By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple is celebrating 10 years of Apple Music, but ignoring 18 years of the iPhone. Plus Siri is not being replaced by ChatGPT, and Apple’s cross-promotions of its services just keep on coming.Apple will surely add more AI extensions to Apple Intelligence, but it isn’t buying PerplexityIf you’ve been living under Airplane Mode for the last many weeks, you may be the only person Apple hasn’t managed to tell about its “F1: The Movie.” One of your hosts has now seen the film — and not had pushed any of the incessant promotions Apple is accused of sending to iPhone users.As Apple’s latest effort goes into theaters, though, this week is also time look back at a remarkable ten years of Apple Music. And a slightly confusing new playlist of everyone’s top 100 songs. Or 98. Or 67. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele) Tim Cook has constantly been criticized, most recently over Apple Intelligence, but always for just not being Steve Jobs — yet the fact that he isn’t Jobs is what has made Apple the technological and financial juggernaut it is today.Tim Cook (left) with Steve Jobs — image credit: AppleThere was criticism right back at the start in 2011, when Tim Cook was no longer the temporary stand-in for Steve Jobs, but was getting the CEO job permanently. Today there’s criticism of Cook over how Apple Intelligence has seemingly stumbled.And in between, say around 2018, there was criticism for the now forgotten weak sales of the HomePod. Plus before even then, the Apple Watch was branded a failure, it was called a device without a point. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) Creative work gets a major upgrade in iOS 26, with on-device tools that let you generate custom images, tweak your tone, and organize your ideas more naturally.Image Playground in iOS 26 offers creative options for artApple’s iOS 26 brings a deeper focus on creativity by expanding the tools you already use every day. While many of these features started in earlier updates, the newest version adds more power, flexibility, and relevance to creative work on iPhone.Whether you’re sketching a character, rewriting a story, or organizing your thoughts, these features help you move ideas forward without getting in the way. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) A FOIA request revealed the letters sent to Apple and big tech over the TikTok ban, and they claim the law wouldn’t be enforced due to it interfering with the President’s management of foreign affairs.Lack of TikTok ban enforcement due to Article II interpretationTikTok was banned originally due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that was signed into law under the Biden administration, though it was brought about by President Trump’s desire to ban the app. However, he changed his tune when he discovered his supporters used the platform, so he signed an executive order immediately after being sworn in that would delay the ban in the hopes a deal would be made.Fast forward 75 days, then 75 days again, and the ban has been delayed three times total as no deal has been made. In that time, Apple restored TikTok to the App Store, not because it was legal, but because the Attorney General said the DOJ wouldn’t enforce the law. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Apple is set to detail earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2025 on July 31 in an investor call, though all eyes will be on how unstable tariff policies have impacted the company.Apple to reveal earnings for Q3 in July. Image source: AppleApple’s Q3 tends to be quieter than the rest since holiday sales are long over and spring releases don’t always drive the market, but 2025 has something the others didn’t — Trump tariffs. Apple shared that it expected to take at least a $900 million hit to its bottom line if nothing changed from March.Things did change, however, as the Trump administration agreed to back off its seemingly random “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days as deals were worked out. However, the tariffs left in place were still magnitudes higher than what was in place before Trump took office in January. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple reportedly was considering providing cloud services to app developers, as executives considered the creation of a rival offering to services sold by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.iCloud is Apple’s main cloud service, but it apparently considered providing developers with more. Developers often rely on cloud servers for various tasks, ranging from data storage to off-device processing. While the major names in the field include the lies of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, Apple could’ve been another name on the list.According to sources of The Information Apple has internally considered providing server-rentals to developers of iPhone and Mac apps. The deliberations, which have happened over the last few years, have not yet resulted in such a service existing, but there’s a chance one could eventually turn up. Rumor Score: Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Oliver Haslam) Apple has long been rumored to be working on the iPhone Fold and a foldable iPad. A new report claims that the iPad project is “paused,” and I am convinced that it’s the right decision.The ‘iPhone Fold’ is expected to take familiar design cues – image credit AppleInsiderThe folding device rumors have been plentiful in recent years, and the general belief was that something would be released in 2026 or thereabouts. Whether that would be a phone or some sort of tablet-laptop hybrid was unclear, depending on which analyst you listened to.It’s important to remember that this latest report, courtesy of DigiTimes, doesn’t say that the foldable iPad has been canceled. Rather, it says that Apple has “decided to pause progress” on the project. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) While China’s smartphone sales stall overall, Apple grabbed growth with smart pricing, subsidies, and its broad iPhone 16 lineup.iPhone 16 lineupApple posted high single-digit growth in China’s smartphone market during the second quarter of 2025. Sales rose on the strength of promotions and demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone Pro Max models.Counterpoint Research reported that Apple’s price cuts in May lifted performance despite modest overall market growth. China’s smartphone sell-through in Q2 2025 is expected to show slight year-over-year growth. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Early Prime Day deals are heating up, especially with the 4th of July weekend on the horizon, and shoppers can reap special savings on clearance Mac mini computers, AirTags, and accessories.Save on AirTags, docks, speakers & more.Kicking off today’s fresh early Prime Day deals is a blowout $199.99 price on a refurbished Intel Mac mini at Amazon-owned Woot. Equipped with a 6-core Intel Core i5 processor, this configuration has 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD. It also has four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, one HDMI 2.0 port, and two USB-A ports.Buy Mac mini for $199.99 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Apple Umeda opens on July 26, and Apple comes bearing gifts — a brand new Apple-themed wallpaper, available for all your devices.New wallpapers from Apple now available for Phone, iPad, MacApple has announced that a brand new Apple Store, known as Apple Umeda, will be opening at Osaka’s Grant Front shopping center on July 26. It marks Apple’s first store in Umeda, though the company has been eyeing the district for quite some time.To commemorate the occasion, Apple has released a new wallpaper available for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can download all three below: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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