Apple has posted its best quarterly results ever thanks to spectacular sales of the base iPhone 17. This year, 2025, the brand will surpass Samsung as the world leader in... smartphones for the first time since 2011. But this success masks a multifaceted crisis: the largest exodus of executives since the death of Steve Jobs, the controversy of liquid glass of iOS 26 and the humiliation of having to pay Google $1 billion annually to use its artificial intelligence.

Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge and Apple's iPhone Air boast the title of being the thinnest mainstream phones on the market today, and on paper they look like it: 5.8 millimeters for the former and 5.6 for the latter. However, these numbers are tricky, as they only count the main body and ignore the camera bumps that protrude from the back. Add these bumps together, and the Samsung measures 10.0 mm in total (5.8 + 4.2 mm for cameras) and the iPhone 11.3 (5.6 + 5.7 mm), both thicker than many mainstream phones. But who cares about reality when you have a catchy slogan?

Apple is releasing iOS 26 today, the latest version of its iPhone operating system, which can be installed starting at 7 p.m. The update refreshes the phones' visual style and improves their native apps. It can be installed on the second-generation iPhone SE (2020), iPhone 11, and later devices. Previous models such as the iPhone XS and iPhone X will not have access to iOS 26. However, older phones will continue to receive important security updates for a while longer. Below we explain the main new features of the new operating system and, at the end, We detail which specific models will be able to install it..

Is it really worth trading hours of battery life for fewer millimeters of thickness? Apple seems convinced that it is, and this Tuesday it presented a renewed range of phones headed by the iPhone Air, only 5.6 millimeters thick, which promises to be the object of desire for fans of aesthetics willing to always carry an external battery in their bag.

Apple Intelligence finally arrives in Europe and Spain with the new update, available from March 31 if the phone is configured in Spanish. The new technology can be used on iPhones, iPads, and Macs that can be updated to iOS 18.4 (iPadOS 18.4) and macOS Sequoia 15.4, respectively. The new software's features have been released in new languages such as Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), and English (India, Singapore), but they are not yet available in Catalan.

WhatsApp has announced a new update of its compatibility requirements on May 5th, the first since three years ago. The change will require users to upgrade their mobile phones if they want to continue using the instant messaging app. The phones affected by the company's standards update are all running on iOS, i.e., Apple's operating system.

Mobile support for title validation has been available for two and a half years It was only available for Android devices with NFC technology — a technology for connecting devices and exchanging data in a confined environment — although the card could be recharged and consulted using all smartphones. Now, the T-mobility Wallet is already available for iPhone, a new feature that improves the travel experience for public transport users. The possibility of validating tickets directly with the mobile phone, without the need for a physical card, arrived on the iPhone on December 27 to offer greater comfort and security to travelers.

Apple has announced the highly anticipated iPhone 16e, the new phone model that will use artificial intelligence features and will have a much lower price than the others smartphones from the American brand. "The iPhone 16e comes with features of the iPhone 16 range that users are winning over, such as its unprecedented autonomy, superior performance thanks to the latest generation A18 chip, an innovative two-in-one camera system and Apple Intelligence," explained Kaiann Drance, vice president of mar.