WhatsApp:
Bringing all your favorite features to a larger screen, WhatsApp for iPad makes keeping in touch with friends and family even easier. Make video and audio calls with up to 32 people, share your screen, and use both front and back cameras.
We’ve made WhatsApp for iPad ideal for multitasking so you can get more done. Take advantage of iPadOS multitasking features such as Stage Manager, Split View, and Slide Over to view multiple apps at once, so you can send messages while browsing the web, or research options for a group trip while on a call together.
John Gruber (Mastodon):
One of the weird things about Meta’s companywide obstinate refusal to adapt its iOS apps for iPadOS is that for WhatsApp, they’ve had a fairly decent Mac app for years. Surely it was less work to adapt their iOS app for iPadOS than it was to create a passable Mac app using Catalyst.
Instagram (MacRumors, Hacker News):
Today, we’re excited to announce we’re bringing Instagram to iPad. People have asked for this for a while, and we’ve taken the time to design an experience that optimizes your favorite parts of Instagram for a bigger screen.
Instagram has always been the place where people connect over creativity, and Reels has become a primary way people discover and share entertaining content. With Instagram for iPad, we’ve redesigned the experience to reflect how people use bigger screens today – for lean back entertainment. Now, when you open the app, you’ll drop into Reels, so you can get the entertaining content you love on a bigger screen. You’ll also see Stories at the top, so you can easily connect with the people that matter to you, and messaging is one tap away.
BasicAppleGuy:
15 Years for Instagram to come to iPad!
We’re talking going back to the days of Steve Jobs, iTunes Ping, the era of iPods, AirPort, & the iPhone 4.
Warner Crocker:
The folks at Meta must have something up their sleeve. The reason I say that is they have finally, after all of these years released an iPad version of the app, long after most folks just figured it would never happen.
Jason Snell:
While messages, notifications, and reels do feel more expansive on the new app, the standard view still feels… pretty empty. I’m glad the app is fully iPad native now, but it would sure be nice if Instagram considered what might be an elevated tablet experience. (I guess we can stop waiting for the app and start waiting for it to be better instead!)
Christina Warren:
Sadly the app is not good
Previously:
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Adam Engst:
After years of legal proceedings, the Google antitrust case has finally resulted in a ruling with real-world impact—though perhaps not in the way many expected. Rather than forcing dramatic changes, the ruling preserves key aspects of how users currently engage with Google’s products.
Lauren Feiner (PDF, MacRumors, Slashdot):
Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order to address its illegal monopoly in online search, DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday. Over a year ago, Judge Mehta found that the search giant had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act; his ruling now determines what Google must do in response.
[…]
In his 230-page ruling, Mehta explained that even though Google’s default status as the search engine on Chrome “undoubtedly contributes to Google’s dominance in general search,” forcing Google to sell it is ultimately “a poor fit for this case.” The DOJ failed to prove that solutions less extreme than a break-up would not be enough to restore competition, he wrote. Furthermore, he says, the DOJ did not prove a causal connection between its monopoly power and Chrome defaults.
[…]
Declining to ban Google from paying for defaults actually “heightened” the need to adopt a remedy that forces Google to share some of its search data with competitors, Mehta noted. “Qualified Competitors will have to continue to compete with Google on price to gain distribution. So, their competitive advantage will have to come from innovation and differentiating their search services from Google’s,” he wrote. To do that, search competitors need scale that they have largely been denied by Google’s search monopoly. So Mehta agreed to let qualified competitors buy at marginal cost a one-time snapshot of a variety of search data that Google collects, which he says will let those rivals “identify and crawl more web pages with valuable content and do so more efficiently.”
Jay Peters:
Google will be able to keep making search deals like its $20 billion agreement to be the default option in Apple’s Safari browser, a federal district court judge ruled in the US v. Google antitrust case on Tuesday. Executives from both Apple and Firefox developer Mozilla have defended their search deals with Google, with Mozilla’s CFO testifying that Firefox might be doomed without the deal in place.
[…]
Google also won’t have to show choice screens on its products, according to the ruling.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols:
This ruling marks the most significant monopoly case since the Microsoft trial nearly 30 years ago.
[…]
Google’s search advertising business, which generated over $198 billion last year, remains under pressure from ongoing antitrust scrutiny even as AI-driven search alternatives, such as Perplexity, grow.
