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Apple Intelligence in appleOS 27

Apple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced the next generation of Apple Intelligence, powered by a bold new architecture that integrates the latest Apple Foundation Models deep into Apple’s platforms and is uniquely designed to protect users’ privacy. […] The next generation of Apple Intelligence also helps power Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri. […] […]

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Apple Foundation Models in appleOS 27

Apple: At the heart of this architecture is our third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), a family of five foundation models custom-built in collaboration with Google. These span from on-device models to server-based models running on Private Cloud Compute. Apple Foundation Models are built to unlock a wide range of helpful experiences for our […]

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Agentic Password Updates

Hartley Charlton (9To5Mac): Apple today announced that the Passwords app can now automatically update weak and compromised passwords using Apple Intelligence and Safari to take action on a user’s behalf. […] Apple describes the system as agentic, with Apple Intelligence and Safari securely navigating through websites, signing in, and upgrading accounts to strong passwords without […]

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Photos AI in appleOS 27

Apple (MacRumors): With Spatial Reframing, users can improve the composition of a photo after it’s been taken. Spatial Reframing builds on Apple’s deep understanding of spatial models thanks to Apple Vision Pro, so users can touch and drag a photo and preview in real time how the perspective shifts — as if they’d repositioned the […]

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AI-Generated Shortcuts

Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background. Marcus Mendes: Users can simply describe what they want, such as “when I’m leaving work, text my wife with my expected ETA,” and Shortcuts will actually build the shortcut to […]

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App Store Personalized Recommendations and Keylogging

Sarah Perez: This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which will showcase recommendations tailored to […]

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• Michael Tsai

Rewriting Apple’s TrueType Hinting Interpreter in Swift

Scott Perry: My team rewrote Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter in Swift, ask me anything. […] I feel like naming just one would be a disservices to all of the features that made this effort possible (C interop, generics, noncopyable/nonescapable types) but at the end of the day I think the star of the show was […]

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Rewriting Notion in SwiftUI

Hartley Charlton: Apple this week confirmed that Notion is migrating its user interface to SwiftUI, citing the app’s desire for greater performance and UI consistency than its existing web-based stack can deliver. […] The callout was clearly deliberate; Notion is one of the most widely used productivity apps on the Mac, and has long been […]

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Safari 27 Announced

Tim Hardwick: Apple’s new version of Safari browser in macOS 27 and iOS 27 can be tasked to monitor a webpage and notify you of any changes, thanks to a new built-in feature. […] In other upcoming feature additions, using the power of AI, Safari tabs that you have open can automatically be organized into […]

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No Siri AI in EU

Apple (MacRumors): Unfortunately, due to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple will not be able to ship Siri AI in the European Union with the release of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Over the past several months, EU regulators did not accept any of Apple’s proposed solutions to bring Siri AI to the EU while […]

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• Michael Tsai

Siri AI Announced

Apple (Hacker News): Siri AI is an entirely new version of Siri deeply integrated into iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It can draw on personal context understanding to search across messages, emails, photos, and more, and get things done across apps with even more systemwide app actions. Additionally, Siri AI can […]

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Child Safety Features in appleOS 27

Apple: With software updates this fall, parents will be able to access new child safety features, including a simpler setup experience with a recommended set of essential apps, Ask to Browse, Time Allowances, and a redesigned Screen Time. These updates enhance Apple’s already industry-leading parental controls and underscore its commitment to building a safe and […]

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Golden Gate Window Corners

Adam Overholtzer: Corners! Simon B. Støvring: “We fixed corner radius” was a WWDC keynote highlight. Let that sink in. Rudrank: This should have been since macOS 26 #WWDC26 Folks getting excited for consistent corner radius 😂 Kuba Suder: Ehh, no change here, RIP Intel Macs… stuck on the v1 Liquid Glass forever 🫤 There was […]

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Golden Gate Sidebars and Toolbars

Joe Rossignol: macOS Golden Gate also has design changes. For example, apps now have a unified toolbar at the top, and the sidebar now expands to the edge of the window. Hartley Charlton: Sidebar behavior is also being updated. Sidebars will now expand to the full edge of the window, with refraction effects continuing beneath […]

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Golden Gate Menu Icons

Wesley Hilliard: macOS Tahoe threw an icon on every menu item, making them impossible to distinguish at a glance. macOS Golden Gate has rectified that design taboo with blessedly iconless menus. Apple: In macOS 27.0, menu bar and context menus present a reduced set of menu item images, similar to the behavior prior to macOS […]

