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Feature Request: Three advanced features I’d like to see added to HomeKit

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月12日 00:15

HomeKit dramatically improved the user-friendliness of both configuring and controlling smart homes, by allowing everything to be done though a single app.

But while the Home app was a fantastic breakthrough for its time, technology has moved on, and I think Apple needs to respond. Here are three advanced features I’d like to see in the AI age …

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macOS 26: Three new Mac apps, and new features in Photos, Messages, Notes, and more

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月11日 07:02

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macOS 26 brings a major new user–interface to the Mac, as well as some powerful new functionality. Apple has also updated a lot of its own apps, in addition to bringing three apps to the Mac for the first time.

Here’s what the company has to share …

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Apple trade-in values cut for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月10日 22:27

Apple trade-in values have been cut for most models of iPhone, all Macs, several Apple Watches, and one iPad.

Additionally, there are two older Apple products the company will no longer accept as trade-in against a new one, making them officially worthless …

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Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used for the Texas floods – but several problems

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月10日 20:02

Authorities came under fire when it was suggested there were no warnings of the flash floods in Texas, which resulted in at least 120 lives being lost, with many more people still missing.

In fact, the Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used to send multiple warnings, but a number of issues meant that many Texans didn’t receive them or act on them – and a new report suggests that’s a hard problem to fix …

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iPhone Fold production line almost ready for next year’s launch – report

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月10日 19:20

An iPhone Fold production line is being prepared in readiness for the launch of the first folding iPhone next year, and a new supply-chain report says that this is almost ready to begin production. The news follows a recent report that Apple is currently testing realistic prototypes of the device.

The plant will reportedly have the capacity to produce displays for around twice as many devices as Apple actually expects to sell …

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Nvidia beats Apple to a $4T valuation as it rides AI wave

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月9日 22:12

Nvidia, the US company specializing in high-performance GPU cards, has become the first ever company with a market capitalization of four trillion dollars. It is now the most valuable company in the world, ahead of Apple and Microsoft.

It’s a little over a year since the company overtook AAPL thanks to a spectacular rise in value that saw it go from being worth $2T to more than $3T in just four months …

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Grok chatbot silenced as even Musk saw how awful it was

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月9日 20:05

X owner Elon Musk recently implemented changes to the platform’s AI chatbot Grok, explicitly telling it not to trust mainstream media and to be less politically correct. Obviously there was no way anyone could possibly predict how that would turn out, so it’s a complete shock that Musk has been forced to silence it …

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HomeKit-compatible smart homes becoming more affordable as Ikea Matters

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月9日 19:33

HomeKit compatibility used to attract a noticeable price premium when buying smart home products, but the Matter standard is changing that – and Ikea is now going all-in on this.

The company says that it has more than 20 new affordable Matter-compatible smart home devices in the works, with likely plans to expand into completely new product types too …

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HBO Max comes full circle, and this time your apps will auto-update

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月9日 18:56

The HBO streaming video app became HBO Max when the company added Warner Bros movies and Turner TV shows. In the worst rebrand since Twitter became X, the company later dropped the unique and valuable HBO part of the name and kept the generic and worthless Max part.

Two years later, the company is fixing that. It today becomes HBO Max once more – and this time around, your apps should automatically update …

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Play-Doh World one of four new games coming to Apple Arcade

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月8日 22:27

Apple Arcade is getting four new games next month, with Play-Doh World topping the bill. Apple says this and the other games will be available from August 7.

The other new titles are Worms Across Worlds, the latest addition to the Worms franchise; the 3D puzzle game Let’s Go Mightycat!; and Everybody Shogi, described as a vibrant strategy game based on the traditional Japanese board game …

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iPhone 17e said to launch next spring, with identical display to 16e

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月8日 20:23

A new supply-chain report suggests that the iPhone 17e will launch next spring, which is in line with previous reporting.

It doesn’t sound like the upcoming model will be a major update, with today’s report indicating that it will use the exact same display as the iPhone 16e

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iPhone 17 Air to get a ‘barely blue’ color option, suggests leaker

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月8日 19:49

A leaker with a mixed track record has suggested that the “main” color option for the upcoming iPhone 17 Air will be a “very light” blue.

They go on to say that the color will be so faint that it will simply appear to be white in some lights. This seems reminiscent of “barely blue” colors we’ve seen from Apple before …

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Macs and Apple Watch to be hit by Trump tariffs starting on August 1

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月8日 19:15

Macs and Apple Watches are among the products to be hit by new tariffs on products manufactured in Thailand, taking effect on August 1.

