You know it’s a day that ends in y because there is a new Grok controversy. Except this time, it touches on the App Store’s rules for sexual content, which is something that Apple has shown time and time again that it doesn’t mess around with.
more…A new report out today from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) shows that while remain the most popular wireless earbuds among iPhone users, Apple might be feeling the pressure of slowing growth.
more…Apple’s iPhone 17 line will be here soon, and today a rumor indicates the 17 Pro and Pro Max could get an exclusive anti-reflective display feature. Here are the details.
more…This fall will be all about the iPhone 17 lineup, but rumors for next year’s iPhone Fold are already ramping up. A pair of new rumors indicate Apple’s foldable iPhone could have a more affordable price than expected, and be thinner—when unfolded—than Apple’s current thinnest product.
more…Following its June debut for Team, Enterprise, and Edu users, OpenAI is now rolling out Record Mode to ChatGPT Plus subscribers on its macOS app. Here’s how it works and how to use it.
more…Liquid Glass is the theme of Apple’s big cross-platform redesign this year. The new design is coming to Apple’s TV app too in iOS 26 and tvOS 26, joined by some other UI updates. Here’s what’s new.
more…This fall Apple will launch four new iPhones, including the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. Based on rumors around what’s new this year, here are three reasons you might want to upgrade to an iPhone 17 Pro—even if you already own an iPhone 16 Pro.
more…Yesterday, Apple broke its own record and received 81 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations across multiple categories. Below is a full title-by-title breakdown, listing every nominated Apple TV+ series and film, along with every category they’re up for.
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Following the announcement at I/O 2025 in May, Google is rolling out Deep Search to AI Mode, as well as letting subscribers access 2.5 Pro. Free users will get access to AI calling in Google Search.
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While much of the Prime Day deals have come and gone on Apple’s latest, this morning Amazon decided to bring the AirPods 4 deals back. Both models are now within $1 of the Prime Day all-time lows to give folks another shot at some of the best prices they have ever been offered for. We are also tracking even lower prices on select 15-inch M4 MacBook Air models at up to $185 off as well Apple Pencil Pro from $83 and deep 45% price drops on Burton Goods leather Apple Watch bands. All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
more…iOS 26 is a huge update for CarPlay users, with more new features than we’ve seen in years. One addition that’s especially noteworthy is the introduction of widgets to CarPlay for the first time.
more…Emmy nominations arrived yesterday, and Apple TV+ had it biggest year ever. Leading the pack was Severance, which scored the most nominations of any show, from any streamer. On the heels of the announcement, Apple TV+ programming head Matt Cherniss gave an update to Variety on the progress of Severance season 3’s development.
more…We’ve seen a series of leaks claiming to reveal the iPhone 17 colors, and a new report corroborates these, citing an “internal report.”
The report lists six colors for the base model iPhone 17, four for the all-new iPhone 17 Air, and five for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max …
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The nine-year saga between Apple, the Irish government, and the EU ended last year when the final appeal ordered the iPhone maker to pay €13B ($15B) in back tax to the Irish government.
That money sat in an escrow account for many years, increasing in value to €14.25B ($16.5B), but has now been paid …
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Like many people these days, I work from home and use a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an external display. I have been a long-time user of the which lets me connect my display and various peripherals to the hub’s I/O ports, with only a single cable plugged in to the laptop.
This dock has simply sat atop the desk, until recently. I came across a further improvement to my setup which helps declutter even more. Quite simply, I discovered this cable management tray that lets the dock sit on a shelf just underneath the desk, so all the mess is out of sight …
more…There’s been speculation that a legal ruling could see Apple banned from selling iPhones made with Chinese displays within the US, but Apple has now confirmed that this is not the case.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld a complaint by Samsung that China’s BOE had stolen trade secrets relating to OLED screens, and banned the import of products containing these …
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Apple’s MLX machine learning framework, originally designed for Apple Silicon, is getting a CUDA backend, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why.
more…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. Here’s what that means, and how they did it.
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