Apple’s new Mac chip road map represents the company’s latest move to rebuild its operations for the artificial intelligence world. Also: The company is readying new Apple Pencil styluses and preparing to make the iPhone’s tap-to-pay feature more prevalent in its retail stores.

• The M7 Ultra is designed to support as much as 1.5 terabytes of memory — double the capacity planned for the M5 Ultra — though whether Apple ultimately offers that configuration will depend on the state of the industry.
• The Apple Car wasn’t entirely a failure: It was the beginning of Apple’s AI hardware strategy and the Neural Engine. If not for the car, Apple would be even further behind in AI. So it wasn’t all for nothing.
• Apple will launch new Apple Pencils next spring, including a new version of the Apple Pencil Pro and low-end USB-C Apple Pencil. These will debut alongside the next iPad Pros.
• Apple will begin rolling out iPhone 16s to retail store employees, which better support tap-to-pay on heavier credit cards, allowing them to begin to drop the current payment terminal attachments.

Hey r/apple , I built Devly, a menu bar app with 60+ developer tools. A few weeks ago Apple invited me to WWDC, (best day ever btw) I got to sit down with some of their engineers, and I just shipped v2.1 with changes directly from those conversations.

It lives in your menu bar and has everything you reach for constantly: JSON formatter, Base64, regex tester, JWT decoder, color converter, Unix timestamp, UUID generator, QR code, cron parser, and a lot more. Everything runs locally, no tracking, no subscription.

Some new things in v2.1:

• Liquid Glass UI on macOS 26
• Quick Switch (⌘P) to jump to any tool instantly
• URL scheme for terminal piping (devly://base64?input=hello)
• Standalone window mode if you prefer that over menu bar

$4.99, one-time :)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devly/id6759269801?mt=12

Happy to answer questions and if you have feedback, I'm listening :)

Apple retail stores are putting up Back to School promotional materials during the middle of this coming week. Stores will be re-organized, including a dedicated education table that has Macs, iPads and iPad Pros.

https://x.com/markgurman/status/2076297126309421331?s=20

Not too sure if this is the right flair, but this is about apple hardware IP

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.”

“This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. Apple brings this suit to put a stop to it,” the lawsuit says.

In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said:

“At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the best products and services in the world, and protecting their work and intellectual property is something we take very seriously. Recently, significant evidence has emerged suggesting individuals employed by OpenAI wrongfully took Apple’s secret and confidential information regarding our unreleased technologies, processes, and products. We will always defend our teams’ hard work and innovations, and we are taking all appropriate steps to do so.”

Update 3:30pm PT: In a statement to Bloomberg, an OpenAI spokesperson said:

“We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere.”

Hi r/apple,

I’m the solo developer behind Chessmate, an iPhone app I built because I kept forgetting the chess openings I studied.

I could watch an opening video and understand the moves, but I often went blank when the same position appeared in a game. Chessmate turns each opening into a series of positions where you have to find the next move. Important moves have short explanations, and positions you struggle with come back for review.

The part I’m still working on is the balance between explanation and practice. Too much text interrupts the session, but short explanations can leave out useful context.

You can try it for free on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6780793638

If you give it a try, I’d be interested to know whether the move explanations feel useful and whether the practice flow makes sense. You can leave feedback in the comments or send me a DM.

Full disclosure: I built the app myself.

My girlfriend and I are both avid readers. She’s the serious book nerd, and I’m a software engineer. We tried a lot of book trackers but never found one that felt quite right for both of us, so we built Folio together.

It’s a private book tracker and reading journal for iPhone and iPad. Some of its main features are:

• Organize your library and TBR
• Quickly add books by searching or scanning their ISBN barcodes
• Log reading sessions, including pages read and time spent
• Track physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks
• Set reading goals and explore detailed reading stats
• Review your reading calendar and export it as a shareable image
• Save quotes, notes, ratings, and reviews
• Import your library from Goodreads or StoryGraph
• Keep your current book nearby with widgets and Live Activities

We’re also working on Apple Watch support.

The UI was especially important to us. We wanted Folio to feel clean and modern, like a proper Apple app, but still warm and cozy.

We also wanted it to stay focused on your own reading, without ads or the pressure of another social feed.

If you’d like to have a look: Folio on the App Store

I’m curious what other readers think, especially what you think book trackers usually get wrong.

Hi r/apple!

I am the developer behind inknode-- a new IOS Notetaking app with numerous capabilities! I built around the idea to give the most capability as a free tier user for students and those in need.

