The other changes in iOS 26.5 are fairly minor. Based on details from the beta release, ads are likely to start appearing in the Maps app as search suggestions when you look up a restaurant or someplace else. Changes to the Maps app also include the addition of “Suggested Places,” which recommend spots to hit up based on your searches and nearby trends. The latest iOS also includes Pride-themed wallpapers, since June is right around the corner. While it's worth updating your iPhone to iOS 26.5 for the more secure messaging features, more sweeping changes to the smartphone software will arrive
Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android… Apple, if it follows the pattern of past releases, is expected to unveil the fully revamped version, iOS 27, in June at its WWDC developer conference, making the update available for everyone to download later this year.
… And so will the next generation of Apple’s services. If iOS was the foundation layer for all of the services Apple customers used over the past two decades, then Apple’s chips and Apple Intelligence could be the foundation for the next two. …
… Weather services are also being integrated directly into AI chatbots, like Accuweather, which recently launched an app directly in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Everyone has their idea of what they want in a weather app, what data they're interested in, how they're interested in it being presented,” says Adam… …
… Yet more fundamental than any particular security failing on the part of the AI coding companies, he argues, is simply that these tools allow a new class of people within organizations to create applications—often with little security awareness and outside the usual software development processes t… …
… Late Launch When the XChat team posted earlier this month about the app’s wide release, the “expected” launch date listed on Apple’s App Store page was April 17. This date shifted multiple times before release, changing from the original date to April 23, then April 24. …
… Apple does have smart speakers, the HomePod, and HomePod Mini below ; both double as smart home hubs compatible with Matter over Thread. These have never been my—or the WIRED AV experts’—favorite smart speakers, and Apple rarely releases new versions of these devices. …
… It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age Verification App The European Commission this week released its free, open source app for verifying the ages of visitors to social networks and pornography websites. …
… This week, in response to the issue, Apple released an iOS and iPadOS security update to fix the flaw. “Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,” Apple’s security update for iOS 26.4.2 says. “A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.” While t… …
… He called this app DEICER. When the time came to submit DEICER to Apple’s App Store, Concepcion’s anxiety spiked. He worried that the government might bully Apple into handing over a list of accounts that had downloaded the app. …
… It's really too easy.” An Apple spokesperson told WIRED in a statement that “every day Apple's security teams around the world work tirelessly to protect users' devices and data,” and noted that Apple had released security updates that would protect users from both Coruna and DarkSword, including e… …