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June’s Pixel Drop gives Gboard the power to create stickers without Pixel Studio

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 17:00:12

TL;DR Pixel users will now be able to generate custom stickers right in Gboard. Stickers are created by typing a prompt and selecting an emotion. The custom sticker function is available for Pixel 9 and newer devices. Back in May, we found code in the Gboard beta that suggested Google could add the ability to generate stickers without having to open Pixel Studio. At the time, it seemed like the feature may have been in the early stages of development due to its lack of UI elements. But it app

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This new kids plan runs on T-Mobile’s network and is just $5 a month

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 17:29:57

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Helium has launched a new $5 a month Sprout plan for kids, offering 3GB of data with unlimited talk and text and enhanced privacy. Unlike the free Helium plan, Sprout does not require sharing location or private data and comes with flexible parental controls. The plan is ideal for parents wanting an affordable way to test if their child is ready for their first phone. Earlier this year, Helium unveiled a new free plan that gives users 3GB of data on

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Android 16 wants to make your next phone trade-in process a lot faster

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 18:54:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 introduces a new “Trade-in Mode” to make trading in your old phone a faster process. This feature allows technicians to quickly access device details and run diagnostics by bypassing the usual setup wizard. Activating Trade-in Mode ensures security by forcing a factory reset on the next reboot, preventing misuse. The Android 16 update is rolling out to Pixel devices today. While Google’s official changelog is brief, the release is packed with n

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Google experiments with ditching the Favorites tab in the Phone app for a simpler layout

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 17:16:53

TL;DR Google is testing the removal of the Favorites tab in the Phone app. Favorite contacts appear as a horizontal row at the top of the Recents tab in the new layout. The frequent contacts section no longer has a place in this redesign. Google is testing a significant change to its dialer app, and it could mark the end of a familiar tab. On at least some Pixel 8 Pro devices running version 178.0.765584175-publicbeta of the Google Phone app, the standalone Favorites tab has been removed. Ins

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Circle to Search is making it easier to get to your song search history (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 18:48:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Google app beta adds a shortcut to song search history for Circle to Search. There’s also a new translate button that appears after something is circled. Circle to Search is a useful tool that can be used for a variety of purposes, from helping you find the name of a song to translating foreign languages. Since its debut, Google has been continually improving the feature by adding new abilities. In our latest APK teardown, we found that more

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Apple unveils iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign, CarPlay updates, Games app, much more

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-16 16:11:34

Apple has officially announced iOS 26, the successor to iOS 18. The renamed software update starts with a new design. iOS 26 follows iOS 18 as Apple shifts its version naming scheme to reflect the year ahead. This puts iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS on version 26. The most obvious update is a change to the design. During the keynote, Apple called back to iOS 7 in 2013 when it last released a major redesign to the iPhone software. iOS 26 replaces the look with what Apple calls

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Apple announces macOS Tahoe 26 with redesigned UI, updated Spotlight, Phone app, more

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-16 16:13:28

Apple today announced macOS Tahoe 26, featuring a redesigned UI, as well as a bevy of new features like an overhauled Spotlight search, new Phone app and Live Activities, and updates to Apple Intelligence. The new visual design features Liquid Glass UI elements, updated app icons in the Dock, redesigned Control Center and more. New features in macOS 26 include the addition of the Phone app, available on the Mac for the first time. This mens users can seamlessly access recent calls, contacts an

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iPadOS 26 announced with new design, windowing system, Files upgrades, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-16 16:16:52

Apple has officially unveiled iPadOS 26, the next major software update coming to the iPad. Here’s everything new that iPadOS 26 will bring. New features coming in iPadOS 26 Today at WWDC, Apple announced iPadOS 26 as the next big software update for iPad. Here’s what’s new in iPadOS 26: New windowing system : Powerful new features help users “work with, control, organize, and switch between app windows — all while maintaining the immediacy and simplicity that iPad users expect. The new wind

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watchOS 26 coming to Apple Watch with AI-powered Workout Buddy, new design, more

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-16 16:18:25

Apple has officially announced watchOS 26, the successor to watchOS 11. The new name aligns with iOS 26 (and using the upcoming year to reference each software version). The flagship new software feature for Apple Watch in watchOS 26 is called Workout Buddy, an Apple Intelligence-powered fitness feature. Here’s the official press release for watchOS 26. watchOS 26 delivers more personalized ways to stay active, healthy, and connected PRESS RELEASE June 9, 2025 A new software design makes usi

