Pitaka, the high-quality tech accessory brand that focuses on using premium aramid fiber materials, recently collaborated with well-known author Jack Kerouac to launch a brand-new, limited edition Sunset iPhone case collection!

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Yesterday, Spotify announced what it described as its “biggest evolution yet,” with a new TikTok-style Home feed that combines music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more into a single feed. The redesign has received quite a bit of criticism from music fans — and it could represent a major opportunity for Apple Music. Hear me out…

Benjamin and Zac react to the announcement of Apple Music Classical, and recent rumors about the new design for the iPhone 15 mute ‘switch’ and the rollout for the next generation M3 Apple Silicon Macs. Plus, we discuss the experience of using HomePods as your TV speakers.

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Apple is widely expected to debut its first iPad Pro models with OLED displays sometime next year. In the lead-up to the official announcement, a sketchy new supply chain report today suggests that Apple is also planning a big price increase for the OLED iPad Pro lineup.

The powerful and popular advanced calculator PCalc has gotten a valuable update today. Arriving for all Apple devices, the release brings the ability for user functions and conversions to call other functions and conversions, the option to reference constants within user functions and conversions, and more.

The award-winning developers at Snowman, behind hit games like Alto’s Odyssey and Alto’s Adventure, have announced their next game. “Laya’s Horizon” is the new title from Snowman, but you’ll have to be a Netflix subscriber to play it…here’s a first look.

Apple has officially taken the wraps off its Apple Music Classical application. The company says that the app will be available on March 28, and existing Apple Music subscribers will be able to use the service at no additional cost.

“Apple Music Classical makes it quick and easy to find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog with fully optimized search, and listeners can enjoy the highest audio quality available, and experience many classical favorites in a whole new way with immersive spatial audio,” Apple says.

If you’re experiencing issues when trying to use Instagram on Wednesday night, you’re not alone. Instagram is currently facing outages and is down for users around the world. Here’s what we now know about the issue affecting Instagram users.

Apple on Tuesday announced a new yellow color for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, following its tradition of introducing a new color for the iPhone lineup every spring. As the new color will be available to order this Friday, we now want to know your thoughts on the yellow color.

Ivory is a new client for the decentralized social network Mastodon, which has been gaining a lot of attention recently amid the latest changes announced by Twitter. The app, which was developed by Tapbots (the same company behind Tweetbot), has now been updated with an easier and more intuitive onboarding experience for new users.

WhatsApp has been adding a lot of new features to its platform recently, and soon users will have a new option for managing groups. More specifically, the popular messaging platform has been testing a new Expiring Group feature. As the name suggests, the new option will remind the user to delete a group after a period.

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The new social network Bluesky, backed in part by Jack Dorsey, debuted on the App Store several weeks ago as a “private beta.” Although new members need an invitation to join Bluesky, there are already a few thousand people there – and I was able to take a closer look at how it works.

Apple is revamping its international sales strategies “to put a bigger focus on India,” according to a new report from Bloomberg. As part of this reshuffle, India will become its own “sales region” at Apple for the first time.

At its “Stream On” event today, Spotify showed off a major overhaul that’s rolling out for its iOS and Android apps. Two of the biggest components include video and audio previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks in the Home feed and new video feeds for discovery in Search.

Following Tuesday’s release of iOS 16.4 beta 3 to developers, Apple is now rolling out the third iOS 16.4 public beta to users registered in the Apple Beta Software Program. As we previously covered, the update brings multiple new features and changes to the operating system.

Whether you’re regularly using ChatGPT or want to check it out for the first time, OpenAI’s hit chatbot has made the jump to Apple Watch with a dedicated third-party app called watchGPT. Here are all the details…

Widgetsmith, the popular widget creation app for iPhone and iPad, has added a new “Gradient Backgrounds” feature today to celebrate an incredible milestone. This feature “lets you elevate your aesthetic in a whole new way,” developer David Smith says. Here’s how it works.

Ahead of the debut of Ted Lasso season three next week, Apple has announced a new Today at Apple session focused on the award-winning Apple TV+ series.” During these sessions, which kick off this week, attendees “will create their own version of Coach Lasso’s locker room sign using Apple Pencil on iPad.”

Since Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra arrived we’ve seen PhoneBuff put it up against the iPhone 14 Pro Max in a speed test. Now he’s back with a drop test to see if the latest Gorilla Glass holds up better than the iPhone’s Ceramic Shield.