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Apple Already Reads Your Texts With AI. Let Developers Read One Line of Them.

Apple Intelligence summarizes your iMessages on-device and FinanceKit already hands apps your Apple Card transactions, so the privacy machinery to let a budgeting app auto-log a bank-alert text, without ever seeing the inbox, plainly exists. Apple should ship it.

Ahmad J · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read

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Guide · smartphones

How long does Apple support iPhones?

Apple publishes no support period for any iPhone, so every figure you have read was calculated by the writer. Here is what Apple does publish, and the measurement nobody runs on it: on one day in May 2026 Apple patched an iPhone 6s that went on sale in September 2015, ten years and eight months earlier.

Ahmad J · Aug 16, 2026 · 11 min read

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Guide · smartphones

How long will my phone get security updates?

Motorola and OnePlus print the end date because UK law makes them. Google publishes a promise you can count from. Samsung publishes what it is patching right now. Apple publishes nothing about duration at all. Four kinds of answer, why flattening them into one column of years gets most of them wrong, and the iPhone from 2015 that got a security update in May 2026.

Ahmad J · Aug 16, 2026 · 17 min read