Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. Apple Apple’s Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the first of two waves of expanded availability. The $3,499 “spatial computing” device launched back in February in the US, but it hasn’t taken…
Enlarge / Apple has a lot to say about the third-party battery market in “Longevity, by Design,” specifically about how many batteries fail to meet testing standards. Apple Earlier this week, Apple published a whitepaper titled “Longevity by Design.” The purpose, Apple says, is to explain “the company’s principles for designing for longevity—a careful balance…
Enlarge / Don’t get your hopes up—this iOS version of Doom was ported from open source code, not run via a classic PC emulator. Earlier this year, Apple started officially allowing “retro game emulators” on the iOS App Store without the need for cumbersome jailbreaking or sideloading. But if you want to emulate retro PC…
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. Samuel Axon OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users for the first time, provided they’re running macOS Sonoma or later. It was previously being rolled out gradually to paid subscribers to ChatGPT’s…
Enlarge / The 2024 iPad Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, the major software updates for iPhones and iPads due later this year. While the feature likely won’t be tapped by all that many users, its inclusion is fascinating in that it shows…
Enlarge / A Mac virtual monitor in visionOS 2. Samuel Axon CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple kicked off the keynote for its annual developer conference by announcing a new version of visionOS, the operating system that runs on the company’s pricey but impressive Vision Pro mixed reality headset. The updates in visionOS 2 are modest, not revolutionary—mostly iterative…
Apple The biggest feature in iOS 18, the one that affects the most people, was a single item in a comma-stuffed sentence by Apple software boss Craig Federighi: “Support for RCS.” As we noted when Apple announced its support for “RCS Universal Profile,” a kind of minimum viable cross-device rich messaging, iPhone users getting RCS…
Enlarge / Features like Image Playground won’t arrive in Europe at the same time as other regions. Apple Three major features in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will not be available to European users this fall, Apple says. They include iPhone screen mirroring on the Mac, SharePlay screen sharing, and the entire Apple Intelligence suite…
Enlarge / Using macOS S15 Sequoia to stream an iPhone’s screen to a Mac while the iPhone stays locked. Apple Apple has formally announced macOS 15 at its Worldwide Developers Conference. Codenamed Sequoia, the new release brings a combination of iOS 18 features and a few Mac-specific things to the devices it supports. Users who…
The Calculator app is finally coming to iPad. Samuel Axon You’ll be able to write out expressions with the Apple Pencil and see them solved in real time. Samuel Axon CUPERTINO, Calif.—After going into detail about iOS 18, Apple took a few moments in its WWDC 2024 keynote to walk through some changes. There are…
