Following the company’s successful IPO , and a deal with Google to allow Reddit posts to be used as training data , the expansion of another Reddit data-sharing agreement has been signed – t...
Floridian kids aged 13 or younger face a social media app ban in Florida, while those aged 14 to 16 will only be allowed to use the apps with parental permission. Opponents argue that the new ...
On the face of it, getting a free premium Telegram subscription direct from the company seems like a pretty sweet deal, giving you access to features like transcribing voice messages into texts....
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/26/free-premium-telegram-subscription/
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly holding a series of closed-door briefings intended to persuade senators to force the sale of TikTok to a US company, rather than ban it outright. ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/19/doj-wants-to-force-sale-of-tiktok/
Ahead of NCAA March Madness kicking off later this week, the March Madness Live app has received an update with a few new features. The app is now compatible with Apple Vision Pro, offers expan...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/18/ncaa-march-madness-vision-pro-carplay-more/
I’ve been a big fan of Spike for many years, and their new Teamspace plan is one of the most credible alternatives to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 we’ve seen in quite some time. Spike ...
TipTop, an instant trade-in service launched by the founder of Postmates, is one-upping Apple’s own trade-in service with a new unified trade-in and buying feature. Most notably, unlike other ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/15/tiptop-trade-in-apple-program-features/
The popular OmniFocus task app is already available for pretty much every Apple platform, from iOS to watchOS and macOS. As of today, Apple Vision Pro owners will also find a new version of OmniF...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/14/omnifocus-4-task-app-vision-pro/
Apple Vision Pro still lacks many of the apps that iOS and macOS users are already familiar with, and some big developers have already said they have no interest in bringing their apps to Vision ...
If you’ve got big dreams about earning a living from creating iPhone apps , a new report makes for some sobering reading. The median monthly revenue generated by an app after a year on the App ...
There’s been significant progress toward a US TikTok ban, with Congress looking likely to vote in favor, and President Biden confirming that he will sign the bill if it passes – but the late...
We don’t yet know the exact cost of Reddit shares when they go on sale, but the company has indicated that the initial public offering (IPO) price will be between $31 and $34 per share. Sele...
SongCapsule Quiz is a game inspired by iPod’s Music Quiz , but now with a “fresh and modern approach” designed for the streaming era. As the name suggests, the player has to guess the name ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/songcapsule-quiz-challenges-free-to-play/
DisplayBuddy is a useful tool that lets users adjust the brightness of third-party external displays directly from macOS. Following an update last year that introduced presets and a new interfac...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/displaybuddy-mac-widgets-presets/
The TikTok Creator Rewards Program – first launched a year ago as a limited beta under the name Creativity Program – is now available to all … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/tiktok-creator-rewards-program/
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/mindfulness-moonly-interpret-dreams/
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/indie-app-sales-event-ios-macos-apps/
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/disable-x-audio-and-video-calls/
Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images, screenshots, and other clutter from your device. Download it no...
A pilot scheme is effectively seeing doctors prescribe an app – specifically one which measures the number of steps patients walk, with each person being prescribed a personal target. At the...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/01/doctors-prescribing-app-walking/
In an update to its abuse and harassment page, the X deadnaming and misgendering policy which was quietly removed last year has been equally quietly reinstated … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/01/x-deadnaming-and-misgendering-policy/
X live video is now available inside the Spaces feature. Previously, the group chat feature only supported live audio. However, the feature is somewhat different from the Periscope service wh...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/29/x-video-spaces-is-now-available/
Mercury is an elegant weather app for Apple devices for those looking for an alternative to the native iOS Weather app. With its latest update, Mercury has received a host of new features, as we...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/28/mercury-weather-apple-vision-pro-app/
Apple Vision Pro still lacks many popular apps, and X (or Twitter, as you prefer) is one of them. While there’s no sign of an official visionOS app coming soon, an independent developer has cre...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/26/dusk-x-twitter-apple-vision-pro/
The first invitations to participate in the Reddit Directed Share Program (DSP) – in which moderators and very active users will get preferential access to shares – have now been issued. S...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/26/reddit-directed-share-program/
Funn Media makes some of our favorite health and fitness-focused apps here at 9to5Mac, such as WaterMinder and Calory . Now, the team is expanding its portfolio of apps with FastMinder , desig...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/23/fastminder-app-fasting-tracker/
UPDATE: Apple tells Joe Rossingol that this is a bug and will be fixed. In iOS 17.4, users will not receive this alert when they download from their default app marketplace. “App installation ...
