Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to expand the list of user-generated content experiences that can be removed from the App Store without notice. Here are the details.

Apple’s have an entire section dedicated to Safety. One of its sub-sections deals with apps with user-generated content, which the company acknowledges “present particular challenges, ranging from intellectual property infringement to anonymous bullying”.

To mitigate these issues, Apple requires such apps to follow certain rules, including providing mechanisms to report offensive content,

While AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini feature conversational voice mode, the apps don’t exactly work well with Apple CarPlay. That will soon change, it appears, with an upcoming iOS software update.

that Apple is planning to open up CarPlay to voice-enabled chatbot apps. This would enable use while driving without interacting with the iPhone.

Per the report:

The company is working to support the apps in CarPlay within the coming months, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan hasn

The new feature, currently in beta, is rolling out to select Premium users in six countries. Here are the details.

Spotify a beta feature called About the Song, which adds swappable cards to the Now Playing View containing information about the track you’re currently listening to.

The future is available in English to Premium subscribers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. It summarizes information from third-party sources, including publications such as Variety and

Since early 2020, I’ve used as my primary security system and have done so across two seapraye homes. It is now 2026, and in the world of smart home tech, six years is usually an eternity. I continue to get emails asking if I am still using it, or if I’ve jumped ship to some thing. I wanted to take an opportunity to update my review for 2026, discuss how the hardware has held up, and frankly,

This Sunday is the Super Bowl, the biggest TV event of the year in the US. But aside from sponsoring the halftime show , you may not see much from Apple in terms of paid commercials—except for one F1 ad created by Cadillac.

Siri hasn’t yet gotten the big AI upgrades we’re expecting soon , but it sounds like Alexa’s recent AI revamp is already resulting in at least one user running back to the arms of “old” (current) Siri.

Apple has for this year’s Swift Student Challenge. Here are the details on how to apply.

If you want Apple to recognize your app development work, and even have the chance to get invited to WWDC 2026, the Swift Student Challenge is for you.

Apple has just opened for this year’s challenge. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2026 .

How can you win the challenge? Here’s Apple’s guidance:

Swift Student Challenge winners will be

What started life as a humble face monitor geared to watching video and playing games wherever you happen to be has now evolved into something drawing ever closer to a Mac -powered Vision Pro .

The Viture Luma Ultra it isn’t perfect, but it is the closest thing I’ve seen yet to what I’d ideally like from a future Apple Vision Air product …

When Vision Pro launched, I said that Apple knocked it out of the park. I described it as the most impressive implementation of mixed reality we