En juin, Apple pourrait unifier tous ses systèmes d’exploitation autour d’un même numéro : « 26 ». iOS 26, macOS 26 et visionOS 26 remplaceraient iOS 18, macOS 15 et visionOS 2. Une décision étrange, mais qui a tellement de sens avec un peu de réflexion. L’industrie entière pourrait basculer vers cette logique si Apple fait les bons choix.

Si vous avez un iPhone, vous pouvez profiter d'une fonction assez pratique avec votre application Tesla. Celle-ci supporte désormais les notifications en direct et peut ainsi afficher l'état de votre recharge en temps réel, sur votre écran de verrouillage.

Curve fait partie des premières entreprises à lancer un concurrent d'Apple Pay en France. Dans d'autres pays européens, comme l'Allemagne, les banques commencent déjà à lancer des alternatives au paiement NFC de l'iPhone.

Dans un mail envoyé aux membres de son programme « Lab IDFM », Île-de-France Mobilités annonce préparer une mise à jour de son application, avec le support des Live Activities sur iPhone. Une technologie qui permet d'afficher des informations en temps réel sur l'écran sans avoir à ouvrir une application.

[Deal du jour] À peine quelques mois après son lancement, l’iPhone 16e a déjà gommé son principal défaut : son prix. Vendu initialement au tarif de 719 €, le modèle d'entrée de gamme d'Apple passe à 519 € chez ce marchand, soit quasiment le prix de l'iPhone SE à son lancement.

La Commission européenne a publié un rapport de près de 70 pages pour montrer que l'App Store d'Apple ne respecte toujours pas le Digital Markets Act (DMA). L'entreprise s'expose à de nouvelles sanctions, après une amende de 500 millions d'euros le mois dernier.

À la WWDC 2025, Apple pourrait annoncer une nouvelle application dédiée aux jeux vidéo. Il s'agirait d'un lanceur semblable à Steam ou à l'app Xbox, qui viserait à développer un écosystème propre à l'environnement Apple. Les ambitions de l'entreprise seraient de rattraper son retard sur ce secteur.

President Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on smartphone imports including iPhones would not provide enough economic incentive for Apple to relocate US-bound iPhone production to domestic facilities, according to a new Morgan Stanley note viewed by Slashdot. The tariff threat, announced Friday via social media, appeared to target Apple's recent shift of iPhone production from China to India through its contract manufacturing partners. Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that establishing US iPhone production would require a minimum of two years and several billion dollars to build multiple greenfield assembly facilities, with a trained workforce exceeding 100,000 workers during peak seasons. More significantly, the firm calculates that a US-produced iPhone would cost 35% more than current China or India production, primarily due to higher labor costs and the need to import 25% of iPhone components from China under existing 30% tariffs. By contrast, Apple could offset a 25% import tariff by raising global iPhone prices just 4-6%, making domestic production economically unviable.

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Apple dévoilera ses futures mises à jour logicielles lors de la WWDC le 9 juin 2025. La marque préparerait un changement de nom pour tous ses OS, en remplaçant le numéro de version par l'année (iOS 26 au lieu d'iOS 19). La mise à jour de l'iPhone introduirait au passage un redesign de l'interface, le premier depuis 2011.

Earlier this month app developer Guilherme Rambo had a warning for iPhone users: If you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who's also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name "Dave and Buster's", the message will never be received. In case you're wondering, "Dave and Buster's" is the name of a sports bar and restaurant in the United States... [T]he recipient will only see the "dot dot dot" animation for several seconds, and it will then eventually disappear. They will never get the audio message. "The issue was first spotted on the podcast Search Engine..." according to an article in Fortune: Rambo's explanation of the curiosity goes like this. "When you send an audio message using the Messages app, the message includes a transcription of the audio. If you happen to pronounce the name 'Dave and Buster's' as someone would normally pronounce it, almost like it's a single word, the transcription engine on iOS will recognize the brand name and correctly write it as 'Dave & Buster's' (with an ampersand)," he begins. So far, so good." [But ampersands have special meaning in HTML/XHTML...] And, as MacRumors puts it: "The parsing error triggers Apple's BlastDoor Messages feature that protects users from malicious messages that might rely on problematic parsing, so ultimately, the audio message fails to send." To solve the mystery, Rambo "plugged the recipient device into my Mac and captured the logs right after the device received the problematic message." Their final thoughts... Since BlastDoor was designed to thwart hacking attempts, which frequently rely on faulty data parsing, it immediately stops what it's doing and just fails. That's what causes the message to get stuck in the "dot dot dot" state, which eventually times out, and the message just disappears. On the surface, this does sound like it could be used to "hack" someone's iPhone via a bad audio message transcription, but in reality what this bug demonstrates is that Apple's BlastDoor mechanism is working as designed. Many bad parsers would probably accept the incorrectly-formatted XHTML, but that sort of leniency when parsing data formats is often what ends up causing security issues. By being pedantic about the formatting, BlastDoor is protecting the recipient from an exploit that would abuse that type of issue.

