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WWDC25: Image Playground gets a boost with ChatGPT integration

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-22 22:15:06

Apple just announced a notable update to Image Playground, its AI-powered image generation tool introduced last year as part of the Apple Intelligence rollout. Now, ChatGPT will appear as a filter option. Here’s what that means. Since its phased rollout last year, Image Playground has offered users an easy way to create illustrations in styles like “Sketch,” “3D cartoon,” and “Animation”. However, users have complained that the app has often felt somewhat limited, both in the kinds of images it

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iOS 26 beta reveals there’s another Apple app that will work via satellite

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-22 22:23:04

Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite service has been slowly expanding from a major emergency role – essentially letting you call in an air ambulance when injured in a remote location – to a broader way of remaining in touch when outside mobile data coverage. A new satellite-based service spotted in the iOS 26 developer beta will be useful in both extreme situations and more everyday scenarios in areas with poor mobile coverage … Namely, access to weather reports, as spotted by Macworld. Apple

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Apple explains Siri delays, teases more new features are coming

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-23 01:48:43

During its WWDC keynote, Apple addressed one big elephant in the room: Siri’s delayed features that were announced last year but never shipped. And now in a new interview, Siri’s recently-appointed boss Craig Federighi has explained more of the reasoning behind the delay, and teased even more new features are coming. Craig Federighi promises Apple will ship every Siri feature previously announced ‘and more’ Craig Federighi is Apple’s software chief, and as such tends to get a lot of PR time du

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Snapchat announces that new lightweight AR Spectacles will be launching next year

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-23 02:22:08

At Augmented World Expo 2025, Snapchat announced a next-generation version of Snap Spectacles. These new spectacles should have a more lightweight and immersive design, and will be launching to the public next year. I had the opportunity to go hands on with the fifth generation Snap Spectacles towards the end of last year, and they were quite impressive. That generation of Spectacles was only available for developers, and weren’t planned to launch to the public. They were also fair bit bulky, b

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Apple TV 4K gets the screen saver feature I’ve always wanted in tvOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-23 03:22:44

Yesterday Apple announced a ton of upgrades coming to its various software platforms. While tvOS 26 may not pack as many changes as iOS 26 or iPadOS 26, it does include a new screen saver feature that I’ve always wanted on the Apple TV 4K. tvOS 26 lets you enable or disable individual aerial screen savers If you own an Apple TV 4K, you know that screen savers are one of the device’s best features. That may sound silly, but for a product that mainly exists to stream video content, it’s the nic

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Download the new iPadOS 26 light and dark wallpapers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-23 04:13:50

If you’ve already refreshed your setup with the official iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 wallpapers, here’s your chance to complete the set. You can now download the brand-new iPadOS 26 light and dark wallpapers. If you’ve seen the iOS 26 wallpapers, there is not much of a surprise here. The iPadOS 26 design is essentially an expanded, more spaced-out reinterpretation of the iOS 26 wallpaper, featuring the same translucent arcs and layered glass gradients as its iPhone counterpart. Be sure to click

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Threads is getting native DMs as Meta reverses course

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-23 04:40:10

It took long enough, but Meta has finally admitted what Threads users have been saying from day one: the platform needs its own direct messaging system. Not something tied to Instagram, not a redirect, just DMs, right where the conversations are happening. And now, that’s exactly what they’re finally getting. Starting this week (via The Verge), Threads is testing a native DM inbox in three countries: Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina. The rollout is limited for now, but according to Mark Zuck

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Beyond ChatGPT: Xcode 26 will support multiple AI models, like Claude

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-23 07:17:12

Last Monday, towards the end of the WWDC25 keynote, Craig Federighi said that Apple had “expanded” its vision for Swift Assist, and it would now allow developers to bring their Large Language Model of choice directly to Xcode. Now, we know more about how this is going to work. What is Swift Assist? This was a feature that Apple announced during last year’s WWDC, but hadn’t released until now, on Xcode 26 beta. Initially, as explained by Apple, it was going to serve as: “a companion for all o

