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iPadOS 27 launches next month , with new features in apps like Notes , Messages , Calendar , Mail , and more. Here are a couple of systemwide iPadOS 27 features I’ve been loving.
Apple is preparing some smart home updates, with a new HomePod mini expected soon. Here's what to expect from Apple's small wireless speaker. HomePod mini 2 shouldn't change much from the first-gen's external appearance. Apple's HomePod mini is a key part of the smart home. While it is obviously a great and compact speaker and a way to communicate with Siri without using your iPhone , it's also a hub to manage all of your smart home devices using Apple Home . However, since its release in 2020, the HomePod mini hasn't had much in the way of updates, save for some new colors. A glow-up is long overdue. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
A new study covering wearing an Apple Vision Pro during certain surgeries has concluded that it is superior to existing medical equipment, and is very much worth the relatively small cost. The Apple Vision Pro has proven to be a useful tool for cataract surgery. Apple Vision Pro has been used for surgery since it first came out, and surgeons have already said that it is so light it saves them pain and injury . Now a study conducted at the UC San Diego Shiley Eye Institute, has directly compared using Apple Vision Pro to what it calls "traditional monitor-based" surgery. The resulting paper , called "Apple Vision Pro as a Wearable Display for Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy: Surgical Experience, Efficiency, and Cost," claims to be among the first to evaluate the device for endoscopic lacrimal surgery. The researchers considered factors including efficiency, reliability, weight and cost, and concluded that Apple Vision Pro: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Even though Apple now supports RCS to let Android users join in iMessage conversations, the risky Sunbird app is back to persuade them to route everything through its servers anyway. Don't do it to yourself. That would be Android phones it's talking about. You're on an iPhone, you're fine. Image credit: Sunbird Previously on Sunbird... it was an Android app that let users partake in Apple iMessage conversations without a green bubble , and with myriad security problems. It came and it went, and then Apple added RCS support so that Android users could do exactly this without the privacy issues. Sunbird tried coming back in 2024 having promised to have fixed its security problems, but it really didn't because it really can't. Your data still went through its servers and the company can say all it likes that it doesn't peek, but this remains a firm you've never heard of and are expected to trust. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
