New iPhone design with quad-curved display in the works, says leaker

Apple’s rumored iPhone roadmap reveals plenty of experimentation and unique designs coming, and one of them, per Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station, will involve a quad-curved display.

Next year brings the iPhone’s 20th anniversary, and reports have indicated for a while that Apple has a special new model launching.

This ‘iPhone 20’ has been rumored to feature a fully cutout-free display. Though more recent reporting says Apple is struggling to meet its goals for under-display camera and Face


Apple’s plans for Siri in iOS 27 sound like exactly what I want

Earlier this week, a Bloomberg report outlined Apple’s big plans for a Siri overhaul in iOS 27. And if it proves accurate, I’m very excited for the direction Apple’s taking with Siri.

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WhatsApp joins the appalling trend for AI-written replies to messages

If there’s one aspect of Apple Intelligence I really detest, it’s the suggested replies to iMessages . Meta is now emulating this with a new update to its Writing Help feature in WhatsApp .

The idea is that instead of actually replying to our friends with, you know, genuine human communication, we can just have AI send something generic instead …

Meta first launched the writing help feature last year, when it was intended to help users rephrase their messages, but reports that the latest update goes further.

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Apple details 4 new ways it’s bringing product component manufacturing to the US

Apple is expanding its American Manufacturing Program and bringing more component production to the United States. The company named new AMP partners and detailed how each helps it increase advanced manufacturing in America.

Apple says that Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics are now members of its American Manufacturing Program.

Now through 2030, Apple plans to spend $400 million with these four companies to “manufacture essential materials and components in the U.S. for Apple products sold around the world, creating jobs


Major court ruling says social media apps are intentionally addictive; Meta & Google lose

A court ruling with potentially massive implications has found that social media apps are intentionally designed to be addictive, and are harmful to teenage mental health.

A now 20-year-old woman sued Meta and YouTube owner Google for damaging her mental health as a child, with a jury awarding her $6 million in damages – and this is likely to be only the start …

Academic studies have long linked use of social media apps to mental health issues in children and teenagers. Apps like Instagram have been found to promote


Apple’s rumoured 200MP camera said to have larger sensor

Previous reports have suggested that Apple is planning to fit a 200-megapixel camera to an iPhone in either 2027 or 2028.

While squeezing ever more pixels into the same size sensor would be bad news for low-light photography, the latest report has a couple of pieces of good news …

It was in May of last year that Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station (DCS) – a leaker with a decent track record – first suggested that Apple was working on a 200


Apple age verification failing for some – here’s what to try

Apple age verification went live in the UK in iOS 26.4 after a previous accidental release in the developer beta. While it was straightforward for me , some on the and Reddit are reporting major problems with the process.

Some of the issues appear to be based on misunderstandings around the acceptable documentation when the company is unable to verify your age automatically, while others seem to be system failures …

Apple this week activated a requirement for UK users to verify that they are 18+ in order to get continued access

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Security Bite: What stands out in the iOS 26.4 security release notes

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Apple blocks App Store updates for Mac app replacing Launchpad, a feature it no longer offers

As spotted by , Apple is blocking App Store updates to AppGrid for resembling Launchpad, a feature the company discontinued in macOS Tahoe. Here are the details.

If you’ve always used Launchpad (or, if you’re anything like me, frequently activated it by accident), you probably noticed that the feature is no longer available on macOS Tahoe.

Because of that, many users have turned to either seeking workarounds or developing their own Launchpad replacements.

One such app is , by developer Attila Miklosi. As described


Apple trained an AI that captions images better than models ten times its size

Apple researchers have developed a new way to train AI models for image captioning that delivers more accurate, detailed descriptions while using far smaller models. Here are the details.

In a new study titled , a team of Apple Researchers collaborated with the University of Wisconsin—Madison to develop a new framework for a dense image captioning model, yielding state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks.

Dense image captioning is the task of generating detailed, region-level descriptions of everything happening within an image, rather than a

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