CrossOver is a platform that lets users run Windows software on macOS as if it were native software, and is widely used to play games on the Mac. CodeWeavers on Thursday released CrossOver 24, wh...
As you may already know, Photomator is an image editor from the same developers as the popular illustration app Pixelmator. Following an update in December that added a watermarking tool to the a...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/22/photomator-new-file-explorer-macos/
Prolific Redditors are to be given preferential access to Reddit shares in the company’s initial public offering (IPO), according to a new report. The plan would see an as-yet-unknown propor...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/21/prolific-redditors-reddit-shares/
Tinder verification will be rolling out in the US, UK, Brazil, and Mexico as the dating app seeks to tackle the growing problem of romance fraud … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/20/tinder-verification-coming-to-the-us/
It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user content for training purposes … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/reddit-user-content-being-sold/
Darkroom is one of the most popular photo and video editors for iOS (and also one of my favorites). This week, the app received an important update, which enables automatic backup and synchroniza...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/14/darkroom-backs-up-syncs-presets/
There’s good news for those who were fans of the Wunderlist to-do list app before Microsoft killed it. The founder of the app is back with a new incarnation of the spirit of Wunderlist, calle...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/13/superlist-is-the-new-wunderlist/
The popular fitness and wellness app Gentler Streak is receiving another important update this week. With this version, users will get more detailed fitness statuses, as well as new custom icons ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/12/gentler-streak-update-fitness-icons/
I’ve written before about how CardPointers is one of my favorite apps, making it super easy to maximize credit card rewards, offers, promotions, and more. Now, CardPointers is available on Vi...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/12/cardpointers-vision-pro-credit-card-rewards/
A number of large US companies are using AI monitoring systems to analyse employee communications in popular business apps like Slack , Teams , and Zoom … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/12/ai-monitoring-employee-comms/
Channels , the fan favorite live TV and cord-cutting app, is getting a nice update today for Apple TV and iOS users. The update includes a new playlists feature, library management improvements,...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/09/channels-cord-cutting-app-update-playlists/
Plex is joining the likes of Netflix and not currently developing a Vision Pro app. In a post on Reddit, a Plex employee confirmed : “There is currently no Plex app in development for the Appl...
It looks like sports fans are set for an extremely comprehensive all-in-one option. Disney -owned ESPN is partnering with FOX and Warner Bros Discovery to create a package of no fewer than 14 ...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/07/new-streaming-sports-service/
LiveSurface , a popular design visualization app, is now available on Vision Pro with a fully native visionOS application. “LiveSurface for Apple Vision Pro propels design visualization and p...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/02/livesurface-brings-design-visualization-to-vision-pro/
Ulysses is one of my favorite writing and text apps, and it’s getting even better with an update this week. Ulysses version 34, which is available now, adds support for home screen and lock scr...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/30/ulysses-writing-app-adds-new-home-screen-and-lock-screen-widgets/
The latest update to the iOS Yelp app now offers AI-generated summaries of restaurants and other businesses, designed to make it quicker to find the best match … more…
Developer Finn Voorhees has released a really great new video upscaling app that works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Unsqueeze is designed to increase the resolution of your videos “while pres...
As promised, Zoom will be available on Apple Vision Pro from day one. Ahead of Vision Pro’s launch on Friday, Zoom has shared new details on its visionOS app, which it says is designed “to m...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/29/zoom-shows-off-its-vision-pro-app-with-persona-support-and-more/
The niche web browser Arc has taken its ‘customize the web’ approach to a new level with Arc Search – an app which aims to be a web browser, search engine, and AI chatbot in one. It repr...
Day One, the popular journaling app that I’ve been writing about for years, has been updated this week with a new Shared Journals feature. Day One describes this as “a new way for you to safe...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/23/day-one-adds-shared-journals-feature/
Yes, the iMessage App Store is still a thing, although many iOS users have no idea that they can download iMessage mini-apps. YouTube was one of the apps that integrated with Apple’s messaging ...
We’re rapidly approaching every American’s favorite time of year: The opportunity to file your federal and state taxes … more…
BBEdit, a popular text and code editor for macOS, received a huge update this week to version 15. With BBEdit 15, users will find a new Minimap to get an overview of the document, but the main hi...
Dropshare is a popular macOS and iOS app that lets users easily share files to cloud platforms. On macOS, the app is very useful as it runs in the Menu Bar, so users can simply drag files there t...
If you just got a new iPhone, there are lots of things you can do to make the most of the great cameras you now have in your pocket. I’ve selected some of the best camera and photo editing apps...
