119 stories tagged ios, newest first.
160 points by neom | 99 comments
Apple's program page for the Security Research Device, a specially fused iPhone loaned to qualified researchers for iOS security research, with guidelines and application details.
498 points by aghuang | 181 comments
GitHub repository for HackiOS, which boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel on a POCO X5 Pro Android phone or QEMU to run the unmodified iOS 16.5 user space.
121 points by Mayzie | 139 comments
Federal Court of Australia judgment Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc (No 2) [2026] FCA 1552 on relief, declarations and injunctions after findings of Apple's misuse of market power.
61 points by zzyzxd | 114 comments
Plex forum thread about a 2026.20.0 beta bug where 4K Dolby Vision files won't play on iOS/tvOS, where a developer mentions the player team was laid off.
220 points by chanana | 59 comments
GitHub repository for Sill, a free open-source app that streams any Mac window to an iPhone or iPad with touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keyboard input, without servers.
440 points by mjorgers | 187 comments
Thunderbird blog post giving a first look at the in-development native Thunderbird email app for iPhone/iOS.
229 points by amosbatto | 259 comments
Blog post discussing whether Linux-based phones can become a viable alternative to Android and iOS; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
17 points by cobychapple | 13 comments
Landing page for Crest, an open-source Arc-inspired web browser for Mac, iPad, and iPhone with spaces, sidebar, Peek, and Split View.
11 points by shmilia | 7 comments
Blog post by Ilia Parunashvili introducing Nagare, a simple to-do app for iPhone and Mac that can also be used by AI agents.
25 points by lukeed | 9 comments
Landing page for pocketty, an iPhone and iPad SSH terminal app that sends end-to-end encrypted push alerts when a coding agent managed by herdr is blocked or done.
49 points by ilreb | 13 comments
GitHub repository for nanoMuse, an open-source personal AI agent that runs across Android, iOS, desktop, and browser and can operate your phone and computer.
79 points by HeavenFox | 26 comments
Landing page for AstroHelm, a mobile app that plate-solves the sky through a phone camera mounted on a telescope or camera to guide users to celestial objects.
540 points by soheilpro | 321 comments
Apple Developer page introducing Pass Designer, a tool for creating and previewing Apple Wallet passes for businesses.
611 points by Snowly | 169 comments
GitHub issue serving as the master ticket coordinating development and testing of an iOS port of the StreetComplete OpenStreetMap editing app.
89 points by pranshuchittora | 47 comments
A post by Gergely Orosz on X reporting that Firebase's SDK began crashing all iOS apps using it, with screenshots of GitHub issue comments from affected developers.
55 points by thiagoperes | 39 comments
Landing page for Beauty, a local Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web with in-place rendering; the capture shows a Vercel security checkpoint instead.
427 points by ksec | 110 comments
Blog post by Lex Friedman recounting the origin story of Apple's 2011 Cards app for designing and mailing custom letterpress greeting cards.
108 points by arbayi | 37 comments
GitHub repository of example Gea applications and tools, including an app gallery for the simulator, embedded targets, GeaOS and Apple targets.
736 points by MC995 | 540 comments
TechRadar news article reporting user frustration over persistent promotional 'ads' Apple has added to iOS.
470 points by imwally | 308 comments
Apple Security Research blog post introducing Apple Reference Image, a new approach for cryptographically verified photography, by SEAR and Camera & Photos teams.
547 points by HieronymusBosch | 173 comments
Mozilla's Distilled blog post announcing a built-in ad blocker for the Firefox browser on iOS.
402 points by hentrep | 108 comments
GitHub repository for vphone-cli, a tool to boot a virtual iPhone using Apple's Virtualization.framework on macOS.
639 points by pentagrama | 255 comments
Mozilla support article explaining how to block ads in Firefox for iOS; the captured page shows only a loading spinner.
451 points by roundabout-host | 307 comments
GitHub discussion on the EU age verification app spec urging removal of its dependency on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation.
1073 points by tosh | 337 comments
Homepage of Organic Maps, a free, open-source, privacy-focused offline maps and GPS navigation app for hiking, cycling and driving built on OpenStreetMap data.
644 points by asronline | 269 comments
GitHub repository porting Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour to run natively on macOS, iPhone and iPad using the GPL source, DXVK/MoltenVK, and touch controls.
510 points by Cider9986 | 215 comments
GitHub repository for Loupe, a privacy-focused open-source iOS app by Mysk that shows users what data native apps can access.
744 points by neilfrndes | 232 comments
The Verge review by Thomas Ricker of Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues feature, describing how the on-screen dots eased his car sickness while reading as a passenger.
457 points by MehrdadKhnzd | 214 comments
Anthropic documentation for the Claude for Foundation Models Swift package, which lets Apple apps use Claude via Apple's Foundation Models framework LanguageModel protocol.
335 points by hmokiguess | 96 comments
Apple developer documentation for Core AI, a beta framework for building, running, and deploying AI models in apps on Apple silicon across CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine.
