iPadOS 18 Brings a New Customizable Tab Bar and Sidebar UI to Apps In iPadOS 18, Apple has redesigned the tab bar experience in apps like Clock, Apple TV, and Apple News. Previously, tabs sat at the bottom of the standard app interface. When in portrait orientation, tab bars now sit at the top of the app interface to be closer to other navigation controls. Apple says having the tab bar at the top of the app an…

iOS 18’s New Game Mode Makes iPhones Faster and More Responsive With iOS 18, Apple is adding Game Mode to iPhone. A similar Game Mode was added to macOS Sonoma last year, and the same performance-enhancing features apply, according to Apple. When enabled, Game Mode optimizes the gaming experience by giving the game the highest priority access to your ‌iPhone‌’s processor, while lowering usage for background…

Apple Reportedly Not Paying OpenAI to Use ChatGPT in iOS 18 Alongside its Apple Intelligence feature set, Apple on Monday announced a partnership with OpenAI that will allow Siri to access ChatGPT directly in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia to provide better responses in relevant situations. But according to a new Bloomberg report, nobody is paying cash to anybody for the arrangement. From Mark Gur…

watchOS 11 Gains Integrated Shazam Widget for Identifying Songs The watchOS 11 update that Apple plans to release this fall offers several new widgets, including a built-in Shazam widget. Shazam has been able to be downloaded on the Apple Watch from the Apple Watch App Store or accessed via Siri, but it hasn’t been available through the Smart Stack feature. Apple plans to add a Shazam widget to Smart Stack …

Hackers Access Tile’s Internal Tracking Tools, Customer Data Tile, known for its Bluetooth tracking devices, was recently hacked, according to a report from 404 Media. A hacker was able to gain access to Tile’s internal tools that are used for processing location data requests for law enforcement officers, and that gave the hacker customer names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. Data breach…

Your iPhone 15 Can Show the Time When It’s Out of Battery in iOS 18 The iPhone has had a Power Reserve function that holds back a small amount of battery life to allow features like Find My and NFC unlocking to work even when your device has died, and in iOS 18, Apple seems to be improving the feature further for the iPhone 15 models. As demonstrated on Reddit, when the battery on an ‌iPhone‌ running ‌iOS 18‌ i…

iOS 18 Adds More Control Over Adaptive Audio on AirPods Pro 2 Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro have an Adaptive Audio feature that includes Adaptive Noise Control, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness, which are all features that adjust sound and Active Noise Cancellation in response to the environment around you. Right now, Adaptive Audio is an all or nothing setting, but that’s set to ch…

Apple Maps Rivals AllTrails on iOS 18 With New Hiking Features in U.S. Just months after naming AllTrails the iPhone App of the Year in 2023, Apple has added new hiking features of its own to the Maps app on iOS 18. Apple Maps users in the U.S. can browse thousands of hikes across all 63 national parks in the country, filtered by length, elevation, and route type. Users can also create and save their own custom wa…

iOS 18 Adds Control Center Options to Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models have an Action button in place of the Ring/Silent switch on older iPhones, and iOS 18 makes it even more useful. Screenshot Credit: Aaron Perris iOS 18 allows the Action button to be assigned to one of the dozens of controls available in the new Control Center gallery, allowing the Action button to i…

iOS 18 Will Let You Activate Third-Party Camera From iPhone’s Lock Screen or Action Button iOS 18 includes a new LockedCameraCapture framework for developers, which will bring some useful new functionality to third-party apps with camera features. The update will let a third-party camera app be opened directly from the Lock Screen. The expansion of Control Center in ‌iOS 18‌ allows for third-party apps to be added to Control Center f…

iOS 18 Actively Recommends Charging Limit Based on iPhone 15 Usage On iPhone 15 models, iOS 18 will recommend that users set a particular charging limit for their device based on their recent usage habits, with the aim of potentially improving their iPhone battery’s lifespan by reducing the time that the battery is fully charged. All four iPhone 15 models feature a setting that prevents the devices from chargi…

Tim Cook Discusses Apple Intelligence and More in Videos With iJustine and MKBHD Following the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed Apple Intelligence and more with popular tech content creators Justine Ezarik (iJustine) and Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), and the interviews are now available to watch on YouTube. Cook touched on how Apple Intelligence features are designed to improve the lives of customers, with s…

Amazon’s New Sale Has Big Savings on AirPods and Beats Headphones Amazon has nearly every AirPods model on sale this week, with two versions hitting their all-time low price. Additionally, we’re tracking solid deals on a few Beats headphones, including $70 off the new Beats Solo 4 and $170 off the Beats Studio Pro. AirPods Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a pu…

Vision Pro Demos at Apple Stores in UK, Canada, and More Begin July 12 Apple Vision Pro launches in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K. on Friday, July 12, and you will be able to try out the spatial computer at your local Apple Store in those countries starting on the same day next month. Starting on Friday, July 12 at 8 a.m. local time, until the end of the day on Sunday, July 14, Apple Stores in th…

Apple Passes Microsoft to Become World’s Most Valuable Company Again Apple’s stock price continues to surge following its WWDC keynote this week, where it introduced an Apple Intelligence suite of AI features coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In intraday trading today, Apple overtook Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company again, but the two tech giants may trade places throughout the day. Apple…

Safari 18 Features: Highlights, New Reader Mode, and Video Viewer In macOS Sequoia, Apple has some additional features in Safari 18 that are likely to be welcomed by Mac users. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new. Safari’s headline feature in macOS 15 is something called Highlights, which aims to make it easier to discover information on the web. Highlights can be accessed via a new site menu icon that app…

iOS 18 Lock Screen Customization Options Include Multicolor Clock Apple in iOS 18 has added a new multicolor swatch to the Font & Color customization options on the Lock Screen, so now you can display the time in rainbow colors against your chosen wallpaper. Unlike the other color swatches, the multicolor option does not currently apply to widgets and the date, which stay white when the rainbow effect is appl…

Alogic Unveils 5K 27-Inch Touchscreen Display and More Alogic today introduced several new display options that it plans to ship out later in 2024, including a 5K 27-inch touchscreen display, several ultrawide displays, and portable touchscreen monitors. The Clarity Touch 5K 27″ UHD Monitor has a resolution identical to that of the Studio Display or the LG UltraFine 5K, but with the added benefit o…

macOS Sequoia: How Window Tiling Currently Works With macOS Sequoia, Apple has introduced a new window tiling management feature that aims to make it easy to arrange open windows into a layout that works best for you. PC users have had tiling since at least Windows 7 and Aero Snap, and if you’ve ever used those, the new window tiling feature in ‌macOS Sequoia‌ will be familiar. In the absenc…

iOS 18’s Battery Section Tells You If You Used a Slow Charger Apple updated the Battery section of the Settings app in iOS 18 to add a feature that lets you know if you charged your iPhone with a “slow” charger. Periods of slow charging are shown with an orange bar in the portion of the Battery settings that show battery usage and charging over the past 24 hours or the past 10 days. We saw the slow charg…