In the meantime, the market is overjoyed at what it sees as a Google win. Google stock jumped 8% as the news quickly spread. Nevertheless, Google is widely expected to appeal the decision, and the judge’s orders will be paused pending appeal. This process will take years.
Matt Stoller:
Today, the decade-long campaign to stop big tech from dominating our society took a significant step backwards, as the judge hearing the search case against Google, Amit Mehta, chose not to meaningfully constrain the firm’s illegal behavior. And to engage in such deferential behavior, he openly ignored Supreme Court precedent.
[…]
Mehta found that Google was doing illegal things to maintain its monopoly, but he didn’t force the company to stop doing those illegal things.
Why not? Well, he said that new companies like OpenAI had emerged to potentially challenge Google, and he didn’t want to, and I’m not kidding, hinder Google’s ability to compete with them.
[…]
This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory.
Previously:
Update (2025-09-04): Vlad Prelovac:
[Judge Mehta] showed very deep understanding of the matter and didn’t fall for meaningless remedies such as breaking up Google, or divesting Chrome but went for search index access, just as we recommended.
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The mandatory license will be for five years, not the ten years plaintiffs requested. The court views this as a temporary measure to help competitors become independent, not a permanent reliance on Google.
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In the first year, competitors can only use Google’s syndicated results for a maximum of 40% of their total annual queries. This cap is intended to ensure competitors develop their own capability for the majority of searches and rely on Google only for the most difficult “long-tail” queries.
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Google will be allowed to place “ordinary commercial restrictions” on how competitors use the syndicated search results. This means competitors will be prohibited from activities like scraping, crawling, or indexing the results to protect Google’s intellectual property.
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The court explicitly rejects the plaintiffs’ proposal to force Google to offer syndication at its marginal cost.
Mike Masnick:
So Google can still pay Apple and Mozilla, just not exclusively? That seems like a distinction that might not make much practical difference. If Google can outbid everyone else (which they can), and Apple/Mozilla have admitted users get pissed when they don’t use Google as default, what exactly changes here?
[…]
Mehta isn’t requiring Google to hand over everything—which would raise legitimate privacy and security concerns—but specifically the datasets that flow from the scale advantages Google gained through its anticompetitive conduct. It’s an elegant solution that addresses the actual harm without creating new ones.
[…]
When the DOJ first filed this lawsuit, Google’s search dominance seemed unshakeable. By the time Mehta was crafting remedies, generative AI had created the first credible alternative to traditional search in decades. Suddenly, preventing Google from extending its search monopoly into AI distribution became just as important as addressing its existing dominance.
[…]
The question remains whether any of this will actually create more competitive search engines. But at least it’s not actively making things worse, which, honestly, was my biggest fear going in. I had feared that the court wouldn’t properly thread the needle on remedies, and yet… this seems to have been done very thoughtfully and strikes what is likely a good balance.
Cory Doctorow (Hacker News):
Judge Mehta turned his courtroom into a Star Chamber, a black hole whence no embarrassing information about Google’s wicked deeds could emerge. That meant that the only punishment Google would have to bear from this trial would come after the government won its case, when the judge decided on a punishment (the term of art is “remedy”) for Google.
Yesterday, he handed down that remedy and it is as bad as it could be. In fact, it is likely the worst possible remedy for this case[…]
[…]
This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale.
Doubtless there will be loopholes in this data-sharing order. Google will have the right to hold back some of its data (that is, our data) if it is deemed “sensitive.” This isn’t so much a loophole as is a loopchasm.
Matt Stoller:
Today, the decade-long campaign to stop big tech from dominating our society took a significant step backwards, as the judge hearing the search case against Google, Amit Mehta, chose not to meaningfully constrain the firm’s illegal behavior. And to engage in such deferential behavior, he openly ignored Supreme Court precedent.
[…]
Mehta found that Google was doing illegal things to maintain its monopoly, but he didn’t force the company to stop doing those illegal things.
Why not? Well, he said that new companies like OpenAI had emerged to potentially challenge Google, and he didn’t want to, and I’m not kidding, hinder Google’s ability to compete with them.
[…]
This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory.
Tim Wu:
Confusing part is: The opinion says G “cannot secure exclusivity for its GenAI products…” yet allows Google “to pay distributors for default placement.” But the judge himself found that defaults end up mimicking exclusives!
