Apple News & Updates
Last updated November 13, 2026
Shopify App Store passes 30,000 apps, up from 21,000 at the end of 2025, as new security rules put noncompliant apps at risk
Shopify tightens its App Store rules with identity checks, install minimums for new listings, and removal of apps with no installs
Apple CEO John Ternus presses Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI roadmap as the company looks to turn Siri into an AI agent
Apple urges the D.C. Circuit to let Google keep paying for default search placement, saying it has no plans to build its own
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI over files taken by former employees is set to go to trial on July 19, 2027
Apple Pay and Google Pay go live in Uzbekistan for Visa and Mastercard holders at local banks, with Uzcard and HUMO coming later
OpenAI must hand Apple more details on how two former Apple employees stored and used its confidential information, judge rules
South Korea fines Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won over in-app billing and orders them to allow outside payment links
Amazon wins FCC approval for its $11.6 billion Globalstar acquisition, which will put Leo behind Apple’s iPhone satellite features
Apple adds an AI assistant built on Apple and OpenAI models to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote and opens the apps to outside AI agents
Meta launches an iPhone Duo version of its Edits video app with side-by-side editing and previews a desktop app now in testing
Shopify App Store apps are growing about 28% a year, at least twice as fast as the 10% to 14% growth in Shopify stores
Apple explains why Safari now blocks The Trade Desk, LiveRamp and other ad ID companies that track users across websites
Apple hires Meta litigation chief Scott Tucker to run global litigation and financial services under ex-Meta lawyer Newstead
Meta releases its open-weight Muse Spark Open model, built with Apple to run on two Mac Studios, after years of privacy fights
Apple’s DOJ antitrust settlement talks worry PayPal, Epic Games, and developers who fear weak iPhone interoperability terms
Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million toward Trump’s White House ballroom, topping a list of tech donors that includes Google
OpenAI accuses an ex-employee now at Apple of taking more than 100 files on an unreleased product and pitching it to executives
Apple launches HomeView, a $299 smart home display that recognizes faces and runs its new Siri AI, but won’t sell it in the EU
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