iOS 18 will bring a huge variety of new features when it arrives this fall, including for pre-installed system apps. One such feature that was never formally announced: the Home app will enable Adaptive Lighting for Matter lights.
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Subjects is a class manager available for Apple devices, and we’ve written about it a few times before. With its latest update, Subjects is getting new class icons, as well as a feature that automatically suggests the best icon to users.
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We have seen more and more regulators around the world asking tech companies to implement features or change some aspects of how their hardware and software work. This time, a Brazilian regulator has asked Apple to add the option to lock the Mail app with Face ID or Touch ID. While the request has a good reason, iOS 18 already solves this problem.
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Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in the newest Apple original film The Instigators, streaming now on Apple TV+.
The duo are reluctant partners in a heist to steal back the ill-gotten gains of a corrupt politician. Things get worse when the robbery disastrously goes wrong and they found themselves on the run from both the police and the city’s crime bosses.
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The controversy over Apple’s fees for apps which are sold outside the App Store continues, with both Epic Games and Spotify objecting to the company’s latest attempt to comply with EU antitrust laws.
Spotify has described Apple’s latest fee structure as “confusing and unacceptable,” while Epic Games has called the fees “illegal” …
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ChatGPT was originally limited to text interactions, but paid subscribers last year gained the ability to use the chatbot to generate images with DALL-E 3.
That feature is now coming to free ChatGPT users too, though you’ll be limited to just two images per day …
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iPhone 16 production is now said to have ramped up to peak production, with Foxconn taking on an extra 50,000 workers in its largest assembly plant.
The company last month increased both base pay and bonuses to help it recruit enough new workers to meet what is expected to be increased demand this year …
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A new regime of repeating macOS Sequoia permission prompts have been described as “a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel.”
An Apple ad once made fun of the endless stream of permission requests in Windows Vista, but some are suggesting that Sequoia is now every bit as bad …
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Voice computing is still in its early days. One reason is that voice assistants often aren’t great at understanding our words unless they fit a pre-defined model. Siri with Apple Intelligence will hopefully be a lot better about this in time. But in case not, there’s another iOS 18 feature that should do the trick: Vocal Shortcuts.
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Emulator apps have started filling the App Store this year. There’s no shortage of options for playing classic games on your iOS devices. However, the new VirtualFriend app has earned a special place in my heart. It’s a Vision Pro emulator that brings Nintendo’s Virtual Boy back to life.
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