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- 1. United Kingdom How Tos
- 2. How to Use the New Apple Pay UK Bank Account Balance Feature
- 3. UK Bank Holidays Missing From Your iPhone Calendar? Here's What to Do
- 4. United Kingdom Guides
- 5. Apple Intelligence UK Guide: What British Users Need to Know
- 6. United Kingdom Articles
- 7. Apple Store in UK Reopens With New Design on iPhone Duo Launch Day
- 8. UK Proposes New Ways to Help Apple Pay Rivals
- 9. Apple Launches Creative Labs Program With The King's Trust
- 10. Apple Store in UK Reopening on iPhone Duo Launch Day
- 11. Apple Hit With $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Over App Tracking Rules
- 12. Apple Closing Basingstoke Store as Nearby Reading Location Expands
- 13. Apple Launches New Legal Challenge Against UK Backdoor Demand
- 14. Apple Says UK App Store Steering Rules Would Be 'Highly Intrusive'
- 15. Google Chrome's Gemini AI Features Roll Out to UK Users
- 16. Apple's $502M Optis Patent Case Heads to UK Supreme Court
- 17. UK Pushes Apple to Loosen App Store Payment and NFC Rules
- 18. UK iCloud Users Could Claim £77 Each as Apple Case Heads to Trial
- 19. UK to Ban Social Media for Under-16s Starting in 2027
- 20. Apple Music Classical Announces New Partnership With London's Wigmore Hall
- 21. Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims
- 22. Apple to Host Free Events in London Ahead of April 26 Marathon
- 23. Apple Subsidiary Fined Over $500,000 for Breaching Russian Sanctions
- 24. Apple Requires App Developers to Declare Regulated Medical Device Status in EEA, UK, and U.S.
- 25. Apple Massively Discounts iPhone Air on Amazon in UK
- 26. Apple's 50th Anniversary Events Continue in UK, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, and Beyond
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United Kingdom How Tos
How to Use the New Apple Pay UK Bank Account Balance Feature
Thursday November 16, 2023 2:50 am PST by Tim Hardwick
In iOS 17.1 and later, iPhone users in the UK can now view banking information like account balance when using Apple Pay and viewing bank cards and credit cards in the Wallet app. Keep reading to learn how it works.
Apple's Wallet app on iPhone has been able to display Apple Pay transactions made using your bank and credit cards for a while now, but if you are a Wallet app user in the United ...
UK Bank Holidays Missing From Your iPhone Calendar? Here's What to Do
Tuesday January 4, 2022 4:38 am PST by Tim Hardwick
If you live in the United Kingdom, there's a good chance you enjoyed yesterday's first official bank holiday of the year with your feet up. But if all you'd done was rely on the Calendar app on your iPhone, you may never have even known you were due a day off. That's because a persistent bug that has plagued the app for months still prevents Apple's UK bank holidays subscription option from...
United Kingdom Guides
Apple Intelligence UK Guide: What British Users Need to Know
Tuesday October 15, 2024 8:59 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple Intelligence is now available with iOS 18.1, exclusively in U.S. English – so what do users in the UK need to know?
Apple Intelligence is Apple's upcoming artificial intelligence system that offers personalized, context-aware features, such as notification summaries, writing tools, image and emoji generation, Visual Lookup, and a revamped version of Siri that integrates ChatGPT and...
United Kingdom Articles
Apple Store in UK Reopens With New Design on iPhone Duo Launch Day
Friday October 23, 2026 12:10 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
Following more than three months of renovations, the Apple SouthGate store in Bath, England reopened today, just in time for iPhone Duo launch day. The store has received an updated design with a dedicated Apple Pickup area, a more accessible Genius Bar with varied table and seat heights, and other...
UK Proposes New Ways to Help Apple Pay Rivals
Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:57 pm PDT by Hartley Charlton
The UK's competition regulator has proposed changes to make it easier and cheaper for companies to offer alternatives to Apple Pay on the iPhone (via Reuters).
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says Apple's fees and restrictions make it too difficult for rivals to launch contactless payment apps. Its proposals would give developers more ways to access the iPhone's NFC technology,...
Apple Launches Creative Labs Program With The King's Trust
Wednesday October 7, 2026 2:29 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple is partnering with UK charity The King's Trust to launch a new education program that will help young people build careers in creative industries, Apple said today.
The Apple x King's Trust Creative Labs will give people aged 18 to 30 the opportunity to work with Apple experts as they look into different career paths.
An initial cohort of up to 20 people is participating in...
Apple Store in UK Reopening on iPhone Duo Launch Day
Friday October 2, 2026 7:17 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Following more than three months of renovations, the Apple SouthGate store in Bath, England will be reopening on Friday, October 23, just in time for iPhone Duo launch day.
Last year, Apple permanently closed its store in the heart of nearby Bristol, but Apple Cribbs Causeway remains open inside a shopping center on the outskirts of the city. In other UK store news, Apple Lakeside in Essex was ...
Apple Hit With $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Over App Tracking Rules
Thursday September 3, 2026 7:46 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit in London accusing it of imposing stricter App Tracking Transparency rules on third party developers than on its own advertising services (via Reuters).
The case, filed at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, follows a similar suit in which the tribunal ordered Apple to pay around £1.5 billion over App Store commissions last October, a...
Apple Closing Basingstoke Store as Nearby Reading Location Expands
Thursday August 13, 2026 4:53 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple today confirmed that its Apple Festival Place store in Basingstoke, England will permanently close in November 2026, while a nearby store in Reading undergoes a major expansion and will reopen with a new design in the following month (via 9to5Mac).
Apple The Oracle will become the closest replacement at around 18 miles from the old Basingstoke location, with Apple WestQuay in...