Products imported from Thailand into the US will be subjected to a 36% tariff, increasing the cost to Apple by more than a third …

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This smart home tech is another way Apple is falling behind in AI

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月7日 22:15

, Google, and are all working on an exciting way to bring AI to smart homes – and Apple risks being left behind.

Samsung is first to launch the new feature: the ability to use natural language to simply tell your smart home app what it is you want it to do …

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US TikTok users will get their own American-owned version of the app

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月7日 19:34

The ongoing TikTok saga rumbles on, but a new report claims that we may be close to a resolution. It says US TikTok users will get their own version of the app, which will be owned by an American company.

The latest development happens shortly after we got sight of the letter sent to Apple to persuade the company to return TikTok to the App Store despite it being illegal to do so …

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5th Avenue Apple Store spray-painted by climate protesters calling for boycott

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月7日 19:03

New York’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store was spray-painted by climate change protesters, calling for a boycott of the company.

Three slogans were sprayed onto the glass frontage of the store, with Extinction Rebellion accusing Apple of hypocrisy on environmental issues …

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A rare look inside the durability lab where Apple tortures its products

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月5日 00:00

Apple puts its products through a lot of tests during the development process, intended to ensure they have a long and reliable life even in challenging conditions. The company tests at least 10,000 iPhones prior to launch in an attempt to cover all the bases.

It’s not often the iPhone maker lets outsiders into its labs, but Apple invited some of those attending WWDC 2025 to visit one to see for themselves the conditions it expects its gadgets to survive …

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Android users can now (kinda) edit messages sent to iPhones, but not yet vice-versa

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月3日 20:34

iPhones and Android smartphones started to play more nicely together after Apple finally opted to support the Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard. Prior to this, messages between the two platforms had to use the ancient and insecure text messaging service.

Not all RCS features are supported as yet, with the all-important strong encryption waiting for RCS 3.0 support in iOS 26. Another RCS 3.0 feature is the ability to edit outgoing messages after sending them, and that one has started a limited one-way rollout …

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Apple Watch and AirPods continue to dominate the global market – for now

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月3日 19:47

A pair of market intelligence reports show that the Apple Watch and AirPods continue to dominate the global market in their respective categories.

However, Apple’s long-held lead in the smartwatch market is now being challenged by Huawei, according to the latest estimates …

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Teen drivers spend 21% of the time looking at their phones, reveals alarming study [Video]

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月3日 19:04

A alarming new study has found that som teen drivers in the US spend as much as 21% of their time at the wheel looking at their phones, creating a substantial risk of distracted driving crashes.

While much of this was brief glances, more than 5% of driving time comprised looking at their phone for 2+ seconds a time, long enough to qualify as dangerous …

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iPhone Fold reportedly on track for potential launch next year, as prototypes tested

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月2日 20:51

The long-rumored iPhone Fold – the colloquial term used for the company’s unannounced folding iPhone – is reported to be on schedule for a potential launch in the second half of next year.

The device is said to have reached the Prototype 1 (P1) stage last month, which is the first point at which the company creates fully-functional devices …

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Qantas data breach sees up to 6M customer records at risk

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月2日 20:09

A Qantas data breach resulting from a cybersecurity attack has put up to 6M customer records at risk of exposure, with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth confirmed to be included. The hack was of a contact center database operated by one of the airline’s partners …

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ICEBlock app developer had ‘better watch out’ says US attorney general [U]

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月7日 19:44

White House condemnation of a free app has drawn substantial attention to it, helping ICEBlock become the most popular social networking app in the App Store, beating out apps like X and Instagram.

ICEBlock alerts people to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area, following a major immigration crackdown by the White House. Update: The US attorney general has said the app’s developer “had better watch out” – see end of the piece …

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Mystery recall of iPhone engineers may be Chinese interference in Apple’s plans

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月2日 19:09

More than 300 Chinese iPhone engineers and technicians have been recalled from an Indian production plant, says a new report.

No public acknowledgement or explanation has been offered, but suspicion is falling on the Chinese government, which has previously been accused of actively hampering Apple’s attempts to move more iPhone production out of the country …

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Senior Vision Pro engineer allegedly took a ‘massive volume’ of secret plans to Snap

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月1日 21:00

Apple has accused a former senior Vision Pro engineer of stealing thousands of documents containing plans for unreleased features, and taking them to his new role working on glasses–based projects for Snap.

A lawsuit alleges that Di Liu claimed he was quitting his job for health reasons, hiding from Apple that his true plan was to join Snapchat as a developer in a “substantially similar” role…

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The eight reasons people upgrade Mac or PC, as shipments surge

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月1日 20:19

A new market intelligence report lists the eight reasons people opt to upgrade Mac or PC, divided into three categories.

