Apple often promotes the App Store as a secure place to download apps. The company highlights strict reviews and a closed system as key protections for iPhone users. That reputation now faces serious ...

Apple overhauled the Phone app in iOS 26 with a new design and added several powerful features, including a new call screening option that I don’t ever want to go without. iOS 26 gives Phone app an ...

Xcode 26.1 AI was unusable. Xcode 26.3 AI is a big leap. AI-driven migration delivered massive change in under two days. One rule fixed it: no background agents, frequent status updates. I am sure ...

iOS 27 will no longer include a long-rumored feature known as Apple Health+ inside Apple, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple Health+ was supposed to be a virtual health coach that could give ...

Give it a go before you give it up. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac For the first time in 18 years, Apple redesigned the oft-overlooked Phone app. The overhaul in iOS 26 simplifies the Phone app’s ...

Apple’s latest iPhone software patch, iOS 26.2.1, was released as a relatively small update aimed at improving stability and fixing lingering issues from earlier versions. In the days since its ...

Last year, Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the time, iOS 18 was still the latest version of iOS – thus implying that the upgrade ...