If you’ve ever struggled to come up with the perfect iPhone or Apple Watch setup, check out Homescreen.me for inspiration.

You may remember Homescreen.me — the site has been public since 2012. Its goal has always been to give you a place to share your iPhone Home screen in a central location at a link that’s easier to remember than an auto-generated url from a photo-sharing service.

Some time after launching the site, the team realized it’d be pretty nifty to have an iOS app for Homescreen.me — that way you could do the screenshotting, sharing, and browsing all on the same device. Unfortunately, after a successful beta period, the app was rejected by Apple. You can learn all about that on the Homescreen.me blog.

In the end, the team took what they’d learned from iOS, applied it to the web, and relaunched Homescreen.me site.

Signing up and sharing your Home screen and watch face

You can sign up for an account with Facebook, Twitter, or the classic email address. Once you’…

How do you find stories, add channels, and read and remove channels in the News app for iPhone and iPad? Like this!

Apple News collects all the sites and stories you want to read, all in one easy place to read them. From the News app on iPhone and iPad, you can see suggested articles, subscribe to channels and genres that interest you, favorite what you like most, and come back for more any time you want!

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How to get started with the News app for iPhone and iPad

The first time you launch the News app, you need to tell it what you like to read. You do this by selecting channel and category favorites.

Launch the News app from your Home screen.
Tap Next.
Tap the channels you’d like to make your Favorites.

Tap Continue when you feel you’ve chosen enough F…

The fourth beta version of OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 is now available for developers. It can be found on Apple’s Developer Downloads site, or downloaded from the Updates section of the Mac App Store on a Mac running the previous beta.

Beta Software Program members can also get the latest update. As with the developer beta, the public beta update can be found in the Mac App Store.

OS X 10.11.6 is likely to feature a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, though Apple has not yet detailed what we’ll find when it arrives for consumers.
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The fourth developer beta for tvOS 9.2.2 for the 2015 Apple TV is now available. Interested developers can now grab the latest beta release, build 13Y824, from Apple’s Developer Download page.

It isn’t entirely clear what will be included in tvOS 9.2.2, but it will likely contain a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. A much larger update, tvOS 10, is due out later this year.

Apple TV

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Apple TV users guide
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Apple has released the the third beta for iOS 9.3.3 to developers. Interested developers can now grab the latest release from the Developer Downloads site.

Members of Apple’s Beta Software Program can also download the latest pre-release update. It can be found by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

This beta follows the full release of iOS 9.3.2 several weeks ago. It’s unclear what will be included in this latest version once it rolls out to everyone, but it’s likely to contain a number of bug fixes.

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Don’t let your home screen fall into a rut — switch out your wallpaper!

Wallpapers are important. They can give our phone a new feel, even if only for a little while. Some of us change wallpapers as often as we change shirts (sometimes to match), while some of us set one wallpaper and forget it, and that’s a shame. A good wallpaper can be a pick-me-up, can remind us of better times (and upcoming times). They can show off what’s important to us, be it a picture of the grandkids or an emblem of your favorite house in Game of Thrones. In an effort to brighten your screen, and maybe your day, we present an offering of wonderful wallpapers to grace your smartphone.

If you’ve got a wallpaper you use everywhere, share it in the comments below! We’re always looking for something new. Now get your wallpaper picker ready and see what’s in store this week.

Illuminations

When there are fireworks displays going on all across the country on one night, places that normally have fireworks …

With the iPhone 7 rumored to be ditching its headphone jack, Apple audio chip supplier Cirrus Logic has released its MFi Headset Development Kit for the creation of Lightning-based headphones. The reference platform is compliant with Apple’s MFi accessories program, and is meant to help manufacturers develop these headsets quickly.

From Cirrus Logic:

The MFi Headset Development Kit demonstrates the advantages of Lightning-connected headsets over conventional analog headsets. For example, digital connectivity with an integrated, high-performance DAC and headphone driver delivers high-fidelity audio to the headphone speakers. In addition, Lightning-connected headphones can interact with an iOS app to create a more custom audio experience, such as personalized EQ settings.

The kit comes with a reference design, along with a development board. The design is meant to be adapted to any headphone form factor, from earbuds to over-the-ear cans. The kit can be obtained by lic…

You can make your summer sizzle if you know how to grill like a boss!

When summer hits full-swing, our thoughts turn to outdoor fun and food, which usually means grilling up meats and veggies while putting back a few cold ones. If you want to be the king of the grill this summer, we’ve got a list of the best apps for cooking over an open flame.

Weber Grills

Weber makes one of the most common household grills around, and the companion app turns you into an expert on open-flame cooking. It includes a timer with suggested preset grill times for common meat items. The suggested times also allow you to adjust the thickness of the meat and the level of doneness you are hoping for.

The Recipes section features dozens of delicious-looking meals straight off the grill. You can add items from the recipe cards to your shopping list. The Grill Guide provides general information on how hot the grill should be and how long you should cook specific items, like veggies, poultry, seafood, an…

Rene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editor-in-chief of iMore, executive editor for Mobile Nations, video and podcast host, you can follow him on Snapchat or Twitter @reneritchie.

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On June 29, 2007 people were lining up in droves outside Apple Stores to be among the first to own a an iPhone!

It was a very different world back then. What few smartphones there were typically had small screens and hardware keyboards, locked the web in WAP and proxy, and a simple sticky notes app cost $30… if you could find it on one of the dozens of scattered online stores. The iPhone, by comparison wasn’t a breath of fresh air, it was a breath of fresh experience.

Apple had worked for over two years on the Purple Experience Project: A capacitive touch interface that made direct manipulation feel like a reality, on inertial scrolling and rubber banding, pinch-to-zoom and cover-flow that made interaction …

Facebook has announced it will be making more changes for its News Feed in the coming weeks. Posts from friends that Facebook users care about most will be placed higher in the News Feed with this change.

In a blog post, Facebook stated:

We previously made an update that tries to ensure that stories posted directly by the friends you care about, such as photos, videos, status updates or links, will be higher up in News Feed so you are less likely to miss them.

We’ve heard from our community that people are still worried about missing important updates from the friends they care about. For people with many connections this is particularly important, as there are a lot of stories for them to see each day. So we are updating News Feed over the coming weeks so that the things posted by the friends you care about are higher up in your News Feed.

Facebook adds that some Pages could see their reach and referral traffic go down as a result of these News Feed changes. In a separ…