The iPhone keyboard blocklist in iOS 27 covers 4,513 English phrases that the keyboard never offers as predictions and usually swaps for another word when you swipe type them. Typing a listed phrase letter by letter always works, so nothing…
A new Apple patent application describes a touchscreen that turns toward you as you approach, similar to what Apple’s reported HomeView Ultra robot would do. The device also lowers its speaker volume at the same time, since Apple moves power…
Apple has dropped a 40% sign-up target for Apple Store subscription trials after claims that some employees signed customers up without their consent. The trials renew into paid plans on their own, and the first charge can land months after…
iOS 27 Shared Albums turn read-only on iPhones running iOS 26 or earlier. Users on older software can still look through the photos, but they cannot add their own, like a photo or leave a comment until they update or…
Apple has changed how it builds iOS 28, giving engineers six weeks to code and explore features before two weeks of work to merge them into the operating system. The first of three development milestones for iOS 28 and macOS…
Apple’s Siri chief, Mike Rockwell, is still seriously considering stepping down next year. He could give up his vice president role or leave Apple altogether, and either move would remove the person who got the new Siri onto iPhones after…
Apple CEO John Ternus is pushing software chief Craig Federighi to build an agentic Siri that can finish tasks for you instead of waiting for each command. Siri AI in iOS 27 still works request by request, while ChatGPT Dots,…
A temporary shared album in iOS 27 lets you share photos and videos with other people for 30 days, after which it expires. It does not use your iCloud storage and does not need iCloud Photos turned on, so you…
Hipstamatic’s new IncrediBooth app is a photo booth for iPhone that takes four pictures on its own timer and prints them on one photo strip. Whatever face you are making when the flash fires is the face you get, and…
The Load Bearing game splits at the hinge when you fold an iPhone Duo half open, with the well, your stash and your next pieces on the top half and the controls on the bottom half. Open the phone flat…
