There’s a new Home Screen trend brewing, and it’s something made possible by two changes in iOS 18. Get ready for the cuteness of iPhone bookshelf wallpapers and the Home Screen layouts they make possible.
iOS 18 introduces new ways to customize your iPhone and make it more personal than ever.
One such change is that app icons can now occupy any free space on the Home Screen. They don’t have to fill the whole screen. So if you want apps on the bottom of the
Did you recently watch Wolfs and need more recommendations for Apple TV+? Or are you just always on the hunt for good TV, whichever service might have it? Let me recommend three excellent shows currently airing on Apple TV+.
Apple TV+ has long sought to distinguish itself with a ‘quality over quantity’ approach. And for the most part, it’s succeeded. There are a lot of fantastic shows and award-worthy movies offered by Apple.
In most cases, though, Apple’s limited
Joining ongoing all-time low prices on the new , today’s deals are headlined by the best offer yet on the with the silver aluminum case alongside a host of brand new metal and leather band options with exclusive discounts and . From there we move over to some of the very first price drops on the official covers, new lows on M4 iPad Pro configurations, and a host of accessories for Macs, iPads, iPhone 16, and more.
An extremely rare early prototype of the first Macintosh is later this month. Here’s what makes it so special.
This Macintosh prototype, #M0001, is a 1983 build featuring a proprietary Apple ”Twiggy” disk drive. Apple quickly abandoned its ‘Twiggy’ design due to performance issues, and adopted a Sony drive instead.
This is one of only two known surviving models with that proprietary drive.
It’s unsurprisingly expected to smash sales records when it goes up for auction
Back in February, I talked about the difficulty of smoothly zooming video footage using the on-screen controls, and said I’d really love a hardware control . The iPhone 16 looked like it might give me what I wanted, with the Camera Control video zoom feature.
Unfortunately, right now, it doesn’t. Using the Camera Control slider to zoom in or out during video shooting is currently so bad it’s unusable …
I explained the problem with the on-screen zoom control, and demonstrated
has officially announced the release of its latest innovation in home security: the Smart Lock U300. This new smart lever lock is the third in Aqara’s lineup to support Apple Home Key. It also includes support for Thread and Matter, so it works perfectly across all smart home ecosystems. Read on to learn more about the and how to save 20% off.
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Some developers yesterday argued that a change to iPhone contact privacy in iOS 18 made it harder for new social media apps to compete.
But I think they’re wrong, and that the more granular privacy control offered in iOS 18 actually makes it more likely that we’ll be willing to grant contacts access to apps …
Before iOS 18, apps could request access to your contacts. This was particularly relevant to social media apps, where they could search your contacts for the email addresses of existing members,
Two of the iPhone 16 designers have spoken on the Cool Hunting Design Tangents podcast, sharing some of the thinking behind the development of the new Camera Control button.
Senior product designer Rich Dinh said that he’s worked on the iPhone since the original model, but they still approach each generation afresh …
Dinh is joined by human interface designer Johnny Manzari.
Dinh starts out by saying that he has personally appreciated the biggest benefit of Camera Control – being able to grab the phone and start shooting immediately.
I also have
A new version of Oura’s smart ring has been announced, the Oura Ring 4. The new model is slimmer, has recessed sensors for greater comfort, and uses new algorithms to provide more complete and accurate measurements.
The 4th-gen smart ring is also now available in a greater range of sizes, and with a new black finish described as combining a deeper color and improved durability …
Both myself and my colleague Laura Rosenberg have been impressed with the previous generation rings.
While you have to look very closely
Two Maryland-based iPhone fraudsters who cheated Apple out of $2.5M were handed prison sentences yesterday, and ordered to pay restitution.
One was sentenced to 57 months, the other to 54 months, with the pair ordered to repay a total of a little under $1.5M …
The fraud was one we’ve seen before, where the scammers bought realistic but non-functional iPhone clones and spoofed the serial numbers to give them the identity of real devices covered by AppleCare. They