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Apple today marked the fifth graduating class from its Detroit Developer Academy with a new feature highlighting local app makers who have used the program over the years to build apps, businesses, and community projects. Here are the details.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new look at Apple’s upcoming iPhone camera plans, including an under-the-hood ultra-wide module change and a surprisingly steep cost increase. Here are the details.

Apple’s System Status pages in several countries are showing an ongoing Apple Music disruption. Here are the details.

Apple TV premiered its latest sci-fi series today: Star City. It’s the first of several spinoffs to existing shows that are in the works. Here’s why I’m excited for what it represents for the future of Apple TV.

I have long joked to my family that if I were super rich, I would love to hire someone whose only job would be to hand me a large cup of coffee as soon as I walked out of my bedroom. Apple Home has not let me do that, but it gets me close.

A few years ago, I wrote a guide on automating my morning coffee using a SwitchBot button pusher and HOOBS. It required pulling API keys and MAC addresses just to get it communicating with Apple Home. The new SwitchBot Bot Button Pusher completely streamlines this process with native Matter support and a built-in rechargeable battery.

The next major iPhone software update, iOS 27, will be unveiled on June 8, and rumors indicate it will bring at least two changes for the Liquid Glass design.

Earlier this month, OpenAI updated ChatGPT’s mobile app to include remote access to Codex for Mac. Starting today, ChatGPT for iPhone and Android can also start work on Codex for Windows as well.

Plus Codex inside ChatGPT for iOS has some new features and improvements.

Musixmatch, a popular third-party lyrics app for iPhone, is out with a big update today. You can now use Musixmatch to follow along with lyrics via CarPlay when listening to Apple Music or Spotify.

Apple will unveil iOS 27, the new Siri, and a lot more in just over a week. But will any new hardware launch at WWDC? We’re currently expecting a software-only slate of announcements, but here are five upcoming Apple products with the best chance of surprising us at WWDC.

Smart scales that sync with iPhone and iPad offer a convenient way to monitor personal health metrics. Prices span from under $30 for basic features to around $500 for models with clinical grade body scans and easy-to-recommend solutions in between. For anyone who wants weight and related data to appear in the Health app, the key requirement is choosing a scale that supports Apple Health.

Just a few days after expanding to Arkansas, a new report today says Apple Wallet support for driver’s licenses is set to come to yet another new state soon.

iPadOS 26 was unveiled one year ago with major upgrades for iPad productivity. I’ve been using the update on my iPad Pro since that first beta arrived, here’s where Apple’s major update has worked for me, and where it still comes up short.

Just as For All Mankind wrapped its latest season on Apple TV, the platform also premiered the first two episodes of Star City, a spinoff set in the same alternate timeline where the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon. Watch the trailer below.

Last month Amazon announced that it was cutting off Kindle Store access to 13 older Kindle models, and now that change has officially been implemented. Here’s what that means.

iOS 27 will be unveiled in just over a week, and rumors indicate there are lots of reasons why the new software might push more people than usual to upgrade to a new iPhone.

WWDC 2026 is 10 days away. Here’s a grab-bag selection of things I hope to see from Apple’s new OS 27 updates that aren’t really rumored.

A new set of iPhone 18 Pro dummy units is giving us our best look yet at the all-new colors Apple has planned for this year. The dummy units corroborate that the iPhone 18 Pro will be available in dark cherry, black, silver, and light blue.

Apple TV subscribers can now watch Propeller One-Way Night Coach, a film that not only marks John Travolta’s directorial debut, but was adapted by the actor from a children’s novel he wrote in 1997. Watch the trailer below.

Researchers at Harvard have published the results of a study that analyzed more than 94,000 nights of Apple Watch sleep data to better understand how sleep patterns change during perimenopause. Here are the details.

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Apple has filed its annual conflict minerals disclosure with the SEC, detailing its supply chain checks across iPhone, Mac, and more. Here are the details.

The IAM Union held a protest against Apple’s decision to close its Towson store, the first unionized Apple retail location in the United States. Here are the details.

Following the announcement that Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition would soon be coming to Mac gamers for the first time, the game is now available. Here are the details.