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/02/best-camera-photo-editing-apps-iphone/
Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available for iPhone and iPad users via the App Store. This app integrates the company’s AI chat assistant technology, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 model. There...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/30/microsoft-openai-powered-copilot-app-comes-to-iphone-and-ipad/
Although iOS comes with a native Apple Music app, there are some third-party apps that offer even better experiences for those who subscribe to Apple’s streaming service. If you’re an Apple M...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/29/best-iphone-apps-to-enhance-your-experience-with-apple-music/
The fitness and wellness app Gentler Streak received an update last month with some new features , including support for new languages. This month, as 2023 draws to a close, the developers behin...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/28/2023-fitness-recap-gentler-streak/
Photomator, the popular image editor from the same developers as Pixelmator, has just received another update with new features. More specifically, Photomator 3.3 comes with a watermarking tool b...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/22/photomator-watermarking-tool/
Apple’s Photos app does a great job of creating memories of events such as trips. However, it lacks some advanced filters that would make the experience of reliving these memories much more int...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/20/globetrotter-revisit-travel-memories/
A DoorDash and Uber minimum wage ruling is leading to both companies implementing changes that are badly hurting the income their drivers receive from tips … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/19/doordash-and-uber-minimum-wage/
Apple will pay out $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the company “misrepresented the ability to use its Family Sharing feature to share subscriptions to apps.” The l...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/15/apple-family-sharing-lawsuit-payout/
We’ve written before about StopTheMadness, a powerful Safari extension designed to improve the experience of browsing the web. Now, developer Jeff Johnson is out with StopTheMadness Pro , the ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/15/stopthemadness-pro-safari-extension-launch/
A Proton Mail Mac app is now available as a beta, but most users are going to have to wait until early next year to try it – unless you want to hand over $40 per month for a Visionary tier su...
Back in October, Spike released its new generative AI functionality . Just a few months later, it’s releasing some of the details around the service usage along with the time savings. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/14/spikes-magic-ai-feature-saves-users-3700-hours-in-just-90-days/
Popular flight tracking app Flighty has been updated today with a collection of new year-in-review features. This includes your “2023 Flighty Passport,” breaking down all of your flight stat...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/12/flighty-year-in-review-features/
SwingVision, an Apple Design Award-winning app in innovation, today introduced its expansion into pickleball. Initially an app meant to act as a tennis coach helping users to perfect every aspec...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/05/apple-design-award-winner-swingvision-makes-its-pickleball-debut/
Strava, the popular social networking app for athletes and a leading digital community, today released its newest feature in the latest update – Messaging. Messaging allows Strava members to co...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/04/strava-adds-messaging-on-ios-and-android-and-its-free/
Over a year after the Dynamic Island and Live Activities first launched alongside the iPhone 14 last year, DoorDash is joining the fun. The popular food delivery service is now slowly rolling out...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/04/doordash-live-activities-and-dynamic-island-order-tracking/
Funn Media makes some of our favorite health and fitness-focused apps, such as WaterMinder and Calory . The latter of those two has received a nice update this week that adds one of its most-req...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/04/calory-for-iphone-fasting-support/
Filmic is one of our favorite video apps for iPhone, but it might not be long for this world. According to a new report from PetaPixel , the entire team working on Filmic has been laid off by it...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/02/filmic-video-app-iphone-shut-down-rumors/
After teasing the finalists earlier this month, Apple has now unveiled the full list of App Store Award winners for 2023. AllTrails has taken home the iPhone App of the Year crown, while Photoma...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/29/2023-app-store-award-winners/
Play is a third-party companion app to YouTube introduced last year that lets users organize videos, whether to bookmark their favorites or save them to watch later. The app has now been updated...
Indie Dev Sales have become an important event in the Apple community, as many independent developers come together to promote their iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps by offering special discou...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/23/indie-dev-sales-is-app-deals-black-friday/
Invitation-only social media app Bluesky has just hit 2M users one year after launch, and just a couple of months after reaching the 1M user milestone … more…
On the most recent episode of Under the Radar , Widgetsmith developer David Smith had a fascinating story to tell: What happens when you break 50 million home screens? more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/15/what-happens-when-you-break-50-million-home-screens/
The First Amendment doesn’t protect developers from lawsuits alleging that apps like Instagram and TikTok led to social media addiction among teenagers, a US district judge has ruled … more...
Apple has announced the finalists for this year’s App Store Awards, recognizing nearly 40 app and game developers across 10 different categories. These apps, Apple says, “are delivering exce...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/14/apple-reveals-finalists-for-the-2023-app-store-awards/
A new Venmo Groups feature makes it easy for family and friends to split bills, track shared holiday spending, or even sort out shared expenses for longer periods. The PayPal-owned app says th...