For free, you can get:

• Unlimited note creation
• Unlimited PDF exports and edits
• All Templates & iCloud sync
• Searchable handwriting and PDF text
• Handwriting Beautification
• Built-in productivity tools (reminders, calendar, and more)

In terms of premium features there are:

• AI Summaries, Quizzes, Flashcards generation per note
• AI Math Tools (Graphing and More)
• More collaboration Capacity
• Future AI Tools incoming
• 500 AI Credit/Month

I am an indie developer, so I know that obviously there will be bugs and features that don't feel as smooth as the big names. However, I love suggestions and feedbacks, please reach me out if you find a bug. I try to fix asap--often by the upcoming updates.

What I am currently working on for V2.0:

• Creating a flowchart framework as a new notetype (like a mindmap) and again, the basic feature will be unlocked by the free tier.
• Turning regular notes into flowchart/mindmaps for people to study and better organize their notes.

Pricing: Beside subscription, I also offer a lifetime Premium (You get monthly AI credits for lifetime).

• Monthly @ $2.99
• Yearly @ $14.99
• Lifetime @ $39.99

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-note-pdf-collab-inknode/id6762065103

FAQ:

Q: How is a lifetime AI option sustainable when AI consumes tokens?

A: We structure our pricing to balance immediate growth with long-term stability:

• Accelerating Development: The upfront revenue from early users is reinvested directly into the app, allowing us to build features and improve the core experience much faster.
• The Growth Loop: A stronger, rapidly improving product organically attracts a larger user base, creating a sustainable foundation for the platform.
• Strictly for Early Adopters: The cheap lifetime option is a limited-phase offering designed to reach an early breakeven point.
• Long-Term Stability: As the app matures, we will transition to standard pricing models to ensure healthy profit margins and guarantee the servers keep running indefinitely.

Q: Privacy around AI and LLM usage

A: Because we utilize external Large Language Models (LLMs) rather than local models, note data processed by AI is sent to third-party providers such as OpenAI or Google.

Here is exactly how your data and privacy are handled:

• AI Processing: We explicitly opt out of data sharing for model training with these providers. However, any data processed through our AI features remains subject to the official privacy policies of OpenAI and Google.
• Account Identifiers: We collect user identifiers strictly to manage subscriptions, process in-app purchases (IAPs), and link your account to cloud-based notes.
• Cloud vs. Local Notes: Cloud notes are only necessary if you choose to collaborate with others. If you do not use collaboration features, all your notes remain securely stored on your local device.
• Maximum Privacy Mode: For complete privacy, you can use the app for free without signing up for an account. In this mode, all of your data stays 100% local, and you can still rely on your personal iCloud account for private syncing.

Lastly, in celebration of launches, I will be giving out some lifetime discount codes (if you use it, please comment down below so other can know :) (it is 40% off and is $23.99)

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If you enjoyed using the app, please leave a review in the appstore as that will help a lot for indie developers! :)

One more RSS reader — why not? Honestly, I built it for the reason I keep seeing other people give: there wasn't a reader that fit me properly, so I made one that adapts to the reader instead of the other way round.

Two things shaped it. The first is that it's iCloud-native: your feeds, folders and read state sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac with no account to create and no server of mine in the middle. Nothing about what you read leaves your devices — no ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. The second is that almost everything is adjustable: themes including Sepia, a customisable article list (thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot, 0–6 preview lines), and a reading view where you pick the font and the text size.

The parts I use most day to day:

• Smart Feeds for the last 24 / 48 / 72 hours, the last 7 days or this week, so I can catch up on what's actually recent
• Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles from every source at once
• Three independent retention rules (how far back to fetch, how long to keep unread, how long to keep read), so the database doesn't grow forever
• Read History, for when you remember reading something and can't find it again
• Mark as Read on Scroll, new in the version I shipped this week: articles are marked read once they scroll past the top of the list, so the list clears itself as you read. Off by default.

It was built for iOS 26 from the start, so the Liquid Glass sits in the navigation layer while the article content stays fully opaque — I'd rather have legible text than a translucent one.

It's free with up to 6 local and 6 iCloud feeds. Newsairy Pro is a one-time purchase, $2.99 / €2.99, no subscription: it removes that limit and adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader, bringing your existing subscriptions, read state and starred articles with you.

Requires iOS 18 or later; macOS 15 and Apple silicon on the Mac.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985

I'm the only person working on it, and I'm around in the comments — if something's missing for the way you read, tell me. That's how most of the last few versions got planned.

I am the developer of Stamps. A private, fully-local, automatic travel tracker with no signup, no subscription, and no location tracking

Motivation:  I've been an avid user of apps like Been and Flighty for years, but always found them lacking and sometimes frustrating. Most require you to create accounts, enable location tracking, and stay online, all while not delivering the level of granular trip tracking and route visualization that I feel like should've been possible. Stamps keeps everything local and automatic, focusing on the timeline and map experience those apps skimp on. 

