Apple News Plus is ready to work offline

Even if subscribers are out of cellular or Wi-Fi range (or there’s a major outage), Apple News Plus in iOS 17.5 can still deliver content to them now that offline mode has been added – this should be further down the list for Apple Maps, which added offline navigation last year in the iOS 17 update. Top Stories, Apple News Today, audio briefings, magazines, narrated articles, and puzzles can all be automatically downloaded to the your iPhone or iPad, all optimized to maximize space on your devices.

As promised, the latest updates to macOS, iPadOS and other platforms also add another word game for News Plus subscribers called Quartiles, competing with The New York Times‘ growing library of games and even LinkedIn. The New Plus Puzzles section also adds a new leaderboard with player data such as statistics and sequences for quartiles, crosswords and mini crosswords.

This latest round of updates (iOS and iPadOS 17.5/16.7.8, macOS 14.5/13.6.7/12.7.5, tvOS 17.5, and watchOS 10.5) also fixes a series of security flaws This can do things like allow a malicious app to find a user’s location when it shouldn’t or access protected data, so update your Apple devices as soon as possible.