It also reveals that Mac shipments grew faster than any PC brand in the first quarter of the year, with year–on–year growth of almost 29% …

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PSA: If you have a Brother printer, change the password now

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月1日 19:37

Almost 700 Brother models have been found to contain a number of serious security flaws that could allow an attacker to access other devices on your network, and potentially access your documents. The same is true of some printer models made by Fujifilm, Toshiba, Ricoh, and Konica Minolta …

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Apple reminds us it will soon end support for the old HomeKit architecture, with two options

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月1日 19:07

Apple introduced new HomeKit architecture back in 2022, with the primary aim of making the smart home system more reliable. At the time, users could choose between upgrading or remaining on the original version of the platform.

Fast–forward to March of this year, and 9to5Mac discovered code showing that the company was planning to drop support for the old version. That was subsequently confirmed by Apple, and a further reminder has now been found in the latest iOS 18.6 beta – with a little more detail …

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Here’s what Apple sees as the key benefits of macOS Tahoe 26

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年7月1日 08:52

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macOS Tahoe 26 represents one of the more dramatic changes we’ve seen to the look and feel of the Mac operating system in recent years.

There’s new functionality too, of course, and Apple thinks the blend of the two will greatly enhance the experience of Mac users …

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Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月30日 21:41

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better …

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Alleged Verizon data breach sees 61M customer records offered for sale [U]

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月30日 21:13

An alleged Verizon data breach has seen hackers offering for sale a database of 61 million customer records, which includes personal information useful for both phishing attempts and identity theft.

Update: Verizon told us it has checked the data and it is not from its customers – see the end of the piece.

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What can we expect from Apple’s rumored new 2026 MacBook, with an iPhone processor?

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月30日 20:31

Analyst Ming–Chi Kuo has suggested that Apple plans to launch an all–new MacBook next year, powered by an iPhone processor. Specifically, he expects it to have the A18 Pro chip which currently powers the iPhone 16 Pro line–up.

While there’s no word on pricing, the only way the report makes sense is if Apple is targeting an even lower price than the $999 starting–point of the current MacBook Air. Indeed, if you factor in on that, then it would have to be significantly cheaper. But there may be a more cynical possibility …

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Apple’s insanely complex App Store terms could point to 20% commission globally

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月30日 19:07

Apple last week announced an insanely complex set of changes to its App Store terms in the EU, and hidden in the small–print is one sign that the company might be reducing its standard commission from 30% to 20%, and that it may make this change globally.

If so, it would be the first time the company has ever reduced its 30% cut for all developers, and might go a long way to tackling its legal battles with antitrust regulators around the world …

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MacBook Air Diary: iPadOS improvements haven’t tempted me back

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月28日 00:18

I wrote a year ago that I hardly use an iPad any more. With one small exception, that remains the case – but iPadOS 26 did have me revisit the question.

That’s because this transforms the device so much that, for the first time, I considered it impossible to argue that the iPad isn’t now a (proper) computer

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Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月26日 20:31

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the platform is being spammed by AI bots, and is now in “an arms race” to detect and block these fake posts.

The irony here is that the very reason Reddit is being targeted by bots is because the company sells access to user posts for AI training …

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Data brokers may be illegally selling your personal information

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月26日 19:31

Some data brokers may be illegally selling your information – preventing you from finding out what personal data is held, and opting out from its collection and resale.

Privacy campaigners say they’ve “uncovered a troubling pattern” that may indicate companies who collect and re–sell personal data may not be complying with state laws …

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PSA: Apple Watch Hermès owners should not install the current betas

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月26日 19:02

Anyone running a beta version of any software should of course expect issues, but if you own an Apple Watch Hermès, you’ll want to completely avoid the beta 2 versions of both watchOS 26 and iOS 26.

Apple has warned of an incompatibility issue between watchOS 26 beta 2 and the Hermès watch, believed to be due to a problem with the watch faces unique to that model …

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Ring security cameras get AI smarts to tell you what they are seeing

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月25日 21:31

While the rush to AI–ify all the things gets exceedingly silly at times, adding intelligence to does at least have the potential to be a smart move.

The company has announced a beta version of Video Descriptions, which attempts to describe exactly what doorbell and other security cameras are seeing when notifying you …

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macOS 26 FinderGate continues as designer shows how it should be done

作者 Ben Lovejoy
2025年6月25日 20:51

The new Finder icon in the first beta of macOS Tahoe 26 raised a lot of eyebrows when Apple did more than glassify it: the company also flipped the light and dark sides.

The internet wasn’t happy, and beta 2 saw the natural order of things restored – but many still think Apple has lost sight of an essential element, and one designer has put it right …

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