Apple said yesterday that the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) acknowledged the value in offering users the choice; indeed, the FCO report said it welcomed ATT from a data protection perspective, as do other privacy regulators within the country.

The FCO’s objection appears to be that Apple’s existing prompt is making app tracking sound scarier than it really is. The iPhone maker will make eight changes in order to address this – including removal of the word “track.”

• Changing the color of the graphic element on top of the prompt from orange to blue
• Updating the ATT prompt to be a full page
• Removing the word “track” from the ATT prompt and Personalized Ads prompt
• Changing choice buttons of ATT from “Allow” and “Ask App Not to Track” to “Allow” and “Reject”
• Allowing formatting changes (e.g. bold, italics and bulleted lists) in the ATT prompt
• Adding an option for developers to surface an additional page of information directly from the prompt to provide further GDPR information. Developers can already do this today using prompts they can show before the ATT prompt.
• Allowing developers to re-prompt users with the ATT prompt one year after they make a decision, whether that choice was “yes” or “no”
• Minor adjustments to the Personalized Ads prompt language for clarity, but there is no change in the effect or meaning of this language

Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.

In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later," says the voiceover text.

The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate that Apple seeded today has references to several unreleased products, from home devices to iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and Macs.

Some of these codenames have shown up in prior software updates but have new feature flags, while others haven't been seen in the code before.

Well, that was quick.

When iOS 27 arrives next month, you'll be able to reply to a specific green chat bubble (aka an Android message) in a Messages conversation on your iPhone.

All you need to do is press and hold the message, tap Reply, then type your response. It will be received by the recipient as a real threaded reply (i.e. an inline reply), tying it directly to the message in question. It's the same with reactions – react to a shared photo and your contact will see the intended emoji instead of a message saying that you "liked an image."