Month: June 2025

Apple Health is a wide-ranging service on your iPhone and iPad for storing and analyzing your health and fitness data. Here’s how to use the app for a better, healthier life.Apple Health holds your vitals and fitness data on your iPhoneThe iPhone and other smartphones are at the heart of many people’s lives. It makes…

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As Jony Ive’s AI startup is bought by OpenAI, he and investor Laurene Powell Jobs talk about collaboration, and how technology has damaged society as well as benefited it.Jony Ive (center) and Laurene Powell Jobs (right) in 2022 — image credit: RecodeJony Ive and Sam Altman’s startup “io” was bought in May 2025 by Altman’s…

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Apple last week announced that iPads have joined the Self Service Repair program, enabling owners and independent repair shops alike to get access to manuals, tools, and parts. The company said it was excited to expand the program to iPads, but a closer look at the details reveals both good news and bad … more……

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Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs – founder and president of the Emerson Collective, and Steve’s widow – have acknowledged that the iPhone played a role in the “dark” side of technology. Ive has also said that his mysterious hardware AI device would not be happening without the support and investment of Powell Jobs ……

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Apple has appealed parts of the Digital Markets Act law citing user privacy concerns. Specifically, Apple is contesting the interoperability requirements that say data like notification content and WiFi networks should be made available to third-parties. Apple says the DMA as written allows others to “access personal information that even Apple doesn’t see”. This is…

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Europe welcomed the iPhone 16e into its top 10 sellers in March, but Apple’s midtier offering appears to still not be cheap enough for the local market.iPhone 16e debuts in Europe’s top 10Apple’s new iPhone 16e secured a spot in Europe’s top 10 smartphone rankings during its first full month on the market. But the…

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The leisurely pace of Apple’s AI efforts has come under increasing fire, with the company accused of being behind the curve. But a new study on the dangers of AI chatbots suggests that other companies are not being cautious enough. OpenAI had to recall a recent ChatGPT update, after it tried too hard to agree…

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Jeff and Fernando talk about Apple’s impressive history with accessibility, including our favorite accessibility tips and tricks, and upcoming accessibility features in iOS 26! Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden Password Manager, featuring an Apple Watch authenticator integration, secure autofill on Safari and iOS apps, and enterprise-grade security tools that help you manage credentials with…

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More details have emerged regarding Apple’s plans to dramatically improve Siri by leveraging large language models (LLMs) that will make it more conversational and capable of nuanced reasoning. Meanwhile, Apple’s work on a ChatGPT competitor model is also moving forward. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is internally testing a broad range of models…

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As expected, Apple has formally filed an appeal against the European Union’s ruling on interoperability, saying that it constitutes a massive privacy risk.An EU flag with the App Store logoIn December 2024, Apple made public its objections to the EU’s interoperability plans in a white paper, centering on what it described as the Digital Markets…

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In a tradition of California place names going back to OS X Mavericks in 2013, Apple names macOS 26 after the famous Lake Tahoe. (via Cult of Mac – A 24/7 website publishing the latest Apple news, rumors, reviews, how-tos and deals.) Go to Source Author: David Snow

The Apple TV is much more private than competing streaming hardware, offering users a rare refuge from the pervasive tracking that defines most smart TV experiences, according to a comprehensive analysis by ArsTechnica. The main difference is said to be Apple’s approach to automatic content recognition (ACR), the invasive tracking technology that monitors viewing habits…

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Meta employees are going “full steam ahead” with a dedicated Instagram app for iPad, with internally testing already underway. (via Cult of Mac – A 24/7 website publishing the latest Apple news, rumors, reviews, how-tos and deals.) Go to Source Author: Rajesh Pandey

While AI can help us do stuff, AI agents are tools that actually do stuff for us. A new open-source project shows how an ChatGPT-powered agent could complete tasks for us using our iPhones. more… Go to Source Author: Zac Hall

A few days ago and fifteen years too late, Meta released an official iPad app for WhatsApp. And while many celebrated the end of one of the most inexplicable software holdouts in App Store history, others asked the most obvious follow-up question: “Thanks! Can we have Instagram next?” Yes, as it turns out. more… Go…

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