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iOS receives coverage regarding its compatibility with various applications, security measures, and software updates. Our reports examine how the operating system interacts with messaging services, smart home applications, and beta software releases.
How-To Geek dug into the settings menu and found four customizations most drivers miss. The McLaren F1 car icon is the flashiest, but the EV plug filter and offline-map controls may be the ones you actually use.
Meta has expanded its scheduled messaging test to iOS beta testers, letting users queue texts, links, and media up to two weeks ahead on their iPhones.
YouTube is moving the Subscriptions tab out of its mobile bottom bar to make room for prompt-driven custom feeds, with paying subscribers receiving extra slots across their devices.
Online orders for Apple's foldable iPhone Duo slipped into January 2027 within minutes. Marketing chief Greg Joswiak says physical retail stores still have inventory held back for walk-in shoppers on launch morning.
The $1,999 iPhone Duo launches Friday. A Wired reporter used only its folding 7.6-inch screen for a workday, hitting iOS multitasking limits and patchy app support, but found the battery held up well.
A new iOS camera app called WorthWait forces users to shoot a 24- or 36-frame roll and wait 24 hours before seeing any of the photos, mimicking disposable film cameras.
Apple added protections against eight compromised TLS and code-signing certificates in iOS and iPadOS on October 19, two days after Chrome and Firefox blocked them. Mac users face a trickier fix.
Audiophile.fm has launched on iOS and Android, offering free, ad-free streaming of CD-quality and hi-res FLAC radio stations across jazz, classical, electronic, and rock without subscription fees.
Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3 launches globally — but not in India until January 2027. That’s confirmed by Daill Kim, Samsung India’s Head of Tablet, Note PC and Wearable, in a LinkedIn post cited by Gizmochina.
Google Maps’ Plus Codes — short, address-free digital location codes — are live globally and require no update. Tap, copy, paste. Works offline if the map area is downloaded.
LocalSend offers cross-platform file transfers across Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS over local networks, cutting out cloud storage and cables without locking users into a single brand ecosystem.
iOS 27 adds Blackfoot and Cherokee keyboards — fully functional, offline, and built into the OS. It’s not a demo. It’s infrastructure for language survival.
Discounts reported on Monday trimmed prices across Apple hardware including the M6 Mac mini and M5 Pro MacBook Pro, while iOS games saw sharp App Store cuts.
WhatsApp now blocks logins on Android and iOS devices running outdated operating systems — no exceptions, no bypasses, no warnings first.
Wispr Flow is a new AI-powered dictation app that formats speech into polished, ready-to-use text across any app—not just chatbots. Available now on iOS and macOS for $9.99/month or ₹6,499/year in India.
Apple's Live Activities feature feeds real-time updates directly into the Dynamic Island, lock screens, and CarPlay dashboards, keeping track of flights and deliveries without app hopping.
Apple's upcoming iPhone Duo foldable leaves out Face ID, telephoto zoom, and manual camera controls found on the iPhone 18 Pro, setting up tough trade-offs for early buyers.
Apple's delayed base handset leaves the iPhone 17 sharing shelf space with the new iPhone 18 Pro, complete with adjusted pricing and distinct hardware differences.
Canon Camera Connect handles files very differently on iOS compared to Android. Hands-on testing revealed Android users cannot download Raw or HEIF files directly, while iOS demands repeated Wi-Fi approvals.
Mutropolis, The Longing, and Sonority are on sale. Ace Attorney titles are $0.50. Cubasis 3 is $25. Titan Quest is $9. Several apps — including Pixelcos and Funk Drummer — are free.
A lifetime subscription to document scanner app iScanner was discounted to $24.97 from its standard $199.90 list price in a limited promotion reported by Macworld.
Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise has quietly appeared on Google Play and the App Store as a Netflix Games release, featuring reworked touch controls and four-player co-op.
ChatGPT app gets College Planner, flashcards and multi-photo PDF capture — all aimed at US teens in grades 10–12.
Google has rolled out Chrome 155 with 247 security patches across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, tackling four critical memory flaws and high-severity vulnerabilities in tools like Google Translate.
Capcom is bringing Monster Hunter Rise to iOS and Android exclusively for Netflix subscribers, running natively on phones right before Tencent releases Monster Hunter Outlanders.
Huawei has confirmed it will bring HarmonyOS NEXT — its Android-free operating system — to global smartphone markets, though no launch date or rollout schedule has been set.
WhatsApp is enforcing minimum OS versions server-side, blocking logins on outdated Android and iOS devices globally as of 5 October 2026.
Samsung has rolled out a major redesign of its SmartThings app—now live for Android and iOS—with Matter 1.6 support, local control upgrades, and a new ‘Now’ dashboard that surfaces real-time actions and insights.
iOS 27.2 Beta 3 is live for developers. The iPhone Duo launches October 23 — but will ship with iOS 27.1 instead. Apple is delaying the redesigned Health app and new Siri AI languages to a post-launch update.