... Since July, App Store Connect asks whether your app has social media capabilities. From September, you can't submit a new app or an update without answering. Apple posted on 9 July that the age rating questionnaire now includes questions about social media capabilities, and that "beginning in September 2026, responses will be required when submitting new apps or updates to the App Store, or when submitting apps for notarization for alternative

... Netfox 0.27.0 is out This one is about names A device that announces no name now shows the one it answers to on your network: three rows of "Apple, Inc." become your Mac, your iPhone and your iPad, each with its own icon An Apple

... From 1 October, leaving Apple In-App Purchase drops a Small Business Program developer from 15% to 10% in the EU. On a 4.99 euro subscription, a processor's fixed per-transaction fee can eat most of that on its own - and your choice locks for 12 months. Apple

... From September 2026 you can't submit an update without saying whether your app has social media capabilities. Say yes and Apple applies a minimum 13+ rating and drops you into a Time Allowance parents can cap. The definition is broader than having a feed, and your secondary category is load-bearing too. If you've shipped an update in the last few days you've already met this question. If you haven't, you will on your next ... ... rather you met it here than at 11pm with a release branch open. Apple

... There have been several articles about Apple in recent days from many angles. For example: The new foldable iPhone launch but some say it s not anything innovative since Samsung has had this version for years. Apple

... been a big fan of foldables since the early 2000s =D Then I had a big experience with Apple. Now I have my Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and it has made me happy for quite a long time. So I can now compare the iOS and Android experiences pretty easily - and honestly, I love 50% here, 50% there. For me: Apple

... made a lot of sense to me. The whole idea behind Fide Island is to make those tiny actions that interrupt your workflow available right from the MacBook notch. So in the latest update, I added two new tools: Apple Notes in the notch Your notes stay in Apple

... Road to 1,000,000 Votap users - Day 78 | Current: 1466 If you sell digital subscriptions on iOS using in-app purchases, Apple takes a 30% commission. Already a pretty painful number when you re a tiny startup trying to make every count. Luckily, we enrolled Votap in Apple

... Road to 1,000,000 Votap users - Day 78 | Current: 1466 If you sell digital subscriptions on iOS using in-app purchases, Apple takes a 30% commission. Already a pretty painful number when you re a tiny startup trying to make every count. Luckily, we enrolled Votap in Apple

... thinking about this because it sounds like such a small product decision, but I don t think it actually is. Someone signs up with Google. Six months later they are on their iPhone and tap Sign in with Apple. Same person, different identity provider. And if they use Hide My Email, you may not even get the same email address. So what should the product do? Creating a new account feels wrong because now their history, billing, settings, or subscription ... ... split across two profiles. But automatically linking accounts based on email also feels risky, because now you are assuming that matching email addresses are enough proof that both identities belong to the same person. And then Apple

... Play's Age Signals terms limit the signal to age-appropriate experiences and name advertising, marketing, profiling and analytics as prohibited uses, with app takedown as the stated penalty. Apple's version hands you the age plus how it was proven. Both are live now in a widening list of regions, and the default engineering reflex is wrong for both. There's a new field arriving in mobile apps this year and almost nobody is treating it as a product ... ... decision. It's the user's age, handed to you by the store instead of asked for in your onboarding. Here are the dates, from the platforms' own developer docs rather than the coverage. Apple

... everyone, I had been having a hard time for couple of monts with doomscrolling on apps like Instagram and Reddit. Last year, I tried using Apple's built-in screen time on my iPhone to set limits to my usage of these apps. However, in most cases, I would just tap on the " Ignore Limit for 15 Minutes " notification that appeared every time. This became so frustrating that I tried many third-party blockers. Most of them would require ... ... traffic, which did not seem like a good privacy tradeoff to be honest. Finally, I decided to build my own blocker, called Manaya . Manaya does not rely on a VPN (so better battery) but rather uses Apple

... faster, more capable way to plan trips, alongside Apple Intelligence. Apple

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.14.0 , and this one started with a bug report I couldn't stop thinking about. I turned on my Apple TV and it wasn't in the list. Except it was sitting there as a phone , with no manufacturer, under the name I'd given it years ago. Here's why, and it's a nice little lesson in how device discovery actually works: An Apple

... with an available local source. There is nothing else to set up, even when you travel. Turn it on once, and Weather mini takes care of the rest. It works everywhere you use Weather mini: cities, Trip Forecasts, widgets, Apple Watch, notifications, Morning Brief, and Evening Forecast. Apple

... code. I build an app people open in the hard ten minutes with a kid a tantrum, a bedtime that came apart. Whoever's using it is, by definition, not in a state to go spelunking through Settings. So Apple's standard path for redeeming a code always bugged me: copy it, leave the app, App Store tap your face Redeem Gift Card or Code, paste, switch back, hope it took. Fine for a productivity tool. For someone ... ... their rope, that's where you lose them. This release pulls it inside a "Redeem a code" row opens Apple

... Katya, a two-person team. We run, and we build things. For the last year and a half we've been making the running coach we always wanted to exist basically Garmin Coach, but for Apple Watch. You tell it what you're training for (5K to marathon) and when; it builds the whole plan every week to race day, every pace derived from a race you've actually run and your Watch runs it from the wrist: live intervals ...

... been building Fog, a notes app that tries to solve a problem I kept running into: notes apps either make you organize everything manually (folders, tags) or don't organize at all. Fog uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models framework (the same one powering Apple

... Product Hunt community, A couple of months ago, I shared that Guitar Wiz was selected as an Apple Design Awards finalist. I m incredibly happy to share that Guitar Wiz has now won the Apple

... head out, deciding whether to bring an umbrella, or just wanting a quick sense of how the weather is shifting this afternoon, this is the more natural fit. The 5 Day Forecast is the wider view. It makes Apple Watch more useful for a quick multi-day check, without asking you to open the app and step through a fuller forecast screen. That is the better complication when you are thinking less about the next hour and more about ... ... point of adding both is simple: forecast on a watch face should not mean only one time scale. The next few hours and the next few days are different kinds of questions, and both are worth answering well on Apple

... Apple Music on Mac can show Lossless but what is your Mac actually outputting? Audex Trace shows: the actual playback format bit depth and sample rate your Mac output sample rate whether playback and output are matched upcoming queue quality estimates There s also a free Compatibility Check, so you can test detection on your Mac before buying. Launch price is $19.99 until the end of June, then $29.99. If you use Apple

... that I need a bigger disk usually just means I haven't deleted anything in months. And the upgrade isn't free. The SSD is soldered to the logic board, so it's a once-at-purchase decision at Apple's price: on the M5 MacBook Pro, 1 TB 2 TB is $400 and 4 TB is $1,000. The same capacity as an external SSD runs about $70 110 per terabyte, roughly 4 7 retail. Storage is cheap leans ...

... Apple has officially unveiled a revamped Siri, now known as Siri AI . It s a complete rebuild powered by Apple

... About a year ago I launched @AdCider here the idea was to fully automate Apple Search Ads, from creating campaigns to managing bids. What I learned: that's a lot to ask. It needed people to both want to spin up a new campaign and hand their whole budget over to AI to run. Too much trust, too much commitment. So I simplified. Instead of running your ads for you, the new version just looks at the campaigns ... ... already running and gives you a report what's working, what's wasting spend, what to do next. A second pair of eyes, not an autopilot. I'm looking for a few people running Apple

... impactful updates to Recall, with more to come soon. New Group your home page by time: Organize your cards by when you added or updated them, so it's easier to pick up where you left off. Save from Apple News: You can now save and read Apple