Apple has yet to secure a stay on fee calculations in its ongoing legal battle with Epic Games. Apple’s case will be heard by the Supreme Court during the term that begins in October, and Apple asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to stay the proceedings until then, but the court said no. Apple now has 24 hours to give the court an overview of the fees it wants to charge developers for using alternative payment options and for linking to purchasing options on the web. Epic Games will then be able to give a…
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Apple today released new AirPods beta firmware available to public testers. The firmware has build number 9A5336b and is available for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. This is the same as the AirPods beta released to developers last week. In iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, Apple adds a new AirPods interface, a slider for Adaptive Mode, and custom EQ support, so the firmware allows public beta testers to use these features. AirPods are also compatible with the new Siri AI. When AirPods are connected to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac…
To wire or not to wire? Hadrian/Shutterstock If you drive with an iPhone next to you every day, one of the biggest quality of life improvements you can make to your car is using Apple CarPlay. This is a feature that has been included in iPhones since 2014 and allows you to access navigation, messages, music and other apps through your car’s infotainment system. You benefit from simplified controls on a larger screen and don’t run the risk of being distracted trying to use your phone while driving. Support for CarPlay dates back to the iPhone…
Five years of progress, quirks, surprises and the occasional raised eyebrow Anastasiia Sapozhnikova/Shutterstock Advancements in smartphones have become so incremental that you might struggle to spot the differences between the latest two models of a given device. But when you zoom out and study longer periods of time, it’s much easier to see what’s changed. You might want to know what an upgrade gets you, or maybe you enjoy iPhone history out of nostalgia. Beyond the obvious increase in internal power, the iPhone has evolved over the past five years. Since 2021’s iPhone 13 lineup, we’ve…
Apple today announced that “Block Blast!+” and “Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles+” will come to Apple Arcade on September 3, adding two more puzzle games to the service’s catalog. Block Blast!+ is the Arcade edition of “Block Blast”, a chart-topping block-busting puzzle game. Players fill a grid with block shapes to clear entire rows and columns, chasing bigger combos as they go, and the Arcade version removes the ads found in the free-to-play original. Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles+ is based on “Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles,” winner of the 2025 App Store Award for Cultural Impact. Players reconstruct vintage-style…
There are some things to consider before taking the plunge. Adnan Ahmed for Woozad I’ve been an Android user my whole life, starting with a Samsung Galaxy Ace and then sticking mainly to OnePlus phones thanks to their excellent value for money. I finally made the big move to iOS with the iPhone 15 Pro Max – driving it through three iterations of the OS before returning to Android with the OnePlus 15. As premium as the iPhone experience was, there were some things that Android simply handled better for me, so I assumed the switch…
There are different ways to keep apps under the radar. Andranik Hakobyan/Getty Images Sometimes you don’t want your iPhone or iPad to display all installed apps directly on the Home screen. The easiest method is to long press an icon, pressing the button – (less) icon next to it and choosing Remove from Home Screen. This banishes it to the App Library, but you can go further. Maybe you want to declutter your iPhone and keep the list tidy, keep getting distracted by social media, or don’t want others to see what you have installed. In…
Alex Stock Photo/Shutterstock When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at Macworld in 2007, Android was just a small phone software project purchased by Google, from a market perspective. While Apple’s device was the catalyst that started the touchscreen smartphone movement, a wide range of phone makers were quickly hot on the iPhone’s heels, and most of them were powered by Google’s Android. Although many Android phones have been released over the years, a few key models have played an important role in helping the Android ecosystem grow to where it…
Will yours survive ocean waves or a washing machine? EmilFotos/Shutterstock Gadgets that become water resistant are one of the most underrated technological improvements we’ve seen in the last decade. Dropping your phone in the sink would often destroy it if you didn’t act quickly, but now you have a safety net for these accidents. AirTags users may especially appreciate this; Because small trackers use cases that can attach to almost anything, they’re more likely to get splashed or stuck in the rain. But it’s not something to treat as a magic shield. Although Apple states that…
The reference image could be a new way to prove provenance in the wake of generative AI. Apple We’re excited to see the new AI side of Siri when iOS 27 launches, but it looks like Apple has additional tools in the works. In his analysis of the latest beta version of the operating system, 9to5Mac noticed some signals that Apple might be working on a photo authentication feature. Apple Reference Image appears to be a tool that will verify that a photo was taken with an iPhone camera. To confirm that a photo is an…