [a cable] because I served on the Senate Intelligence Committee."
While it’s always sad to learn that people are losing their jobs, the story itself shows that the transition from paid audio to video-first podcasts is well underway.
It’s okay to focus on being great at what you do, and as the flipside of that, focus on doing the things you’re great at. If you built a team of audio professionals, don’t think one video hire is your path to pivoting to video. Video existed when podcasts were born. TV didn’t kill radio. Multiple things can exist.
Through some trial and error, as well as more careful reading, I uncovered some useful tidbits that helped me solve the problem, and I think they will be useful if you’re ever faced with an audiobook you want to load.
Castro, the inbox and queue-based podcast app for iPhone, has just launched its first ever iPad app.
The death of a housefly is usually an unceremonious event. Within minutes of the insect’s appearance in our periphery, a tide of annoyance rises, and with the quick thwap of a swatter or rolled-up magazine, the bug is gone. Time Flies, a perception-warping bug puzzler, reimagines this inevitably short lifespan as an absurd tragedy – by providing the soon-to-perish pest with a bucket list.
While this log data can't be exploited remotely, the concern was that if the logs were shared or posted anywhere to help diagnose an issue or bug, it would also expose the sensitive TOTP secret to a third party.
Spotify today said that it is raising prices for Premium subscriptions in multiple countries across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
I think it's important to stay mindful of where the language is pushing you, and consciously decide whether to follow or resist.
A Virginia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to award Apple federal trademarks covering its augmented reality software-development tools "Reality Composer" and "Reality Converter."
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said on Friday that the two phrases were distinctive enough to merit trademark protection, reversing a USPTO decision that the phrases could not be trademarked.
This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work. The UK has managed to create a law so poorly designed that it simultaneously violates privacy, restricts freedom, harms small businesses, and completely fails at its stated goal of protecting children.
Speaking of pivoting to video podcasts… Here I am, using my audio podcast player to sideload videos from a certain video website so that I can just listen.
I am so glad that Castro has found a good home with its new (actually, not so new already) owner and developer.
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When the digital assistant starts reading the alert, you can decline the narration by moving your head sideways. And if you want to hear the contents, you just nod your head up and down, like an obedient child ready to lap up all the instructions the world has to offer.
Except, these gestures look terrible. Irrespective of whether you are sitting alone, in which case, you risk being seen and made fun of by total strangers. And if there’s a person sitting in front of (or people around) you, things can quickly go haywire.
What Apple is less clear about is what will happen to your existing data. The official documentation implies, but doesn't specifically say, that your files will be kept in a read-only state, with no backups completing until you delete files or increase your storage plan. The iCloud terms and conditions state that if you've not backed up a device for 180 days, Apple “reserves the right” to delete any existing backups (including photos and videos)—so it may delete your files, and it may not.
I, too, feel uneasy to nod or shake my head when a notification announcement comes in while I am wearing my AirPods. I can't find any settings to turn this off, and have Siri read my messages however long they are.
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But the final piece of evidence to prove my hypothesis came at Apple's 2025 WWDC, when the brand announced the newest feature coming to iPads called "Windows." The feature allows users to resize the app windows within the screen to view multiple applications at once. While this feature is new to iPads, it's been a standard feature of laptops for most of their existence.
Over the years, Apple has introduced multiple features that help preserve your privacy and curb abusive tracking and data mining from your activity. Here are three settings every privacy-conscious user should have enabled on their iPhone.
One of my favorite features of Merlin Bird ID is that you can use it to keep track of your bird sightings and, like an IRL Pokemon GO, "collect 'em all."
Established in 2013, Apple Cinemas maintained a limited presence in the Northeastern U.S. until last month, when it opened a theater in San Francisco. The complaint alleges that Apple Cinemas is pursuing a nationwide expansion across the U.S., including in areas near Apple's headquarters and retail stores, leading Apple to take action.
Now that iPads are 'basically laptops', I hope Apple still have a vision on how to evolve iPads, and a different vision on how to evolve Macintosh computers.
If the only difference is simply because Apple refuses to make a Mac with touchscreen, and refuses to allow 'sideloading' on iPads, then there are really no visions.
