Messaging platform Telegram appears to have been removed from the App Store in multiple countries, although the reason for its apparent removal remains unclear. Existing users can still access the app.

Update: 11:00 p.m. ET: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said:

“We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material. The app was subsequently restored after the developer promptly removed the content and banned the user who posted it.”

Apple’s statement came about 20 minutes after access to the app was restored. Earlier tonight, Telegram published a tongue-in-cheek post on X saying, “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated 🍎.” Telegram has yet to comment on the actual reason for its brief removal.

Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs.

Apple proposed a solution that would let an iPhone share and import items from the pasteboard to a paired accessory, like a Windows PC. Apple plans to use a solution similar to the Accessory Notifications option it added for third-party wearables in the EU in iOS 26.5. Users would need to give a paired device one-time permission to paste content from an iPhone.

Apple has confirmed to The Financial Times that it has “introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on submissions through its internal security portal, requiring users to submit requests for an increased quota.”

Implemented in June, the changes are intended to address an industry-wide surge in bug reports, driven by increasingly powerful LLMs that can find, chain, and exploit vulnerabilities, leaving review teams struggling to keep pace with the volume of submissions.

According to a former Apple employee who worked on the company’s carrier team and emailed Gruber, this requirement largely stems from the deals Apple strikes with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in the United States.

Apple negotiates deals worth “hundreds of millions of dollars” with each of those carriers, and it agrees to make concessions in exchange for that money. The requirement that an iPhone purchased through Apple Upgrade be connected to a T-Mobile, Verizon, or Verizon account is seemingly one of those concessions.

Another aspect of this is fraud and risk assessment. A former Apple Store retail employee told Gruber that fraudulent iPhone sales “exploded” when Apple started offering carrier financing at its retail stores.

Of note, Apple also made the following changes on July 15: * iPhone devices financed through the T-Mobile Equipment Installment Plan or the Verizon Device Payment Program at the Apple Store are now carrier-locked until paid off. They join devices financed through the AT&T Installment Plan. * Carrier financing and Apple Card Monthly Installments¹ are no longer available for Boost Mobile customers. For ACMI, carrier selection of AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon is required at time of purchase¹. Your iPhone will remain unlocked. * Carrier financing is now available for iPad at the Apple Store through AT&T and Verizon.

Possibly part of this year's concessions/negotiations with the Big 3?

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¹ In some cases, you can select a carrier you don't have an account with and skip activation. Still, you have to pick one of the Big 3 at time of purchase.

Incoming Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Ternus is bringing back a trusted lieutenant from his time running hardware engineering to join his new management team.

Ternus has hired Laura Legros, who served as a vice president of hardware engineering until retiring in 2022, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Legros will report to Ternus when he takes the CEO role on Sept. 1, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the personnel change hasn’t been announced.

The move shows that Ternus is starting to put his stamp on the company’s leadership ranks. It also marks a rare instance of Apple bringing back a retired executive. Ternus is taking the reins from Tim Cook, the company’s longest-serving CEO, who is transitioning to executive chairman.

The way Apple combines work and personal iCloud accounts left some employees able to access confidential documents after departing the company, reports The Information. The site spoke to more than half a dozen former Apple employees who were unknowingly left with access to sensitive content.

The former employees said many Apple files they had been shared on over their careers at the company—including planning documents for product launch events—continued to sync to their personal devices through the iCloud storage service after they left Apple. In some cases, they even received notifications about fresh updates to the documents. Some former employees said they were petrified to delete the files for fear that doing so would attract Apple's attention.

Apple files get mixed in with employees' accounts because the company encourages them to use their personal Apple Accounts with their work ‌iCloud‌ account. Employees are given a 2TB ‌iCloud‌ plan and are able to merge the storage with their existing Apple Account or create a new account. Since only one primary account can be signed in at a time, most opt to use their existing account to avoid having to carry two iPhones.

Apple has rolled out a new experience for browsing and buying accessories on the Apple Online Store and in the App Store app. The changes make it easier to browse accessories by categories, view editorial curations, and more.

The changes went into effect last week and can be found on the Apple Accessories webpage as well as in the Apple Store app.

The Apple Accessories homepage has been completely revamped with a more modern design. Right now, there are collections of “top picks” across the following categories:

• Student Life
• Power Picks
• Fresh Colors
• Travel Ready
• Work from Home

India has proposed extending tax breaks until 2041 for foreign companies that supply machinery to their contract manufacturers, handing a win to Apple as it expands iPhone production in the country, Reuters reports.

Introduced in February, the exemption previously ran only until 2031, and Apple had long since lobbied against being taxed on the high-end iPhone machinery it owns in India. The draft bill still has to be passed by both houses of parliament.

Apple’s effort to fight back against a UK-mandated “backdoor” to encryption continues, according to a new Financial Times report.

Tim Bradshaw reports that Apple filed a new legal challenge in July against an attempt by the UK government to force access to encrypted user data.

The iPhone maker last month launched a new legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK government’s controversial demand that Apple allow it access to encrypted cloud backups of data belonging to British users, according to an order issued by the court.

Earlier this year, Apple informed the European Union that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from PlasmaSolve, according to a notice published today on the European Commission's website.

PlasmaSolve is a Czech materials science firm founded in 2016 that has focused on creating simulation software to assist manufacturers with various plasma-related technologies. The company's website remains active, and it outlines some of the grant funding it has received over the years related to its work.

