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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Steam Controller and iOS don’t work very well together just yet.

Even though Valve says the Steam Controller is built for “anything running Steam,” out of curiosity, I paired my Steam Controller review unit to my iPhone 16 Pro this afternoon. Most native iOS games I tried didn’t recognize the controller. When they did, there were problems, like not being able to move my Fortnite character at all.

I’ve pinged Valve and Apple to see if this situation might change. As expected, the controller worked with games streamed over the Steam Link app, though!

Update: Noted that the controller is designed for devices running Steam.

A photo of a Steam Controller paired to an iPhone 16 Pro playing Vampire Crawlers.
Fun way to play Vampire Crawlers!
Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Rising memory prices will have an “increasing impact” on Apple’s business.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call that the company expects “significantly higher memory costs” in the upcoming quarter. He added that Apple will “look at a range of options” to address the global shortage.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Tim Cook and John Ternus comment on Apple’s CEO change during earnings call.

Cook:

This moment for the transition is the right one for a number of reasons. First, our business has been performing extremely well. The first half of this year was very strong, growing double digits year over year. Second, our roadmap is incredible, and most importantly, we have the right leader ready to step into the role. As I have said, there is no one on this planet I trust more to lead Apple into the future than John Ternus.

Ternus:

As Tim mentioned, we have an incredible roadmap ahead, and while you’re not going to get me to talk about the details of that roadmap, suffice it to say this is the most exciting time in my 25 year career at Apple to be building products and services.

Apple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortagesApple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortages
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Seahawks fans: Are we Cooked?

Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook and current Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are considering bids for the Seattle Seahawks, Front Office Sports reports.

Paul Allen’s estate began the sale process for the NFL team in February after this year’s Super Bowl win. (Go Hawks, that was a great game.)

Seahawks Sale Watch: Zuckerberg, Cook Among Rumored Bidders

[Front Office Sports]

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple might move Visual Intelligence to the camera app with iOS 27.

The feature, launched in 2024, will also get Siri branding, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The changes could be part of a big camera-related push from Apple this year, as Gurman reported Tuesday that the Photos app will also be getting more AI photo editing features.

Apple Plans a Siri Camera Mode and Upgraded Visual AI in iOS 27

[Bloomberg]

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Bring home Toy Story 5’s evil tablet with Belkin’s new iPad case.

It was inevitable, but Belkin will be the first company with a case turning your tablet into Toy Story 5’s new Lily Pad character. The $49.99 case is made from EVA foam and features both a built-in carrying handle and a folding kickstand. Hopefully it doesn’t come preset to villain mode.

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An iPad inside Belkin’s Toy Story 5 Lily Pad tablet case.
Image: Belkin
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
iOS 27 will bring more AI photo editing features to iPhones this fall.

Apple is adding an “Apple Intelligence Tools” section to the Photos app editor, which will include four AI features: Extend, Enhance, Reframe, and Clean Up, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Clean Up is the only AI editing tool already available in the Photos app, but it fell short of Google’s Magic Editor in our testing after its debut last year.

Apple TV’s new horror series is scarier because it’s also hilariousApple TV’s new horror series is scarier because it’s also hilarious
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
“Welcome back, coach.”

We knew Ted Lasso was set to return this summer, and now Apple has released a more specific timeframe: season 4 will start streaming on August 5th. There’s also a new trailer showing that, even though Ted is in charge of a new team, things don’t seem to have changed all that much.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The long rumored foldable iPad may never see the light of day.

Apple has supposedly been working on a folding tablet since at least 2023. The rumored release has slipped from 2024, to 2026, to 2028, to 2029, and now, according to Mark Gurman, it might not happen at all. While it was a priority for incoming CEO John Ternus, its future is now in doubt:

Foldable iPad: Apple has been working on a roughly 20-inch foldable iPad. This device has been a Ternus priority but may end up being a wacky experiment that doesn’t see the light of day, according to several people who have worked on it.

The US gets the worst phonesThe US gets the worst phones
Dominic Preston
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Behind the scenes of Apple’s MacBook Neo introduction video.

Super cool to see how Apple’s videos come together. Here’s the actual introduction video from March, if you want to compare.

AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacyAirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacy
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Apple TV’s sci-fi run continues.

Over the last few weeks the streamer has provided updates on new seasons of Dark Matter and Silo, and now we have the first proper trailer for Star City, the For All Mankind spinoff that shows things from the Soviet perspective. It starts streaming on May 29th.

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