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Abstract cover art for Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed season 2 on Apple TV

Services14 Oct

Apple TV renews Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Tatiana Maslany's dark comedy thriller, for a second season

Apple TV is making a second season of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, with Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson returning. No date yet; season one is streaming now.

Jaymin Navadiya

Aydın drawing on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil Pro. Apple says the three balloon shapes were narrowed down from dozens of variations drawn in Procreate. Image: Apple Newsroom.

iPad14 Oct

Bünyamin Aydın's Cappadocia fashion show, From Earth to Sky, was designed on iPad Pro and filmed on iPhone 18 Pro Max

Les Benjamins designer Bünyamin Aydın planned his Cappadocia balloon show on iPad Pro, and Neels Castillon filmed it on iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple says.

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Apple TV renews Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Tatiana Maslany's dark comedy thriller, for a second season

Bünyamin Aydın's Cappadocia fashion show, From Earth to Sky, was designed on iPad Pro and filmed on iPhone 18 Pro Max

Apple Del Amo in Torrance is temporarily closed, and the reported water damage behind it is unconfirmed

OpenAI says an employee who left for Apple took files on an unreleased device and presented its plans to Apple's leaders

Elevation Lab pulls its AirTag Silencer, which disabled the speaker, after stalking concerns

IDC: Apple's China share rose to 17.8 per cent in Q3 as the market fell 15.4 per cent and Huawei led

Judge gives Apple early access to OpenAI documents and depositions in its trade secrets case, but not everything

iOS 27.2 beta 4 removes the redesigned Health app, and keeps the data testers added

Apple routes a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo hinge to spread heat across both halves

How to forward calls on iPhone in iOS 27, and the carrier codes for when the setting is missing

Bloomberg: Apple will put more than 150 iPhone Duo demo units on Fifth Avenue, but stock will stay limited

Gurman: Apple will host Los Angeles creator events on 27 and 28 October for its new Macs and iPad mini

How to insert emoji on a Mac in macOS 27, including the hidden colon shortcut

iPhone Mirroring in macOS 27: a resizable window, Control Center and streaming video, but not for every iPhone

A Spanish computer museum built a Cray-1 replica from 30 old Intel Mac minis, and it reaches about 1.3 teraflops

Bloomberg: the OLED iPad mini will cost considerably more, and the A19 entry-level iPad slips to early 2027

Apple's code points to an A19 iPad with 8GB of memory, bringing Apple Intelligence to the cheapest iPad

The iPadOS 27.2 beta adds the Mac's Siri text pop-up for iPads with a trackpad, and Apple TV app profiles

iPad mini 8 leaks: Apple's code shows an A20 Pro, and much of the rest is still rumour

Apple Watch Ultra 1 or Ultra 4: what four years of upgrades buy, and why watchOS 27 decides it

Apple sells a Diwali edition of AirPods 5 in India, and Beats teases a Pokémon Pill

AirPods 5 or AirPods Pro 3: what the extra 100 dollars buys, and which AirPods 5 case to pick

watchOS 27 replaces three Find My apps with one, and adds Siri and Readiness apps to Apple Watch

HomeView has no App Store: third-party apps run on your iPhone and appear on the display, as in CarPlay

HomeView repairs cost $279 without AppleCare+, and the wall model needs a 20W adapter Apple does not include

HomeView's faces: Photos, Flow, Snoopy and a home dashboard, on a screen that changes with distance

Apple Home Collection: LG and Schneider make a $349 hands-free lock, four cameras and two thermostats for Apple Home

Apple's developer agreement adds terms for HomeView widgets, Live Assistance and app replacement

Apple Music's icon goes black and white in iOS 27.2 beta 4, and red leaves the Music app

Apple TV releases the Being Heumann trailer, and sets Heart, Karen Kilgariff's true crime podcast, for 19 October

Remnants, Ti West's immersive horror film, comes to Apple Vision Pro on 16 October

RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models, after Apple dropped the single off switch

Siri AI could stay off EU iPhones for five months or more, Bloomberg's Gurman says

homeOS: Bloomberg's Gurman says Apple's home hub software is built around Siri AI, with touch as the backup

OpenAI tells a court that ChatGPT in Siri dramatically underperformed

How HomeView knows who you are: no Face ID, but your face plus your recently unlocked iPhone

Apple's Switch to Safari campaign takes on Chrome over trackers, distractions and battery life

A new DarkSword variant called P7 steals keychain data and crypto wallets from unpatched iPhones, iVerify says

Safari on iOS 27 blocks The Trade Desk's ad domain, and AdExchanger says hundreds more ad data firms are on Apple's list

Apple asks the court to throw out Taction's $5.7 billion Taptic Engine verdict, or order a new trial

Unconfirmed: a Chinese paper says iPhone Duo orders are up 30 per cent, as JP Morgan dismisses iPhone cut fears

Epic says Apple has produced 55 documents on its App Store fee proposal. Apple offers 1 and 25 November

Counterpoint: iPhone takes a record 22 per cent of Q3 smartphone shipments, as the market falls 20 per cent

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