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Liquid Glass 27 Icons

Ryan Christoffel: Last year with iOS 26, Apple redesigned its full lineup of app icons for iPhone. But just one year later, iOS 27 has even more design changes for many app icons. […] iOS 27’s new app icons are “sharper and more detailed,” per Apple’s description. And it really shows. Louie Mantia: If you’re […]

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Liquid Glass 27 Slider

Hartley Charlton: Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear. Benjamin Mayo: As well as offering this […]

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Glow Leopard

Tim Hardwick: Apple at WWDC 2026 today said it has made several responsiveness improvements across its software ecosystem, speeding up system animations, app launching, and much more. Zac Hall: Overall, iOS 27 so far is a major collection of performance improvements and refinements. Ryan Christoffel: As had been rumored leading up to today, Apple has […]

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• Michael Tsai

Xcode 27 Announced

Platforms State of the Union: Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms. What’s new in Xcode 27: Discover the latest productivity enhancements in Xcode 27. Accelerate your development workflow through customization, coding agents, and Device Hub. Explore updates in localization, performance, and testing tools to refine your apps further. Xcode 27 Beta Release Notes: Xcode […]

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macOS Golden Gate 27 Announced

Joe Rossignol: Much like Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009, Apple said it focused on improving macOS’s performance and dozens of underlying technologies this year. Apple says macOS Golden Gate offers quicker AirDrop transfers, faster network file browsing, improved syncing in the Messages app, better Spotlight search suggestions, and other changes that make your […]

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iOS 27 Announced

Zac Hall: Photos: iCloud Shared Albums now supports sharing with Android and Windows. Health: Cycle tracking is more advanced. AirPods: Custom EQ is coming to Apple’s wireless headphones. Apple Maps is adding an upgraded Flyover feature with richer aerial imagery. Joe Rossignol: Apple said the CarPlay video feature is available in new vehicles that support […]

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• Michael Tsai

iPadOS 27 Announced

Ryan Christoffel: Here’s what’s new in iPadOS 27: The Menu Bar can now be optionally kept always on screen iPhone apps can be resized in iPadOS Liquid Glass has been refined and is more customizable than ever Performance improvements make iPadOS 27 perform much quicker Screen Time has been revamped for managing your child’s device […]

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watchOS 27 Announced

Hartley Charlton: Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements. The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the bottom center icon to go to the rest of their apps. […]

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tvOS 27 Announced

Joe Rossignol: Apple barely touched on tvOS 27 during its WWDC 2026 keynote today, but the update exists, and it adds some new features to the Apple TV. Benjamin Mayo: One major new feature for tvOS this year is an updated Podcasts app, as well as a new smart downloads feature, performance enhancements including faster […]

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• Michael Tsai

visionOS 27 Announced

Ryan Christoffel: Here’s what’s new in visionOS 27: Turn panoramas you shoot into spatial scenes Use panoramas as your immersive Environment Enhanced Flyover features in Apple Maps Next-generation of Apple Intelligence Entirely new Siri that’s more responsive to your needs “New windows with curvature” Visual intelligence, so you can ask Siri about anything you’re looking […]

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WWDC 2026 Keynote

Joe Rossignol: Ahead of the WWDC 2026 keynote at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a short video in which country singer Lainey Wilson, actress Rhea Seehorn, DJ and producer Zedd, and other celebrities say “good morning” in various ways. Apple (YouTube, MacRumors, 9To5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, Hacker News, The Verge, […]

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Sirius Pomodoro

Zac Hall: The third most popular free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store today is a mysterious productivity app that’s only available in Russian. That’s a pretty obvious red flag that something isn’t quite what it seems. […] The app icon looks similar to a star mapping app. The app itself isn’t available in […]

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CloudKit Bugs in May 2026

Jaanus Kase (Mastodon): We deployed direct silent CloudKit notifications in Tact in late 2024. They proved to be too unreliable to use in a messaging app like Tact: notifications arrived late or not at all. To be fair, this is within the bounds of the Apple SDK contract, which does say that the delivery of […]

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Permissions in the CloudKit Public Database

Guilherme Rambo: When using the public database for content hosting or feature flags, you don’t want any random iCloud user to have the rights to publish or edit content on your behalf or to change the feature flags that control your app’s behavior for all of your users, that would be really bad.That’s where CloudKit’s […]

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WWDC 2026 Preview

Joe Rossignol: Apple’s annual developers conference WWDC returns for 2026 next week, and the company has teased the event with a new “All systems glow” tagline. Clarko: “We’re keeping Liquid Glass, you weiners” Joe Rossignol: Apple has shared a wallpaper, playlist, and a “Get Ready” video ahead of the event. Basic Apple Guy: I’ve been […]