After the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter’s home and seized multiple devices, Lockdown Mode prevented them from accessing her iPhone. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseLockdown Mode prevented FBI from getting into reporter’s iPhone
Author
Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.
He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.
Today, Marcus co-hosts several tech-focused shows at Gigahertz FM, a Brazilian podcast network he co-founded in 2022 with 9to5Mac’s own Guilherme Rambo. Outside of Gigahertz FM, he also hosts IA Sob Controle, a podcast featuring in-depth interviews and news about artificial intelligence.
Tips, typos, feedback or just want to reach out?
- Email: Marcus @ 9to5mac.com
- Signal: mvcmendes.37
- Instagram: mvcmendes
- Threads: mvcmendes
- Bluesky: mvcmendes
Apple confirms ongoing Xcode Cloud disruption affecting all developers [U: Solved]
Update, 4:22 p.m. ET: Apple says the issue has now been resolved. The original post follows below.
Apple Developer’s System Status page reports that Xcode Cloud has been experiencing issues since yesterday. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding ClosemacOS Tahoe 26.3 RC rolling out now for developers [U: Public beta]
After three beta releases, Apple is moving macOS Tahoe 26.3 to the Release Candidate stage, ahead of the upcoming official release in the coming days. Here’s what to expect from the update.
Expand Expanding CloseApple’s search deal with Google could face renewed scrutiny as DOJ appeals antitrust ruling
Last year, a federal judge ruled that Google had illegally maintained a search monopoly, but allowed the company to keep paying to be the default search engine on Apple devices (with very few caveats). Now, the Department of Justice and a group of states are appealing the overall decision. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding ClosexAI accused of destroying evidence in antitrust case against Apple and OpenAI
As OpenAI accused xAI of systematically destroying internal communications, the court also shut down xAI’s bid to add a high-ranking former OpenAI researcher to discovery. Here’s the latest on this increasingly messy lawsuit.
Expand Expanding CloseApple to update minimum SDK requirements for all App Store submissions
Apple informed developers today of an upcoming update to the minimum Software Development Kit (SDK) requirements for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS apps. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseYou can no longer downgrade to iOS 26.2
Following last week’s release of iOS 26.2.1, Apple has now stopped signing iOS 26.2. Here’s what that means.
Expand Expanding Close
Apple Maps gets a ‘Drops of God’ wine guide curated by actor Tomohisa Yamashita
To help promote the second season of Apple TV’s Drops of God, the company has released an Apple Maps guide with some of actor Tomohisa Yamashita’s favorite wineries in Europe and the US. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseNew Apple study shows how grouping similar sounds can speed up AI speech generation
A group of Apple and Tel-Aviv University researchers figured out a way to speed up AI-based text-to-speech generation without sacrificing intelligibility. Here’s how they did it.
Expand Expanding CloseApple clears a major manufacturing hurdle in India amid regulatory tension
The Indian government approved a measure on Sunday that allows Apple to directly finance iPhone manufacturing equipment in India without risking additional taxes. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseThis Kickstarter project wants to turn your iPhone into a modular, vintage-style camera
The RetroVa Vintage Image Kit features a slide-on camera grip with real buttons, modular telephoto optics, film filter presets, and support for external storage. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding Close
F1: The Movie scores Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance
Apple TV walked away with one win out of four Grammy nominations at last night’s ceremony. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseAdobe Firefly offers unlimited image and video generations, third-party models included
Adobe is removing generation limits from Firefly, giving subscribers unlimited image and video generations across both its own models and supported third-party AI models, but you have to act quick. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding Close
Speechify adds celebrity voices to its AI Voice Assistant [U: ChatGPT integration]
Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below.
Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, and MrBeast. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseSomeone turned Apple’s most annoying bugs into a scoreboard of wasted human time
A new website takes Apple’s most persistent software bugs and reframes them as a hilarious scoreboard, using intentionally over-the-top math to estimate how many collective human hours they’ve supposedly wasted over the years.
Expand Expanding ClosePSA: OpenAI will remove several models from ChatGPT next month
From time to time, OpenAI removes older models from ChatGPT’s model picker, as users become accustomed to newer ones. Here are the models being retired on February 13.
Expand Expanding CloseApple Creator Studio gets its own Instagram account
Apple is apparently pushing to turn its newly launched creative bundle into a brand of its own. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding Close
As users look for TikTok alternatives, UpScrolled downloads surge on the App Store
Over the last few days, UpScrolled went from a relatively unknown app to the top of the App Store, as users flocked away from TikTok. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseJP Morgan reviews Apple’s stock price target following Q1 2026 earnings
Just days after setting a $315 price target for Apple’s stock, JP Morgan is out with a revised outlook following the company’s Q1 2026 earnings. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseNew EFF campaign urges Apple and other tech companies to ‘Encrypt It Already’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is out with a new campaign that presses tech companies to move faster to protect user data through end-to-end encryption, and stronger defaults and privacy settings. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding CloseHere’s how people are using Apple Intelligence, according to Tim Cook
Tim Cook’s opening remarks on Apple’s fiscal Q1 2026 earnings call touched on how customers are using Apple Intelligence. Here’s what he said.
Expand Expanding CloseAirPods Pro 3 supply constraints may have cost Apple at least $230 million last quarter
A comment made by Apple CFO Kevan Parekh underscored just how important the AirPods line is to Apple’s bottom line. Here’s what he said.
Expand Expanding CloseApple confirms Gemini-powered Siri will use Private Cloud Compute
During today’s fiscal Q1 2026 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh fielded, albeit vaguely, questions regarding the recent deal to have Gemini power the next-gen Siri. Here’s what they said.
Expand Expanding CloseApple ‘looking at a range of options’ to make up for skyrocketing memory prices
While the current worldwide memory constraints had minimal impact on Apple’s Q1 2026, the company expects Q2 to be a very different story. Here are the details.
Expand Expanding Close