iPhone Apps

The Apple iPod may no longer be with us, after it was retired for good in 2022, but if you're feeling a little nostalgic, you can turn your Watch into a mini retro device that is more a secondary 'dumb phone' than just a music player.

Using paired smartphones, motion-capture app OpenCap films video and then uses AI to analyse human movement, providing detailed data for use in rehabilitation, presurgery plans and disease diagnostics – and is 1% of the cost of traditional technology.

We may not have the physical fight Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk childishly threatened, but the Meta boss has launched a big hit on his Twitter rival with new social media platform Threads. Should you join? We weigh up the good and the bad so far.

Phone makers continue to cram better lenses and more cameras into their phones, and now app developers are catching up: a new app called DoubleTake from Filmic lets you record from multiple cameras at once on the latest iPhone handsets.

For many businesses and households, a smiling stack of Amazon boxes is a surefire sign of the holiday season. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew their exact contents without opening up every one? Now you can, thanks to the new Package X-Ray feature which arrives on the Amazon mobile app this week.

The Lytro camera has gained wireless capabilities, and a new friend in the iPhone, thanks to a functionality-adding firmware update.

We break down the best iPhone apps of 2012.

The iGills SE-35 turns an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S into a fully featured dive computer.

Backseat Driver is ToyToyota's GPS-based game for iPhone.

djay transforms an iOS device into a slick portable DJ system.

Einstein's Pedometer is an iPhone app that will let you know just how many extra nanoseconds, relatively speaking, you've gained by getting moving as opposed to sitting on your rear end.

The A!arm app for iPhone allows users to turn off the alarm doing something that most of us have done at one time or another – shouting at the alarm.