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What Apple Could Bring to Your iPhone With iOS 18.6 Before iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 19:14:30

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 18.6 on June 18, just over a week after the company announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference. While the iOS 26 update will bring a major redesign to iPhones this fall, the latest beta mostly consists of bug and security fixes. Read more: An Expert's Guide to iOS 18 Apple/Screenshot by CNET Since this is a beta, I recommend downloading it only on something other than your primary device. Because this isn't the final version of iOS 18.6

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Apple debuts ‘Big Man’, a new Shot on iPhone short film starring Stormzy

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 01:40:03

Apple’s latest release in its long-running “Shot on iPhone” campaign is here, and this time it stars UK rapper and musician Stormzy in a cool new short film called Big Man. Watch it below, alongside an interesting behind-the-scenes video. Directed by Aneil Karia, Big Man was shot entirely on iPhone 16 Pro and tells the fictional story of Tenzman, “a world-weary musician, and the two bright, joyful kids who come into his life by chance. Soon the trio find themselves on a journey together — one t

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Apple Camp 2025 brings new iMovie-focused workshops for kids, sign up now

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 01:55:48

Apple’s free summer workshops for kids are back. Starting today, parents and guardians can register for this year’s edition of Apple Camp, which will run from June 21 through July 31 at Apple Store locations worldwide. See how to register and take home an exclusive T-shirt. The program, aimed at children aged up to 10, is part of Apple’s ongoing Today at Apple initiative. Sessions are designed to get kids hands-on with Apple technology in fun, creative ways, while also giving parents and guardi

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How I turned my Apple Watch into a dumbphone (and why you should, too)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-28 01:21:36

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Dumbphones are becoming the solution du jour to the nationwide screen addiction issue. Search interest in the device -- whose primary capability is calling and texting (and not much else) -- has skyrocketed in the past year, according to data from Google Trends. Clearly, there's a heightened interest among tech enthusiasts and haters alike in an alternative to the endless pings, distractions, and social media doom readily accessible through their smartphones. Also: I repl

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Waymo's Self-Driving Service Expands in California, With Eyes on New York. What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 23:53:00

Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. This week, the robotaxi service stretched into more parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. And starting next month, Waymo will start testing its autonomous tech in New York City. Now, Bay Area riders can hail a fully autonomous Waymo ride in Brisbane, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae and Burlingame via the W

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Apple looking to make 'premium' priced folding iPhones starting next year, analyst says

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-28 05:14:07

People look at iPhones at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City, U.S., May 23, 2025. Apple has plans to make a folding iPhone starting next year, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said on Wednesday. Kuo said that Apple's folding phone could have a display made by Samsung Display, which is planning to produce as many as 8 million foldable panels for the device next year. However, other components haven't been finalized, including the device's hinge, Kuo wrote. He expects it to have "premium

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9to5Mac Daily: June 18, 2025 – Apple’s Siri timelines, HomePad rumors

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-09-28 09:07:18

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by 9to5Mac Daily Plus: Get ad-free versions of every episode by visiting 9to5mac.com/join. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are deliv

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Kuo: Apple yet to finalize many foldable iPhone specs

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-28 09:12:02

Ming-Chi Kuo is out with an update today on Apple’s highly-anticipated foldable iPhone. According to the analyst, Foxconn is set to “kick off the project” later this year in late Q3 or early Q4. At this time, however, many of the component specifications for the foldable iPhone “have yet to be finalized.” The latest on the iPhone Fold One of the flagship features of Apple’s foldable iPhone is expected to be the display. While there are multiple foldable Android devices on the market, one of th

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iOS 18.6 now available in beta, plus macOS 15.6, more [U: Public betas]

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-28 09:18:00

Last week Apple debuted its major new software versions coming this fall, including iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and more. But it isn’t finished with the current software cycle just yet, as the first betas for iOS 18.6, macOS 15.6, and more have now arrived. Update 6/18/25: Public beta versions are now rolling out too, a couple days after the developer releases arrived. Inside Apple, the vast majority of software engineers’ time has been dedicated, likely for a while now, to preparing iOS 26 and the oth

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Apple’s Wallet app has key new feature for saved credit cards in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-28 09:22:31

Apple’s Wallet app is getting one step closer to actually replacing your physical wallet, thanks to a new iOS 26 feature that’s available for all saved credit and debit cards. Full credit card details can now be saved inside Wallet app in iOS 26 Last year in iOS 18, Apple launched a new Passwords app across its platforms. I use the app all the time, but there are some key missing features that still send me back to 1Password. One such feature is support for storing full credit card informatio

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:00:36

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work of your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-time

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Apple introduces new limited-time Apple Card sign-up offer: Earn $100 in Daily Cash

