The best CarPlay tips and tricks

For the majority of people, CarPlay is a must-have. Apple’s in-car experience provides a vastly superior infotainment experience than most options from carmakers. There’s quick access to your favorite apps, integration with Siri, seamless connectivity, and more. Here are all of my favorite tips and tricks for making sure you’re getting the most out of your CarPlay experience… Customize your CarPlay apps and Home Screen A lot of [...]

Pocket Casts update brings three new features, including CarPlay chapter artwork

There’s a new version of Pocket Casts out for podcast listeners today, and it includes three new features. One in particular will be of interest to drivers with CarPlay. A month ago, Pocket Casts shipped an update that included Liquid Glass design throughout the app. The update also added chapter artwork to the app’s mini player. Today’s release gives even more attention to the mini player and podcast [...]

Siri AI can pull info from third-party apps in the latest developer beta

We’ve been looking out for new features in iOS 27 beta 3, and we’ve now found an additional one: the latest developer beta allows Siri AI to access information from third-party apps. The only examples seen so far are pulling in the remaining battery from electric car apps, but it’s likely that other capabilities will be found … My colleague Fernando Silva tried it with his own electric [...]

Our choice of AI assistant really matters, says Tony Fadell – and raises big questions

“Father of the iPod” Tony Fadell has written a lengthy column in which he argues that our choice of AI assistant really matters, but also raises some huge questions that need to be addressed. He says the reason the iPhone has stood the test of time is because Apple understood the behavioral shifts it would create, not just the technology shift, and the same will be true of [...]

iOS 27 gives the Camera app on iPhone a brand new mode

iOS 27 gives the Camera app a brand new ‘Siri’ mode that joins defaults like Photo, Video, Portrait, and more. Here’s what Siri mode does. iOS 27 Camera app offers new ‘Siri’ mode with visual intelligence features Last year Apple gave the iPhone’s Camera app a new design. And this year in iOS 27, there’s a new camera mode coming. Joining existing options like Photo and Video, there’s [...]

iOS 27 beta 2 includes Write with Siri, the new version of Apple Intelligence writing tools

iOS 27 beta 2 includes our first look at the new Write with Siri features, which replace the standalone Writings Tools feature introduced as part of the first wave of the iOS 18 Apple Intelligence rollout. When editing text, the keyboard now prompts the user to write with Siri. This allows you to ask Siri using natural language request to generate new text, proofread what is already there, [...]

iOS 27 beta has a waitlist for accessing new Siri AI and app

iOS 27 beta 1 is officially here, but if you’re hoping to try the new Siri AI, you might have to wait a bit longer: Apple is using a waitlist. Siri AI requires joining waitlist in iOS 27 developer beta Apple unveiled iOS 27 today with ‘Siri AI’ one of the tentpole new features. And shortly after the WWDC keynote ended, iOS 27 beta 1 was released to [...]

How impressed were you by Apple’s AI announcements at WWDC? [Poll]

Ahead of yesterday’s keynote, we asked you how optimistic you were about what the company was likely to announce. The executive summary was that there was absolutely no consensus. Votes were split very evenly between very optimistic, somewhat optimistic and not very. So now that you’ve heard what Apple had to say, what were your impressions … ? We yesterday summarised the possible reasons for both optimism and [...]

Siri demos in keynote were a little slow, but that’s good-ish news

A number of people have been complaining that the new Siri demos during the keynote videos were a little on the slow side. There were notable lags of several seconds between Siri requests and the task being carried out. But while the ideal we’re aiming for is for AI tasks to be carried out as quickly as possible, what we saw is kind of good news … Apple [...]

Siri AI is powered by Gemini models, but is not Gemini – what does that mean?

We know that Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features are powered by Google’s Gemini models, but Apple has been at pains to point out that this is not the same as running Gemini on iPhone. While there are still some unknowns, a far clearer picture is emerging about exactly what all of this means … Siri AI is not Gemini Assistant Google hasn’t exactly helped matters by [...]