Apple Provides Fix for iMessage Activation Bug in iOS 26

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple this week provided troubleshooting steps for iPhone owners who are unable to activate iMessage with a phone number in iOS 26.According to Apple, some customers might not be able to activate iMessage with a phone number if there is an inactive SIM or…

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Adobe Premiere on iPhone launches as a free video editor and alternate to CapCut

Matt Swider / theshortcut - AI tools and easy workflows make Adobe Premiere on iPhone

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Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Nothing on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps.

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Proton Mail launches new mobile apps for Android and iOS

Ian Barker / betanews - Popular encrypted email service Proton Mail is rolling out brand new iOS and Android apps, offering users a faster, more modern and smoother experience. Email started on desktop computers and was designed accordingly. As a result early mail apps could fee…

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Instagram hits 3 billion monthly users

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This milestone comes almost four years after Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion monthly users in December 2021, catching up to other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg announ…

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WhatsApp introduces message translations for 19 languages on iPhone

Imran Hussain / ithinkdiff - WhatsApp has introduced built-in message translations on iPhone so you can convert incoming texts into your preferred language without leaving the app. The feature aims to make cross-language chats feel natural and immediate, removing the friction of copy…

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Facebook adds an AI assistant to its dating app

Anna Washenko / engadget - Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help find pros…

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Google Discover will soon have posts from X and Instagram in Canada

Dean Daley / mobilesyrup - Google is bringing social media to Discover in the coming weeks. Trying to make Discover an all in one place for your information. The Discover feed will have updates from creators and publishers across the web, such as X, Instagram and YouTube Shorts wit…

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Google Discover Now Pulls In Instagram, X, and YouTube Shorts

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - Google is expanding its Discover feed inside the Google app to include more types of content and new personalization tools. In the coming weeks, Discover will start showing posts from social platforms like X, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, alongside news …

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Gemini overtakes ChatGPT on App Store, as its Nano Banana AI model drives downloads up 45%

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Though the month is only half over, Gemini's app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August.

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Here's When iOS 26 Rolls Out Today in Every Time Zone

Eric Slivka / macrumors - Today's the day. Apple is about to release iOS 26, which will deliver the biggest redesign since iOS 7 and bring a range of new features and improvements to iPhones worldwide. It's Apple's biggest software update of the year, and Apple announced at last w…

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Pokémon Pokopia is a Brand New Spin-off That Looks a Lot Like Animal Crossing

Tom Phillips / ign - Nintendo has announced an impressive-looking Pokémon life simulation spin-off, Pokémon Pokopia.

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I Tested iOS 26 for 3 Months and Liquid Glass Isn't the Only Game-Changing Feature

Zachary McAuliffe / cnet - Review: Though Games and Visual Intelligence still need work, Apple's new OS hits most of the right notes.

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Fortnite Will Soon Let You Pay the Exact Amount for Items, Rather Than Buying More V-Bucks Than You Need

Tom Phillips / ign - Epic Games has announced it will add Exact Amount purchasing to Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys next month, meaning players won't need to top-up their wallets with any more in-game currency than they need.

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Sony is rolling out a PlayStation parental controls mobile app

Will Shanklin / engadget - Sony is finally catching up to something Nintendo and Microsoft have had for years. The new PlayStation Family app mainly serves as a mobile extension of on-console parental controls. However, parents also get a few extra perks in the mobile version.The a…

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Lookout uses AI to guard against mobile social engineering threats

Ian Barker / betanews - As we do more and more on our mobile devices it’s clear that the front line of cyber defense isn't the corporate server it's the employee's phone. As AI boosts social engineering, hackers are bypassing traditional firewalls to target people directly with …

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Irish Banks Plan Mobile Payments System to Counter Revolut

PYMNTS / pymnts - Ireland’s three retail banks say they will introduce a mobile payment service next year. Zippay, a joint collaboration by AIB, Bank of Ireland and PTSB, is set to debut in early 2026, the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland (BPFI) announced Monday …

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