650 points by 0xedb | 653 comments
Apple's Apple Intelligence product page introducing Siri AI, with new features coming this fall and Siri AI in English later this year.
392 points by iamacyborg | 389 comments
Blog essay by Jacques Corby-Tuech on how Apple and Google have increasingly intervened in and filtered push notifications, drawing parallels with email.
708 points by interpol_p | 374 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing new accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence, including VoiceOver descriptions, wheelchair control via Vision Pro, and subtitles.
395 points by dive | 265 comments
A blog post by a longtime macOS/iOS developer arguing that native SwiftUI text handling, such as selectable Markdown chat, is immature compared to web-based stacks.
340 points by andruby | 264 comments
A tweet thread by Aaron Perris showing Apple shipped CLAUDE.md files in Apple Support app v5.13, then pushed v5.13.1 to remove them.
516 points by _-x-_ | 178 comments
Tell HN discussion where a user reports the Headspace app silently installing itself daily on their iPhone despite automatic downloads being off.
847 points by cdrnsf | 183 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Apple fixed an iPhone bug police used to extract deleted chat messages from devices.
829 points by janandonly | 226 comments
Dutch App Store listing for Google AI Edge Gallery, a free iPhone app for running on-device LLMs like Gemma 4 for chat, image questions, and agent skills.
515 points by DyslexicAtheist | 488 comments
Documentation page from the German National EUDI Wallet describing its Mobile Device Vulnerability Management concept, including Android Play Integrity and iOS App Attest signals.
325 points by mihau | 65 comments
GitHub repository for Cherri, a Go-based programming language that compiles to Apple Siri Shortcuts.
1073 points by to3k | 764 comments
A personal blog post by Tomasz Dunia introducing GrapheneOS as a privacy-focused alternative to Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
1525 points by ozzyphantom | 748 comments
A countdown-timer protest page demanding Apple fix the iOS keyboard by the end of WWDC 2026, or the author will switch back to Android.
323 points by robin_reala | 89 comments
NetNewsWire blog post marking the RSS reader's 23rd anniversary, noting the recent 7.0 release for Mac and iOS and work on 7.0.1.
409 points by rafaelcosta | 194 comments
Blog post describing how an iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running LLMs with Apple's MLX framework, and investigating the cause.
817 points by cbeuw | 480 comments
Blog post explaining that cellular standards let carriers silently request a device's GNSS/GPS location, prompted by Apple's iOS 26.3 precise-location limit feature.
978 points by pier25 | 807 comments
MacRumors article reporting Apple set a November 1, 2026 deadline for Patreon creators to move to App Store in-app purchases, giving Apple up to a 30% cut.
803 points by nhod | 348 comments
A website cataloging long-standing Apple software bugs and estimating the total time humanity has wasted because Apple hasn't fixed them.
581 points by ksec | 479 comments
9to5Mac article reporting Apple is testing an App Store search design that makes sponsored ads look more like regular search results.
416 points by skadamat | 168 comments
A Nightingale article eulogizing the Dark Sky weather app, shut down by Apple, and analyzing its data visualization design compared to Apple Weather.
370 points by eklavya | 313 comments
Apple Developer support page explaining how, from iOS 26.2, apps for users in Japan can use browser engines other than WebKit, including entitlement requirements.
346 points by nobody9999 | 226 comments
Ars Technica article on Apple losing its appeal of a contempt ruling in the Epic v. Apple iOS payments case, with Tim Sweeney commenting on developer fears.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/12/11/6632e4a4-c90b-4278-84cd-b0b27192fc49.jpg)
581 points by walterbell | 382 comments
A YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi arguing that the iOS keyboard is broken and causes typos on iPhones.
497 points by yehiaabdelm | 202 comments
GitHub repository for Valdi, Snapchat's open-sourced cross-platform UI framework using TypeScript that targets native performance on iOS and Android.
436 points by valzevul | 237 comments
Blog post by Vadim Drobinin about modeling travel visa and border-stay rules as state machines while building an iOS travel app.
618 points by Bogdanp | 418 comments
John Ozbay's blog post arguing that Apple's attention to detail in its products and software has declined over the last 8-10 years.
877 points by sergiotapia | 224 comments
A post by Andreas Kling announcing that the Ladybird browser passed 90% on web-platform-tests, Apple's threshold for alternative browser engines on iOS.
336 points by dabinat | 475 comments
A MacRumors forum thread where a user describes the difficulty of teaching seniors to set up and use iPhones and argues Apple should simplify it for the elderly.
333 points by jerlam | 142 comments
Apple support page describing the security content and fixed vulnerabilities in iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5.
456 points by circuit | 212 comments
Apple Security Engineering and Architecture blog post introducing Memory Integrity Enforcement, a memory safety protection system for Apple devices.
