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This week: Xcode’s AI agents can build an app from scratch in a day, major new details on the folding iPhone — and a potential second folding iPhone, whether Apple plans obsolescence, and a trick that’ll wrangle notifications on your iPhone.
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- Xcode unleashes AI agents for fast and easy app creation
- Devs can work directly with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, thanks to an Xcode update that builds in AI coding agents.
- iPhone Fold leak shows Apple borrowing design cues from iPad
- A new leak provides more details about the foldable iPhone's design, pointing to several similarity with iPads.
- Apple’s foldable plans may not stop at just one iPhone
- Before Apple even launches its first folding iPhone, the company is reportedly exploring a follow-up model with a clamshell-like form factor.
- Apple just killed the myth of iPhone forced obsolescence
- The conspiracy theory that Apple uses iOS as a tool of forced iPhone obsolescence is complete BS, and I can prove it.
- Never miss an important alert with this crucial iPhone settings tweak
- If you rely on timely alerts from certain critical iOS apps, set up persistent notifications so you don't miss something important.
- Listener Question
- Do people actually care about phone wobble?
