Top Stories: CarPlay Ultra Debuts, iOS 18.5 Released, and More

Apple amazed america this week with the authoritative motorboat of its much precocious "CarPlay Ultra" diagnostic to supply greatly expanded functionality successful cars, portion the institution besides released iOS 18.5 and related operating strategy updates.


This week besides saw Apple's yearly announcement of upcoming accessibility features for its products portion we looked up to what other is coming astatine WWDC adjacent month, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

Apple's 'CarPlay Ultra' Experience Now Available

Nearly 3 years aft Apple announced the next-generation mentation of CarPlay with deeper conveyance integration, CarPlay Ultra is yet here — if you tin spend an Aston Martin. Many different brands, including caller additions Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, are moving connected support, however, truthful availability should importantly grow implicit time.


‌CarPlay‌ Ultra is designed to bring a accordant look and consciousness to the full driving experience. It integrates much straight with the conveyance to supply accusation connected each of the driver's screens, featuring real-time contented and gauges successful the instrumentality clump with options for the speedometer, tachometer, substance gauge, somesthesia gauge, and more. Drivers tin take to show accusation from the iPhone, specified arsenic maps and media, alongside accusation from the vehicle, specified arsenic precocious operator assistance systems and tyre pressure.

Apple Releases iOS 18.5 With New Wallpaper, Screen Time Changes, Carrier Satellite Support for iPhone 13 and More

As expected, Apple this week released iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, comparatively insignificant updates with lone a fewer changes, diagnostic additions, and bug fixes.


Related macOS Sequoia 15.5, watchOS 11.5, tvOS 18.5, and visionOS 2.5 updates were besides released this week, and we're expecting astatine slightest 1 much circular of x.6 updates to the existent large operating strategy versions arsenic Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 and friends astatine WWDC adjacent month.

Apple Preparing to Launch Mind-Control Support for iPhones

It sounds similar subject fiction, but Apple is so moving with neurotechnology startup Synchron to let users with terrible centrifugal impairments to power their devices via neural signals detected by an implantable brain-computer instrumentality called the Stentrode.


The quality comes arsenic Apple has announced a wide scope of caller accessibility features coming to its products aboriginal this year. Based connected erstwhile patterns, astir of these caller and improved features volition travel with iOS 19 and related updates.

Top Five Announcements to Look Forward to astatine WWDC 2025

Time definite flies, and we're present little than a period distant from the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference wherever Apple volition present caller bundle updates. Rumors are picking up up of the event, truthful we thought we'd item immoderate of the updates that we're looking guardant to learning much about.


WWDC 2025 volition statesman with a keynote lawsuit connected June 9 astatine 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Apple volition person a unrecorded watercourse available, but we'll besides beryllium providing sum present connected MacRumors.com and done the MacRumorsLive Twitter relationship for those who aren't capable to watch.

Apple Acquisition Hints astatine Upgraded Calendar App connected iOS 19 oregon Beyond

Apple acquired Canadian startup Mayday Labs successful April 2024, according to a European Commission listing precocious spotted by French blog MacGeneration.


Mayday Labs had developed an AI-powered calendar, task manager, and scheduling adjunct for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The all-in-one app utilized AI to automatically docket your events and tasks astatine perfect times, and it could larn your scheduling preferences and regular patterns implicit clip to further optimize your calendar.

It would beryllium tenable to presume that immoderate of Mayday's features and technologies could beryllium added to Apple's Calendar app crossed the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, nether the Apple Intelligence umbrella.

Apple Music Gets New Transfer Tool to Make Switching From Spotify Easier

Apple this week introduced a caller diagnostic designed to let prospective Apple Music users to import their saved euphony and playlists from third-party euphony services to ‌Apple Music‌.


The diagnostic is either successful an expanded investigating signifier oregon it has started rolling out, and it is disposable successful Australia and New Zealand according to an Apple Support document.

Apple is partnering with SongShift for the caller ‌Apple Music‌ feature. SongShift is an app that transfers euphony playlists crossed streaming platforms, but by moving with Apple, the functionality has been integrated straight successful the ‌Apple Music‌ app.

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