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Apple's services: Apple TV shows and sport, Apple Music, Arcade, iCloud, Apple Pay and Wallet, and the App Store. Prices, launches by country, and what changes for subscribers.

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6 Oct 20263 min read

Apple TV brings back limited series Imperfect Women for a second season, and Apple Music's new logo reaches iOS 27.2

Apple TV is making a second season of Imperfect Women, billed as a limited series, centred on Kerry Washington's Eleanor. Plus Apple Music's new logo.

Pinkesh Gajera

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6 Oct 20263 min read

Apple Cash will require identity verification to add money from 9 November

From 9 November, Green Dot Bank will ask every Apple Cash user to verify their identity before reloading a balance. What changes, and who it affects.

Pinkesh Gajera

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5 Oct 20264 min read

Apple One Family and Premier cost more in 12 European countries, including Spain, Portugal and Switzerland

Apple raised Apple One Family in 12 European countries and Premier in three on 5 October. Individual is unchanged. The old and new prices, and who loses out.

Pinkesh Gajera

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5 Oct 20264 min read

iCloud Mail now allows nine email aliases instead of three, though Apple's own guide still says three

iCloud.com now lets users create nine @icloud.com email aliases, up from three. Apple has not announced it, and its support guide still says three.

Pinkesh Gajera

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4 Oct 20264 min read

iCloud storage jumps from 200GB to 2TB with nothing in between. HEVCut and Apple's own settings are the ways round it

Apple's iCloud+ tiers go from 200GB at 2.99 dollars to 2TB at 9.99. HEVCut compresses a photo library instead. What each route costs and gives up.

Pinkesh Gajera

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4 Oct 20264 min read

Apple TV streams F1's Bahrain Grand Prix from Sepang free in the US, with no subscription

Apple TV is showing the Bahrain Grand Prix, moved to Sepang in Malaysia, free to anyone in the US this weekend. When it starts and what Apple gets out of it.

Pinkesh Gajera

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2 Oct 20263 min read

Apple TV sets 6 November for Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook, an eight-part docuseries about her family's restaurant

Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook, an eight-episode docuseries about reviving her family's Queens restaurant, premieres on Apple TV on 6 November.

Pinkesh Gajera

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2 Oct 20263 min read

Apple Arcade adds Terraria+, Pusheen's Place and three more games for October

Five games arrived on Apple Arcade on 1 October, led by Terraria+ with seven-friend multiplayer and an exclusive Pusheen game.

Pinkesh Gajera

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1 Oct 20264 min read

Apple TV+ October 2026: Matchbox, Tenzing and a K2 documentary open a busy month

Apple TV+ has set its October schedule, including Matchbox The Movie on 9 October, Tenzing on the 16th and Where's Wanda? Season 2 on the 21st.

Pinkesh Gajera

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1 Oct 20264 min read

Apple TV is still listed as down on Apple's status page the morning after the services outage

Apple's System Status page still shows Apple TV as an ongoing issue the morning of 1 October, while outside tests and outage trackers suggest it is working.

Pinkesh Gajera

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1 Oct 20263 min read

Apple Music 7.0 brings a Liquid Glass look to Android in beta, as the service reaches Pakistan and three more countries

Apple Music 7.0 for Android is in beta with a Liquid Glass-style redesign, and Apple's own list now shows the service in Albania, Brunei, Burkina Faso and Pakistan.

Pinkesh Gajera

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1 Oct 20264 min read

Apple TV sets Small Prophets for 7 October and Nocturne for 30 October, and renews Carême

Apple TV released trailers for Small Prophets and Nocturne, renewed Carême for a second season, and had a service outage on the evening of 30 September.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Apple TV brings back limited series Imperfect Women for a second season, and Apple Music's new logo reaches iOS 27.2

Apple Cash will require identity verification to add money from 9 November

Apple One Family and Premier cost more in 12 European countries, including Spain, Portugal and Switzerland

iCloud Mail now allows nine email aliases instead of three, though Apple's own guide still says three

iCloud storage jumps from 200GB to 2TB with nothing in between. HEVCut and Apple's own settings are the ways round it

Apple TV streams F1's Bahrain Grand Prix from Sepang free in the US, with no subscription

Apple TV sets 6 November for Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook, an eight-part docuseries about her family's restaurant

Apple Arcade adds Terraria+, Pusheen's Place and three more games for October

Apple TV+ October 2026: Matchbox, Tenzing and a K2 documentary open a busy month

Apple TV is still listed as down on Apple's status page the morning after the services outage

Apple Music 7.0 brings a Liquid Glass look to Android in beta, as the service reaches Pakistan and three more countries

Apple TV sets Small Prophets for 7 October and Nocturne for 30 October, and renews Carême

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