iOS 26 brought a major new Liquid Glass design that, in some cases, led to user reports of slower iPhone performance. But Daring Fireball’s John Gruber to iOS 18 after a long time on iOS 26, and had a surprisingly different experience.

Over the weekend, John Gruber published a titled simply, ‘iOS 26 feels faster than iOS 18.’

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One more follow-up point after I spent two days using an iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.7.

Apple released iOS 26.4 for iPhone last month with new emoji, updates to Apple Music, and more. Now, the company is prepping a bug fix update, and it looks like iOS 26.4.1 is coming soon.

According to visitor logs for 9to5Mac, Apple employees are currently testing iOS 26.4.1 internally. The first signs of the update appeared last week, and the number of visitors has gradually increased since then. has also spotted evidence of iOS

Netflix has released a new iPhone and iPad app called Netflix Playground. Similar to , the new Netflix Playground app includes ad-free games with no in-app purchase content.

Netflix Playground includes multiple “mini games” that younger kids will enjoy. These include content from Peppa Pig, Sesame Street, Dr. Seuss, and more.

At launch, Netflix Playground includes seven mini games inside the new app:

• Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish: Dive into musical play zones filled with rhythmic fun and

Apple has its developer website this week to spotlight third-party apps using Liquid Glass to “create natural, responsive experiences across Apple platforms.”

This is the second version of Apple’s design gallery for Liquid Glass, following the initial gallery debut in November. Since then, more apps have adopted the new Liquid Glass design language, while both developers and Apple alike have also made refinements to the overall implementation.

“In the latest edition of our new design gallery, find out how teams of all sizes are taking

Google today released a new app on iOS called “ ” that’s rather curious. It’s somewhere between an experiment and a user-facing tool.

Google AI Edge Eloquent lets you “turn raw messy speech into well crafted text.” As you start talking, you see a real-time transcription and waveform with the ability to pause.

Once you press the stop button, Google will clean up the text and automatically copy it to your clipboard for easy pasting in other apps.

It’s no surprise that the iPhone is behind the iconic shot of Earth from NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission. It turns out the iPhone isn’t the only Apple product being used by astronauts in space.

As a four-person crew travels further in space than any human before today, all eyes are on NASA.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who is currently living aboard the International Space Station, posted the coolest workout video recently.

I have avoided the AirPods Max since their original release in 2020. I could never justify the $550 price tag, especially when the AirPods Pro line was much cheaper, offered more features, and had a more convenient form factor. I knew there was a target customer for these high-end headphones, but at the time, it wasn’t me. Then Apple dropped the true successor to the Gen 1 AirPods Max and added a lot of the features and internal hardware that the AirPods

Apple TV the trailer for Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, a new dark comedy coming next month with thriller flair.