Author Archives: 9to5mac

Smart Home Diary: Planning my new smart home, 13 years later

I’m just about starting to believe that I may be heading into the final stages [...]

Here’s why I won’t be switching on auto-deleting Siri chats

Whenever the new Siri finally launches, it’s going to be the most privacy-respecting AI chatbot [...]

How to create custom Apple Fitness+ plans with iOS 17

Getting specific and putting commitments on a calendar are two great ways to build consistency [...]

CarPlay now works with these three top AI chatbot apps

CarPlay continues to give drivers more choice than ever when it comes to which services [...]

Here’s what Apple Fitness could learn from Oura

After having spent a month with my Oura Ring and many more months than that [...]

After Ring privacy backlash, company abandons plans for police partnership

Amazon’s plan to turn Ring doorbells into a neighborhood-wide surveillance system was roundly denounced as [...]

Apple just revealed an iOS 27 feature that hints at Siri’s new powers

Today Apple announced its lineup of new accessibility features coming in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, [...]

CarPlay keeps getting better, here are two new features I’ve been loving

CarPlay has improved a lot with iOS 26 and subsequent updates over the past year, [...]

A peak performance partnership: Apple Fitness+ teams up with Gympass

It was recently announced that Gympass, a leader in corporate wellness, would be integrating Apple [...]

These AI chatbot app widgets work with CarPlay

Want to use your favorite AI chatbot app in the car? iOS 26.4 and later [...]