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-28 13:11:22

Once again, Apple has launched a new Apple Card sign up bonus for a limited time. Apple Card typically doesn’t come with a sign up bonus, but from time to time – Apple will launch these special offers through social media campaigns and targeted emails. Typically, I’d refer to an Apple Card sign up offer as “rare”, but there’s been so many in the past year or so that it’d no longer be an accurate term. Regardless though, if you sign up for an Apple Card normally – you don’t receive a sign up bon

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ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 13:53:14

Back in December, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT WhatsApp contact as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” holiday announcements. And while this version of the chatbot is still more limited than what you get on the web or desktop, it is rolling out a useful new trick: image generation. Yep, people actually do this While the idea of texting ChatGPT over WhatsApp might seem a little odd, several WhatsApp-heavy users I’ve talked to say they love the convenience of having ChatGPT right there, without needi

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8 AI features coming to iOS 26 that actually excite me (and how to try them now)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-28 13:17:00

Apple iOS 26 with Liquid Glass (from the Developer Beta). Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) was expected to have little AI news -- but Apple proved everyone wrong. Even though Apple has not yet launched the highly anticipated Siri upgrade -- the company said we will hear more about it in the coming year -- when it came to event time last week, Apple unveiled a slew of AI features across its devices and operating systems, including iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and iPadOS.

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How to clear your TV cache (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-28 13:50:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET In the age of smart TVs, convenience is king. With just a few clicks, we can dive into endless entertainment -- but that ease comes with a downside: the buildup of cache data. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Just like on your phone or computer, a cluttered TV cache can lead to sluggish performance, app crashes, and even hinder new content from loading properly. That's why it's important to clear all that extra cache and make y

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Worried CapCut Might Get Banned With TikTok? Try These Video Editing Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 13:00:06

While ByteDance is best known for its vertical video sensation TikTok, it also owns TikTok's sister app, CapCut. CapCut is a mobile-first video editing app and has 200 million active users as of 2023, according to Time. But while its connectivity to TikTok makes it great for creators, its similar parentage means that CapCut is included in the same potential ban in the US. We've been through this TikTok ban song and dance three times now, and we're running up to the June 19 deadline that marks t

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Here’s your first look at the rebooted Digg

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 13:16:36

The rebooted version of Digg’s news aggregator has entered testing, offering users a first look at what this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era, has in store. At its height in 2008, Digg’s site was valued at $175 million, but it was split up and sold for parts a decade later. In March, Digg’s original founder, Kevin Rose, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian teamed up to bring the brand back and reinvent the site for a new generation of internet users. The founders think that the

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PSA: Your Apple TV hardware might not support tvOS 26’s top new features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-28 17:04:47

tvOS 26 is the next big update coming to Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. But while the update isn’t officially dropping support for any older Apple TV hardware, two of the biggest new features will have limited availability, requiring newer models. Two tentpole features of tvOS 26 are limited to newer hardware This fall, tvOS 26 will debut as a brand new software update with a variety of changes for Apple TV users. But depending on your Apple TV model, you might find very little different after

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YouTube fixes crashing issue on mobile apps, tells iOS users to reinstall

9to5mac.com Will Sattelberg 2025-09-28 21:15:59

If you’ve recently been experiencing YouTube crashes on your smartphone, Google has a fix in store — though iOS users might need to do a little more than update. Yesterday, several complaints surfaced on r/YouTube pointing towards issues with YouTube on both Android and iOS devices. Viewers complained of app crashes, video playback errors, and general unresponsiveness. Google confirmed it was aware of these issues in a forum post, recommending users delete and reinstall the app from either the

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macOS Tahoe’s new Spotlight clipboard manager leaves plenty of room for powerful third-party apps

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 21:28:47

The new Spotlight is easily my favorite macOS announcement from WWDC25. It may even be my favorite update across all of Apple’s platforms this year. Still, I don’t plan on abandoning my current clipboard manager. Here’s why. The addition of a native clipboard history tool to macOS feels like one of those small but meaningful quality-of-life upgrades we’ve been waiting forever to get. That said… I’m not switching. Don’t get me wrong: I love that Apple is acknowledging clipboard history as a po

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What Is Lemon8 and Could It Be Banned With TikTok? What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 21:15:03

We're back again: The 75-day extension President Trump gave TikTok this spring is over on Thursday. If TikTok's parent company ByteDance doesn't find a US-approved buyer or if the deadline isn't extended, the app could be banned for US users. But it's not just TikTok on the line -- Lemon8, TikTok's sister app, could also be affected. Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, the same parent company that owns TikTok. It's one of the top Lifestyle apps in Apple's App Store, and it has more than 10 million do

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The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-09-28 21:45:00