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, holding a rare all-hands meeting following earnings results, rallied employees around the company’s artificial intelligence prospects and an “amazing” pipeline of products.
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“We’ve rarely been first,” the executive told staffers. “There was a PC before the Mac; there was a smartphone before the iPhone; there were many tablets before the iPad; there was an MP3 player before iPod.”
But Apple invented the “modern” versions of those product categories, he said. “This is how I feel about AI.”
Apple uses two different forms of encryption for your iCloud data – a strong form for particularly sensitive data like the Health and Journal apps, but a weaker one for a lot of other data you still wouldn’t want falling into the wrong hands.
Fortunately the company gives you the option of switching to strong encryption for all your iCloud data, and while there are a few steps involved, it’s a worthwhile security and privacy safeguard.
Over the past few years, I’ve used sensors for everything from knowing when to drip faucets in freezing weather to adjusting the sprinkler schedule with the Eve Aqua on hot days. The Eve Weather has been part of my setup for a while now, and with its 2024 Matter upgrade from last summer, it’s now even more useful across more platforms.
The generally accepted rules for music radio’s payment of international music rights are that if your radio station a) is not marketed in a country other than yours, and b) you don’t earn revenue from that country, then you aren’t liable for additional music rights in that country. On the South Coast of England, you can often get radio stations from France - but because they’re not marketed to UK listeners, nor earning money from them, they have no music fees to pay for the UK.
Since 2020, Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has investigated Apple and Google’s dominance in the mobile market. This week, the watchdog published a series of new guidelines that the two companies must comply with, chief among them allowing third-party app stores.
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Much like many recent regulatory guidelines across the world, Apple and Google will have to allow third-party app stores, and third-party payment systems within apps available either in their own app stores, or in third-party app stores.
I just did the math. The automation in Shortcuts is great, but I have to swipe to remove the Shortcuts notification on my lock screen every time the automation has run. Which means I have to do about the same work with or without the automation.
I deleted the automations.
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Apple reported $94.04 billion in revenue for its fiscal third quarter ended on June 28, up nearly 10% from a year earlier and beating analyst expectations of $89.54 billion, according to LSEG data. Its earnings per share of $1.57 topped expectations for $1.43 per share.
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Sales of iPhones, the best-selling product for the company based in Cupertino, California, were up 13.5% to $44.58 billion, beating analyst expectations of $40.22 billion.
One of the advantages of Apple having a range of different products is that there are so many opportunities to convert people to other parts of the ecosystem. If we assume that for most people the iPhone is the entry point, then selling them AirPods is a logical next step, followed perhaps by an Apple Watch. But when it comes time to buy a new computer, or give a tablet a spin, why wouldn’t the Mac or iPad be at the top of the list? And of course, services revenue is a part of the story too.
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Apple doesn’t have a lot of one-time customers, is what I’m saying. And that’s why the boring quarters are soon going to be in the triple digits of billions.
Cook says Apple has already spent around $800 million during the June quarter, which is less than the $900 million that the company predicted in May. “The bulk of the tariffs that we paid were the IEEPA [International Emergency Economic Powers Act] tariffs that hit early in the year, related to China,” Cook said.
It took Apple nine years to sell the billionth iPhone, a milestone the company reached in 2016. This implies that Apple sold 2 billion between 2016 and now — also a nine-year period — marking the product’s growing popularity.
On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died.
5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era.
Privacy-focused productivity tool company Proton released a new authenticator app today, allowing users to log in to services using dynamically generated two-factor codes.
RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries. In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
On Wednesday, the company known as the Iconfactory admitted it was at a crossroads and was putting up several of its apps for sale due to a lack of resources. While the announcement positioned the matter as a situation where the Iconfactory’s app catalog had simply grown to include too many apps to keep up with and not enough time to do so, the reality is that the business today has no choice but to focus on the apps that offer a better return on investment.
I don't think Apple Intelligence helped the company sell significantly more devices… nor do I think the delay of many Apple Intelligence features caused any notable decrease in revenues.
In other words: meh.
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