Beadora is a free iPad app that converts photos and text into bead art patterns, with 60 new patterns added across Anime, Sunny Girls, and Pet Portraits categories. The app offers in-app purchases for premium subscriptions and supports multiple languages and Apple devices.
Rossino is a free pomodoro timer for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch with optional Pro subscription for cross-device sync. The app features classic 25-minute focus sessions, notifications, widgets, statistics tracking, and is private by design with no tracking or ads.
Apple is testing a redesigned Health app in iOS 27.2 beta featuring new Insights and Longevity tabs that track health metrics like activity rings, heart rate, sleep, and vitals. The app calculates a Health Age score based on long-term data and fitness assessments, with plans to integrate a $119 Quest Diagnostics lab panel. The app will launch later this year, not with iOS 27.2.
Apple released iOS 27.2 beta 1, skipping iOS 27.1 beta, featuring a redesigned Health app with new tabs for health insights and longevity tracking, expanded Siri AI language support, CarPlay themes, and new parental controls for Apple TV profiles. The update also includes minor refinements to Clock, Music, and Podcasts apps, plus new accessibility features like sign language interpretation for FaceTime.
Security firm Calif discovered WeWorm, a zero-click worm exploiting a WeChat VoIP vulnerability that could have compromised over a billion accounts across Android and iOS devices without user interaction. Tencent patched the flaw in August after Calif reported it in July, and all users are now safe. Calif's AI system identified and developed the exploit in just nine days.
iTerm2 Buddy is a companion iOS app that pairs with iTerm2 on Mac to enable terminal interaction from your iPhone. It uses end-to-end encryption via the Noise protocol for secure communication between devices.
Apple's iOS 27.2 beta introduces an anniversary reminder feature within the Call Context system, alerting users when they call someone on their anniversary date if the date is stored in Contacts. The feature builds on Call Context, which already surfaces relevant information like flight confirmations during calls, and will launch in October.
iOS 27.2 beta 1 introduces user profiles for the Apple TV app on iPhone, a feature previously available only on tvOS. The profiles support age-appropriate content filtering for child accounts and can be disabled if unused, addressing a long-standing gap in Apple's streaming platform.
Apple's iOS 27.2 beta includes a redesigned Health app powered by Apple Intelligence that transforms Apple Watch data into personalized health guidance. New features include readiness scoring, longevity tracking, health age assessment, and at-home health tests using the iPhone camera, with some capabilities rolling out later in the year.
Apple released an iOS 27.2 beta to developers instead of iOS 27.1 to avoid leaking iPhone Duo details in code, since the device will ship with iOS 27.1. The two codebases are expected to converge eventually. iPhone Duo launches October 23.
Apple released iOS 27.2 beta 1, expanding Siri AI support from English to five additional languages: French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. The expansion comes just days after Siri AI's initial launch with iOS 27.
Apple released the first iOS 27.2 developer beta for iPhone, skipping iOS 27.1 to focus iPhone Duo-specific features closer to the device's October launch. The update includes a redesigned Apple Health app and expanded Siri AI support with multilingual capabilities rolling out over the coming months.
iOS 27's Weather app introduces rain and wind forecast views that bring previously hidden data to the home screen. Users can now tap icons to switch between Conditions, Precipitation, and Wind views, with both hourly and 10-day forecasts updating instantly for each option.
iOS 27 introduces a rebuilt Siri AI that answers questions and performs device actions, enhanced proofreading with grammar checking powered by Apple Intelligence, and an overhauled Spotlight search with better indexing also applied to Photos and Mail apps.
Apple released iOS 27 on September 14, bringing new features including Siri AI beta, Safari website monitoring, enhanced Photos editing tools, and system performance improvements. The update supports iPhone 11 and newer, though Apple Intelligence features require iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16 models.
Signal has launched Signal Login, an optional registration method allowing users to create accounts without phone numbers, first on Android then iOS. The feature requires a one-time $2.99 payment to prevent spam, uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy, and remains optional alongside traditional phone-number-based registration.
StandProof is an iOS app that verifies standing desk usage by detecting barometric altitude changes and motion sensor data, eliminating self-reporting. Users earn coins for completing stand sessions and can customize sit-stand intervals following ergonomic guidelines, with a gamified desk cat that levels up based on activity.
Lacquer is an iOS app that detects fake lossless audio files by analyzing the actual audio content rather than file metadata, using FFT analysis to identify upscaled or re-encoded files. It offers on-device processing with no uploads or accounts required, displaying spectral evidence for its verdicts, and functions as a full lossless audio player supporting FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and m4a formats.
Apple announced Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence but will delay its release in the EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 due to Digital Markets Act regulations. EU regulators rejected Apple's proposed solutions to bring Siri AI while protecting privacy and security, leaving no timeline for EU availability on iPhones and iPads.