After a legal challenge by Apple, the hearing about blowing open Apple's iCloud encryption in the UK for the sake of national security won't be kept secret, but it's not clear when the details will be made public.


After the hearing about a mandated back door happened behind closed doors, Apple very nearly immediately filed an appeal, with the backing of most of the world's governments, privacy advocates, and journalism organizations. That appeal has been heard, and at some point, the results of the hearing will be made clear.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejected claims from the UK government that national security would be hurt by revealing the results of the hearing, or exposing who attended the hearing.


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Now that iOS 18.4 is out, we're looking to the future with iOS 18.5, a rumored AI update to Apple Health, and the first rumors about the M6 processor, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.


The iPad is now 15 years old — and Apple is 49. It's hard to say which seems more unbelievable, but what's much easier to say is that today's iPad and today's Apple may be very different from their origins, yet they are still so clearly the same product from the same company.

But if we must stop to acknowledge these anniversaries, and also acknowledge just how important the iPad and Apple itself have become to us all, there is still much more to come. We've just had the public release of iOS 18.4, but already the beta test versions of iOS 18.5 are out, and of course we are mere moments away from WWDC and the announcement of iOS 19.


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Apple's 2025 Mac Studio brings with it the latest Apple Silicon chips and a few more changes that power users will love. One model is a must-buy, and the other is still excellent — but very clearly not for everybody.


The Mac Studio isn't called the Mac Pro, but it might as well be. Like the Mac Pro, the Mac Studio is as much computing power as Apple can bring to bear, in a compact metal box.

In 2025, that legacy of power remains intact. For now, it's faster than the fastest Mac Pro, albeit minus PCI-E slots.


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Apple has seeded a second release candidate for iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, with a full release of both expected the week of March 31.


Apple initially introduced the first round of release candidates for macOS 15.4, iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, tvOS 18.4, watchOS 11.4, and visionOS 2.4 on March 24. Four days later, it has introduced a second RC build of iOS and iPadOS for testing.

It's not uncommon for there to be multiple release candidate builds of software before it is released to the public. While a release candidate is supposed to have the same content as the final release, sometimes there is a missing or incorrect element that needs addressing urgently.


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