Over the past ten years, Apple’s iPhone has become the company’s most valuable —and recently, somewhat volatile— asset. Since its introduction in 2007, the iPhone helped to jumpstart the smartphone revolution, and with it came some big innovations. The App Store, touchscreen gaming, the mass adoption of social media, and protecting user data with biometrics. Its product lineup is enmeshed in Apple’s ecosystem, and the impact that it continues to have around the globe is vast.
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: by the numbers
Apple didn’t choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway.
A first look at Apple Intelligence and its (slightly) smarter Siri
Our first look at AI on an iPhone is a collection of puzzle pieces that hint at the bigger picture.
In what’s become an annual tradition, we now have the non-working iPhone 16 “dummy units” — created for case and accessory makers — from perennial leaker Sonny Dickson. In addition to showing the new colors, we can also see the camera bump aligned vertically in what should be the final size and shape of the device Apple announces this fall.
The CBC is reporting that the women stranded by the wildfires while camping were safely rescued by a search and rescue helicopter team after successfully contacting help by sending a satellite text message.
Despite reduced visibility due to heavy smoke, the rescuers were able to reach the hikers who were found “exactly where the cellphone ping said they were.”
Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that “Apple Intelligence” features will be available for developers to beta test this week.
However, he also says the first ones won’t be released publicly until weeks after Apple’s big September updates for iPhone / iPad / Mac, etc. Rollouts for others from its WWDC showcase, like upgraded Siri, could stretch into 2025.
The discussion about what Apple will do next with the fourth iPhone slot in its lineup had a lot of agreement in the comments section, except it wasn’t exactly in favor of the rumored “iPhone 17 Slim.”
Whether it’s a Mini, a Mini Pro, or a Mini Thick with extra battery packed inside, the people have their eye on one iPhone format in particular.
iPhone owners love the feature and get up in arms when automakers resist it. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said this week on Decoder that CarPlay can’t “leverage other parts of the vehicle experience” and takes control away from automakers.
Meanwhile, friend of The Verge, Patrick George, has the so-far unpopular opinion that while CarPlay is familiar, it’s rapidly becoming out of date.
RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare
Texting an Android user from an iPhone still isn’t as good as the blue-bubble life. But at least it’s not awful anymore.
Here are the features Apple didn’t announce in the WWDC keynote
Here’s everything we could find for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch that didn’t get screen time.
That didn’t pan out, but if you’re curious what it could have looked like, AppleInsider published some pictures of a purported prototype iPhone 15 Pro Max with haptic buttons for the volume rocker and the power button. The report also includes some details on how the buttons might have worked.
The new Insta360 Flow Pro can use the company’s own tracking algorithm to keep subjects in frame, but adds support for Apple’s DockKit framework so tracking works with the iPhone’s camera app, too.
The Flow Pro also introduces a ring light so creators can easily see when tracking is working, and a price that’s $10 cheaper than its predecessor.
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Hours after posting that a notarization submission for the Epic Games Store had been rejected by Apple, Epic and its CEO Tim Sweeney now say it has been un-rejected (a familiar situation here).
We’re still months away from EU residents actually getting the store on their iPhones and iPads, complete with Fortnite, but one barrier has been removed.
If you owned an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus between September 16th, 2016 and January 3rd, 2023 and met certain requirements, you may be eligible to claim part of a settlement after a class action lawsuit over issues with the Apple devices’ microphones.
The deadline was originally June 3rd, 2024, but it was extended earlier this month to July 3rd instead.