350 points by mtomweb | 254 comments
Open Web Advocacy blog post reporting that Japanese regulation requires Apple to allow third-party browser engines on iOS by December 2025.
443 points by yashghelani | 308 comments
Open Web Advocacy blog post arguing that Apple still effectively bans third-party browser engines on iOS despite the EU Digital Markets Act.
332 points by avadhesh18 | 149 comments
Landing page for OffChess, an ad-free iPhone and Android app with over 100,000 chess puzzles that work fully offline.
677 points by ananddtyagi | 309 comments
GitHub repository for bitchat, an open-source decentralized chat app that sends messages over Bluetooth mesh networks with an IRC-like feel.
863 points by dotcoma | 541 comments
Daring Fireball post by John Gruber criticizing Apple for sending a Wallet app push notification advertising 'F1 The Movie', arguing it erodes user trust.
378 points by Squarex | 114 comments
Apple TestFlight invitation page for joining the beta of uBlock Origin Lite, an MV3-based declarative content blocker, on Safari for iOS.
360 points by 71bw | 30 comments
GitHub repository for QEMUAppleSilicon, a QEMU fork that emulates Apple Silicon devices, currently only the iPhone 11.
659 points by meetpateltech | 1049 comments
Apple Newsroom press release from June 9, 2025 announcing a new universal software design language across its platforms.
384 points by macguillicuddy | 236 comments
Apple's official App Store Review Guidelines page for developers, outlining the rules apps must follow to be approved for the App Store.
467 points by sashk | 111 comments
A blog post describing an iOS vulnerability where a legacy Darwin notifications API could be abused with a single line of code to brick an iPhone.
1569 points by griffinli | 968 comments
Eric Migicovsky's blog post explaining how Apple's iOS restrictions limit what third-party smartwatches like the new Pebble can do with iPhones.
451 points by todsacerdoti | 181 comments
A Medium article by Random Augustine examining Apple's exclaves, an isolation mechanism in Apple's operating systems.
1118 points by risquer | 262 comments
Landing page for Touch Grass, an iOS app that blocks distracting apps until the user photographs real grass, verified via Google Vision.
321 points by xmprt | 50 comments
Blog post by Bryce Bostwick about reverse engineering an iOS app that blocks debuggers, exits on code injection, and crashes jailbroken phones.
490 points by tonymet | 114 comments
GitHub repository for a modern open-source Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS, MIT licensed.
603 points by openchampagne | 832 comments
Apple Newsroom press release from February 4, 2025 introducing Apple Invites, a new iPhone app for creating and sharing event invitations.
![Screenshot of media.ccc.de: From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/30/ea24d02f-57a1-463f-92b6-8766ff09fbdd.jpg)
361 points by cookiengineer | 132 comments
Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.
415 points by toomuchtodo | 138 comments
Framasoft announces the first release of the official PeerTube mobile app for Android and iOS, designed to help users discover videos without exploiting their attention or data.
476 points by moonsword | 146 comments
Blog post reverse engineering iOS 18's inactivity reboot security feature, covering BFU/AFU states, a kernel extension, and the Secure Enclave Processor.
545 points by rithvikvibhu | 168 comments
Blog post describing how the authors bypassed Apple's region lock to enable the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature outside the US using a homemade Faraday cage.
2166 points by bewal416 | 311 comments
Blog essay about the 2009–2012 iPhone "Send to YouTube" feature, which uploaded videos with default titles like IMG_0416.
333 points by walterbell | 128 comments
A blog post by Nick Botticelli, dated April 30, 2024, about virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon Macs.
328 points by appsDev | 169 comments
App Store listing for Tik!, a paid iOS rhythm game with no visuals or sound where players feel haptic vibration patterns and tap them back.
1059 points by miiiiiike | 909 comments
Patreon news post explaining how Apple's App Store in-app purchase requirements and fees will affect creators and fans using Patreon's iOS app.
349 points by drx | 619 comments
ZDNet article reporting Apple's announcement at WWDC 2024 of a first-party Passwords manager app built on iCloud Keychain.
824 points by louis-paul | 349 comments
Lux's blog post announcing Kino, a pro video camera app for iPhone with manual controls and film-style color grades.
472 points by dmd | 261 comments
Apple press release from May 15, 2024 announcing new accessibility features including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.
451 points by WalterSobchak | 417 comments
Apple Newsroom update announcing that Apple and Google have shipped cross-platform alerts for unwanted Bluetooth tracker tracking in iOS and Android.
698 points by Hamuko | 1265 comments
MacRumors article reporting Apple's announcement that EU developers can distribute iOS apps directly from websites, plus other DMA-related changes.
464 points by Despegar | 562 comments
9to5Mac article reporting that Apple will reinstate Epic's developer account, clearing the way for the Epic Games Store on iPhone in the EU.
697 points by madtrax | 699 comments
TechCrunch news article reporting that Apple terminated Epic Games' developer account, calling Epic a threat to the iOS ecosystem.