iOS 26 gave Apple’s Calendar app a convenient new advantage

iOS 26 is a big update for many system apps, such as Wallet , Messages , and Music . One popular app—Apple Calendar—is mostly light on changes, but it did gain one unique new advantage: event creation via screenshots.

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Apple TV has one of its biggest hit series returning soon, trailer here

Your Friends & Neighbors premiered last spring and quickly became one of Apple TV’s biggest hits, and soon the Jon Hamm series will return for season 2. Here’s the new trailer.

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Apple reportedly geoblocking downloads and updates of ByteDance-owned apps in the US

According to , Apple is blocking US users from downloading or updating several ByteDance-owned apps, even when they have a valid Chinese App Store account. Here are the details.

Despite being widely known for TikTok (and its Chinese version, Douyin), ByteDance develops and distributes multiple apps on the App Store. That includes Capcut, Lemon8, Lark, and Hypic.

Until recently, users in the US could download these apps as they would any other app in the App Store. However, according to Wired ,


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Apple no longer offers M3 Ultra Mac Studio with original highest RAM configuration

A year ago today, Apple unveiled the M4 Max and M3 Ultra Mac Studio desktop computer. In addition to Thunderbolt 5 and SSD storage configurable to 16TB, Apple advertised the Mac Studio as featuring up to 512GB of unified memory. As of this week, the highest RAM upgrade option is no longer available.

Apple the highest RAM configuration in the press release for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio:

Mac Studio is a powerhouse for AI, capable of running large language models (LLMs)


Apple releases second version of iOS 26.4 beta 3 for iPhone

Apple has released a second version of iOS 26.4 beta 3 for developers. The update comes three days after the first version. It’s unclear what the new build address, but it’s available as an over-the-air update now.

The new iOS 26.4 beta 3 release has build version 23E5223k compared to 23E5223f. Devices running the build from earlier this week will see the new update, and public


Halide makers just made Kino the ultimate iPhone 17 Pro video app

Kino, the pro video capture app for iOS, just received an update that makes it the ultimate filmmaking app for iPhone 17 Pro.

The team at Lux Optics, the company behind both Halide and Kino, explains how today’s version 1.4 update lets iPhone 17 Pro users take full advantage of their camera hardware:

Today we’re launching support for Apple Log 2 in our award winning video app, Kino. Apple Log 2 is a new format that launched alongside the iPhone 17 Pro.


‘iPhone Duo’ is my new top pick for foldable iPhone name

Apple is releasing its first foldable iPhone this fall, commonly referred to as ‘iPhone Fold.’ Here’s why I think its name might be ‘iPhone Duo.’

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9to5Mac Daily: March 5, 2026 – The all-new MacBook Neo

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OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with GPT-5.4 Thinking, offering six key improvements

Earlier this week, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant, promising to make ChatGPT less cringe and more natural when using its most popular model. Now OpenAI is back with GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro, which is an overall upgrade to its most capable frontier model.

OpenAI last upgraded this model in December with its GPT-5.2 “code red” response to competition from Google’s Gemini.

As for what’s new today, OpenAI highlights in these areas:

  • Coding, document understanding

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show had over 4 billion views, all-time record

The Super Bowl was almost a month ago, but the official numbers for Bad Bunny’s Apple Music halftime show were just released this week. And they confirm that the halftime performance was a record-breaker.

Last month shortly after the Super Bowl, Apple touted the success of Bad Bunny’s halftime show in a variety of ways. But it was too early to have actual viewership numbers yet.

Finally though, just this week, those numbers were released.

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