Apple last week announced that iPads have joined the Self Service Repair program , enabling owners and independent repair shops alike to get access to manuals, tools, and parts.

The company said it was excited to expand the program to iPads, but a closer look at the details reveals both good news and bad …

Apple’s Self Service Repair program first launched for iPhone back in 2021, expanded to MacBooks in 2023, and is now available for iPad too. The company said it offers support

Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs – founder and president of the Emerson Collective, and Steve’s widow – have acknowledged that the iPhone played a role in the “dark” side of technology.

Ive has also said that his mysterious hardware AI device would not be happening without the support and investment of Powell Jobs …

We heard more than a year ago that Jony Ive and Sam Altman were seeking a billion dollars in funding for the device, and that they were in investment talks with Powell Jobs . We noted at the

Apple has appealed parts of the Digital Markets Act law citing user privacy concerns, . Specifically, Apple is contesting the interoperability requirements that say data like notification content and WiFi networks should be made available to third-parties.

Apple says the DMA as written allows others to “access personal information that even Apple doesn’t see”. This is because features like notification rendering and WiFi network data are currently handled on-device and stored in an encrypted fashion, so Apple cannot see that stuff. However, the DMA does

A few days ago and fifteen years too late, Meta released an official iPad app for WhatsApp. And while many celebrated the end of one of the most inexplicable software holdouts in App Store history, others asked the most obvious follow-up question: “Thanks! Can we have Instagram next?”

Yes, as it turns out.

According to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman in the latest edition of his , Meta is now “full steam ahead” in its development and testing of a native Instagram app for the iPad

While AI can help us do stuff, AI agents are tools that actually do stuff for us. A new open-source project shows how an ChatGPT-powered agent could complete tasks for us using our iPhones.

Rounak Jain developed the tool as part of an OpenAI hackathon in 2024. Starting today, the open-source project is .

The tool is capable of turning complex commands into hands-free actions that require completing multiple steps across various apps.

For example, sending a specific message to a contact

Here’s a fun one for Mac nostalgia fans: a new project by hobbyist Nick Gillard has taken the idea of mini retro builds to a whole micro level.

Called the pico-mac-nano, this is a working replica of the original Macintosh that stands just 62 millimeters tall (that’s 2.4 inches for you, Casey Liss). And what’s more, you can actually run MacPaint and MacWrite on it.

The project (via ) builds on an earlier open-source emulator

Earlier this year, Apple launched the iPhone 16e . While in many ways it was an successor, the naming scheme changes things up a bit compared to the . Now that it’s part of the mainline iPhone lineup, many have wondered – will this be an annual refresh? Today, we’ll be recapping the rumors.

According to leaker Instant Digital on Weibo , Apple is already preparing trial production of an iPhone 17e, suggesting that it’s almost definitely on the way:

The setup

While in today’s edition of , Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned a quiet but meaningful upgrade coming to Apple’s SwiftUI framework, 9to5Mac has learned of a second welcome improvement for developers who have been eager but unable to go all-in on SwiftUI app development.

For years, SwiftUI has been marketed as the future of Apple app development: a modern way to build user interfaces that works across all Apple platforms.

And for the most part, it does the job. Until you need to

Long-time 9to5Mac readers will remember that the native Shortcuts app started as an indie project called Workflow , a clever, approachable tool that made automation fun and accessible to less technical users.

Today, Shortcuts remains a powerful utility, particularly on the Mac. However, compared to how agentic AI tools have reshaped how we think about automation, it’s feeling a bit stagnant. That may be about to change.

As by Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter, Apple is preparing a significant