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Strava rolled out a broad set of new hiking features covering route planning, offline navigation, off-route alerts, and route following on Apple Watch. The features that matter most on an unfamiliar trail, planning where to go, staying on route, and navigating without cell service all sit behind the subscription paywall. Free users get a more capable recording screen and better social tools. Subscribers get the navigation suite.

If you need to know how to see which Mac apps will stop working after macOS Golden Gate, the check is now built directly into macOS itself. This guide walks through every method available, explains what the results mean, and gives you a concrete path forward for each app you find. On Golden Gate, the whole thing takes a few minutes. On Tahoe, two built-in tools cover the same ground.

Tamil Nadu's pollution regulator has given one of Apple's most important Indian suppliers a formal ultimatum: explain alleged groundwater contamination near its Hosur iPhone parts plant, or face a power cutoff and forced closure. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board served Tata Electronics a show-cause notice last month under India's Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, demanding a response within 15 days, per The New Indian Express this week. Tata says its own accredited...

Waze is starting to show traffic light icons for some drivers, bringing the navigation app closer to Google Maps and Apple Maps on one basic road cue: knowing when a signalized intersection is ahead. The feature is now appearing for more users after months of testing, but it is not showing up for everyone yet, according to 9to5Google.

Strava was recently down, with the company confirming an outage affecting login, the main website, and the My Routes feature. Investigation is ongoing. No cause or resolution timeline has been provided.

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Siri has been a punchline for so long that skepticism feels like the responsible position. So here's the direct answer to the question everyone's asking after WWDC26 this week: is Siri actually good now? Not yet. But for the first time, there's a credible structural argument that it could be and that argument is worth taking seriously, with clear eyes about where it breaks down.

Google TV rolled out a homescreen update yesterday that surfaces 2026 World Cup live matches, upcoming fixtures, highlights, and post-game content through a single Sports topic page, reducing the friction of finding where to watch without changing who controls access. The Google TV World Cup hub runs from June 11 through July 19, according to 9to5Google.

Apple Music, Fitness, and Health have all gained landscape orientation support in iOS 27, ending years of portrait-only layouts for three of the company's most-used first-party apps, Macworld reported this week. For everyday users, that's a straightforward fix. The more significant story is what sits behind it: the same beta that quietly rotated those apps also contains framework strings referencing fold states and display angles, neither of which maps to any device Apple currently sells.

A Google employee confirmed this week that the company has been investigating a Google Pixel bootloop issue tied to its March, April, and May 2026 software updates, with devices freezing on the G logo or crashing immediately after PIN entry. The acknowledgement covers the Pixel 6 through Pixel 10 series, and the public issue tracker has accumulated close to 800 entries since March, according to heise. Google says updated guidance is now available, per 9to5Google and Android Authority.

Huawei has set a firm date. The company published an official notice today confirming it will raise prices on its "intelligent collaboration products" starting July 1, 2026, citing memory chip shortages, rising component costs, and AI-driven chip demand as pressures it can no longer absorb, according to Huawei Central. That notice covers smartphones, tablets, and other devices across Huawei's lineup, and moves the Huawei price hike July 2026 from executive speculation to a dated, company-issued...

iOS 27 adds two genuinely different ways to create custom iPhone wallpapers: one that generates a brand-new image from a text description, and one that expands an existing photo to fit the Lock Screen naturally. This is a pre-release guide to both. The step sequences are reconstructed from WWDC materials, Apple developer documentation, and pre-release reporting; exact UI labels may shift before the final build ships this fall.

The "which came first?" Wikipedia quiz is real. It's just not listed for iPhone. Wikimedia's own experiments page shows the daily historical facts game as Android only, with no iPhone version in any published materials, per the Wikimedia Foundation. A separate Wikimedia game is playable on mobile devices in a browser, but it's a navigation challenge, not a history quiz. If you're searching for one and land on the other, you'll know immediately they aren't the same thing.

Apple Mail's search has been quietly failing users for years. Not dramatically, not in ways that make headlines, but consistently enough that most people stopped trusting it and started working around it. The iOS 27 Apple Mail search upgrade doesn't add a clever new button to the app. It claims to fix the underlying engine. That distinction is what makes it worth paying attention to.

iFixit tore down a Trump Mobile T1 on Thursday and removed any remaining ambiguity about the phone's origins: the Trump Mobile T1 HTC U24 Pro connection goes deeper than cosmetics. Technicians pulled the mainboard from an HTC U24 Pro, placed it into the T1's chassis, and powered it on. It booted, according to Android Authority's coverage of the iFixit findings. The hardware is interchangeable.

Apple's June figures put 79% of all compatible iPhones on iOS 26, below the 82% iOS 18 had reached at the same point last year, and the second-lowest June adoption rate Apple has recorded since 2015, ahead of only iOS 17, according to App Store data. The upgrade cycle is functioning. It's just running softer than Apple's own recent standard.

Some YouTube Shorts users have opened the app this week to find the dislike button gone from the right-side action rail. No thumbs-down, no error message, no explanation. Recent reporting indicates it's not a bug but a live interface experiment, one that pulls the YouTube Shorts dislike button out of plain sight and routes it through an extra menu tap.

Two years ago, Apple announced an AI-powered Siri that never fully materialized. This week, at WWDC 2026, the company tried again and this time, the evidence suggests it actually delivered. Whether that's enough to win the AI assistant wars is a different question, with a less flattering answer.

Google began notifying users this week that a new setting called Google Search Services History will govern how the company saves and uses the media submitted through Search. The change affects photos taken with Google Lens, recordings from the real-time Search Live tool, voice queries, spoken phrases entered into Translate, and uploaded files and video, The Verge reported Wednesday.