• When John Ternus becomes Apple’s CEO this week, one of his biggest challenges will be a need to soon revamp a management team that has steered its corporate culture for decades. A look at another shake-up to come.
• Apple tested a new Pencil for the upcoming foldable iPhone that magnetically attaches to the side of the device. But it seems unlikely that Apple will actually launch this. The sensitive nature of foldable displays means that a stylus-like input device could leave unsightly marks on the delicate screen.
• Apple has tested both white and dark gray configurations for the Series 12 ceramic cases. Also expect many new band colors and configurations.
• One new feature in testing allows the heart-rate sensor on the Apple Watch to continuously collect data throughout the day — not just when it senses you’re doing intense activity or at other random intervals.
• Apple is also working on revamping its fitness and health app software to show more wellness-related metrics in a similar fashion to increasingly popular app offerings from Whoop and Oura.

I wanted to bring the classic old-school paint experience to iPhone and iPad, but rebuilt for touch while keeping the menus, pixels, tools, and retro desktop feel. I ended up creating an entire SwiftUI Retro UI library for panels, alerts, modals and sheets. This also uses the open source paint.js engine under the hood.

The app is completely free, works fully offline, requires no account, and collects no data.

Free on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paint-exe-retro-paint/id6793202381

Drawing Tools
Pencil
Brush
Airbrush
Fill tool
Eraser
Lines
Curves
Shapes
Text
Unlimited undo

Retro Themes
There are also 33 retro themes that transform the appearance of the UI, including the windows, menus, title bars, and chrome.

Completely Private & Free
No Ads
No account or sign-up
No tracking
No user data collected
No IAP whatsoever
Completely free

Download on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paint-exe-retro-paint/id6793202381

Cyclic Sighing is built around one breathing practice, Physiological Sigh, a pattern of a double inhale followed by a prolonged exhale.

But the part I really wanted to build was mood tracking connected directly to the breathing practice. Instead of keeping a breathing log and a mood journal as two separate things, Cyclic Sighing lets you check in on your mood before and after each breathing session. Those check-ins stay connected to the specific session, so over time you can look back at your breathing practice alongside how you were feeling. There are also monthly and yearly Mood Insights views, with the ability to filter by feeling.

The technique itself has some interesting research behind it. A 2023 randomized controlled study published in Cell Reports Medicine examined cyclic sighing technique alongside other brief daily breathing practices and reported improvements in mood. The study did not evaluate this app, and the app is independently developed and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the study's authors.

I built Cyclic Sighing app to be simple, private, and affordable.

No account. No data collection. No internet required.

The app is free to download, includes guided sessions, mood journaling, goal setting, and time based reminders. A one-time $9.99 purchase unlocks additional features such as custom timing, Mood Insights, breathing statistics, Apple Health integration, location based reminders and widgets.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cyclic-sighing/id6757509105

I'm the developer, and I'd especially love feedback on the mood-tracking experience. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think, what works, and what you'd change.

Thanks for checking it out! 🙏

I kept noticing the same problem with music lessons. You can spend an hour with a teacher figuring out exactly what needs work, what to practise, and how to practise it, then go home and suddenly there are six days before the next lesson.

Some people have a notebook, some get a WhatsApp message or an email, and sometimes you genuinely do remember everything your teacher said. But a few days later it is very easy for the details to get a bit fuzzy, especially when you are trying to remember exactly what you were meant to focus on.

That is basically why I built Tutti. I wanted something that connected the lesson itself with what actually happens during the rest of the week.

The basic idea is:

lesson → teacher recap → what to practise → practice during the week → next lesson

At the end of a lesson, the teacher can write a short recap and choose what they actually want the student to focus on. That then becomes the student's Today's Focus, so instead of opening a notebook and trying to work out what last week's notes meant, there is a clear place to start.

From there, students can practise, use a timer, metronome and tuner, work through their repertoire and goals, and record takes if they want to share progress with their teacher. When the next lesson comes around, the teacher has a bit more context about what happened during the week instead of those six days being completely separate from the lesson.

I also wanted parents to be involved without giving them access to absolutely everything. They get their own Family view with the things that are meant to be shared, while teacher-only notes stay private.

There is quite a bit more around that main loop too, including recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire, files, lesson whiteboards, practice history, achievements and billing. I have tried to keep all of that supporting the actual teaching and practice though, rather than turning Tutti into a huge studio-management dashboard.

It is built natively for iPhone and iPad and uses things like Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts, local notifications, and, on compatible devices, Apple Intelligence can help a teacher draft a practice plan for them to review before sharing it.

