Indie App Spotlight: ‘Fluro’ helps keep you in the loop, with a cool retro LED scroller

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight . This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact .

provides a delightful recap of everything you’d need to know in a day, all in a neat Mac interface with a special LED scroller. It delivers the weather, your calendar events, reminders, the news, and more – all with a pinch of nostalgia.

First things first,


Apple @ Work: Apple’s biometric strategy pays off as IT leaders believe Touch ID and Face ID are the future of enterprise security

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makes it clear—IT teams are ready to ditch passwords. 85% of surveyed IT admins

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Apple is on a mission to develop more of its silicon in-house: Here’s whats next

In 2020, Apple announced the Mac transition to Apple Silicon. Replacing Intel was a large undertaking, but it proved successful. Apple was able to develop chips that were both faster and more efficient than the Intel processors they replaced, all in an under 3 year transition.

Now, Apple is trying to replace Qualcomm, starting off with the new C1 modem in the brand new iPhone 16e, it’s the first step in a much larger journey. In the end, Apple wants all


Security Bite: Do an app’s privacy labels influence your decision to download it?

Apple introduced app privacy labels to help people better understand what data an app may collect, including what data is linked to them or used to track them across the web. When released back in 2020 , the labels set a precedent in the industry and were a major first step in raising awareness of privacy-invasive apps. It was now easy for users to compare something like Signal, which collects virtually no data at all, and Facebook Messenger, which gobbles up anything it can use to sell advertising or


Here are five notable iPhone 16e upgrades you might’ve missed

Apple’s recently announced iPhone 16e hit store shelves yesterday morning. It serves as a new entry point to the iPhone lineup, and replaces the family. While the iPhone 16e has a number of big upgrades over the that it replaced, there are some smaller ones that might’ve slipped under the radar.

iPhone 16e starts at $599 with 128GB of storage. It brought a 6.1″ OLED display, Face ID, USB-C, Apple

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Developers begin receiving final round of Small Developer Assistance Fund payments

In late 2022, initial payments for the Small Developer Assistance Fund started going out, with each eligible US developer receiving at least $1000 – up to 4x the projected minimum payout. A second round of payouts begun toward the end of 2023, and now the third and final round of payments started going out this week.

As part of a settlement agreement , Apple established the Small Developer Assistance Fund in 2021 . It offered payouts of $250


9to5Rewards: MacBook Pro giveaway & Chargeasap Flash Pro Ultra deal [Sponsored]

Together with Chargeasap, we’re giving away Apple’s latest MacBook Pro to one reader this month to kick off the launch of the company’s new , the world’s first dual OLED 275W powerbank. Keep reading to learn more about the new Flash Pro Ultra by Chargeasap and enter the giveaway now.

Chargeasap is launching a Kickstarter campaign for a brand new kind of powerbank. is the world’s first 275W portable battery that uses an OLED screen for displaying charging status.


iPhone 16e teardown shows what’s new and what’s different from previous iPhones

iPhone 16e is now officially available in stores . Apple’s new entry-level phone looks similar to an iPhone 14 from the outside, but features the A18 chip inside. And thanks to a teardown video shared on the web, we can now take a better look at what’s new and what’s different inside the iPhone 16e.

The 5-minute video shared on YouTube by shows how to tear down the iPhone 16e, as well as a closer look


Instagram delays launch of new CapCut competitor app ‘Edits’

Instagram last month announced Edits , a new video editor app for mobile platforms that aims to compete with CapCut (owned by ByteDance, which is behind TikTok). Although Meta promised to launch the new app on March 13, it now appears that it will be released a bit later than expected.

The for the new Instagram Edits app now says that the video editor is expected to launch on March 31, 2025 – two weeks later than the original date. There’s no word from Meta


iOS 18 gave Apple Calendar the feature I’ve always wanted, and it doesn’t disappoint

After years going mostly unchanged, Apple’s Calendar app has started improving quickly over the last few months. And there’s one recent feature in particular that I’ve long wanted, and it’s made a big difference for me: integrating Reminders with the Calendar app.

The iPhone’s Calendar and Reminders apps, until recently, were two entirely separate and siloed apps.

But with iOS 18, Apple fully baked Reminders’ basic functionality into the Calendar app .

For me, this has been a

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