Malcolm Owen
Apple has added sudoku to its collection of puzzles in Apple News+, giving another way for subscribers to test their brainpower every day.
Apple News+ offers subscribers in the United States and Canada a selection of puzzles that update daily. In the first developer beta of iOS 18.2, the collection has grown with another challenge.
The new inclusion is sudoku, a regular numbers-based logic puzzle that quickly became a staple alongside crosswords in newspapers around the world. The discovery was first made by Chris Carley, spotted by 9to5Mac
Just like the paper version, Sudoku requires players to include every digit from 1 to 9 to appear in each horizontal and vertical line of the nine-by-nine grid. Each three-by-three box in the grid also must include the digits 1 through 9 as well, which forces players to deduce which number should go into which empty space while also following the rules.
The version included in the News app provides puzzles in three difficulty levels and also keeps track of how often you manage to solve them.
Sudoku appears alongside the Quartiles, Crossword, and Crossword mini puzzles, found by opening the News app, then selecting Following, then Puzzles.
Aside from being only for U.S. and Canada-based Apple News+ subscribers, Sudoku will only be viewable on devices running iOS 18.2. For the moment, that means the iPhone 15 Pro and all iPhone 16 models, until Apple offers a beta available across all compatible devices in the future.
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4 Comments
Why is something as simple as a sudoku puzzle only available in the US? Ridiculous. I understand software features that require third party certifications or approvals being US-only at first, but this requires nothing extra. Apple Cash has been a thing for a long time now, and it was "coming soon" to the UK, but still not here.
At least a Soduku cannot be riddled with questions on gender ideology and other offensive topics.
I like Apple News, to a degree. I don’t care about all the puzzles. Fine whatever. Why though does it have to repeat stories several times in a day and keep repeating them for weeks or months? If I have scrolled past them and get to where it says I’m up to date, I’m not interested. I just want to get stuff I haven’t seen and preferably get done with it quickly.