... Even Apple has stopped pretending AI features are free to run. I'd like to hear how other small teams are handling the meter, because I don't think anyone has this solved. On 9 November Apple

... paying customers. Last year, we finally launched our iOS app to capture the "on-the-go" market. We set the price in the App Store at $35/month to match our website. Then, we looked at the revenue reports. After Apple took their 30% cut, we were netting just $24.50 per user. We were actually losing money on every iOS user after accounting for hosting and support. So, we made a decision: we raised the App Store price to $50/month ... ... cover Apple

... have a bunch of updates to products I need to do (and new products ready for release), but I lost access to the Apple ID that I set up about 15 years ago and haven't been using, except it is the owner of my developer account. I have been going through their process to get my account back multiple times, and each time they have a ten day waiting period after which, for me, nothing happens. This is getting ... ... have provided them... Comment from Son Thomsen(@son_thomsen): @gbasovv  thanks for the insight and advise! Will do that Comment from Son Thomsen(@son_thomsen): another update: I was on the phone with apple

... built Oreja after getting tired of reaching for Apple Music every time a ChatGPT voice reply started. It watches the selected app's output level locally, pauses Music while the reply is active, then brings it back after the quiet interval. There is also a lower-volume mode. The whole thing is intentionally small. No OpenAI API, account, recording, transcript, analytics, or network service. The repository is open source, and the audio path feeds transient levels into a deterministic coordinator ... ... still an early macOS preview. It supports Apple

... filtering solution is no longer just about convenience it is a critical component of your cybersecurity strategy. Magic Lasso Adblock is the only all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers and annoyances across all your enterprise s Apple devices: and now Magic Lasso can be easily deployed throughout your whole organization via Apple

... October Apple said it will make granting Full Disk Access on macOS require more explicit user action, and it named AI agents as the reason. If you let agents touch your files, that's a prompt to audit what you've already handed over. On 2 October Apple

... Apple's App Review Guidelines say you must disclose where personal data goes to third-party AI and get explicit permission first. A privacy policy paragraph doesn't do that. Most of us read Apple

... 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

... then provides feedback. There is a lot of stuff going on behind the curtains to make it as smooth as it is: hundreds of AI evals and simulated conversations, end-to-end testing, that kind of stuff. Apple's editorial story: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone... App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mu... For makers who've been featured - did you touch anything during the spike (pricing, a promo, onboarding), or hold steady and let the traffic ride? I'm doing the latter ...

... 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