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Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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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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Audio Tuner for iPhone: Supernifty’s pocket pitch checker
Audio Tuner used the iPhone microphone, a pitch pipe and instrument tunings to help check pitch. A practical look at its original…
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EasyGPA: what the discontinued student calculator was designed to do
An archival look at EasyGPA and a practical explanation of why a grade calculator must match your school’s rules.
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Mobiscope on iPhone: an early window into live cameras
Revisit SHAPE Services’ Mobiscope and the difference between public webcams, personal cameras and a genuinely live view.
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Puppet Animation: turning one iPhone photo into a moving character
Daisuke Nogami’s Puppet Animation animated parts of a still image. Its surviving developer history shows what came at launch and what arrived…
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Santana for iPhone: music, lessons and the story behind the app
Santana’s 2009 iPhone app brought together music, a discography, news and guitar lessons. Here is what its developer documented.
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Fishing Calendar: sun, moon and a record of your catches
The historical Fishing Calendar paired a location-based timing forecast with a photo-and-catch log.
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Safety Button: what an alert app can and cannot promise
A historical look at location-alert apps, the difference between notification and response, and the questions that matter before relying on one.
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GoodFood: finding a restaurant recommendation you can use
The early GoodFood name and a practical method for assessing restaurant suggestions on an iPhone.
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Haircaster: what a hair forecast can and cannot tell you
A look at the weather app that translated local conditions into a hair-day rating, with a sensible way to interpret that kind…