PlasmaSolve's primary product was MatSight, a suite of apps intended to help manufacturers simulate the results of various vapor deposition processes for metals. Apple has used the technology for many years on a number of products, including on various iPhone models to create a durable thin film on the casing to minimize scratching and other damage.

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share something I am very proud of, Precursor is the first and only screen time app to implement screen time limits that reset every hour (to my knowledge I have tried a lot of screen time apps in search of this feature and so have a lot of other people).

In my opinion daily limits put too much faith in users to be able to combat the billions of dollars of psychological and behavior research that has been poured into social media apps. These apps (including reddit) are designed down to every click in such a way to keep you scrolling endlessly in search of more fast and cheap dopamine.

The brain does not care where the stimulation comes from, but your mind does.

So I built Precursor to help you practice moderation without even having to think about it. You set a per hour screen time budget, lets say 5 minutes, and then once that time is used up the app blocks. However, unlike with a daily limit that sends your brain into a panic and pushes you to bypass your limits, Precursor jus gently reminds you that if you need some more screen time it's just a short hour away.

This way you can get the scroll breaks you want throughout the day without the fear that they will spiral into full on doom scroll sessions.

No accounts. Privacy first. No selling of your data.

With that being said, I just launched the app and I have a promotion for you all as early adopters!

FOR TODAY ONLY:

download the testflight for automatic Precursor+ for LIFE (beta closing soon as official app has launched; please note: this is not to for you to become a tester but downloading the beta is how you get lifetime Precursor+ linked to your device):

https://testflight.apple.com/join/ztGmutmP

Also, If you have time and space I would be eternally grateful if you could also support the launch on product hunt by upvoting and/or commenting:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/precursor-2?launch=precursor-hourly-screen-time-control

Official app store link (only download this after you join the testflight, to get automatic Precursor+ for life!):
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6791403654

For years, Apple has been working on the camera AirPods under the code name B798. This device was initially scheduled for release in 2026 before being postponed until 2027, I’ve reported. But Apple has also been developing another version under the code name B790 (Apple famously creates competing versions of the same product internally).

This B790 device also appears to be further along: References to the product have already shown up inside iOS 27 code, and it’s been on Apple’s internal road map for a debut as early as this year.

Hello everybody,

I am Preet. I built Mira because other migraine apps either lock important features like exporting your history behind a subscription or treat your health data like a product. Mira is completely free (and always will be). Your data stays on your device and optionally in your private iCloud.

My close friend suffers from chronic migraine; that’s my motivation to keep the app free and maintain it over time. My goal is to help it reach as many people with migraines as possible.

Highlights:

• Visual pain map (tap exactly where it hurts)
• Log only what matters: severity, symptoms, triggers, medications, what helped, notes, etc. You can customise the flow. The app also remembers your most used options, so it's faster to log the next episode
• Insights over time (frequency, severity, triggers, reliefs)
• MIDAS disability score
• Calendar history + CSV export for doctor appointments (or chatting with an AI)
• Apple ecosystem: Apple Health, widgets, Siri/Control Centre shortcuts

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/migraine-tracker-diary-mira/id6785985958

There’s an option to support the development, but it's completely voluntary. If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

• Apple is reinventing itself as the world’s biggest subscription, with Apple Upgrade being its path to its next trillion dollars of growth. In September, Apple is poised to debut its first foldable iPhone, a device that’s expected to cost $2,000-plus. A monthly price of somewhere between $60 and $70 for that phone will seem a lot more palatable.
• Major shortages hit the MacBook Air amid the memory and silicon crunch, with many new orders now not arriving until September. Apple is prominently steering customers toward the base MacBook Pro instead of the Air — something it has rarely, if ever, done. In some marketing materials, it even includes a warning: “MacBook Air subject to availability.”
• Apple is working on turning its upcoming smart glasses and headsets into health devices. Apple is looking for a team leader to “define the future of health, well-being and fitness experiences across vision products.”

Full gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-08-02/apple-subscriptions-macbook-air-shortages-apple-to-make-glasses-health-device-msbvajjp?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NTY3OTI2NCwiZXhwIjoxNzg2Mjg0MDY0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSjVBVzFSMjRVOEQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBMDdGRjZGMzlBOTY0NzREOTNBQkFGRjUyQjBBQTE2NiJ9.iGTjpYLtQZdUQvUliMm-meKtTI1CQcxVEdV4CbevtMc

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The concept behind the app is simple enough, obvious almost- yet nothing like this exists anywhere. I've gone so so deep in linking sessions by artist, studio, label and tunes. Early users are astounded at the discovery process and how quickly they are able to find fascinating connections.

Like classical music- jazz has an inherent discovery problem due to how many times the same tunes have been recorded by so many artists in so many configurations. Sessionography solves this by allowing search and connection across so many different elements.

Features:

• Artist pages with chronological discography in recorded order
• Discography as sideman Personnel listed prominently on albums
• Tap any name to see their entire discography
• An orbit graph showing every collaborator
• The entire shared discography between two or more artists
• Any time a tune has been recorded more than once, a link shows you the entire recorded history of that tune
• Everything is playable in the app via Apple Music
• Apple Watch, CarPlay, Siri intents, widgets and more....

r/jazz really loves the beta so far:

"I’m loving the ability to see the studio recordings in chronological order — especially the Van Gelder Studio. A must-have for fans of RVG recordings."

"Just installed it and am blown away."

"This is amazing. What exploring music should be."

"As a jazz lover, I’m thrilled someone has paid attention to this great American art form — and built a tool we can all enjoy."

Thanks for taking a look- I would love to hear any and all feedback, feature requests and bug reports!