Apple is reportedly pushing ahead with its plan to launch Apple Intelligence in China, a critical move to compete in the world’s largest smartphone market, Mark gurman has said, claiming that the company is initially targeting a mid-year release with iOS 18. The launch of AI features on iPhones in China has faced delays due…
But will you do it? Screenshot: Rajesh Pandey/CultOfMac For the first time on an iPhone, you can set WhatsApp as the default calling and messaging app. The feature remains exclusive to the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS, but should soon expand to the public build. WhatsApp is the first major app to adopt the necessary…
The next major iPhone software release is iOS 18.4 (unless there’s a bug-squisher in between). Apple rarely announces in advance when a big update is on its way, but it just did: it’s set for April. iOS 18.4 will be coming in April to iPhone. Getty Images In a Newsroom update about Apple Intelligence coming…
As interested as we are in the upgrades coming to Siri and Apple Intelligence, that’s not all that iOS 18.4 has to offer users. As spotted by 9to5Mac after the first iOS 18.4 beta rolled out, Apple now allows iPhone users to set more default apps. In iOS 18.4 beta 1, you can change the…
Surprise! I bet you didn’t have Apple launching a revamped calendar app on your Monday morning bingo card, but here we are. Over the weekend, Bloomberg‘s Power On newsletter hinted about an upcoming new calendar app from Apple for iOS 18. Confetti or Invites (no one knows what it’s called) is an iCloud-based calendar app…
With iOS 18, Apple overhauled the Photos app, introducing a new, unified design that did away with the navigation bar and merged everything into a single screen. It marked the single biggest change to image management since the launch of the Photos app, and it’s been controversial with some users. There’s no returning to what…
RCS messaging has gained popularity by leaps and bounds this past year, especially in the Western market. More than 1 billion people are estimated to use RCS messaging at present, and a huge part of that growth is due to Apple introducing RCS compatibility with the arrival of iOS 18. While iOS 18 has supported…
When Apple launched the iPhone 16 line, it also released iOS 18 to the masses after months of betas. Though the biggest feature of iOS 18 is Apple Intelligence, which didn’t actually launch until the iOS 18.1 release, there are plenty of other things that iOS 18 brings to the table. That includes RCS messaging,…