Things are getting serious regarding Apple security. This shouldn’t really surprise you, given the normalization of chaos we’re enduring, as confusion always makes people more vulnerable. It’s easier to be hoodwinked into clicking that particular malware link when your head’s all over the place, you can’t think, and you don’t know whether you’ll still be in business tomorrow.

That’s because threats don’t need to be aligned or even harmonized to work together. Insecurity in one space breeds less security elsewhere, and then the whole house of dominoes falls on the strength of a single malicious whisper. Just last week, Ric Derbyshire, principal cybersecurity researcher at Orange Cyberdefense, warned that the digital world is at risk.

iOS 18.5 has been in beta testing for the last couple weeks, but so far it’s pretty light on changes. However, this week’s new iOS 18.5 betas introduced an update to Apple Mail that exposes a key hidden feature.

All Mail category was hidden, but iOS 18.5 makes it visible

Apple Mail has undergone some big changes over the last year:

• Mail got a major redesign in iOS 18.2 with inbox categorization, contact photos, digest view, and more.
• That redesign spread to the Mac and iPad just last month with macOS 15.4 and iPadOS 18.4.
• Now, in the iOS 18.5 beta, Apple continues tweaking the new Mail app experience for users.

Instagram is adding yet another way to liven up your Reels recommendations. The app is rolling out “Blend,” a feature that allows you to create a custom feed within a DM that combines your recommendations with a friend’s.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because Blend has been in the works for some time. It was first spotted in the app more than a year ago, but was only an internal prototype at the time. Now, Meta is finally making it official, describing it as an “invite-only Reels feed for you and your friend(s).”

Leaks on the successor to Vision Pro continue emerging, with the latest offering key details on Apple’s plans for a lighter weight, fresh new visionOS device that could be called the Apple Vision Air.

Apple Vision Air could bring big visual changes

Today leaker Kosutami posted the following on X:

Our next friend in the Vision lineup is so thin, features titanium to reduce weight, including the connectors and the battery, and all comes with iPhone 5-era black- which looks like graphite dark blue. And be noted: this might not called as —Pro but you can Air it out.

Apple periodically adds devices to its ever-growing list of vintage and obsolete products.

That happened today, as spotted by MacRumors, with two noteworthy “vintage” additions:

• iPhone 6s
• Mac mini (2018)

The latter product is especially significant, because the 2018 Mac mini was the last remaining Intel model that was not yet labeled either vintage or obsolete.

Apple applies these designations based on the amount of time that’s passed since a product was last available for sale.

It’s the end of an era as the much-loved 2018 Intel Mac mini has been added to Apple’s list of vintage products. It’s yet another step heralding the end of support of Intel on Mac.

With some exceptions under international law, Apple has long had a specific process for when it deems devices to be first vintage, and then obsolete. What’s significant now is that every Intel-based Mac mini has entered the vintage stage, the first time since the move from Intel to Apple Silicon back in 2020.

”Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago,” says Apple on its support page. ”[And] obsolete when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 7 years ago.”