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visionOS 26 announced with spatial widgets, all-new Personas, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-16 16:20:51

visionOS 26 is official. Today during WWDC, Apple announced the next major software update for Vision Pro. Here’s a roundup of new features coming to Vision Pro in visionOS 26. New features visionOS 26 brings to Apple Vision Pro Over the past year since visionOS 2 was announced, Apple Vision Pro users have received several major software updates—gaining powerful Mac Virtual Display upgrades and the first Apple Intelligence support. visionOS 26 is Apple’s next big push to grow spatial computin

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Apple unveils new Apple Games app

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-16 16:38:57

Apple today announced a new Apple Games app, a new destination for all the games on your iPhone and iPad. Games incorporates games from the App Store, a dedicated section for Apple Arcade, and Game Center social features like leaderboards and challenges. The Games app mostly seems like a way to make the most popular genre of the App Store, that is mobile games, available in a more dedicated, curated, experience. Apple hopes it will improve discovery and help people discover new titles. It al

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tvOS 26 is coming this fall with a new visual design

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-16 16:50:15

Apple today announced a new version of the software that powers Apple TV, tvOS 26. The headline feature of the new update is an updated visual design. Apple calls this new design “Liquid Glass”. In terms of new features, tvOS 26 includes updates to Apple Music Sing and enhancements to profile switching. The new OS design uses real-time rendering to refract surrounding colours into other UI elements. Apple says the design aims to keeps the content central, so you can enjoy your TV shows and mov

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Four new iPad apps are coming in iPadOS 26 later this year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-16 17:35:33

Today at WWDC, Apple announced a major new iPadOS 26 software update. Among the many new features, the iPad is getting four new apps in iPadOS 26. Here’s what’s coming. iPadOS 26 gets new system apps alongside OS redesign Apple has announced that iPadOS 26 will bring four new apps to iPad users. Journal Games Preview Phone Preview is an important addition that plays a key role in iPad’ overall Files app upgrades and improvements. Games offers a new one-stop hub for all things gaming on i

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iOS 26 might finally keep your iPhone from getting spam calls and texts

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-16 17:57:28

iOS 26 is the next major iPhone software update, and alongside its Liquid Glass redesign and various feature upgrades, there are also new tools coming to finally stop spam calls and texts. Apple has announced brand new features in iOS 26 built for a very important purpose. That purpose? To put an end to the spam calls and texts that so many of us get every day. Here are some of the new features coming to iOS 26’s Phone and Messages apps, per Apple’s website: Manage unwanted calls Call Scree

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iOS 26 brings Liquid Glass to the lock screen, with spatial wallpapers, live Now Playing, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-16 19:27:29

Apple has redesigned the iOS 26 Lock Screen to take full advantage of Liquid Glass, its new unifying UI vision that encompasses all its operating systems. With dynamic fonts, 3D effects, and an animated Now Playing interface, Apple really knocked this one out of the park. Here’s what’s new. Dynamic clock Let’s start with the most immediate change: the Lock Screen clock. Apple has replaced the old static layout with one that feels more alive. The numerals now subtly morph in weight, width, and

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iOS 26 adds light mode icon tinting and several new ways to customize the icons on your iPhone home screen

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-16 19:36:30

The iPhone home screen gets a brand new look with iOS 26, thanks to a visual overhaul featuring a brand new set of icons for all of Apple’s apps, as well as glass and reflection effects throughout. There are also more ways than ever for you to customize your icons, with new tinting options and styles. Here’s everything new. On earlier versions of iOS, you could choose from Default, Dark, Automatic or Tinted icon customization styles. Tinted mode would render your icon with a highlight gradient

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PSA: iPadOS 26 removes Split View and Slide Over multitasking features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-16 20:04:22

iPadOS 26 introduces major new windowing features designed to upgrade the iPad’s multitasking experience. But with those new features, two longstanding multitasking features have been removed: Split View and Slide Over are no longer supported in iPadOS 26. Split View and Slide Over are gone, but Stage Manager lives on with new iPadOS 26 windowing Apple has had no shortage of iPadOS multitasking takes over the years. Most of those systems have co-existed within iPadOS, even as new features wer

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Safari gets the iOS 26 treatment with new Liquid Glass interface

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-16 21:01:30

Today, Apple unveiled a new Safari interface for iOS 26, bringing its new UI to the system browser. Here’s what it looks like. Edge-to-edge pages, floating controls, and a more immersive experience With iOS 26, Apple intends to maintain Safari’s familiar elements while introducing a more fluid and unobtrusive design. Web pages now extend edge to edge, reaching all the way to the bottom of the screen to maximize usable space. The tab bar has been redesigned to float above the webpage, surfacin

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You can now get the official macOS Tahoe 26 wallpapers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-16 21:36:25

