With just days to go before WWDC, the consensus is that Apple will unveil a big, visionOS-inspired redesign across its operating systems. And while some might be dreading a repeat of the iOS 7 announcement from a decade ago, it’s been long enough that many readers might not remember (or may have never even seen) what that overhaul actually looked like.

So here’s a quick refresher on what happened, and why this year will likely (I mean, hopefully?) be different.

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According to a recent investor note from GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu, Apple might have a pair of surprises in store for the iPhone 17 lineup this fall. Most notably, Pu has seemingly changed his prediction that the entire iPhone 17 lineup will use a version of the A19 chip. Instead, he now believes the base model iPhone 17 will use the same A18 chip that’s used in the iPhone 16.

Pu had previously predicted that the entire iPhone 17 lineup would use

If there’s one thing I’ve learned living in a house with pets and the pollen in the southern US, it’s that indoor air quality matters more than we think. Air purifiers help lessen the problem, but when you can automate them, even better. SwitchBot recently updated the , and it now supports Matter and works natively with HomeKit without needing an extra hub.

HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart

If you thought the “iPhones are getting solid-state, haptic buttons” rumors were dead, well… so did it. But according to Chinese leaker Instant Digital , Apple is back at it not just for future iPhones, but potentially for other products as well.

During the 2022 season of rumors for the iPhone 15, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple was planning to replace the clickable power and volume buttons on high-end models with solid-state versions:

“My latest survey

In 2019, Apple launched the U.S.-exclusive . It was designed to let its users enroll in health studies that would help shape new health-related features for its devices, as well as contribute to medical investigations with impact far beyond Apple’s ecosystem.

Six years later, the app is still going strong. And if you live in the U.S. and would like to participate, here’s how to enroll.

When Apple launched the Research app, it let users

Apple has for years been fighting antitrust battles all around the world, most of them concerning the App Store , and most of them coming down to a single issue: having monopoly control over the sale of iPhone apps.

Opinions on both sides of the debate are strongly held, and there’s little sign of that changing anytime soon – but it seems to me that there is one thing we could perhaps all agree on …

Let’s just quickly address the monopoly issue, before some commenters get side-tracked with

Apple’s newest original film, , is now streaming on Apple TV+. And if you happen to own a Vision Pro, there’s also an that puts you right on stage with the U2 frontman himself. Well, sort of.

Directed by musical documentarian Andrew Dominik ( ), the new movie mixes Bono’s one-man stage show, spoken-word storytelling, and animated visuals drawn from the singer’s own sketches.

The movie is based on Bono’s 2022

Apple Notes is easily one of the most powerful apps pre-installed on the iPhone, and recently , Notes added a key shortcut that unlocks two hidden powers in the app: instant conversions and equations.

Coming out of a 50% plunge in March, new data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) shows that non-Chinese phone makers saw a small, but welcome rebound in April.

According to the report, which hasn’t yet been made available but has been seen by , foreign-branded smartphone shipments in China totaled 3.52 million units in April. That’s just a hair up from 3.50 million in the same month last year, but should