Apple News was announced at Apple's
WWDC 2015 developer conference. It was released alongside the iOS 9 release on September 16, 2015, for the
iPhone,
iPod Touch and
iPad. At launch, the app was only available to users in the United States, but within a month had become available to users in
Australia and the United Kingdom. It was reported in 2014 that Apple Inc. had acquired the Netherlands-based digital magazine company Prss, developers of an application that simplified the creation of iPad-compatible magazines using a
WYSIWYG editor that didn't require any knowledge of code. Prss was seen as a magazine version of
iBooks Author. The idea for Prss came after entrepreneur Michel Elings and longtime travel writer and photographer Jochem Wijnands designed their own iPad publication called
TRVL. The Prss invention became what is now 'Apple News.' On June 13, 2016, during the keynote address at WWDC 2016, it was revealed that with the forthcoming
iOS 10 update the News app would undergo new icon and app redesigns along with an improved For You section organized by topics. Furthermore, it was announced that there would be support for paid subscriptions for certain news sources and publishers as well as an opt-in system for breaking news notifications and email on top news stories. On June 4, 2018, during the
WWDC 2018 keynote address, Apple announced that the Apple News app would be ported to macOS and be available to users in Australia, United Kingdom, and United States starting in macOS 10.14. The app is installed by default in every region but is not made visible to users outside those three regions. Users can still open it using various workarounds. despite seeing steady growth in audience over the past year. On March 25, 2019, iOS 12.2 was released with the updated News app that introduced subscriptions through Apple's "Apple News+" service, which was announced on the same day. The icon for Apple News also changed, putting the N in the icon front and center with a slightly changed design. The same month, Apple introduced support for the News app in Canada, including the News+ subscription service. In July 2020, Apple added an Audio tab for US News+ subscribers, as well as support listening to audio news stories in
CarPlay. In March 2023, Apple introduced a dedicated Sports tab to the app with the release of iOS 16.4, providing stories and coverage for a user's favourite teams. == Apple News+ ==