Filipe Espósito

If you’re an iCloud Photos user, you’re probably already familiar with the “Optimize Storage” option that keeps only the most recently downloaded photos and videos on your device, while the rest are only downloaded when you need them. On the other side, there’s iMessage with a terrible caching system – and Apple should do something about it.

We’ve covered many stories of people getting their Apple devices back after losing them for days or even months in challenging situations, and something like this happened to Jared Brick. After losing his Apple Watch in the Caribbean over a year ago, Apple’s Find My helped Brick get his hands back on his watch – and it’s still working.

I’m not exactly an expert on TVs and displays, but I chose a high-end TV for my living room to get the best possible experience when it comes to immersiveness, brightness, and color accuracy. But now I’ve had the chance to try something different: a 4K projector from XGIMI. I’ve been using the XGIMI HORIZON Ultra 4K for the past month and I must say it’s quite impressive.

Apple recently reintroduced the Beats Pill wireless speaker with a new, redesigned and improved model. And to promote the product’s comeback, the company also brought back the classic Beats campaign starring the Beats Pill Characters, also known as the “Beats Pill Dude.”

The popular password manager 1Password has just received another update with a very useful new feature. Users can now generate a QR Code to share Wi-Fi passwords with others, making it easy for guests to connect to a network without having to spell out its password.

Apple Watch is turning 10 this year, and although the product has evolved a lot, its design is still very similar to the original introduced in 2014. In recent years, there have been many rumors about a major redesign coming to the Apple Watch – but they never saw the light of day. But after all, do we really need a radically redesigned Apple Watch?

Being added to an unknown chat group is certainly unpleasant, and Meta wants its users to know more about these groups. The company announced this week an update for WhatsApp that introduces a feature to help users and give them more context about unknown chat groups they’ve been added to.

Kaleidoscope is a popular and powerful Mac app for users who constantly need to compare the differences between files and folders. The developers behind the app released Kaleidoscope 5 on Tuesday, which brings an important improvement to the app: integration with Git Repositories.

You may be familiar with Insta360 Flow, a popular gimbal with AI tracking capabilities for smartphones. Insta360 is now introducing Flow Pro, an improved version of its stabilizer with an updated algorithm and an important new feature for iPhone users: support for Apple’s DockKit.

9to5Mac was able to try out the new Insta360 Flow Pro in advance, so read on as we detail what’s good about the product.

We’ve seen a lot of evidence pointing to a new Apple home accessory (like a HomePod with a display) in recent months. And to corroborate all these rumors, the latest beta version of tvOS 18 available to developers has a new hidden interface that is touchscreen-ready.

Ivory, the popular Mastodon client available for Apple platforms, has just gotten a major update to version 2.0. The new version of the app adds Hashtag Lists, as well as other new features and improvements such as a redesigned Hashtags tab. Read on as we detail what’s new with the update.

With tvOS 18 and iOS 18, Apple introduced a new feature for its Apple TV app called “InSight,” which is like Amazon Prime Video’s X-Ray feature, but for Apple TV+. Although this feature wasn’t available in the first betas, it seems to be working for users running iOS 18 beta 3 and tvOS 18 beta 3.

As we reported last month, the second beta of iOS 18 released to developers has finally enabled RCS messaging support on the iPhone – but only for some US mobile carriers. Now with iOS 18 beta 3, which was released on Monday, Apple is enabling RCS for more carriers around the world.

We’ve been talking a lot about iOS 18 and macOS Sonoma, but Apple also announced a new version of tvOS at WWDC. With the tvOS 18 update, Apple TV users will also receive new features and enhancements – and we’ve put together a list of everything new in the update.

We’ve already covered many of the new features of macOS Sequoia, the next version of the Mac operating system. However, there’s one small but important change coming with the update for those who often use their Mac for media consumption, and that’s the HDMI Passthrough option for Dolby Atmos audio in media apps.

Safari is one of the many Apple apps bundled with iOS and macOS. With iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, Apple has introduced Safari 18 with new features and improvements. However, when it comes to the Mac, you don’t need to update your Mac to macOS 15 in order to try out the new Safari 18 beta.

It’s been a while since rumors and evidence have pointed to a new HomePod with a display that would allow users to interact with the product through a graphical interface. To add fuel to the fire, code references have revealed a new Apple product identified as “HomeAccessory” which could be this new HomePod.

Apple last year introduced a new Game Porting Toolkit to help developers bring their Windows games to macOS. Since then, we’ve seen some AAA titles coming to the Mac – and soon it will be even easier to port these games to iOS. That’s because Game Porting Toolkit 2.0 works not only on the Mac, but also on the iPhone and iPad.

It’s been almost a year since Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, became available to the public. Over the last 12 months, Threads has achieved some major milestones, such as hitting 100 million registered users in its first five days. A year later, Threads now has 175 million monthly active users, and the app is getting custom icons as part of its first anniversary celebrations.

OpenAI recently launched an official ChatGPT app for macOS, which is also the first ChatGPT app for any desktop platform. While having an app makes the process of talking to the chatbot more seamless, some users have raised privacy concerns. That’s because the app stores all conversations in plain text, which can expose sensitive user data.

Update: After we published our article, OpenAI released an updated ChatGPT app to encrypt chats stored on the Mac. Make sure you update your ChatGPT app to the latest version. You can also read the original article below.

Apple devices are extremely capable of running good games. However, things have been changing in recent years and we now finally have some AAA games available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Even so, most users don’t seem interested in playing console-level games on smartphones – which is why now is the time for a new gaming-focused “Apple TV Pro” with the M4 chip.