Macworld reports that Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of acclaimed camera app Halide, has rejoined Apple’s design team after a decade away. This hiring addresses Apple’s design team challenges ...

Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing that the blue background around sponsored results is no longer shown, blurring the line between ...

Affinity, which offers great alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, is popular for its one-time payment for a lifetime, as opposed to monthly recurring payments for Adobe ...

As a full-time Android user who keeps an iPad Mini and an old iPhone 13 Pro Max on my desk to check out the supposedly greener grass, I am very happy with my digital allegiances. And when Apple rolled ...

The new unified design consolidates recent phone activity into one streamlined view in which your favorite contacts appear at the top for quick access. You can navigate to Contacts, Keypad, and Search ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

A future Android update will add a native flashlight brightness slider to the Quick Settings on Pixel phones. The latest Android Canary release introduces a new visual design for this slider that ...

Microsoft is betting big on AI. Starting with integrating Bing with ChatGPT, it has implemented AI capabilities in its products. Microsoft Designer is a new product from Microsoft with AI capabilities ...

iOS 26 is changing a ton of iPhone features, from messaging to the photos app. Here's what to expect when it ships in the fall. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the ...

At the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered tool to help design web and mobile app front ends by generating the necessary UI elements and code. Stitch can be ...