A TaskRabbit competitor dubbed Uber Tasks is being tested in two US cities by the ride-sharing company, as it seeks to address slowing revenue growth … more…
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/14/taskrabbit-competitor-uber-tasks/
Growing concern about Zelle scams has seen parent company Early Warning Services (EWS) begin to refund some people duped into sending money to criminals. The U-turn on its previous stance that cu...
The popular fitness app for Apple devices Gentler Streak released an update on Thursday that adds support for three new languages. In addition, the developers teased some new features they’ve b...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/09/gentler-streak-new-languages/
Most messaging apps let you choose whether or not to reveal that you’ve read a message, but there was no way to switch off Instagram read receipts. That is now changing, albeit only for some u...
We wrote last year about a developer who successfully emulated iPhone OS on a Mac using QEMU . At the time, the original firmware of the 1st generation iPod touch was used to demonstrate that emu...
WhatsApp this year introduced a new version of its macOS app that was completely rebuilt from scratch to run natively on Mac computers. This app was launched in August but was only available thr...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/06/native-whatsapp-app-mac-app-store/
If you’ve ever thought that you’d love to get your grandmother’s advice on your next hookup, then Tinder Matchmaker has you covered … more…
As we previously covered here on 9to5Mac , Portal is an app available for Apple devices that helps users focus or relax through clips of nature scenes combined with real-life sounds in Spatial Au...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/19/portal-relaxation-sounds-dynamic-head-tracking/
Elon Musk reportedly thinks it may be simpler to block X in Europe, rather than fix the massive problem with disinformation on the platform. The issue is now so bad that video game footage has...
It will soon be possible to have two WhatsApp accounts on one phone, thanks to an update now rolling out to the encrypted chat app. There is, however, a catch – which is likely to mean some ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/19/two-whatsapp-accounts-on-one-phone/
You may remember Apollo for Reddit, one of the most popular third-party clients for Reddit that was shut down after Reddit changed its business model regarding offering access to its API. Christ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/18/ios-widget-learn-new-language/
The IRS is piloting a free TurboTax alternative, offering the benefits of the paid app without the price tag, but there are plenty of limitations for now. TurboTax has become an increasingly ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/18/free-turbotax-alternative-irs/
2023 has been the year of AI usage and AI tools after the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. While there are a lot of dedicated AI tools launching across the internet, I believe that the future of A...
A new bill being put forward in New York state would require kids to get parental permission to use apps with algorithmic feeds. This would include TikTok , YouTube , Instagram , and more. The ...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/12/parental-permission-social-media/
There are many iOS apps available on the App Store that help users enhance their Apple Music experience. While most of them function as third-party players, there’s a new app called LivePod tha...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/10/livepod-apple-music-up-next-live-activity/
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max come with a new Action Button, which replaces the mute/ring switch and lets users mute the phone, open apps, turn on the flashlight, and even run Shortcuts whe...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/04/halide-action-button-iphone-15-pro/
Returning packages is one of life’s most tedious chores, especially when it involves a trip to an inconveniently located USPO, FedEx, or UPS office … more…
A number of TikTok deepfakes have been called out by the celebrities whose likenesses have been stolen. These include MrBeast, Tom Hanks, and Gayle King. The fake video of MrBeast claimed that...
Update: Engadget reports that Tinder Select is now live for ‘selected’ users, and does indeed cost $500/month or $6k/year. The companies behind popular dating apps like Tinder , Grindr, M...
I’ve written about Tripsy here on 9to5Mac a couple of times, as it’s a great app to help people plan their trips with full itineraries. Earlier this year, the app was updated with weather fo...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/22/tripsy-travel-planner-app-update/
The popular fitness app Gentler Streak today got a major update that takes advantage of new features introduced with iOS 17 , iPadOS 17 , and watchOS 10 . The new version of the app brings an iPa...
Apple released iOS 17 to the public on Monday, and in addition to many new features such as StandBy Mode and NameDrop, the update also brings new APIs for third-party apps. We’ve highlighted m...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/18/halide-zero-shutter-lag-ios-17/
iOS 17 is here and one of the headlining changes makes Home Screen widgets significantly more powerful. With iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, widgets now support full interactivity. This addresses one of t...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/18/the-best-ios-17-apps-with-interactive-widgets-and-standby/
Blackmagic, the company behind the popular video editor DaVinci Resolve , launched on Thursday a new iPhone app called “Blackmagic Camera” that brings manual controls to anyone shooting profe...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/14/blackmagic-camera-filming-app-iphnone/