Apple News+ Food is a great way to find recipes on your iPhone. It gives you personal recommendations and offers dozens of filters to find all kinds of recipes, from easy slow-cooker fare to gluten-free concoctions. Plus, all the recipes are nicely formatted, with easy-to-read instructions. And you can save recipes you like for later to build up a personal catalog of go-to dishes.
It’s a very well-thought-out addition to an Apple News+ subscription, a tasty complement to the service’s news stories, magazine features and daily puzzles. Apple is slowly but surely replicating all the great features of traditional newspapers.
Here’s how to get cooking with Apple News+ Food. Keep reading or watch our hands-on video.
Find recipes with Apple News+ Food
While there’s no denying the joys of a fancy physical cookbook, sometimes you just want to find a great new recipe fast. Whether you’re craving a quick weeknight dinner or exploring a new dietary need, Apple News+ Food transforms your device into a digital cookbook.
Since it’s baked right into Apple News+, it delivers the same distraction-free experience you enjoy when you read magazines or newspapers in the streamlined app. That means you won’t need to endure annoying popups or the endless barrage of SEO-optimized BS found on most recipe sites.
Plus, Apple added a clever Cook mode that makes it easy to follow the instructions once you fine a recipe you like.
Note: To use Apple News+ Food, you need to be running iOS 18.4 or iPadOS 18.4 or later. And you must be an Apple News+ subscriber. Apple News+ costs $12.99 per month individually. Alternatively, it comes as part of the Apple One Premier bundle alongside 2TB of iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade and Apple Fitness+ for $37.95 per month. You can share either plan with up to five people.
Table of contents: Find recipes with Apple News+ Food
- Open the Food section in Apple News
- Browse the Recipe Catalog
- Check out and save a recipe
- Follow along in Cook mode
- Browse through stories and follow specific outlets
- More stuff
Open the Food section in Apple News
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To get started finding recipes in Apple News+ Food, open the News app and tap the Following tab in the bottom right. You’ll see the Food section right below Puzzles. The app also provides a shortcut to access your Saved Recipes from here.
Find recipes from the Recipe Catalog
Tap Food and you will see Apple’s featured recipes and top stories. Tap the Recipe Catalog button at the top of the list (or in the top toolbar) to browse through recipes. You will see sections for recipes you recently viewed and saved, along with new recipes, popular recipes and various other categories.
Filters along the top let you show results for Dinner, Vegetarian, Dessert, < 30 Min and more. Tap the Filter button in the top right for even more options— Salad, Gluten-Free, Slow Cooker, Pasta, Air Fryer, etc.
Check out and save a recipe
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When you find recipes, tap on them to check them out. Unlike most recipe websites, you won’t need to scroll past a 2,000-word essay on the history of spring puttanesca pasta. However, if you’d like to read up on a recipe and its ingredients, tap Read the Story if you see the option.
Scroll down to see the ingredients. If you want to check off which ingredients you have and which you need to buy, you can tap on one to gray it out. Scroll down further to see the directions for making the dish you picked.
If you’d like to save it for later, tap Save.
Follow along in Cook mode
After you find recipes and you’re ready to start cooking, tap Cook. You’ll see the directions in large, easy-to-follow lettering you can scroll through. You can quickly toggle between directions and ingredients using the picker at the top of the screen.
While you’re in Cook mode, your iPhone won’t auto-lock. This proves very helpful if you’re cooking with someone else who doesn’t know your passcode. You also can tap on any of the timer buttons to start a countdown timer straight from the directions. The timers will even be labeled with the step number and instructions, so you won’t forget which timer is for what.
Find stories about new recipes and follow specific outlets
If you want to take a deep culinary dive, Apple News+ Food serves up a steady stream of news stories about food trends, culture and history. In News > Following > Food, you can scroll down to see popular and recommended stories, and follow your favorite publications.
