Jay Peters
A digital IDs update from Apple.
Apple has updated its iOS 26 website to say that a planned feature that lets you make a digital ID using your US passport will arrive sometime this year, MacRumors reports.
iOS
iOS is Apple’s operating system for the iPhone and iPad. It’s also the basis for tvOS for the Apple TV and watchOS for the Apple Watch. It’s even beginning to infiltrate the Mac in some ways. Apple has worked hard to keep iOS private and secure, and it has a huge ecosystem of apps via its official App Store. Some have argued that it is too locked down, but the trade-off is that it’s fast and stable for most users.
Dominic Preston
Gmail just fixed my biggest notification headache.
Android users can finally (it only took them 17 years!!!) mark emails as read directly from the Gmail notification, clearing the alert at the same time. Meanwhile iPhone notifications now include the sender’s picture, another bafflingly basic feature Gmail hasn’t offered until now.
Andrew Liszewski
But most people should buy the regular iPhone 17.
Todd Haselton and Allison Johnson
Emma Roth
Apple delays digital IDs.
With the launch of iOS 26, Apple planned to let you create a digital ID with your US passport and store it in its Wallet app, allowing you to pass through TSA checkpoints while traveling within the country. Now, Apple says this feature will be “available in a software update,” as spotted by MacRumors.
Apple’s new cross-platform design system is created for a world we don’t live in.
David Pierce
Andrew Liszewski
iOS 26 can color match your icons to your iPhone case.
Ahead of iOS 26 officially launching on September 15th, the release candidate was made available yesterday and includes a new feature that will automatically change the color of your home screen icons to match your colored Apple MagSafe case, as spotted by MacRumors.
Jay Peters
Jess Weatherbed
Live Photos are coming to WhatsApp.
Wabetainfo says the WhatsApp for iOS beta 25.24.10.72 update adds support for Live Photos in chats, groups, and channels, after rolling out similar support for motion photos on Android last month. Users can decide whether to send them as a still image or the original dynamic clip.
Dominic Preston
Jess Weatherbed
The iOS alarm is wheely weird.
I just verified it for myself and, yup — if you keep scrolling, you’ll eventually hit bottom.
Jess Weatherbed
Richard Lawler
Andrew Liszewski
iOS 26 could be worth the upgrade for this new ringtone alone.
On Monday, Apple released the sixth developer beta of iOS 26 which includes six new ringtones. Five of them are new variations of the Reflection ringtone — currently the iPhone’s default option — with names like Buoyant, Dreamer, Pond, Pop, Surge, and Reflected, which was carried over from previous betas and renamed.
There’s also an entirely new ringtone called Little Bird that’s destined to become an earworm and is begging to be remixed into a real banger.
Barbara Krasnoff
Barbara Krasnoff and Wes Davis
Allison Johnson
You get a window. And you get a window. And you get a window.
Todd Haselton
Jay Peters
Epic isn’t sure when it will bring Fortnite back to iOS in the UK.
The company has some criticisms of the Competition and Markets Authority’s roadmaps of “potential actions to improve competition” for Apple and Google, and Epic now says it “can’t bring the Epic Games Store to iOS in the UK this year (if ever).”
Epic originally aimed to bring the store and Fortnite to iOS in the UK in the second half of 2025.
Dominic Preston
After six months, the UK confirms Google and Apple are both big tech companies.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed giving them “strategic market status” for iOS and Android, since over 90 percent of UK mobile devices run either OS.
It took the CMA since January to figure out what the EU did two years ago, and somehow it’s not done yet — it’ll take until October to confirm the proposal, around the same time it will “begin consulting” on its roadmaps to rein the two in.
Dominic Preston
Emma Roth
Sleep Detection spotted in iOS 26 beta.
The third iOS 26 developer beta includes a new Sleep Detection feature for AirPods that allows them to “sense when you fall asleep and automatically pause media.” 9to5Mac first rumored this feature last month, which some users saw in the second iOS 26 developer beta as well.
Jess Weatherbed
Allison Johnson
Emma Roth
Jess Weatherbed
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Sandlot vibes.
Backyard Baseball 2001 is getting remastered for Steam, iOS, and Android as Backyard Baseball ‘01, releasing July 8th.
The quarter-century-old sports game was the first of the series to include real MLB players, and 28 of the original 31 pros return in the remaster: including Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran, Derek Jeter, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco. So you can reunite the The Bash Brothers to take on some kids.
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