iOS 27 adds Tap to Share, just not in the EU
A merchant's iPhone can pull contacts, receipts, and Wallet passes from a customer mid-payment, but Apple is keeping the feature out of the EU.
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Notes
iOS 27's small-print list runs to 250 changes
Apple's WWDC keynote slide counted 250-plus changes across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, where the under-the-hood fixes carry the upgrade.
iPadOS 26: The iPad Finally Becomes What We Always Wanted
After years of "What's a computer?" marketing while refusing to let the iPad actually replace one, Apple just dropped the mic. iPadOS 26 doesn't just add features – it fundamentally reimagines what an iPad can be. And for those of us who've been
iOS 26: The iPhone Learns to Surprise Us Again
I just finished watching Apple's iOS 26 presentation, and honestly? I had to watch it twice. Not because it was confusing – but because I couldn't believe Apple actually did all this. After years of playing it safe, they've thrown pretty much everything at the
Videos
Apple spent WWDC 2026 reintroducing Siri, and MacRumors' Dan Barbera ran the iOS 27 developer beta to see how much
iOS 27's new Siri, hands-on in the first beta
Lewis at Unbox Therapy got hold of one of the dummy mock-ups that turn up from China every spring before
Folding iPhone mock-up looks like a pocket iPad
The clip captures the iPhone reveal from Apple's Macworld keynote in San Francisco on January 9, 2007. Steve Jobs walks
Steve Jobs unveils iPhone at Macworld 2007
Home Screens
A traveler iPhoner home screen. The wallpaper is a mosaic of deep navy and indigo tiles shifting across four shades of blue-grey, landing somewhere between a pixel grid and a stone mosaic depending on how far back you hold the phone.
Four medium widgets fill the top two-thirds of the home screen in a 2x2 grid. Two Clock widgets sit at the top: one for local time, the other locked to Sydney, which puts the same face in two different time zones. Below them, Weather and a Calendar month-view take the remaining two slots. A single row of apps separates the widget block from an empty stretch of wallpaper before the dock.
Reminders, ChatGPT, Safari, and FaceTime make up that row. Just stock icons throughout. The dock holds Phone, Messages, what looks like Camera, and WhatsApp, four apps that cover the obvious communication bases across platforms. The whole setup runs in fours, top to bottom.
Worth copying for iPhoners who track two time zones daily and want the clocks on the home screen without building out a full widget stack.
A dual-timezone home screen and a mosaic wallpaper
A traveler iPhoner setup built on dual Clock widgets for two time zones, a deep navy mosaic lock screen, and ChatGPT in the main row.
A retro iPhoner setup that goes all the way back. The lock screen wallpaper is a close-up macro of rain on glass, hundreds of grey droplets on a silver surface. On the home screen, every icon is rendered in the old skeuomorphic style: textured, dimensional, shaded like something you could actually touch.
Four pages of icons cover the whole range of the iOS 6 era: a wooden iBooks-style bookshelf, a retro television icon, the old Compass with its parchment-style surround, the original Instagram camera, and the old Maps icon with its road-map styling. The old Weather, Notes, Siri, and Music icons appear exactly as they shipped more than a decade ago. A rain-on-glass wallpaper carries across every page and the lock screen, making the visual continuity between screens unusually consistent.
Page three is the highlight: an iPod classic widget fills the top half of the screen, complete with a scroll wheel and album art from a currently playing track. A Flappy Bird icon sits two rows below it. Further pages bring a currency widget tracking USD, EUR, GBP, and BTC, a skeuomorphic clock and calendar widget, and a green battery readout styled like an old status bar. Modern apps including Duolingo, Discord, Reddit, and Spotify sit alongside the vintage icons without much friction.
Worth copying for iPhoners who miss the era when every icon looked like a real thing, not a flat colored square.
iOS 6 revival home screen with an iPod widget
A retro iPhoner setup that brings back iOS 6 skeuomorphic icons across four pages, with an old-school rain lock screen and an iPod classic widget.
A minimal iPhoner home screen built around a stormy lighthouse photograph. The wallpaper is a moody teal-grey scene: a tall lighthouse at the edge of rocky surf, lit from within against a foggy overcast sky.
Eight black square icons run in a left-column grid, each with a minimal white line icon inside: Phone, a weather app, Photos, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, WhatsApp, Messages, and a grid-view app. The right side of the home screen is left open, giving the lighthouse room to stand in the frame. The single dock app is a list icon centered at the bottom.
A date and weather widget anchors the top left, rendered in plain white text directly on the wallpaper with no background card. That left column continues straight down with the icons below it. The lock screen uses the same lighthouse image with a glass weather widget at the bottom left, showing the current conditions and a two-day forecast. A sunset-time complication sits in the row above that.
Worth copying for iPhoners who want a dramatic landscape photograph to carry the visual weight while the icons stay out of the way.
A stormy lighthouse wallpaper and a minimal black icon set
A minimal iPhoner with eight black line-icon apps, a stormy lighthouse wallpaper on both screens, and a detailed weather widget on the lock screen.
Apps
Country Count maps visits from photo GPS
Country Count ships a retroactive approach: it reads GPS from your existing photo library to build your visited-countries map automatically.
stoic. adapts prompts by time of day
stoic. adapts journal prompts to time of day and what you've written, though App Store reviewers flag that quick entries take more taps than they should.
Brass brings icon themes and widgets to the home screen
Brass ships a large themed icon and widget library, but custom icons route through iOS Settings profiles and add a one-second delay on every launch.
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