Apple could be planning a real-world equivalent of the familiar eye-dropper tool in image apps, where a color could be set by an Apple Pencil tapping against it in an existing image.
Apple has been granted a patent for touch sensitive control areas including solid-state buttons on any surface of the current iPhone design, and a folding one.
A future version of HomeKit may keep track of where the people in the house are, and learn user habits to figure out when to automatically take actions, without you having to ask Siri.
Apple is working on technology to allow iPhones or iPads with flexible screens to detect when dropped, and immediately fold up on the way to the ground to minimize damage.
In the future, you may be able to salute your HomePod to turn up the volume, make a sweeping gesture to close your smart curtains with HomeKit, or just hold up your hand to pause everything.
Apple's forthcoming headset was always going to work alongside iPhone and Mac, but a newly-filed patent application describes just what the company wants to happen.
Apple is looking beyond Touch ID and Face ID to a future system where a user's entire body can be scanned to confirm identity and perform health analysis.
Apple wants Siri to work the phones for you, make and receive calls, arrange appointments, or just play back different voicemail messages to your partner and your boss.
Apple is researching ways to make speakers that include hinges, can bend around corners, cram give big sound into small enclosures that are currently difficult to manage.
Apple is researching how a single Apple Watch band could be made to change color by itself, both to color-coordinate with a wearer's clothes, and to alert the user to information.
Despite Apple Silicon currently working solely with its own on-board GPU cores, Apple is researching how to support more options, like PCI-E GPUs, all working in tandem.
A new Apple patent application describes converting an iMessage into a voice note played back in a voice that the user has created with samples of the sender's voice.
A newly-revealed patent application shows Apple has evolved its previous hinge designs, and is now describing foldable iPhone displays with far more intricate gearing.
Apple is considering how to redesign the Apple Watch and band, so that the watch can quickly be snapped on and off, letting owners take it off their wrists to use as a small, handheld device.
Apple has been granted a patent for technology that has the iPhone hear chewing, prompt you to photograph your food, and could then criticize your food choices.
According to a new patent, Apple wants us to be able to dance, wave, gesture, or just enter and leave rooms, to have our smart devices like the HomePod do what we want.
Apple is researching how to add gyroscopes to Apple AR headsets, giving continuous haptic feedback that will feel immersive.
Apple is working on how to make a perforated aluminum keyboard chassis with keycaps that incorporate an array of LEDs that can change what is displayed on each key.
Apple is researching how a future iPhone can save power by automatically pausing playback when you're not paying attention to media.
There's got to be a better way to find the right Apple Watch band size for your wrist than trying out countless ones, or printing out paper guides — and Apple thinks it has the answer.
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