Apple will let developers distribute iOS app directly from their own website – but only in the EU. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Apple has recently been making big changes to how ...

Only a few days after releasing iOS 18.4 to the general public, Apple has now dropped the first public beta of iOS 18.5 for developers. We don't expect iOS 18.5 to have any major new features, ...

When Apple announced plans to comply with the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) legislation in Europe, we discovered that iPhone sideloading would not be what some developers and iPhone users wanted.

Casey Liss, developer of a new app, Callsheet, that makes looking up movie and show trivia trivially easy. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Planet of the Apps is a series of interviews with app ...

Apple has released the first iOS 18 beta to developers, but even non-developers have the opportunity to download beta software updates on their iPhones for free. Keep reading to learn how it's done.

In a break from the past, Apple these days offers non-developers the opportunity to download beta software updates on their iPhones for free. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Before iOS 17 was ...

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We're not sure yet what new features the 26.5 update will bring, but new Siri stuff is probably not coming until OS 27.

The Apple Developer Program is a subscription-based platform offering app developers the tools, resources, and support they need to develop and distribute apps "from code to customer," according to ...

Payments processing software provider Stripe is ready to help iOS app developers bypass Apple’s cut of App Store transactions. In a post on X, Stripe product manager Michael Luo said the team “cooked ...

It's been nearly two months since Apple previewed iOS 26 during the WWDC 2025 keynote. This upcoming software update introduces Apple's new Liquid Glass design language. While it's been generating a ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Only a few days after releasing iOS 18.4 to ...