OLED iPad mini rumored with a 120Hz screen at last
Even with the launch window still unsettled, the next iPad mini's real story is the jump from a 60Hz LCD to a 120Hz OLED panel, plus an A19 Pro chip.
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Notes
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.
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
Videos
Apple has a new ad out for the AirPods Pro 3, and it leans on a famous face. Vini Jr.
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 ad stars Vini Jr. for the World Cup
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
9to5Mac's Fernando Silva installed iOS 27 developer beta 1 on his main iPhone 17 Pro, and the headline of
iOS 27 beta 1 arrives without new Siri
Lewis at Unbox Therapy got hold of one of the dummy mock-ups that turn up from China every spring
Folding iPhone mock-up looks like a pocket iPad
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
Darkroom rebuilt its engine and split its longtime fans
For all of PetaPixel's praise of the Darkroom 7 engine, App Store reviewers since December count broken histograms and failed exports.
Finch turns self-care into raising a tiny bird
Finch's gentle accountability earns years-long streaks, but App Store reviewers describe streaks reset to 1 and a closet of bird clothes lost to a bug.
Taio pairs a Markdown editor with a clipboard manager
Even frozen since September 2023, Taio still holds up, with wikilinks, clipboard actions, and a JavaScript automation engine in one app.
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Games
Rush Rally Origins drifts back to top-down rally
Rush Rally Origins nails the slide through a dirty hairpin, a 36-stage overhead rally throwback that plays best with a controller.
Level Devil hides a fresh trap behind every door
Level Devil's traps are gleeful the first time through, but its App Store reviews report an ad after nearly every one of its bite-size levels.
El Paso, Elsewhere brings slow-mo gunfights to iPhone
Even with the cramped touch controls reviewers flag on iPhone, El Paso, Elsewhere keeps its slow-motion neo-noir shootouts mostly intact.
Deals
Seven paid iPhone games on sale this Friday
Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee falls to $0.99, Don't Starve matches it, and five more iPhone games land between $1.99 and $4.99, all verified live.