
Apple’s HomePod products were largely absent from the company’s WWDC announcements this week, but there are two improvements coming in iOS 27—with more set to be unveiled this fall.

Apple’s HomePod products were largely absent from the company’s WWDC announcements this week, but there are two improvements coming in iOS 27—with more set to be unveiled this fall.

While the Apple Watch is gaining a handful of helpful features with watchOS 27, it’s also losing one that some users might miss.
As MacRumors noticed, watchOS 27 beta 1 no longer includes the Walkie-Talkie app or Control Center tile.
While it’s possible this will change in a future beta, it seems more likely that the experience, which is only offered on the Apple Watch, is just going away this year.
Walkie-Talkie was introduced as a bit of a novelty feature in

AT&T has announced a new ‘Unlimited Day Pass’ plan launching today that allows iPad users to activate cellular coverage on a convenient, per-need basis. Here are the details.
The iPad has supported cellular connectivity since the very first model. But for a lot of iPad users, their limited need for cellular doesn’t always justify a monthly subscription plan.
But today, AT&T is launching a convenient new iPad cellular option called Unlimited Day Pass.
Unlimited Day pass costs $3 for 24

One controversy to mar the launch of Siri AI was the news that it will not as yet be available within EU countries .
The EU told Apple that it would have to allow third-party AI providers to offer similar functionality on iPhones, and the company has responded by withholding an EU launch for now. We’re now learning that Meta’s WhatsApp is being faced with a similar demand …
Apple said that it had been unable to reach agreement with EU regulators on a compromise solution.
Unfortunately, due to the

While at Apple Park this week for WWDC, I had the opportunity to sit down with two Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winners to talk about their apps and what it’s like giving a surprise demo to Tim Cook and John Ternus.
First, I chatted with Karen-Happuch P. Henneh, the developer behind an app called Asul . Asul is an offline flood navigation app that uses flood data and weather forecasts to guide people in making safer travel decisions.
Karen explained to me:
My app is called Asul, which

A number of people have been complaining that the new Siri demos during the keynote videos were a little on the slow side. There were notable lags of several seconds between Siri requests and the task being carried out.
But while the ideal we’re aiming for is for AI tasks to be carried out as quickly as possible, what we saw is kind of good news …
Apple was roundly criticised back in 2024 for using concept videos of features it was unable to demo.
What Apple showed regarding the upcoming

There’s been an unusually large drop in the price of AAPL stock so far this week, losing roughly $25 per share in the two days since the WWDC keynote .
While some are inevitably speculating that investors weren’t impressed by Apple’s AI announcements , there are other factors at play …
Yahoo Finance was one of those to attribute the slide to the WWDC announcements.
Apple Inc shares were down 4% on Tuesday afternoon after the company’s annual developer conference left some investors questioning the pace of

Apple Music has a few new features with iOS 27, which Apple just announced today at its annual WWDC conference.
Perhaps the most immediately visible change is a newly-redesigned artist page featuring prominent shuffle play button, new artist name display, and other smaller layout changes.
While Apple did not have a dedicated section for Apple Music during its keynote event today, a word cloud slide mentioned new features for Apple Music several times.
As well as redesigned artist pages, the company said that album pages had also been updated

Instagram is rolling out one of its most requested features: the ability to manually reorder posts on your profile grid. Here’s how to do it.
Last March, Instagram added a long-requested option that lets users reorder images and videos in a carousel after publishing.
Now, the app is expanding that control to the profile itself, with a new option that lets users manually reorder posts on their grid.
The feature, which had been in testing for a while, lets users tap any photo from the grid