Apple has today received a 500 million euro fine (about $570 million) from the EU commission under the Digital Markets Act. The the fine relates to Apple’s App Store anti-steering policies. It is being forced to make changes, or else face further fines.

The DMA requires that app developers should be able to inform customers of alternative purchasing options outside of the App Store, and direct customers to those alternative payment options, free of charge. Apple’s rules currently do not

The recently rebranded Max has launched an official, approved alternative to password-sharing. You can now add an “Extra Member” to your Max account, but it will cost an extra $7.99/month. Here are the details.

The days of widespread password sharing for streaming services are quickly ending.

Various streamers have debuted up-charges for sharing your account with someone not in your household. And starting today, Max has followed suit.

Max users who want to share their account with a friend

In a , Morgan Stanley shared the results of its recent survey of 3,300 US iPhone owners. The subject? Apple Intelligence. And in a surprise, consumers are finding the iPhone’s AI features more useful than the firm expected.

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Woodring said nearly 80% of all eligible U.S. iPhone owners have downloaded and engaged with Apple Intelligence over the past six months. Many have described it as easy to use, innovative or something that improves their user experience. As such, nearly

Knowing dimensions is one thing, but holding an iPhone 17 Air dummy model is quite another, as a shows quite well.

Unbox Therapy’s new video shows the full range of iPhone 17 dummy models.

The easy standout of the bunch, by far, was the iPhone 17 Air .

Lewis George Hilsenteger (“Lew”) reacts to the ultra-thin new model in ways that seem a surprise even to himself.

Upon picking it up, he immediately says, “That

After being announced in January, Instagram’s new CapCut competitor is . The app is called ‘Edits’, and was announced in direct response to the TikTok ban earlier this year. The app was initially set to launch in February.

Meta is taking a page directly out of TikTok’s playbook, and is a new video editing tool for short-form content creators.

The new app, dubbed ‘Edits’, has all the tools needed to support your content creation process on mobile. It’s also

iOS 18.5 public beta 2 has just been released, bringing the latest iPhone software version to members of Apple’s public beta program. Here’s what to expect.

Yesterday, Apple shipped a new iOS 18.5 beta for developers, and today a fresh public beta has followed.

Both releases are identical software builds, but Apple typically provides developers the first look to ensure no critical bugs make it into the update.

Now, after a day of developer testing, public betas users have access

Apple has new public beta software available for testing now. Public beta 2 just debuted for macOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5, tvOS 18.5, and more.

Last week, Apple’s first public betas for the next wave of software releases arrived.

macOS 15.5, iPadOS 18.5, and more launched in public beta after the updates had already been available for developers for a couple of weeks.

Those initial developer betas were fairly buggy in my experience

Project Fi was announced 10 years ago, and Google is celebrating the MVNO’s birthday with a handful of updates for iPhone and iPad owners.

The set-up process on iPhone is getting simpler. You no longer have to manually enter carrier information to get service up and running. The actual activation period is also getting faster.

On the calling front, voicemail will soon be integrated into the Phone app. At the moment, you have to check the , with visual voicemail rolling out in the coming weeks.