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iOS 18.1 is almost here . When it arrives, it will bring the first set of Apple Intelligence capabilities. Here’s the full list of AI features coming to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iOS 18.1 and more.

After Click to Cancel legislation for subscriptions, California has introduced another piece of consumer protection legislation for buying digital content.

It will force companies to tell you when you won’t actually own the content you think you’re buying – something which has occasionally been true for iTunes purchases …

The problem with ‘buying’ digital content

There have been numerous examples of consumers thinking they are buying digital content, which remains theirs for life, only to find it unceremoniously removed – sometimes years later.

For example, two class action

9to5Mac recently discovered evidence in iOS 18 that Apple is testing using future AirPods models to measure heartbeat, with our sources indicating that the feature will be implemented in both AirPods Pro 3 and the next generation of Powerbeats Pro .

An Apple patent application describes how the company can use a health sensor not just to measure heart-rate, but also to detect heart disease …

We reported earlier this month on the new code.

Code found in the latest beta refers to new wireless earbuds with a heart-rate

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text.

Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, and were searchable by more than 20,000 Meta employees …

The security breach was discovered in 2019, but had reportedly existed for seven years, as reports.

While Meta didn’t say how many accounts were affected, a senior

The iFixit iPhone 16 Pro teardown video is now up (below), and the company has highlighted some differences over last year’s model. This follows its earlier teardown of the standard and Plus models .

Top of the list, and exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro, is a new type of battery. Apple has also had to make a compromise in order to create room for the Camera Control button …

that while there’s no change to the type of battery used in the iPhone 16 and

Featuring two Hollywood big stars in Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Wolfs was originally anticipated to be Apple’s biggest box office film to date, until it was unceremoniously pulled from wide theatrical release last month.

Following a limited theatrical run last week, the action comedy movie is now premiering today .

has been generally well received by critics, currently holding a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The action comedy see Pitt and Clooney playing fixers who have to work together to patch up a crime scene, in an increasingly

Apple TV+ today premieres its new flagship original movie, called Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. The film is for subscribers, worldwide.

is written and directed by Jon Watts. The film was originally intended to have a wide theatrical release, but Apple shifted gears at the last minute and it became a streaming-exclusive title.

Watts, Pitt and Clooney have all expressed disappointment that the movie did not get its time in cinemas. (Pitt is also set to feature in Apple’s upcoming F1

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple is readying a new generation of Apple Vision Pro headset, set to go into production in the second of half of 2025.

The new Vision Pro would apparently not change much in terms of general specs and design, but would be upgraded to be powered by the M5 chip, a significant jump from the M2 that shipped in the first-gen model.

It’s unclear if Apple will attempt to bring Apple Intelligence features to the first-gen headset