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Apple releases special haptic trailer for F1 movie, feel the engine roar with your iPhone vibrations

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-23 17:44:51

Apple is continuing its marketing onslaught for the F1 movie, which arrives in US cinemas on June 27. Apple has released a new trailer in the TV app for the film, but this one has a twist. Apple calls it a “haptic trailer”. What they means is as you watch, your phone vibrates in sync with the video. For F1, that means you can feel the roar of the car’s engine in your hands as Brad Pitt races it around the track. Here’s how it works … To try out the haptic trailer, you need an iPhone running iO

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With iPadOS 26, Apple has finally turned the iPad into a computer

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-23 21:50:50

With the announcement of iPadOS 26, Apple has finally done something it had seemed to be resisting for well over a decade: turning the iPad into a computer. Apple has long sent mixed messages about the device, sometimes arguing that it is a computer, and other times arguing that iPads and Macs are two very different devices with two very different roles … The iPad was not a computer On the one hand, as far back as 2017 Apple ran the What’s a computer? ad campaign, essentially arguing that the

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iOS 26 release date: Here’s when the new iPhone update will launch

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-23 22:54:03

Apple has unveiled iOS 26 with its Liquid Glass redesign and tons of new iPhone features. Developers can try out iOS 26 now, but its release date for the public is still a ways off—here’s when to expect its launch. iOS 26 will launch this fall, likely in mid-September So far, Apple has only confirmed that iOS 26 will arrive for all users this fall. But looking at the history of software releases, we can get much more precise with our expectations. Here are release dates for the last three ma

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Meta wants to give evidence for Apple in UK privacy battle

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-23 22:55:42

I bet nobody had ‘Meta arguing for privacy on Apple’s behalf’ on their tech bingo cards, but that’s exactly what the social networking company is hoping to do. Meta has asked the court’s permission to give evidence in support of Apple’s privacy battle with the British government over a feature intended to apply end-to-end encryption to almost all iCloud data … Apple’s privacy battle with the British government At present, some of your iCloud data is fully protected by end-to-end encryption (E

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Dia, The Browser Company’s AI-first browser, launches Mac beta

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-23 23:58:47

After discontinuing Arc, The Browser Company is back with a new take on its vision for the future of web browsing in the AI era. Dia, its new browser, is now available in beta for existing Arc users on macOS. And while it shares a few design cues from its predecessor, Dia is a very different product with a very different goal. Here’s how to test it out. When it first came out, Arc made a deservedly big fuss with its complete reimagining of browser UX. Then it proved too cumbersome and commercia

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Vision Pro’s first third-party Apple Immersive Video brings MotoGP racing via Blackmagic

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-24 01:00:00

Apple Vision Pro owners will soon get to experience the exhilarating world of motorcycle racing. CANAL+ announced an upcoming Apple Immersive Video film that will bring viewers directly into the world of MotoGP racing. The project marks the first third-party studio production in Apple’s Immersive Video format, filmed entirely with Blackmagic’s URSA Cine Immersive camera system designed specifically for Vision Pro content. Expanding Vision Pro’s immersive content library Set to debut in Septemb

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These iOS 26 features will only be available on newer iPhones

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-24 04:08:30

iOS 26 brings a lot of changes to the iPhone. While the biggest highlight—the Liquid Glass redesign—is available on all iPhones that can run iOS 26, there are several features in the new update that require newer iPhone models and Apple Intelligence. Here are the features and their device requirements. Visual intelligence with screenshots Requires: iPhone 15 Pro or newer Last year, visual intelligence debuted as a special camera feature for the iPhone 16 line. Now, the AI feature has expanded

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iOS 26 gives Wallet’s most neglected feature the fix it always needed

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-24 05:41:26

This is shaping up to be a big year for the Wallet app, with upgrades coming to car keys, boarding passes, and passports. But that’s not all: Apple Wallet’s most neglected feature, order tracking, is also getting the fix it’s always needed in iOS 26. Wallet’s order tracking gets AI upgrade in iOS 26 I suspect the Wallet app may elicit complicated feelings from the team responsible for its development inside Apple. Why? Because many new Wallet features have depended heavily on getting outside