What if Google now offers Samsung billions to preinstall Gemini as its operating AI -- yet in a way that technically can be switched? Is that a banned exclusive, or is that paying for default placement?
Previously:
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Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the ninth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the eighth beta.
The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5.
Norbert Doerner:
I mean, that Spotlight search icon isn’t even vertically centered.
It looks to me like this was finally fixed in beta 9. They also made the icon larger.
Mario Guzmán:
Going back to the new Settings window for FaceTime in #macOSTahoe again.
Yes, they added SO much text in this view that it scrolls. Yet, since scrollbars auto-hide, you wouldn’t know by just looking at this view.
I wonder if Apple knows about Tab Views. If your pane for a specific tab has too much content, split them into groups inside a tab view.
John Voorhees:
I’m curious whether any developers have gotten custom controls for macOS Tahoe’s redsigned Control Center to work.
I saw a couple in the very early betas but they disappeared and haven’t reappeared yet.
Mario Guzmán:
For Betas 1-6, my toolbar in #AppKit has been working perfectly fine as it has since 2018. But Beta 7, 8, & now 9, it is so broken. Aside from all the other AppKit bugs I have submitted since betas 1-3, things are just getting more and more broken rather than less.
Seems super late in the game to have none of my AppKit reports addressed but also making things even worse this late in the game.
Poor app devs (Apple + 3rd party) are paying the price of this overly complex redesign.
Steve Troughton-Smith:
macOS is in a pretty rough state even in beta 9, with lifecycle issues, Dock hangs, Dark Mode rendering issues, and more. This might have to be one of those years where macOS comes in October instead.
Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad:
Thought this was dirt on my screen, when in reality they’re the ticks of the slider.
Jeff Johnson:
This is what Safari 26 Extension Settings looks like with no internet connection.
Previously:
Update (2025-09-05): For some users, the Spotlight icon is not fixed. They are seeing a taller search field than I am, and the icon is not centered.
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Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the ninth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the eighth betas.
The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5.
Mario Guzmán:
Not everything needs to have round end caps 🙄 look how close the album artwork now is to the edges. But move it in any closer, now the labels become useless. Concentricity is total bs.
Why are these designers creating more problems for themselves and us with dumb things like concentricity — which is something literally no one asked for.
Louie Mantia:
Verifiably been sounding the alarm for a month on effects bugs with OS 26 and Icon Composer. No fixes. They’re gonna ship it.
Steve Troughton-Smith:
I don’t see progress on any bugs of mine in beta 9, so I think it’s time to wait for 26.1. I suspect the things they are fixing are to support their apps and new iPhones only, and it has been like that for a while now
Just to be sure, I re-checked everything I’ve filed since June. Even the SpringBoard crashers are still unresolved 😶
Adam Bell:
Beta 9 and UINavigationBar’s backButtonItem still doesn’t respect -hidesSharedBackground or -sharesBackground.
:(
Effectively means you’re SOL if you do any custom back button designs and don’t want a glass background (or you end up doing weird workarounds with leftBarButtonItems)
Nick Heer:
I have never had a problem sending photos to contacts over iMessage until I upgraded to iOS 26, which is a cool indication of where we’re at in early September.
Marc Palmer:
Given that we make an app that frames screenshots, I would very much like it if Apple fixes the bugs in iOS 26 where sometimes the system screenshot UI just doesn’t show.
Nico Reese:
iOS fails to render icons as they are displayed in Icon Composer when using blend mode Screen on a layer.
This is bad. You cannot know for certain if what you put into your icon looks exactly like what you ship. This is even worse for designers who are not developers and have no idea why this happens. They should not have to think about this stuff.
Louie Mantia:
I am not surprised. I am disappointed.
Icons made in Icon Composer do not render identically on home screens as they do in Icon Composer. This is a complication that never existed for my job before, where I deliver an icon to a client, and the deliverable is broken through no fault of my own. A bug. I’m an icon designer, not a developer. For the first time, I have to deal with bugs.
Marc Palmer:
So on iPad at least, it seems like everybody’s keyboard is broken in 26. Remember to take your iPad back to the Apple Store to the keyboard repaired.
Adrian Schönig:
iOS 26 call screening is incredibly good. I had my phone muted for unknown calls the last few years thanks to all those data leaks from various big Aussie companies, that had lead to tons of spam calls.
Previously:
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