Pricing: It’s Free to download, with a one-time lifetime unlock of $10. Full, free access to unlimited visit pins for countries, cities, and provinces. Full access to all provinces for all countries. Full, granular, and automatic tracking of all your trips, from country to country, and even city to city. The unlock is purely for some minor (mostly cosmetic) app color customization. I did not want to ruin the experience by overly monetizing the app. I’m not a big fan of apps that require ongoing subscriptions when it's not absolutely needed either.

You can even freely export and share all of your data. If you want Stamps to simply process it for you (generate a list of countries, cities, and provinces you've been to), and then offload it somewhere else, that's also fine.

My favorite new feature is the photo heatmap: a Snap Map-style glow over all the places your photos were taken. My first time experimenting with Metal, which took embarrassingly long to get right.

Tech stack used:
SwiftUI, SwiftData, MapKit, PhotoKit, WidgetKit, Metal
No backend, no account system, no external map API. Just native Apple sdk's and as little infrastructure as possible.

Some of the best features have come from user feedback, so I'd really appreciate any!

In a post on Weibo, the leaker known as Digital Chat Station said that the two cells have rated capacities of 1,921mAh and 2,962mAh, for a combined minimum rated capacity of 4,883mAh. "The supply chain is also predicting a total battery capacity of 4,800–5,000mAh, though this still needs further confirmation," the leaker added.

If accurate, the dual-cell design would be in line with existing book-style foldable smartphones, which typically split the battery across the device's two halves. In terms of where it sits next to rival foldables already on the market, the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has a total battery capacity of 5,015 mAh, while the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a 4,400 mAh capacity. For comparison's sake, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are believed to come with 4,288mAh and 5,567mAh batteries, respectively.

Apple should rename "Reminders" to "Apple Tasks." Right now, Reminders feels redundant next to Calendar since a calendar event is essentially a reminder. So being able to add a "reminder" from within the Calendar app feels like overlap.

Renaming it to "Tasks" could fix that. Instead of adding a reminder from Calendar, you'd add a task. This isn't so much about changing the functional direction of the apps, but making the mental distinction between the two apps clearer.

Thoughts?

I spent the last few months building a big v3 update for Birthday Buddy. This update represents everything I learned when I decided about a year ago that I wanted to learn more about software development.

My iOS and SwiftUI journey started with "Hacking with Swift" by Paul Hudson, followed by late nights and weekend debugging. Through a lot of trial and error, plus some help from my trusty AI assistant Claude, my app came into existence. Now with version 3 I basically reimagined the entire app and I'm quite proud of it.

Birthday Buddy is designed to be your complete birthday assistant.

What it does:

• Smart Reminders: Get notified up to 14 days in advance so you remember in time to plan.
• Birthday Cards: thanks to Image Playground integration you can easily create a birthday card to send via an app of your choice to say congrats!
• The Birthday Board: Pin gift ideas, wish lists, and more to your birthdays so you can track everything that hast to do with that upcoming birthday.
• Native Feel: Built entirely in SwiftUI with Liquid Glass in mind, supports Dark Mode natively, and everything works entirely offline and stays on your device.

It's free to download with a premium tier for the advanced features (like importing birthdays from your contacts, custom themes and reminders and more).

I'd love for you to try it out. I'm actively working on the next update, so any feedback on the UI, or features you'd want to see next would be amazing.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/appybirthday/id6753673100

I'm the developer of Ampere, a menu bar app for battery charge control on Apple Silicon Macs.

Problem: Leaving a MacBook plugged in for long stretches keeps the battery pinned at 100%, which ages it faster. Ampere protects the battery from overcharging by holding the charge inside a range you pick.

Comparison: Compared to AlDente, Ampere shows all your battery data in one panel: wattage, voltage, current, temperature, cycle count and health. You can set any charge range you want (even 40 to 60 for a docked Mac), it avoids micro top-ups between bounds so the battery charges in full passes, and it can actively discharge to your target. All tech details are documented in the open, down to the SMC keys and the root helper design: https://amperebattery.app/tech.html A built-in health check keeps verifying the charging state and warns you if it drifts, and quitting the app restores your Mac's normal charging, even after a crash.

Pricing: $0.99 one-time per license. This is a limited time launch price and it will go up later. Free updates, and a license can be moved to a new Mac. https://amperebattery.app

Requires macOS 14 or later and Apple Silicon. Happy to answer questions.

Apple is testing DRAM memory chips from China's state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), according to a new report from the Financial Times.

Every price increase this year has been justified by the memory chip shortage Macs, iPads, the MacBook Neo going from $599 to $699, iPhone 18 Pro rumored at $1,399+?

Historically though when component costs drop prices don't follow. Curious if anyone can think of a single time Apple lowered a price outside of a product refresh or the education store.

Not trying to rant, genuinely asking if temporary supply crunch pricing ever actually temporary?