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Apple is pushing foldable-iPhone apps from day one with a new App Store badge
Apple is spotlighting foldable-friendly apps for iPhone Duo and adding a new App Store badge for optimized titles.
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TikTok Pro – Events: what the iPhone app does and who it’s for
TikTok Pro – Events is a TikTok short-video app with event-themed challenges, sharing, and iPhone requirements.
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Allowance lets iPhone users approve AI purchases with temporary card credentials
An iPhone wallet for AI-agent purchases with one-time credentials, spending controls, and user approval.
Latest perspectives
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Searchme: the early iPhone experiment with visual search results
What made Searchme’s page-preview approach distinctive and how to assess a search interface beyond its presentation.
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Tube Deluxe: the enduring value of checking before you travel
Malcolm Barclay’s early London app points to a useful modern routine: check disruption, plan the whole journey and keep a backup route.
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iPump Yoga: guided flows and a session log on early iPhone
The historical iPump Yoga edition organized poses into three flows, with visual aids and a record of sessions.
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Tic Tac on iPhone: a virtual mint pack from 2009
The original Tic Tac novelty app turned a familiar mint pack into an interactive object on an iPhone screen.
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Creative Whack Pack: use a prompt to move a stuck idea forward
Roger von Oech’s creativity cards became an iPhone app. Here is a practical way to use the format without treating prompts as…
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iMagazine: an early experiment in phone-sized games publishing
The original iMagazine presented illustrated, review-led issues focused mainly on iPhone games.
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CharmistryHis: a pocket collection of dating tips in 2009
The historical app organized dating advice into categories, bookmarks and custom stacks of tips.
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myMovies: keeping a film collection useful beyond the shelf
Netwalk’s early iPhone catalogue illustrates why a portable film inventory needs clear editions, ownership records and an export route.
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Free Translator by CoDesign: an early iPhone translation client
Revisit CoDesign’s original Free Translator, App Store ID 293855167, and learn how to judge a translated phrase in context.