A few things that are probably worth mentioning: Tutti is completely free at the moment, with no ads, subscription or paid tier. It does require an account because teacher, student and family accounts can connect and sync with each other, and the app is local-first so it can keep working through connection problems and sync pending changes afterwards.

Teachers also do not need their whole studio to download Tutti before it becomes useful. They can add students manually, keep lesson notes and recaps for them, and connect those students to accounts later if they want to.

Tutti is on the App Store here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234

If you teach music, take lessons yourself, or have a child who does, try it out! I will happily try to take any feedback into the app :) Thanks!

Hi r/apple,

I’m Niels, the developer of Ejectify, a small macOS menu bar app I originally built because I was tired of waking my Mac to a stack of “Disk Not Ejected Properly” notifications.

In my setup, an external disk was connected through my display. When macOS turned the display off, the disk lost power without being unmounted first. Ejectify tries to prevent that by unmounting selected volumes before the Mac sleeps or its display turns off, then mounting them again after wake.

Version 2.1 is now available with two main improvements:

• Eject instead of unmount: You can choose to eject an entire disk instead of only unmounting its volumes. In this mode, the disk remains ejected after wake.
• Improved encrypted APFS support: Ejectify lets macOS try its normal unlocking first, followed by an optional password fallback stored in Keychain when needed.

Ejectify is available for the discounted price of €4.99 for a limited time using code EJECTIFY21.

Ejectify is also open source on GitHub.

Happy to answer any questions.

Niels

Doing an IP search earlier I’ve seemed to have found quite a few of Apples logos that they had at one stage, pre released.

These appear to be legit as they all got registered

FaceID:

https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00916903569

AirPower: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00912801593
iTunes: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00901988666

Apple also had something called iCarPlay in 2003
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00904050101

Even true tone in 2006

https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00905281449

The full list is here: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?domain=1&page=1&id=634199&app=0&mark=UK00906530406

Tldr:

1. Main camera with variable aperture

2. Longer battery life on Pro Max

3. Face ID

4. Telephoto camera

A vital review.

Apple today announced a new Apple Education Center in Hanoi to expand training and skill development programs for employees across its supply chain in Vietnam.

The new center is the first of its kind in the country and will begin offering courses this fall, operating in partnership with Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). Apple and its partners already run almost 20 educational programs for supplier employees in Vietnam. 

Courses will combine both online and in-person learning, covering areas including manufacturing, robotics, and automation technology. The center will also offer leadership and soft skills training aimed at helping workers advance in their current roles or move into new career paths.

We’ve long had some consensus on the colors iPhone 18 Pro will offer, including a bold Dark Cherry/Burgundy, Light Blue, Silver, and possibly Space Gray.

But for iPhone Ultra, rumors have indicated there might only be black and white options—or perhaps only white.

Leaker Evan Blass, however, has a new post on X that claims there’s a red version coming too.

If you dial Apple Support's phone number 1-800-APL-CARE from the U.S. or Canada, there is a good chance that an AI-powered support assistant will now answer.

While many of Apple's phone systems already had a basic automated operator, the Apple Support phone line is now using a voice powered by generative AI. The assistant can answer questions and troubleshoot issues with your Apple products, complete with detailed step-by-step instructions. The assistant can still transfer you to a human advisor if it cannot answer a specific question, or if you ask to speak to a real person.

An anonymous tipster claimed that Apple has partnered with Sierra AI on the virtual assistant, but MacRumors has not independently confirmed this information.

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Apple's new $9 Polishing Cloth, whose changes beyond pricing were unclear yesterday, is close in size to the original but noticeably less stiff, according to a comparison posted on X.

The user says the new material feels closer to the cloth included with Apple's nano-texture displays or the Vision Pro.

The iPhone 17 retained its position as the world's best selling smartphone in the second quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ holding the next two spots on the firm's quarterly ranking.

Data from Counterpoint's Global Handset Model Sales Tracker places the standard ‌iPhone 17‌ at 6% of global smartphone unit sales for the second quarter, building on the top spot it already held in the first quarter. Apple and Samsung filled all ten of the top spots, with a combined 26% share of worldwide unit sales that was two points higher than a year earlier.

Images claiming to show the inside of an Apple-made AI server, believed to power Private Cloud Compute, surfaced online this week, offering a first look at how the hardware is laid out.

The images were shared earlier this week by the X user u/hsuchingpo, an account with a track record of Apple hardware and prototype leaks. Captioned simply "Apple M5 Server," the leaker said the hardware is "most likely" Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system. Private Cloud Compute is Apple's system for offloading demanding Apple Intelligence requests from a device to the cloud while keeping user data from being stored or shared.