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Apple just gave developers access to its new local AI models, here’s how they perform

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-24 06:25:35

One of the very first announcements on this year’s WWDC was that for the first time, third‑party developers will get to tap directly into Apple’s on‑device AI with the new Foundation Models framework. But how do these models actually compare against what’s already out there? With the new Foundation Models framework, third-party developers can now build on the same on-device AI stack used by Apple’s native apps. In other words, this means that developers will now be able to integrate AI feature

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Splatoon spinoff game will launch exclusively on Switch 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 00:15:41

Nintendo just dropped a trailer for a Splatoon spinoff game. Titled Splatoon Raiders, the third-person paint slinging shooter spinoff will be released exclusively on the Switch 2. This marks the first spinoff in the franchise and will take players to a new location called the Spirhalite Islands. While details are sparse at this early stage, the trailer mentions players will take on the role of “a mechanic” alongside Deep Cut, a fictional band in the Splatoon universe. There's no mention of mult

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The best Father's Day gifts and gadgets for every dad in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 01:00:37

Look, if your dad is anything like me, then they’re probably not a massive gamer, or might just play the odd title. I’m told that there’s a whole genre of Dad Games out there that apparently appeal to the fathers in our lives, which are all about following some sort of process. It’s likely then that they won’t have paid much attention to The Legend of Zelda series, which feels as un-Dad a game as you could imagine. Which is why I’m here to say that, until the start of this year, I felt the same,

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Snap says new 'lightweight' AR glasses will come in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 02:10:20

Snap's next generation of standalone augmented reality glasses will arrive next year and will be smaller, lighter and more powerful than the developer-focused device the Snapchat maker introduced last year. CEO Evan Spiegel announced the upcoming glasses, which will be called "Specs," during a keynote at Augmented World Expo (AWE). "Specs are coming next year, in a much smaller form factor, at a fraction of the weight, with a ton more capability," Spiegel said. He said the glasses will be "read

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Razer launches its first barebones mechanical keyboard

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 05:50:43

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . On Tuesday, Razer launched its first keyboard for the DIY set. As its name implies, the BlackWidow V4 75% Barebones is the popular mechanical keyboard, only without keys and keycaps. It could be a solid option if you like Razer's design and Chroma RGB but want to bring your own keys.

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The best multi-device wireless charging pads for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 18:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . There’s a good chance you own a couple of gadgets that support wireless charging now, be it your iPhone or Android phone, wireless earbuds or smartwatch. Multi-device wireless chargers can help power them all up in one place, without the need for a bunch of cords messing up your space.

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How to fix the Switch 2 battery indicator

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:48:10

Your console’s battery life might not be as bad as it appears. The Nintendo Switch 2 has been in the wild for nearly a week and is selling like hotcakes , but some users have been complaining about an issue with their console’s battery indicator. A number of Switch 2 consoles appear to be displaying less remaining battery life than is accurate. Battery life definitely is a mark against the Switch 2, with Engadget’s Sam Rutherford noting in his review that the console’s longevity is on the lowe

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There's a Steven Universe sequel series in the works at Prime Video

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 01:42:11

It's been five years since the Steven Universe saga ended, via a final season and movie that took the story into the future. Now, it's coming back, according to a report by Deadline . Prime Video is working on a sequel series, with franchise creator Rebecca Sugar in tow as an executive producer (and hopefully as a songwriter.) This doesn't look to be a straight sequel series, in that the focus is shifting away from Steven, the Crystal Gems and Beach City. Instead, the tentatively-titled Steven

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The Browser Company’s new AI browser rolls out to private beta testers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 02:03:12

The Browser Company’s new AI-powered browser is now available in an invite-only beta. Called Dia, the browser was first announced towards the end of 2024, and is built around the deep integration of what its maker calls "the most personal AI on the market". Dia allows you to "chat with your tabs" and will adapt and learn the more you use it. You can open an AI chat on any webpage without having to leave the tab, where the built-in bot can search the web, compare websites, answer questions about

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Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editors skewer the idea

