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iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others TemporarilySoftware

iOS 27: Find My App Lets You Hide Location From Others Temporarily

Apple's first iOS 27 developer beta, released on Monday, includes a new feature in the Find My app that lets you temporarily hide your location from select people. A new "Hide Location" option appears in the user's Find My card in the People section, under "My Location." Tapping it hides your location temporarily for 12 hours before reverting to your previous shared location state. When enabled, the option switches to "Unhide Location." As it currently works, enabling the feature doesn't appear

Jun 9, 20261 min
tvOS 27 sneaks out with redesigned Podcasts app & AI subtitle generationSoftware

tvOS 27 sneaks out with redesigned Podcasts app & AI subtitle generation

Released without any real fanfare, developers can now update their Apple TVs to tvOS 27, allowing for on-device AI subtitles on videos, on-screen text size adjustment, a new Podcasts app, and not much more.tvOS 27 is here, with on-device video captioning, text size adjustment, and more.Though iOS 27 was undoubtedly the star of WWDC 2026, tvOS received several meaningful enhancements of its own. These include a redesigned Apple Podcasts app and smart downloads on Apple TV.Additionally, AppleCare

Jun 9, 20262 min
watchOS 27 Gains a Consolidated and Redesigned Find My AppSoftware

watchOS 27 Gains a Consolidated and Redesigned Find My App

Apple yesterday announced a redesigned Find My app in watchOS 27 that brings all tracking functionality into a single, map-centric interface. Previously split across separate Find Devices, Find People, and Find Items apps, the new app now consolidates everything into one unified view. Apple says the update makes it easier to locate the people, devices, and items you care about, with a map-centric layout as the central navigation paradigm. The redesign also introduces more flexible sharing option

Jun 9, 20261 min
Instagram Now Lets Users Reorder Posts on Their Profile GridSoftware

Instagram Now Lets Users Reorder Posts on Their Profile Grid

Instagram is now rolling out a long-awaited feature that lets users rearrange posts in any order on their profile grid. The update, which began reaching users on June 8, is available via the Instagram app for iPhone and Android. To reorder posts, users can go to their profile, long-press any post on the grid, select "reorder grid" from the pop-up menu, then drag content to the desired position. Changes save immediately and are visible to all visitors. Until now, Instagram profiles have displayed

Jun 9, 20262 min
iOS 27 Wallet App Gets 'Create a Pass' FeatureSoftware

iOS 27 Wallet App Gets 'Create a Pass' Feature

The Wallet app in iOS 27 has a new "Create a Pass" option that's designed to let you add passes for tickets, memberships, and more using Visual Intelligence. If you have a ticket for an event and there's not a digital version available in the Wallet app already, you can create one using the physical pass. By default, the Wallet app uses ‌Visual Intelligence‌ to scan a pass and add it, but there's also a "Create Pass Manually" option. Pass templates include Standard, Membership, and Eve

Jun 9, 20261 min
macOS 27 compatibility list focuses entirely on Apple SiliconSoftware

macOS 27 compatibility list focuses entirely on Apple Silicon

Apple's macOS 27 finalizes the move to Apple Silicon, leaving Intel Macs further behind.macOS Golden Gate runs on these MacsThe software update was announced at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, as part of the company's annual developer conference. Apple said macOS 27 will be available as a developer beta immediately, with a public beta arriving later in the summer and a full release planned for the fall.The compatibility list includes every Apple Silicon Mac currently supported by Apple. Own

Jun 9, 20261 min
tvOS 27 Drops Support for Two Apple TV ModelsSoftware

tvOS 27 Drops Support for Two Apple TV Models

The upcoming tvOS 27 update that was previewed today drops support for two Apple TV models. The two Apple TV models that are compatible with tvOS 26 but not tvOS 27 are the Apple TV HD from 2015 and the Apple TV 4K (1st generation) from 2017. tvOS 27 is compatible with the Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) and newer, according to Apple's documentation. tvOS 27 features a redesigned Podcasts app, smoother app launches and animations, support for larger text across the interface, and more. Apple did no

Jun 9, 20262 min
iOS 27 keeps iPhone 11 and newer compatibilitySoftware

iOS 27 keeps iPhone 11 and newer compatibility

Apple didn't drop a single iPhone from its iOS 27 compatibility list, giving every device that runs iOS 26 another year of major software support.iPhone 17 Pro MaxThe new operating system was announced during Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote on Monday. iOS 27 will be available as a developer beta immediately, followed by a public beta later this summer and a general release in the fall.Apple did not remove any iPhone models from its compatibility list this year. The company says iOS 27 supports the sam

Jun 9, 20261 min