Image: Apple The recently released 6.3 version of Apple’s Swift programming language features the official release of the Swift SDK for Android, which means that developers can now use Swift to write Android applications. Back in October 2025, Apple initially announced the SDK for Android and released a preview version. A Getting Started guide is...
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Stop Using Apple’s Default Alarm
Olga Demina/Getty We use our phones for nearly everything, be it for checking up on our friends, ordering food, or glancing over the latest match score on the iPhone's Dynamic Island. Believe it or not, smartphones are still capable of performing trivial tasks like placing phone calls, delivering messages, and even waking you up. On the
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Apple’s Liquid Glass Guidelines In iOS 26 May Hint At Unreleased Products
José Adorno/BGR Twitterrific’s developer Craig Hockenberry recently published an interesting analysis of Apple’s Liquid Glass guidelines — the design language Apple has been teasing for over a year. As summarized by Hockenberry, Apple asks developers to avoid corners and focus on “concentricity,” which might not make much sense for those updating their apps to iOS...
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Apple’s next iPad Pro will reportedly get two front-facing cameras
The iPad Pro with the M5 chip is expected to be just as easy to use for selfies in a landscape or portrait orientation. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will add a second front-facing camera on the portrait edge of the upcoming iPad Pro that's expected to launch later this year. It may seem
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Apple’s classy new iPhone ringtone is available to try right now
Image: Apple Good news for those who were excited to hear about (and indeed to hear) the new Reflection ringtone hidden in the first iOS 26 developer beta: it’s now available to try out. The second beta, which dropped this week, contains a few noteworthy tidbits. Among these, surprisingly, was the apparent confirmation that we’re...
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Apple’s new entry-level devices are the best possible trap
Skip to content Image: Foundry Spring is the time of somewhat odd Apple announcements. We all know we’ll see the revisions to all of the company’s software platforms in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, and that new iPhones and Apple Watches arrive in September. But spring? Anything can happen! The field’s wide open. If...
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A memory leak in Apple’s Network Extension framework
Is it normal for the Little Snitch Network Extension to consume Gigabytes of memory? No it isn’t. Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia.
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Apple’s next-gen HomePod could change everything we know about Siri
Skip to content Image: Foundry At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple gave a little bit of time to its major platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS—even tvOS got some love. But one device was conspicuously absent: the HomePod. Given that Apple spent a lot of time during its keynote talking about the future of Siri,...
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Apple’s new CTF rules protect more small developers from the iPhone sideloading tax
Apple announced a new Core Technology Fee (CTF) a few months ago when it confirmed iPhone sideloading was coming to the European Union (EU). The fee amounts to €0.50 per app download after the first one million annual downloads. It applies to developers who want to sell apps outside the App Store in competing marketplaces...
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Apple’s big AI-infused WWDC keynote kicks off June 10
Image: Apple Apple has announced the dates for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is always held in early June. This year is no exception, with the WWDC24 event taking place on June 10-14. That’s a week later than is typical, but not outside the usual timeframe. While the event focuses on developers and how...
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