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 05:00:29

Wikipedia is backing off AI article summaries… for now. Earlier this month, the platform trialed the feature in its mobile app. To say they weren't well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) paused the test a day later. The AI summaries appeared at the top of articles for 10 percent of mobile users. Readers had to opt in to see them. The AI-generated summaries only appeared "on a set of articles" for the two-week trial period. Editor comments in the WMF

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There's more to Mouse: PI for Hire than cartoon violence

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 05:30:44

Mouse: PI for Hire is a lot deeper than I initially assumed. When the game first caught buzz in May 2023 with an early teaser populated by placeholder assets, I didn’t understand the hype. The art style was definitely cool — Mouse is a black-and-white first-person shooter inspired by 1930s rubber hose cartoons, featuring bipedal rodents dressed like mobsters — but without any information about the gameplay loop, mechanics or narrative direction, I remained unmoved. After seeing Mouse in action

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SAG-AFTRA has suspended its gaming industry strike over AI protections

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 05:42:40

SAG-AFTRA has suspended its strike against ten game studios. The organization's national board will meet tomorrow to consider a tentative agreement with the developers; more details of the arrangement will be disclosed if and when the board agrees to the terms. Variety obtained a statement from a spokesperson for the gaming companies that offered some hints about the contents of the potential deal: "This agreement builds on three decades of successful partnership between the interactive enterta

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Google will reduce battery life for some Pixel 6a phones to prevent overheating

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 07:53:55

Google's Pixel 6a has been a winner in many respects, but a new issue with the smartphone's battery may pose a safety concern. After Android Authority reported on a pair of instances where a Pixel 6a battery overheated to the point where the device caught fire, the publication spotted some details in the latest Android 16 beta indicating that as a precaution, the Pixel 6a battery capacity and charging speed will be reduced. In addition, Android Authority received this statement from Google: A s

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ConnectWise rotating code signing certificates over security concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-23 06:17:53

ConnectWise is warning customers that it is rotating the digital code signing certificates used to sign ScreenConnect, ConnectWise Automate, and ConnectWise RMM executables over security concerns. Digital certificates are used to sign executables so those downloading the files know they come from a trusted source. This ensures that code has not been tampered with before it reaches the end user. According to ConnectWise, the decision was taken after a third-party security researcher raised conc

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Latest Tech News

WWDC25: Image Playground gets a boost with ChatGPT integration

iOS 26 beta reveals there’s another Apple app that will work via satellite

Apple explains Siri delays, teases more new features are coming

Snapchat announces that new lightweight AR Spectacles will be launching next year

Apple TV 4K gets the screen saver feature I’ve always wanted in tvOS 26

Download the new iPadOS 26 light and dark wallpapers

Threads is getting native DMs as Meta reverses course

Beyond ChatGPT: Xcode 26 will support multiple AI models, like Claude

Apple releases special haptic trailer for F1 movie, feel the engine roar with your iPhone vibrations

With iPadOS 26, Apple has finally turned the iPad into a computer

iOS 26 release date: Here’s when the new iPhone update will launch

Meta wants to give evidence for Apple in UK privacy battle

Dia, The Browser Company’s AI-first browser, launches Mac beta

Vision Pro’s first third-party Apple Immersive Video brings MotoGP racing via Blackmagic

These iOS 26 features will only be available on newer iPhones

iOS 26 gives Wallet’s most neglected feature the fix it always needed

Apple just gave developers access to its new local AI models, here’s how they perform

Splatoon spinoff game will launch exclusively on Switch 2

The best Father's Day gifts and gadgets for every dad in 2025

Snap says new 'lightweight' AR glasses will come in 2026

Razer launches its first barebones mechanical keyboard

The best multi-device wireless charging pads for 2025

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There's a Steven Universe sequel series in the works at Prime Video

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There's more to Mouse: PI for Hire than cartoon violence

SAG-AFTRA has suspended its gaming industry strike over AI protections

Google will reduce battery life for some Pixel 6a phones to prevent overheating

ConnectWise rotating code signing certificates over security concerns

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