A US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop child sexual abuse material from being stored and shared through iCloud. The plaintiffs sought as much as $32.8 billion in damages on behalf of about 2,680 people and asked the court to force Apple to change how the service…
China’s telecommunications authorities have published a filing confirming that Apple Intelligence has completed the country’s required generative AI regulatory process under Apple Technology Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The filing allows Apple to provide the feature in mainland China and removes one of the main regulatory barriers that has delayed its local launch. Apple Intelligence has…
Apple spent the first years of the generative AI boom looking late. Microsoft tied itself to OpenAI, Google rebuilt its products around Gemini, and Amazon and Meta committed enormous sums to chips and data centers. Apple introduced Apple Intelligence slowly, delayed major Siri features and relied on outside models where its own software fell short….
Today, we are excited to share the story of Xingyu Lu (陆星宇), an Apple developer and a Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winner. Xingyu’s journey began with a simple question that came to him during a class: Why can’t Apple Pencil be used for gaming? What started as a moment of curiosity turned into a deep exploration of human–computer…
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday in federal court in California, accusing it of stealing trade secrets to build its own devices. The suit names OpenAI and two former Apple employees, and asks the court to block OpenAI from using the technology and to award damages. Two years ago the two companies were partners. Sam Altman…
For a few hours on July 8, a batch of old iPhones and iPads could not be restored. Apple pulled the baseband signatures for a set of legacy devices, and by early afternoon Apple put them back. Nothing was lost. What it exposed is worth keeping. What happened Apple didn’t stop signing the old iOS…
Global PC shipments fell 4.9 percent last quarter to 68.2 million units, the first drop after nine straight quarters of growth. Lenovo, HP, and Dell all shrank. Apple did the opposite, shipping 6.7 million Macs, up 10.1 percent, for 9.9 percent of the market. It was the only top-five vendor to grow. Apple beats a…
Apple posted a support document this week. Starting with macOS 28, the Mac OS Extended format, known as HFS+, will only work on drives that aren’t encrypted. A drive that is both HFS+ and encrypted stops working once you install macOS 28, so it needs handling first. The update ships in 2027. Only that one…
Apple lost in Europe today. The EU’s General Court threw out its challenge to being named a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act. The App Store and iOS stay under the rules, and Apple has to keep opening the iPhone to rival apps and stores. Apple argued its five app stores, one each for iPhone,…
Apple confirmed this week that the Home app’s new AI features need a 2TB iCloud+ plan, at $9.99 a month or $120 a year. The requirement turned up in the third macOS Golden Gate beta’s release notes on Monday. At WWDC, Apple said some Apple Intelligence features would need a paid iCloud+ plan but wouldn’t…
