Submissions for the 2025 Swift Student Challenge will open in February for three weeks. Students, educators, and their advocates can find out how to prepare for the challenge and sign up to be notified when applications open at developer.apple.com. Apple will recognize a total of 350 Swift Student Challenge winners whose submissions demonstrate excellence in innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity. From this esteemed group, 50 Distinguished Winners will receive additional recognition and be invited to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino next summer.
The short film was written and directed by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. That makes it stand out from other Immersive Video Apple has produced to this point. The filmmaker, Edward Berger, is best known for films like All Quiet on the Western Front and the upcoming Conclave.
The company emphasizes, however, that the changes should mean users see “fewer dialogs” for apps that they regularly use. Notably, the shift in strategy comes after the proliferation of various workarounds to skirt the permission dialogs altogether.
Apple is rolling out a design refresh to iCloud.com today. The update includes support for Dark Mode, more customization options, changes to iCloud Photos, and more.
Today's ad focuses on the 4K 120 frames per second Dolby Vision video recording feature that is exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.
The critically acclaimed Apple original Severance is getting a release on disc, with a Blu-ray edition going on sale this December.
With groups, I get the total flexibility that I’m used to, so I can arrange my files and folders exactly as I like. But with folders, I can use Finder to import and organize my files and folders. The big difference is in source control, especially if you’re working with other people. When every file addition, deletion or move also changes the project file, you have a much greater chance of getting a merge conflict.
The company has long faced criticism from environmental advocates who argue the device maker has made refurbishment processes arbitrarily difficult and expensive in order to sustain new iPhone sales. At the same time, Apple — which has supported some right-to-repair efforts lately and has said it’s investing seriously to reduce its carbon footprint — has had to grapple with all kinds of surprising scams as it considers greener approaches.
Just the other day, I was surprised by the different behavior of Xcode when I accidentally created a folder instead of a group. But it sure looks like it's time for me to migrate all my groups to folders?
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