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Like it or not, there’s no turning back: apps and operating systems will steadily gravitate toward voice-first interactions.

Yesterday saw a couple of claimed leaks about theiPhone Fold, one of them unremarkable, the other somewhat more surprising.

The first of them is almost certainly true, coming from a leaker with a good track record and in line with existing expectations. The second is a bit more of a wild card, but it does make sense to me …

The list ofApple subscription services keeps growing. iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, MLS Season Pass, Apple One … The company of course also takes a cut of subscriptions sold through the App Store, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts. Then there are the hardware-related subscriptions, AppleCare+ and the iPhone Upgrade Program.

Most recently, we’ve had the launch ofApple Creator Studio, and a new report says that we can expect tosee even more subscriptions to come …

Apple Watch certainly feels like a rather mature platform at this point. Software wise, there isn’t usually a ton I’d like to see – though there probably is a lot of potential for theApple Watch to serve as an AI wearable. Nonetheless, there is one nifty software upgrade I’d really like to see them add to theApple Watch.

At least 37 attorneys general for US states are responding to the ongoing problem of theGrok chatbot creating child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

It follows the app being banned in two countries and investigations being opened in both the UK and EU, but both Apple and Google have so far ignored requests for them to temporarily remove Grok and X from their respective app stores …

For the past 10 years or so, I have been a happy Bartender customer, singing its praises to anyone who’d hear. Alas, macOS Tahoe 26 seems to have broken it beyond repair. Now, I’ll just wait for Apple to inevitably Sherlock its core feature, which I can’t believe hasn’t happened yet.

Confirmation thatMicrosoft handed over BitLocker keys to theFBI for three Windows laptops is being contrasted withApple standing up to the same agency back in 2015.

However, the comparison isn’t actually fair, and there is a simple way for Windows users to ensure their encrypted data remains secure …

A report yesterday said that we will see aSiri chatbot as part ofiOS 27, despite the companypreviously dismissing this idea.

If accurate, this will see the company adopt a two-stage strategy to finally giving the new Siri the smarts it has long lacked …

Yesterday brought a surprising report about the development ofan Apple pin, whichThe Information likened to the mysterious and as-yet-unreleased AI hardware device designed by Jony Ive.

I have a pretty strong suspicion about what the Apple pin is, and I’m very confident indeed that I know what it isn’t …

Over the holiday break, I finally decided to take the plunge and get a new iPhone after four years holding on to my iPhone 13 Pro Max. Here are the main differences I’ve been noticing so far.

Apple Intelligence-powered Siri isvery late, to say the least. That’s largely been because Apple has struggled to keep up with developing their own AI models. I’d say its largely played out this way because Apple has been hesitant to wanting to spend a lot of money, not to mention that Apple’s stance on privacy makes it hard to train a model – Apple just doesn’t have much data.

Nonetheless though, this delay actually comes with a bit of upside.

Apple surprised us all on Tuesday with an all new subscription offering for creative professionals, with thelaunch of Apple Creator Studio. In all honesty, it seems like a great value. After reading through all of the details though, I can already think of some easy improvements Apple could make.

In the space of one week, we have seen the transformation of our expectations for the newSiri. Instead of having to wait forApple to catch up with OpenAI and Google, we now need only to wait for the company to tweak the existingGemini models.

While that is indeed a dramatic turnaround, we still shouldn’t expect overnight miracles from the new Siri whenever it does now launch …

Apple yesterdayconfirmed reports that it was partnering with Google’s Gemini to provide the AI features forSiri and more.

Theprimary reason for the announcement couldn’t have been made any clearer by the way the company chose to release the news …

It’s been half a year since iOS 26 debutedin beta, so I’ve had quite a bit of time to sit with it. In a release with such a massive redesign, it’s easy for some of the smaller additional features to fly under the radar – but after giving iOS 26 my fair shot, I’ve come to really like one underlying feature in particular, and it has to do with screenshots.

Apple hasbeen roundly criticized for falling behind in AI, and for its rather disastrousApple Intelligence launch in which itwas forced to admit it hadpromised things it couldn’t deliver.

The second criticism is valid, the first only partly so. But a new report suggests that Apple’s path to delivering on its AI promises may be a radical one:abandoning work on its own model. I do now think that’s absolutely the right thing to do …

As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look at what defined Apple over the last 12 months, for better or for worse.

While Apple iscurrently lobbying against being given a legal responsibilityfor age verification when it comes to downloading apps, I think the company’s customers would very much benefit from it taking on this role.

Given the company’s track record in finding privacy-respecting approaches to personal data, I would like to see it go even further than the proposals we’ve seen to date …

TheiPhone Air appears to have been one of the least successful iPhones ever, but it seems that hasn’t discouraged Apple from trying again in 2027 with an iPhone Air 2.

The latest report suggests that the company may fix the two biggest problems with the device, and if accurate, I would expect the 2nd-gen model to be significantly more popular …

With iOS 26 this year, Apple announced anincredibly promising improvementto the order tracking feature in the Wallet app. With on-device Apple Intelligence models, the companyplanned to identify orders in your email to provide tracking updates, eliminating the need for retailers to need to support their proprietary feature.

I was really optimistic about this improvement, but after using it for the past couple months, it honestly feels a dull band-aid solution that never should’ve been implemented. Here’s why.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was yesterdayspotted in Washington, D.C. during a visit to lobby against a proposed App Store age verification policy.

But the very argument the company uses to oppose the proposal is in fact the strongest argument in favour of it …