Apple issued a store-wide prohibition on all AppStore support for Emoji Friday, according to a report at ArsTechnica. Emoji, the cute graphical images favored by many heavy SMS text users and a ...

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Apple has just released the iOS 16.4 beta for developers and anyone else who wants a really early look at the new software. This is the first beta for iOS 16.4, following numerous releases for iOS ...

I use my iPhone’s stock Messages app all day, every day, to communicate with my partner, friends, and family. As such, I’m always messing around with features like stickers, animated GIFs, and Apple ...

iOS 18 may inject a little more fun into the iPhone experience. In the Power On newsletter this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that AI-generated emoji will be among the new features Apple shows ...

Podcast episodes in the Apple Podcast app will have transcripts, with text highlighting in sync with the audio, in English, Spanish French and German. The text also will be searchable and can be used ...

If you live in the European Union, iOS 17.4 is a massive upgrade. Apple began beta-testing the update on January 25 and outlined many of the changes that affect the apps and App Store experience on ...

Ninety two percent of the world’s population uses emojis, so I can safely assume that we’ve all been there: you’re texting a friend and suddenly your conversation calls for a very specific emoji, like ...

These new emoji are part of the Unicode Standard for Emoji Update 15.0, which was announced in July 2022. Among the new emoji there are icons for a shaking face, a goose, a hyacinth, and a plain pink ...

When iOS 26 is released this fall, it will introduce two new default apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen. First, there will be a new Preview app that works very similarly to Mac’s Preview app, allowing ...