With the WWDC 2025 keynote officially in the books, Apple has released the first developer beta for macOS Tahoe 26. The new system comes with light and dark default wallpapers to match their updated design language, and you can download them right here. macOS Tahoe 26 wallpapers Alongside iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and the rest of the renamed OS lineup, macOS 26 brings the new Liquid Glass refreshed look, new Continuity experiences with the Phone app and Live Activities, improved Spotlight, and the ne

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Designers speak out about Apple’s Liquid Glass design

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-17 11:50:47

With such a significant update to the look and feel of Apple devices, it’s not surprising that design and UI professionals have things to say about the new Liquid Glass design language. As you might expect, views are mixed, but it’s notable how willing people are to give Apple time to refine the look based on reactions to the early betas … Wired spoke to a number of designers, and most see it as a bold and fresh look. Serhii Popov, a design-first software engineer at MacPaw […] is overall ena

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Apple just made AirPods beta firmware easier to get than ever in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-17 13:01:37

Apple has released new beta firmware for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, introducing the new iOS 26 features plus a much easier installation process than ever before. New AirPods firmware with iOS 26 features now available and far more accessible Yesterday at WWDC, Apple introduced several brand new features coming to AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 models with iOS 26. New features include: Camera remote : Use your AirPods stems to capture photos and video on your iPhone : Use your AirPods stems t

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Deals: iPhone 16 Pro up to $400 off, black Apple Watch Ultra 2 from $530, iPad mini 7, and more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-17 14:45:28

Alongside ongoing price drops delivering the best deals of the year on AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, not to mention an ongoing $180 price drop on the 24GB M4 MacBook Air, we have a fresh batch of deals to scope out today as well. Alongside iPad mini 7 models at $100 off, we spotted a big-time $269 price drop on black Apple Watch Ultra 2 units in refurbished condition – this deal might not last for much longer. Those offers join a $400 price drop on the black titanium 1TB iPhone 16 Pro, the very f

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Watch Apple TV+’s new summer sizzle reel showcasing upcoming originals

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-17 14:52:04

During yesterday’s WWDC 2025 keynote, Apple premiered a new sizzle reel promoting the summer lineup on Apple TV+. And now, that same teaser is available to watch on YouTube. The intense video highlights what’s coming to the service over the next few months, featuring some Apple TV+ all-time favorites like The Morning Show, Invasion, and Slow Horses, as well as glimpses of upcoming originals like The Savant, The Last Frontier, and Highest to Lowest, a new movie starring Denzel Washington. Apple

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

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-17 16:22:08

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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Xcode 26 beta includes new ‘Apple Vision Pro 4K’ simulator

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-17 20:11:50

Apple held its WWDC25 keynote yesterday, where it announced a new suite of software updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS – all under the new version numbering umbrella of ’26’. A new suite of OS releases comes with a new version of Xcode, which also falls under the new 26 naming umbrella. In the first beta of Xcode 26, the developer tool used to build apps for these new operating systems, Apple now includes a new ‘Vision Pro 4K’ simulator. In Xcode 26, the current genera

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

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-17 21:17:12

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 categorically denies Siri vaporware claims, and offers a better explanation [Video]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-18 10:31:31

Siri got lots of airtime at last year's WWDC – but not this year There’s no denying that Apple made a major mis-step when it showed off impressive new Siri features during last year’s WWDC, before doubling-down in an iPhone 16 ad. The company was forced to delete the ad and walk back the timing. That led even the most upbeat of Apple commenters to criticize the company for showing off “vaporware,” implying that the demos had been faked. But two Apple execs have now categorically denied this, a

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Deals: Most affordable Apple Watch Series 10 $100 off, Nomad 15W MagSafe charging stations from $54, Apple Pencil, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-18 14:45:21

Your daily Apple deals are now ready to roll. Alongside the ongoing $100 price drops on iPad mini 7, up to $400 off M4 iPad Pro, and up to $400 off iPhone 16 Pro units, we are still tracking a chance to land $100 off the most affordable Apple Watch Series 10 models starting from $299 as well as AirPods Pro 2 down at $169. We also spotted one of the best prices of the year on Apple Pencil (USB-C) at $60 and some big-time price drops on Nomad’s 15W MagSafe charging stations from $54. All of that a

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Here’s everything new coming to Apple Maps in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-18 15:13:03

iOS 26, the next major iPhone update, not only brings a Liquid Glass redesign, but also new features for popular apps like Apple Maps. The app got some big changes last year, but there’s more coming soon. Here are the new Apple Maps features arriving in iOS 26. Apple Maps in iOS 26 is smarter about your daily activity Apple Maps benefits from iOS 26’s new systemwide Liquid Glass design. This means buttons and other UI elements have been updated with a fresh look. But Apple’s bigger focus in M

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These iOS 26 features will only be available on newer iPhones

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-18 18:08:30

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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