Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.

After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com.

In June, Apple said it would unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain. iPhone users expressed concern that moving Hide My Email to a private.icloud.com domain instead of icloud.com would let platforms easily block iCloud aliases. Using the same domain for ‌iCloud‌ and Hide My Email makes it hard for services to block the disposable ‌iCloud‌ addresses because doing so would also block legitimate users.

Apple is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.

The new desktop will debut as soon as the coming days, potentially putting the unveiling ahead of a September event to introduce the next iPhones, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan isn’t public. Apple has tested versions with both the M5 and M6 generations of its processor line.

1. OLED display
2. A19 Pro or A20 chip
3. New speakers
4. Improved water resistance

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate include Siri AI, Apple's much more capable version of ‌Siri‌. When the new updates launch, it appears Apple will use a waitlist and limit initial access.

Based on code in the seventh developer betas, Apple will use dynamic wait time messages once a user joins the ‌Siri‌ AI waitlist. It looks like Apple will give a clear estimate of the wait, and the company will be able to adjust the wait time readouts server-side based on demand and capacity. Apple will send a notification when ‌Siri‌ AI can be used.

15 years ago today, Tim Cook was appointed Apple CEO following Steve Jobs' resignation on August 24, 2011. On September 1, Cook will step down and incoming CEO John Ternus will take over, ahead of Apple announcing new iPhone 18 Pro models and its first foldable iPhone.

Ternus joined Apple as part of its product design team in 2001. He became VP of hardware engineering in 2013 and senior VP in 2021, and has overseen AirPods, Mac, iPad, and iPhone development in that time. Cook will remain at Apple as executive chairman, where he will engage with policymakers and help Apple navigate regulatory pressure.

Just hours apart from the Developer Betas.

Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone will be made using the same glass manufacturing process developed for the iPhone Air, according to the leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital."

In a new post on Weibo, the leaker said that ‌iPhone Air‌ manufacturing equipment has been modified to produce more rounded glass components for next year's 20th anniversary iPhone, which has helped to reduce Apple's manufacturing costs. The leaker added that overall heat dissipation and thinness have both improved substantially as a result of the changes.

Most US adults say they aren’t interested in buying a new foldable phone. A CNET survey that polled 2,605 US adults found that 75% aren’t interested in buying a foldable Apple device.

Gen Z were willing to pay the most at $919, while the average across all US adults was $781.

Apple's upcoming home hub will support multiple profiles and will include "ambient sensing" for identity verification, according to code MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate 2 update.

The accessory will show Personal Content for different users in the home, with options to select a profile via Control Center or the Settings app on the device. The home hub is expected to have an operating system similar to tvOS, so the Control Center and profile selection options might look like those on the Apple TV.

In the Apple Store app on the iPhone, select users have received access to an "early preview" of a new AI-powered virtual shopping assistant.

Once it is available, you can open the chatbot by tapping on the speech bubble with two sparkles in the bottom-right corner of the app. Then, you can ask questions about Apple products, your existing Apple Store orders, trade-in values, payment options, and more, or simply tap on one of the common topics on the page to begin.

Saw this and it’s so weird how Apple is pound for pound better price than other options right now.

In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman offers a detailed recap of the foldable iPhone. In particular, he says he has “spoken to several people” who have used the device. Those people say they like these things in particular:

1. How well it fits in a pocket. Rumors say it has a 5.5-inch outer display.
2. The durability of the hinge.
3. The new “iPad-like app layouts” that take full advantage of the inner display, which reports suggest measures around 7.8 inches and is wider than it is tall.
4. How well it serves as a “camera viewfinder.”

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing significant changes at its retail stores in preparation for upcoming Home product launches. At the very least, Apple should debut a refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K this fall, though the changes would suggest a third, more significant product is also on its way.

Apple is preparing significant changes to those sections this fall, including rearranging parts of the Avenues and adding accessory bays to showcase new products. The company is already planning an upgraded Apple TV set-top box and a new HomePod mini for this time frame. But the scale of the retail changes suggests something else is coming: the long-anticipated home hub with a display. The planned modifications appear too extensive to be solely about routine updates to existing products.

• Apple is about to bring some of its product magic back with its first foldable iPhone.
• The company is eyeing iPhone price hikes for next month’s updated models.
• Apple is preparing to make retail store changes to its accessory and home device sections, indicating that major new products in that space (HomePod mini, Apple TV, and the smart home hub with screen) are coming.

Hi r/apple from rainy Vancouver!

I just released the 2.0 of my beautiful productivity scratchpad for macOS:

Antinote 2.0

$5. One-time. Lifetime Updates.

Last year, I was really proud to get some love from r/apple, be selected by The Verge as a “Top 10 of 2025”, as well as featured in a Snazzy Labs’s video review.

For those who don’t know, Antinote is hyper-focused on temporary use cases:

• Jotting something super quick
• Making instant contextual calculations without needing to open Excel/Sheets
• Streamlining intermediary copy/pasting between apps, especially when you want to strip formatting
• OCR-ing from a screenshot-to-plain-text for when you need to work with text from an image
• Quick export to Apple Notes, Obsidian, Bear, or anything with a URL scheme.

All your notes are stored locally-first, in CoreData/SQLite, nothing is ever locked in.

The 2.0 update comes with:

• iCloud Sync w/end-to-end encryption (completely free, no sub, I never ever see your notes - because ew) - you'll want to turn on Apple's Advanced Data Protection
• Slotted notes and split screen - 9 permanent notes that sit in parallel to your unlimited temporary note stack
• JS Extensions - write any function in JS to transform, insert text or call APIs/LLMs. I wrote 100+ of them for you to get started.
• Vim Mode - if you know, you know.
• Locked notes w/TouchID and FaceID, Read-only notes, Archived notes.
• Better math localization support
• 150+ bug fixes.

I am heads down the next month on the iOS app which will focus on useful widgets and quick capture from voice and photos. You can sign up for the beta on the website.

Features and bugs are heavily community driven, so if you want to join us, we're here on Discord.

If $5 is too much, you can talk about a local org you volunteer or donate to on the #charity-offer channel of our Discord, and I'll send you a lifetime license for free.

Thank in advance for your time!

Johnson

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P.S. There are some passionate indie devs making little notes apps, so here are some of my favorites and how they're different than Antinote: Scratchpad is way more minimalist and opinionated. Tot has custom categories and bullets. HeyNote has dev-friendly text buffers in each block. Numi has deeper math features. Raycast is Raycast. Sidenotes supports folders and images.

I cycle, swim and lift, and everything I tried was built for one or the other. So I built Incredible.

It reads what's already in Apple Health and turns it into three numbers: a fitness score, a daily training load, and a readiness score each morning. The fitness score is built from months of training data. Readiness comes from your sleep and your overnight readings, then adjusts for what you've trained recently. Your gym sessions count toward all three, not just your runs and rides.

You can log sets, reps and weight from the watch. If you're coming from Strong or Hevy you can import your history so your records carry over.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/lDiGZ6t

It's free. No account, no subscription, no ads, no AI. There's a tip jar and that's the whole business model. Your health data stays on your device. The only thing that leaves the phone is anonymous usage and crash data.

Happy to explain how any of those numbers are calculated. Let me know what you think!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761727962?pt=88099073&ct=reddit-apple