Apple just made iMessage the safest messaging app with a big security upgrade
Apple announced an important update to iMessage, which, according to the company, might have turned this app into the safest messaging app available today. The …
Apps & Software
Apple Sports is Apple’s first new iPhone app of 2024
Apple Sports is the newest app designed by Cupertino to deliver real-time scores, stats, and more for sports aficionados. Apple says Sports is designed for …
You can use Google Gemini AI on your iPhone without installing an app
Google gave its generative AI products a big upgrade a few days ago by rebranding almost everything as Gemini. Virtually all of Google’s AI products …
Google’s new tool makes customer service calls so much simpler
Nearly every time I call a customer service line, I end up waiting 15-30 minutes for someone to answer the phone, or I have to …
visionOS 1.1 beta 3 now available with several improvements for Apple Vision Pro
Apple is seeding visionOS 1.1 beta 3 to Vision Pro developers. This is the first main testing version of this spatial computer since it’s been released at …
watchOS 10.4 beta 4 available with Vision Pro feature, Siri improvements, and 100+ new emojis
With watchOS 10.4 expected to launch in early March, Apple is nearing its testing cycle end with beta 4. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one …
tvOS 17.4 beta 4 now available with references to unreleased products and systems
Apple has just released tvOS 17.4 beta 4 to Apple TV users. At this moment, little is known about the changes the company is adding to this …
macOS 14.4 beta 4 available with these tweaks in Apple services
macOS 14.4 beta 4 is now available to developers as Apple aims at a March release of this new operating system update. While macOS 14.3 was already …
iOS 17.4 beta 4 now available as Apple readies early March release
Apple is now seeding iOS 17.4 beta 4 to developers as the company aims to release this upcoming operating system update in early March. There are several changes …
This unreleased Apple Music feature might help you ditch Spotify for good
Apple Music is full of good features following the iOS 17 update, but soon, the music service might help you transfer your Spotify library at …
Apple Music Monthly Replay makes me love the service even more
After making Apple Music Replay 2024 available, Apple decided to take another approach by introducing a monthly replay. The news was broken by Engadget, which …
Fake crypto wallet on Apple App Store stole money from users
Apple has allowed yet another fraudulent app to sneak through its review process, and this one managed to scam several users out of thousands of …
Apple’s RCS support in Message might finally have an explanation: China
Apple announcing that the iPhone’s Messages app will support RCS was quite a surprise a few months ago. I also thought it was a brilliant …
My 8 favorite Apple CarPlay tricks you probably don’t know about
Even though we’re still waiting patiently for Apple to build its own car, it probably already dominates your car’s infotainment system with its CarPlay software. …
How to calibrate Google Maps to make it more accurate
Navigation apps like Google Maps only work as intended if the device you’re using does one basic thing well: locate you, the user, accurately. If …
Everything new available to Apple Music in iOS 17
Apple previewed iOS 17 during the WWDC 2023 keynote, and although Apple Music wasn’t part of the presentation, the company has added several new features …
A new Gemini AI shortcut was just found hiding in Google Chrome
Google gave Bard an official upgrade and rebrand to Gemini, its most powerful ChatGPT rival so far. Gemini is available for free online. There’s also …
Apple unbans Epic Games, and Fortnite is coming back in the EU
Since Apple started beta testing iOS 17.4 with several changes for European users, we already knew Fortnite would return to the iPhone. Epic’s CEO teased …
Google Gemini 1.5 is so smart, it taught itself a rare language from a grammar manual
I was wondering why Google came out with the big Gemini rebrand and Gemini Advanced subscription last week. The announcements seemingly came out of the …
First-ever iPhone trojan steals facial recognition data to access bank accounts – should you worry about it?
There’s a first for everything, which includes an iOS trojan that steals facial recognition* data to access your bank accounts to rip it off. This …
iOS 18 might bring AI to the iPhone search and I’m ready for it
iOS 18 will deliver Apple’s first generative AI features for iPhone. That’s the expectation, at least, considering what’s available out there. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and …
OpenAI releases AI text-to-video generator Sora, ponders Google Search rival
The photo at the top of this article is not real. In fact, it’s not a photo at all but a screenshot of a video …
Piracy app Kimi overtook Netflix on the App Store before Apple removed it
Earlier this week, a vision-testing app shot up the charts on the iOS App Store. Kimi claimed to be an app iPhone owners could use …
Popular Vision Pro YouTube app Juno gets big upgrade with 5 key features
Apple Vision Pro launched without support for YouTube’s official app, as we noted in our Vision Pro review. While Google has added a visionOS version …
I can’t believe it, but Vision Pro might be the best way to doom-scroll TikTok
I’m not the biggest fan of TikTok, as I have enough doom-scrolling going on in my life without it as it is. However, I am …
Google warns users not to share personal information with Gemini
Last week, Google embarked upon the next chapter of its “Gemini era” by renaming its Bard AI assistant Gemini and launching a Gemini app on …
Apple Keyframer is an AI tool that makes animations out of images and prompts
Apple published research last week that details MGIE, a generative AI photo editor that lets you make changes to an image using text prompts. That’s …
How to use ChatGPT’s newest feature: Conversation memory
After introducing ChatGPT custom instructions a few months ago, OpenAI is upgrading the chatbot’s ability to remember things with a new conversation memory feature. With …
I trust Google Maps reviews implicitly, and it turns out I have AI to thank
It is a cliché, but eating a bunch of pasta before a long run will help with the carbohydrate load. It’s also a cliché I …
Facebook users, here’s how to turn off that super-annoying chirping sound in the mobile app
If any of you have found yourself using the Facebook mobile app this week and noticed it seeming to “chirp” at you — multiple times, …
