There is a lot to cover, but the title sums it up. I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches.

So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no telemetry, no phoning home, no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts.

You import the photo folders you want the Mac app. It safely indexes the metadata, leaves the photos exactly where they are, and uses Bonjour to advertise itself on your local network. You can start or stop the server if you want to use the app by yourself or publish the library to the whole family. When you open Raza Photos on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the house, it instantly discovers the server. If you have multiple Macs hosting libraries, it finds them all and shows a complete library, with deduplicated filters.

You can browse, filter by date, location, people, albums and events, and you can even edit metadata from iOS while on the couch. The changes can go back to the original files as XMP/EXIF, without touching the image pixels. You can add countries and cities to photos that have GPS data and you can browse them all on a map. Face detection is done locally on the device.

The app is free for now, but it will be a one time purchase of around 20 USD. In the future I plan to add photo transfer from iOS to the Mac server, so you can backup your photos or migrate them away from iCloud. I also plan more photo management features like date taken conflict resolution and better face detection. And I also plan to extract a Swift headless server for Linux which you could put on a NAS, but I am a just solo dev, so bug fixes and features will come at a slower pace. I also plan a video app and a music app with the same features.

It's so limiting because of how locked down iOS is. I can do a lot with an NFC tag but can't make a VCard work. That's the one thing I really want to work! HAHA. Any ideas? Any news on Apple making this work eventually?

I have iphone 16 pro with latest ios (26.3.1) and i usualy have both wifi and 4g turned on all the time. So i expect that it will connect to my home wifi and when i get out it will automaticly disconect and stay on 4g. Which works fine but the problem is when i get back home it doesnt connect to wi fi but spends my MB of 4g and after quiet some time it decides to connect to wifi..

Also when i go to work which is besides my house it doesnt automaticly switch to work wifi with stronger signal, but stays on my home wifi which can bearly reach… Wtf apple???

And this is not new isue, i had same problem with previous iphone in previous house and so on… Wifi just sucks on iphones for some reason..

Howdy yall, I have gripes with the iOS UI and I spent way too long on these edits. Here are my proposed edits.

Option to have an alphabetical grid App Library.

The keyboard should ditch the microphone and globe icons on the bottom, move the keyboard down, and add a number row. The mic and globe can be repurposed in the ui somehow.

I just want to have horizontal brightness and volume sliders.

Apple today seeded revised third betas of the upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming three days after Apple provided the initial beta to developers. Apple has also released a new version of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for public beta testers.

Registered developers and public beta testers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood, emotion, or activity using a text-based prompt. There's also a Concerts Near You feature for finding local shows, and a redesigned look for albums and playlists with full-page artwork.

Apple Podcasts is getting native video podcasting capabilities that will make it easier to create, distribute, and monetize video podcast content through the Podcasts app. Video episodes will integrate with existing Apple podcasts features, like personalized recommendations and editorial suggestions.

Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS, which will eventually bring full encryption to text conversations between Android and ‌iPhone‌ users. Apple is testing ‌RCS‌ with iPhone-to-iPhone conversations and iPhone-to-Android conversations. 

Stolen Device Protection is enabled by default, there's a new ambient music widget, new average bedtime metrics in the sleep app, and plenty more. All of the features in iOS 26.4 can be found in our iOS 26.4 beta features guide.

Update: Apple also released a new third beta of watchOS 26.4.

I'm an iOS 18.2 user, purelymail user, and Caldav user. For some stupid reason iOS just doesn't support Caldav for me. There doesn't seem to be any apps that do this without integrating ads. Is anyone here using something they recommend or know how to get the native calendar to support Caldav? I try to add a calendar but my mail account isn't recognized, the only things it can add are Notes and Mail.

If you dont want to read whole post, my question is this: How to search for all advanture games in app store..??? If its possible at all, which i daubt at this point.. 😒

I remember 13 years ago google play store was a place where you could freely search for all the apps in there. But todays app store on iphone feels restricted, like it hides all the apps on the store from me and just show me some limited amount of apps that it wants me to see, and hides the rest.

Thats why when am searching for a game that i know exists and i just dont remember the name, it looks like that game doesnt exist at all. Why is app store like this today..?

I want to find certan advanture game, but when i go to advanture tab in app store, it shows me only some short apples lists like “top free” or “top paied” or “esencial advanture games” and ofcoure my game is not in any of them..

So how to search for all advanture games in app store..??? If its possible at all, which i daubt at this point.. 😒