Apple released for iPhone users everywhere this week. The update focuses a lot on interoperability between iPhone and Android devices, privacy, and more. Here are all of the new features in iOS 26.3.
Updated February 12, 2026 with release information.
Following two court losses and two successful appeals, Apple was cleared today on all counts of patent infringement in a 2019 lawsuit brought by Texas-based Optis Wireless. A second case, however, still looms in the UK. Here are the details.
In 2019, Optis sued Apple, alleging that iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watch models with LTE support infringed five patents covering multiple 4G/LTE networking techniques:
A team of Apple researchers set out to understand what real users expect from AI agents, and how they’d rather interact with them. Here’s what they found.
In the study, titled , a team of four Apple researchers says that while the market has been investing heavily in the development and evaluation of AI agents, some aspects of the user experience have been overlooked: how users might want to interact with them, and what these interfaces should look like.
To explore that, they divided the study into
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman yesterday reported that Apple’s new Siri initiative was facing internal delays, having originally been planned to start rolling out with iOS 26.4. Gurman suggested features may start appearing in iOS 26.5, or later releases in the year.
That report has seemingly rocked investor confidence, with Apple stock plummeting today. , Apple confirmed that it remains on track to launch new Siri this year, which reaffirms what it has promised publicly all along.
To be clear, Apple’s
iPadOS 26 makes major changes to how multitasking works via a new app windowing system. And Apple’s new system got a lot better for me after I changed one key setting.
In iPadOS 26, apps get an entirely new windowing system that works a lot like the Mac.
You can freely resize windows, overlap them, and do all the things that Stage Manager once tried to do, but couldn’t quite deliver.
The update also brings the menu bar to the iPad, with direct inspiration from
Following last week’s release of the Interop 2025 results, Apple and the other members of the browser interoperability group have now outlined their objectives for the year ahead. Here are the details.
As we covered last week , the Interop group published its year-end report detailing major gains in cross-browser compatibility throughout 2025, including Safari’s outsized jump in test pass rates and progress across key areas such as CSS, View Transitions, and the Navigation API.
That was the result
At CES 2026, Keychron introduced a new line of keyboards for Mac with its Q Ultra series. They all offer an 8K polling rate and a fantastic all metal build, and they come in three size variants: , , and . I’ll be going hands on with the .
I’m testing out the , the 75% variant. I have limited desk space, so getting the smallest form factor possible was very important to me. If you prefer slightly more keys, you can
After multiple years of speculation, last month Apple officially announced that Chase is set to become the new issuer of Apple Card. Apple says the transition from Goldman Sachs to Chase will occur in approximately 24 months. Here’s everything we know about what this transition means for Apple Card users …
In January 2022, Goldman Sachs revealed that it had lost over $1 billion on its Apple Card partnership since 2020. At the time, however, the company claimed it was still “committed
Benjamin and Chance react to the disappointing news shared by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that the new Siri features are facing even more delays, but in happier news, a bunch of iPhones, iPads and Macs are due for an imminent refresh. Meanwhile, Tim Cook reminisces ahead of Apple’s 50th birthday.
And in Happy Hour Plus , thoughts on the design of the Ferrari Luce and Jony Ive’s sniping comments about his former employer.
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Apple has new beta firmware available today for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods 4. Here are the details.
If you’re running the developer beta for AirPods, you might have a new update installing soon.
Apple has just released new beta firmware with the build 8B5034f .
It’s available for three AirPods models only:
The last time beta firmware arrived for these models was late last year.
Currently, these different AirPods