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Apple's smartphone shipments in China plunged nearly 50% year-over-year in March 2025, as domestic brands like Huawei and Vivo surged ahead -- now controlling 92% of the market. MacRumors reports: The steep decline saw shipments fall to just 1.89 million units, down from 3.75 million during the same period last year. That shrinks Apple's share of the Chinese market to approximately 8%, while domestic brands now control 92% of smartphone shipments. For the entire first quarter, non-Chinese brand shipments declined over 25%, while total smartphone shipments in China actually increased by 3.3%. Apple's struggles come as domestic competitors have gained ground. Counterpoint Research reports Huawei now leads with a 19.4% share, followed by Vivo (17%), Xiaomi (16.6%), and Oppo (14.6%). Apple has slipped to fifth place with 14.1%. Several factors are driving Apple's declining fortunes. The company faces competition from rejuvenated local brands like Huawei, which has rebounded with proprietary chips and its HarmonyOS Next software. Chinese government policies appear to be playing a role too. Under government subsidies, consumers of electronics get a 15% refund of products that are priced under 6,000 yuan ($820). Apple's standard iPhone 16 starts at 5,999 yuan.

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Contrairement à iOS 18.4, qui était une mise à jour massive en Europe, iOS 18.5 a un profil beaucoup plus modeste. Il y a quelques nouveautés, dont la conversion d'une carte SIM en eSIM pour Free Mobile.

Dans un article du Parisien, on découvre qu'un utilisateur d'iPhone estime être écouté par son appareil qui afficherait ensuite des publicités basées sur ses conversations. Cette théorie populaire est fausse.

En attendant la grande keynote du 9 juin, Apple dévoile plusieurs nouveautés destinées à arriver dans les prochaines versions majeures d'iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS et visionOS. Un moyen de mettre en avant ses efforts pour l'accessibilité, en les empêchant de se noyer au milieu de centaines d'annonces.

Contrairement à iOS 18.4, qui était une mise à jour massive en Europe, iOS 18.5 a un profil beaucoup plus modeste. Il y a quelques nouveautés, dont la conversion d'une carte SIM en eSIM pour Free Mobile.

Apple is planning to use AI technology to address a frequent source of customer frustration: the iPhone's battery life. From a report: The company is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19, an iPhone software update due in September, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The enhancement will analyze how a person uses their device and make adjustments to conserve energy, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the service hasn't been announced. To create the technology -- part of the Apple Intelligence platform -- the company is using battery data it has collected from users' devices to understand trends and make predictions for when it should lower the power draw of certain applications or features. There also will be a lock-screen indicator showing how long it will take to charge up the device, said the people.

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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: This morning, while summarizing an Apple "product blitz" he expects for 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a "mostly glass, curved iPhone" with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone's 20th anniversary... [T]he closest hints are probably in Apple patents revealed over the years, like one from 2019 that describes a phone encased in glass that "forms a continuous loop" around the device. Apart from a changing iPhone, Gurman describes what sounds like a big year for Apple. He reiterates past reports that the first foldable iPhone should be out by 2027, and that the company's first smart glasses competitor to Meta Ray-Bans will be along that year. So will those rumored camera-equipped AirPods and Apple Watches, he says. Gurman also suggests that Apple's home robot — a tabletop robot that features "an AI assistant with its own personality" — will come in 2027... Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could finally ship an LLM-powered Siri and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. Earlier this week Bloomberg reported that Apple is also "actively looking at" revamping the Safari web browser on its devices "to focus on AI-powered search engines." (Apple's senior VP of services "noted that searches on Safari dipped for the first time last month, which he attributed to people using AI.")

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Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, gave an ominous warning today that the iPhone could go the way of the iPod 10 years from now. From a report: Cue's remarks came during the Google Search antitrust remedies trial today while discussing how AI has the potential to reshape the tech industry and open the door to new entrants. Incumbents have a hard time ... we're not an oil company, we're not toothpaste -- these are things that are going to last forever ... you may not need an iPhone 10 years from now. Cue went on to say that the best thing Apple did was kill the iPod, a move he said was bold. "Why would you kill the golden goose," he added. That may seem like a silly thing for Apple to say, given that more than half of its revenue is iPhone sales. But Cue calls AI a "huge technological shift," and suggests that such shifts can humble companies that once seemed unassailable.

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iOS 18.5 RC est sorti ce 6 mai 2025. Avec cette version, les abonnés Free Mobile peuvent désormais passer d'une carte SIM à une carte eSIM. Sauf que ce transfert est payant : 10 euros.

Google a lancé une nouvelle initiative, baptisée 100 Zeros. Elle vise à financer des projets de films et de séries pour imposer les smartphones Android à l'écran. Aujourd'hui, on voit beaucoup d'iPhone, sauf dans les mains des méchants.