Apple Launches New Legal Challenge Against UK Backdoor Demand
Monday August 3, 2026 8:34 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple last month filed a new legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) over the British government's demand for access to encrypted iCloud backups belonging to UK users, according to an order issued by the court and reported by the Financial Times.
The Home Office previously agreed to drop its original demand for a backdoor covering UK and U.S. customers alike, after...
Apple Says UK App Store Steering Rules Would Be 'Highly Intrusive'
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:43 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple said new UK App Store rules would give regulators a "highly intrusive" role dictating how it runs its business, reports Reuters. Apple submitted feedback to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority as it considers forcing Apple to change its App Store rules around steering.
The CMA wants Apple to let developers link to payment options outside of the App Store, which the CMA says...
Google Chrome's Gemini AI Features Roll Out to UK Users
Tuesday July 14, 2026 2:32 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Google has announced the rollout of Chrome's latest AI features to Mac and PC users in the U.K., indicated by a new "Ask Gemini" button with a sparkle icon in the upper right side of the browser.
Gemini in Chrome can work across multiple tabs, which is supposed to make it useful for comparing and summarizing information from several websites at once.
It also integrates with Google...
Apple's $502M Optis Patent Case Heads to UK Supreme Court
Tuesday June 30, 2026 7:45 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple will try to convince the UK Supreme Court this week to throw out a $502 million judgment in favor of patent holder Optis Wireless.
As reported in the Financial Times, the UK Supreme Court this week takes up a dispute that has stretched on since 2019 in both U.S. and UK courts, when Optis first accused iPhones, iPads, and LTE-equipped Apple Watch models of infringing patents covering 4G ...
UK Pushes Apple to Loosen App Store Payment and NFC Rules
Tuesday June 30, 2026 3:00 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
The U.K.'s competition regulator has proposed letting app developers direct users to payment options outside Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, in a move aimed at increasing competition and reducing the fees charged by the two companies.
As reported by Reuters, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the proposals would remove restrictions that currently prevent U.K....
UK iCloud Users Could Claim £77 Each as Apple Case Heads to Trial
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:49 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
A class action lawsuit accusing Apple of overcharging U.K. iCloud users has been certified to go ahead, putting the £3 billion ($3.9 billion) claim on track for a trial in October 2028.
According to BBC News, the Competition Appeal Tribunal cleared consumer group Which? to bring the case on behalf of an estimated 40 million U.K. iPhone and iPad owners, each of whom could receive up to £77...
UK to Ban Social Media for Under-16s Starting in 2027
Monday June 15, 2026 2:09 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
The British government will introduce a ban on social media access for all users under 16 years of age, set to take effect in 2027. UK prime minister Keir Starmer announced the plans on Monday, calling the move "the right step for Britain" and the best way to keep children safe online.
"This is not something I do lightly, and I will not present it as cost-free, as if social media has [brought ...
Apple Music Classical Announces New Partnership With London's Wigmore Hall
Wednesday June 3, 2026 4:59 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Wigmore Hall Live today relaunches as a digital-only platform in partnership with Apple Music Classical, with all recording royalties passed directly to artists, Gramophone reports.
Wigmore Hall is a prestigious 550-seat concert hall on Wigmore Street in London's Marylebone, widely regarded as one of the world's foremost venues for chamber music, early music, and vocal recitals. Opened in...
Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims
Thursday May 7, 2026 1:56 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple was not able to narrow the scope of a UK lawsuit accusing it of locking 40 million UK consumers into iCloud, to the detriment of third-party cloud storage providers. British consumer group Which? first filed the lawsuit in late 2024, and is asking for £3 billion for UK Apple customers.
Apple wanted to exclude non-paying iCloud users from the lawsuit, but the tribunal denied Apple's...
Apple to Host Free Events in London Ahead of April 26 Marathon
Wednesday April 15, 2026 7:29 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple today announced a series of events tied to this year's TCS London Marathon, with the company serving as an official partner of the race.
The TCS London Marathon is one of the world's most popular marathons and takes place on Sunday, April 26, drawing athletes of all abilities from around the world. A record-breaking one million people applied to enter the ballot for the 2026 event....
Apple Subsidiary Fined Over $500,000 for Breaching Russian Sanctions
Monday March 30, 2026 5:19 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple's Irish subsidiary has been fined £390,000 ($516,110) by the UK government for making payments to a sanctioned Russian streaming platform in 2022.
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) said that Apple Distribution International Ltd. (ADI), the Republic of Ireland-based entity Apple uses to pay App Store developers, made two payments totaling £635,618 to Okko LLC, a...
Apple Requires App Developers to Declare Regulated Medical Device Status in EEA, UK, and U.S.
Thursday March 26, 2026 3:41 pm PDT by Juli Clover
App Store product pages will now display whether an app is a regulated medical device, Apple said today. The designation will be shown in the App Store in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, and United States.
According to Apple, regulated medical device apps may function on their own or as part of a system for medical purposes like diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, and...
Apple Massively Discounts iPhone Air on Amazon in UK
Thursday March 26, 2026 6:53 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Apple is selling the iPhone Air with up to a 30% discount on its official Amazon storefront in the United Kingdom, marking a steep and highly unusual direct price reduction.
The sale price brings the 256GB iPhone Air down to as low as £699 across two colorways (Sky Blue and Space Black), both reduced from their original £999 price. The Light Gold 256GB model is currently listed at £749, ...
Apple's 50th Anniversary Events Continue in UK, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, and Beyond
Tuesday March 24, 2026 9:48 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple has been celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary by hosting special events around the world, making stops in the United States, China, South Korea, and Thailand so far. Over the coming days, the celebrations will continue in the UK, France, Canada, Mexico, India, Japan, and Australia, while China will get an encore performance.
MacRumors has been invited to attend one of Apple's...
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