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iPhone 20 Curved Screen Explained: What Quad-Edge Really Means

MacStories creator Federico Viticci recently launched Shortcuts Playground, a free, open-source plugin for Claude Code and Codex that takes a plain-English description and returns a signed .shortcut file ready to import into Apple's Shortcuts app. No drag-and-drop builder.

Apple just filed a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up two questions arising from the company's contempt finding in its long-running legal fight with Epic Games. The petition, confirmed by 9to5Mac, marks Apple's third attempt to get the Court involved in this dispute. For the developers caught in the middle, the outcome determines whether App Store payment competition is real or cosmetic.

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If menu bar icons are vanishing on your notch-equipped Mac, two Terminal commands can recover the hidden space by reducing the gap between icons from the default 16 points to 8. No third-party software required. This guide walks through that fix, the revert path, why the problem exists, and what to try if tighter spacing still isn't enough.

Apple is reportedly building support for Google Cast and other AirPlay alternatives directly into iOS 27, a move tied to EU interoperability rules for third-party devices. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reportedly said in late May 2026 that iOS 27 will support third-party AirPlay alternatives, allowing users to set AirPlay, Google, or another option as the default for sending audio and video from an iPhone to a speaker or TV, as The Verge reported. The change is expected to be among the more visible...

Apple is closing three retail stores in June. At two of them, workers are getting transfer rights to nearby locations. At the third the Towson, Maryland store that became Apple's first unionized U.S. retail location in 2022 roughly 90 employees were told to reapply through the same open process as outside candidates. As of late April, not one of them had landed a job at another Apple store, Bloomberg Law reported last month. That is the Apple Towson store closure protest in a sentence: the only...

Indie singer-songwriter Brye posted a TikTok this week saying her song "Lemons" was produced in GarageBand on a school-issued iPad using what she called a "horrible little plug-in mic," 9to5Mac reported today. She claims the song racked up 100 million streams after going viral during quarantine in 2020.

Every May, Apple announces accessibility features coming later in the year. Usually these announcements stay in their lane. This one doesn't.

Many iPhone users have quietly developed a workaround for Siri's limitations: they open a different app. ChatGPT for questions requiring actual reasoning, Google for search, Claude for anything needing sustained back-and-forth. Apple's reported design choices for the iOS 27 Siri redesign suggest the company is trying to close that gap, not by making one big bet, but by targeting three specific problems at once.

April 11, 1985. Apple's boardroom. CEO John Sculley, the PepsiCo executive Jobs had personally recruited two years earlier, tells the board he wants Jobs gone. The board sides with him. Jobs walks out, as Vanity Fair reported last week. He will not return for eleven years.

A new analyst note has reframed one of the more persistent Apple rumors of the past year. Rather than marking the iPhone's 20th anniversary with a standalone commemorative device, Apple is reportedly planning to channel that milestone into a radical overhaul of its mainstream Pro and Pro Max lineup. If the reporting holds, the 2027 iPhone Pro redesign would not be something most people admire from a distance — it would become the new baseline for Apple's flagship tier.

Apple is reportedly preparing to open its AI infrastructure to outside competition. iOS 27 would let users choose from multiple third-party AI models, including Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, to power system features like Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground, 9to5Mac reported on May 5, 2026, citing Bloomberg. Visible additions like the reported iOS 27 AI wallpaper generator and natural-language Shortcuts sit on top of something more structural: Apple reportedly loosening its...

This guide covers three ways to disable Apple Intelligence notification summaries on your iPhone: a global off switch that stops them across every app, a category-level setting that targets news apps specifically, and how to turn off AI notification summaries on iPhone before you've ever opted in. All three paths run through Settings > Notifications > Summarize Notifications.

Apple effectively conceded earlier this year that Google's model was the stronger foundation for the next Siri push. After evaluating its options, the company said "Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models," according to 9to5Mac. For a company that spent years selling on-device intelligence as a point of superiority, that statement lands differently than a typical partnership announcement.