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Apple's Freeform app, built into iPhones since 2022, offers an infinite digital canvas for arranging photos, sketches, links and PDFs. Users can freely rearrange and connect items without rewriting content, and the app supports collaboration with others. It remains free to use.
An analysis of App Store charts found that 70.9% of listed apps received an update within the last six months, while 20.3% have gone without an update for a year or more, including 9.8% untouched for over three years. Books, Reference and News categories had the highest share of stale apps, while Finance had the lowest at 10.9%.
A malformed payload sent to Google's Analytics for Firebase SDK caused widespread launch crashes across thousands of iOS apps starting the evening of September 28. Google engineer Nick Cooke said a fix was fully rolled out by 7:52pm Pacific that day, with lingering crashes from caching expected to clear within four hours, requiring no action from developers or users.
A bug in Google Analytics for Firebase iOS caused widespread app crashes at launch, affecting thousands of apps that rely on Firebase for backend and analytics services. Google deployed a fix within a couple of hours, but caching meant some apps kept crashing for up to four hours afterward, with some seeing crash rates over 5,000 times normal levels.
Apple published a developer tech talk explaining how third-party apps will render on the upcoming iPhone Duo foldable display. The system includes three compatibility tiers: a default mode for apps built before iOS 27, an improved layout for apps updated for iOS 27.0, and full-screen support for apps targeting iOS 27.1, which arrives around the device's October launch.