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The annual app recaps for 2025: all Wrapped up

Spotify may have popularized the Wrapped user recap trend, but more companies are jumping on that bandwagon every year. From rival music streaming providers like Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer, to completely unrelated services across tech, gaming, and other industries, a huge range of companies are using fun visuals, stats, and personalization features to show how you’ve been using their platforms over the last 12 months.
https://www.theverge.com/news/837280/spotify-wrapped-2025-recap-annual-best-of-data

Apple’s new Font Book icon is upsetting designers

Font Book, macOS's built-in font manager, has seen its icon hugely simplified. Gone are the various typefaces depicting the letter, 'A', replaced with a single clean sans-serif character. Many have complained that it's no longer clear what the app does. "I get the modern take, but this is disappointing, I'd rather have it say 'Aa' than just 'a'," one Redditor comments. Another adds, "hmmm yeah this is upsetting."
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/logos-icons/apples-new-font-book-icon-is-upsetting-designers

Apple’s New iPhone Accessory Is Part Sock, Part Crossbody Strap

Apple’s latest limited-edition accessory is a crossbody cloth strap designed to fit every iPhone. Apple calls this pleated, cloth accessory a "singular 3D-knitted construction." The sock element where you place your phone can be stretched, allowing you to put in other small everyday items.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/apples-new-iphone-accessory-is-part-sock-part-crossbody-strap

Rumor suggests Apple could kill Dynamic Island with under-display camera

Apple is rumored to be removing the Dynamic Island cutout, replacing it with an under-display camera. In other words, Apple might be going with a clean, all-screen look for its display.
https://mashable.com/article/apple-kills-dymanic-island-under-display-camera?test_uuid=04wb5avZVbBe1OWK6996faM&test_variant=a

We now have a Nintendo Store app for iOS and Android

Nintendo has released an official Nintendo Store app, allowing more fans to access the eShop on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Five years after exclusively launching in Japan as the “My Nintendo” app, Nintendo has now expanded the iOS and Android experience under a new name to other regions, including the US, UK, Canada, and most of Europe.
https://www.theverge.com/news/814054/nintendo-store-app-ios-android-games-shop

Has the Apple iPhone Air killed off the Sim card?

Analyst Kester Mann, from CCS Insight, told BBC News that Apple's announcement "marks the beginning of the end of the physical Sim card".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz30grggqo

Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

The presentation was a far cry from Apple’s heavy-handed mentions of AI at the iPhone 16 unveiling, which led to public disappointment when some flagship features didn’t roll out as promised. This year, Apple talked more about how AI is helping power features in the background, and less about how it’s putting AI in front of consumers’ faces — unlike Google’s Pixel 10 unveiling last month and Samsung’s event in January.
https://www.theverge.com/apple-event/774963/apple-september-launch-event-ai-apple-intelligence