I love going to Summer Game Fest. It’s a rare opportunity to connect with my colleagues and friends in person, as well as listen to developers talk about why they make their games. In some ways, this year’s SGF gave me everything I love about the event. But while I was comfortably ensconced in a happy bubble, the escalating conflict between demonstrators protesting against immigration raids and the Los Angeles Police Department cast a dark and soul-shaking pall that could not be ignored. Everyt

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Indigo is a new camera app by the guys who made the Pixel and Google Camera apps

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 01:08:04

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Adobe has launched the Indigo camera app on the Apple App Store. Two of the influential minds behind the Google and Pixel Camera apps are also working on Indigo. The team says they’re planning an Android version of the app, but there’s no word on a release window. The Pixel Camera app (formerly Google Camera) is perhaps the most influential smartphone camera app ever made. That was in large part due to the HDR+ processing and Super Res Zoom for improve

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Your Apple Watch is getting a huge upgrade. Here are the 8 features I can't wait to use in WatchOS 26

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-29 00:12:14

Your iPhone, Apple Watch, and other Apple-owned devices are getting a big overhaul soon. The best part? You won't have to pay a dime for them. The tech giant recently rolled out all of the newest apps and updates coming to its devices over the next few months. Apple announced several new features coming to WatchOS 26 at its annual software conference, WWDC, last week. The features touch everything from Fitness to Messages, and include a major design update across Apple's platforms for a more un

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TikTok gets third extension from Trump as US sale deadline looms

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-29 05:44:00

What just happened? TikTok is receiving yet another reprieve from Donald Trump. For the third time since taking office, the president is extending the sales deadline this week, giving the company another 90 days to divest its US business from Chinese parent ByteDance. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump will sign an executive order this week that will "keep TikTok up and running" for another 90 days. Leavitt added that the administration will spend the extra time

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See the hacked iPhone camera Apple built to shoot real race scenes for F1 The Movie

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 05:43:26

Talk about “shot on iPhone”. For its upcoming F1 movie, Apple tasked its engineers with building a custom camera module, using iPhone parts, to replace the onboard cameras that are used for F1 live race broadcasts. Here’s a closer look at the rig. But… why? As detailed by Wired (via MacMagazine), when director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and cinematographer Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) told Apple they wanted authentic, driver-perspective shots for the film, the

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AirPods Pro 2 Are Back at Their Lowest Price as Apple Clears Out Limited Stock on Amazon

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-29 05:10:04

Scoring a huge deal on Apple’s top-rated AirPods Pro 2 wireless earbuds is a matter of timing. There’s a 32% off deal that drops on Amazon which brings the price of these state of the art earbuds down to just $169, but you have to keep a sharp eye out for it. Or, better yet, we can just tell you when it’s back. Like right now. This $80 price drop on the AirPods Pro 2 hadn’t been around for the past month before now, but with the exception of the small Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2024 window when

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Google’s compact look for Gemini Live isn’t even out, and it’s already getting better (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:00:01

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s got quite a few in-development changes in its latest Android app update, including screen-top layout tweaks. The new Gemini Live overlay we looked at last week is already showing signs of refinement. Google’s working on a way to explicitly suggest AI Mode search topics. Over the past few days, we’ve been spotting a lot of changes that have popped up in Google’s most recent update to its Android app. Those finds included stuff like work toward

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Gemini Live on your phone may soon be just a swipe away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 14:00:28

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new swipe gesture within the Gemini app that allows for a faster and more direct way to launch the Gemini Live experience. The gesture lets you swipe left or right to switch between the standard text-based chat and the live, conversational interface. This feature is appearing for a limited number of users as part of a broader UI update that also adds a navigation drawer to the app. Google’s Gemini chatbot can hold much more in-depth

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Move over Open Canvas, this could be the best way to multitask on a foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 14:15:10

TL;DR vivo’s upcoming X Fold 5 features a new multitasking system called “Atomic Workbench” capable of running up to five active apps simultaneously. “Atomic Workbench” enables one dominant app view while keeping others minimized but live, improving upon OnePlus’ Open Canvas approach with a better layout for engaging more apps. The vivo X Fold 5 launches on June 25 in China. OnePlus pioneered the Open Canvas feature with the OnePlus Open foldable, allowing users to open three apps simultaneou

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What Apple Could Bring to Your iPhone With iOS 18.6 Before iOS 26

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

Apple introduces new limited-time Apple Card sign-up offer: Earn $100 in Daily Cash

ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

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Here’s your first look at the rebooted Digg

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Your Apple Watch is getting a huge upgrade. Here are the 8 features I can't wait to use in WatchOS 26

TikTok gets third extension from Trump as US sale deadline looms

See the hacked iPhone camera Apple built to shoot real race scenes for F1 The Movie

AirPods Pro 2 Are Back at Their Lowest Price as Apple Clears Out Limited Stock on Amazon

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Gemini Live on your phone may soon be just a swipe away

Move over Open Canvas, this could be the best way to multitask on a foldable

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