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Apple gives developers a way to nominate their apps for editorial consideration on the App Store

Posted on June 13, 2024 in: Apps

From a new Nominations dashboard in App Store Connect, developers will be able to create their nominations, either one by one or by uploading a spreadsheet to nominate apps in bulk.

Apple’s Spotlight Search gets better at natural language queries in iOS 18

Posted on June 13, 2024 in: Apps

With the Core Spotlight framework, developers can donate content they want to make searchable via Spotlight.

After the Yahoo News app revamp, Yahoo preps AI summaries on homepage, too

Posted on June 13, 2024 in: Apps

Yahoo’s AI push isn’t over just yet. The company, also TechCrunch’s parent, recently launched AI-powered features for Yahoo Mail, including its own take on Gmail’s Priority Inbox and AI summaries of emails, and today it’s rolling out an AI-powered version of its Yahoo News app, leveraging technology it acquired from its latest acquisition, Artifact. Still, […]

iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access

Posted on June 12, 2024 in: Apps

To give users more control over the contacts an app can and cannot access, the permissions screen has two stages.

Apple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, is boring and practical — that’s why it works

Posted on June 11, 2024 in: Apps

Some of the new Apple Intelligence features that Apple debuted at WWDC 2024 don’t even feel like AI, they just feel like smarter tools.

At last, Apple’s Messages app will support RCS and scheduling texts

Posted on June 11, 2024 in: Apps, Security

These messaging features, announced at WWDC 2024, will have a significant impact on how people communicate every day.

AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding

Posted on June 11, 2024 in: Apps

Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization.