Today, I’m going to review Luminar Neo, an expansive photo editing app for anyone looking to expand their RAW photo editing with AI and generative tools. With 24+ adaptable and powerful AI tools and 100+ precise features to enhance any photo, Luminar is good for any Mac user that has even a passing interest in […]
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| Read more »MagSafe for traveling is one of the best use cases. It keeps you from needing a ton of cables in your bag and makes it easy to keep your gear charged. The dream would be a MagSafe cable that worked on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, but life can’t be that simple. Nevertheless, a few MagSafe accessories are must-haves for your summer travel bag.
| Read more »Prime Day isn’t until next week, but there’s never been a better time to get your hands on an iPad mini. Ahead of the 4-day Prime Day sale extravaganza, Amazon has dropped the price of the A17 Pro iPad mini down to $399, its best price yet.
The smaller form is one of the main benefits of getting the iPad mini because its 8.3-inch screen can fit just about anywhere. It’s also super fast thanks to the A17 Pro chip and a whopping 8GB of RAM, enough to run all of the Apple Intelligence goodies. The gorgeous Liquid Retina display and 12MP Center Stage camera make this tablet fantastic for streaming content, playing games, and...
| Read more »Owning an M4 MacBook Air is more enticing than ever with a $151 discount. Today, the 15-inch model with 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage is down to just $1,248.99 from its original price of $1,400 on Amazon. It hardly feels like you’re carrying a powerful laptop with the M4 MacBook Air. However, open the […]
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| Read more »The upcoming iPhone 17 base model might have a bigger screen compared to its predecessor. An online leak from China from Digital Chat Station mentioned how the base model of the iPhone 17 will have a 6.3-inch screen. The current iPhone 16 base model has a 6.1-inch screen. This report has been corroborated previously by […]
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| Read more »Apple recently updated its codebase for a yet-to-be-released audio device. The identifier found had the code ‘8239’, and references found it to be nothing that Apple uses for Beats and AirPods headphones. Other than the code, there were no other hints of what it was and its features. It’s worth noting that Apple’s Beats and […]
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| Read more »The latest developer macOS Tahoe beta brings several apps to the Mac, including Journal and Phone. Games, Journal, and Phone will be pre-installed on Mac computers when updating to macOS Tahoe. The Journal app has been revamped and can be used for daily thoughts, as well as writing, drawing, and supports audio recording, videos, and […]
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| Read more »The Mac mini is the perfect desktop if you want a clean and aesthetically pleasing setup. Today, the M4 Mac mini with 24GB of Unified Memory and 512GB SSD storage is down to just $849 from its original price of $1,000 on Amazon. The M4 Mac mini is truly versatile, offering connectivity through several ports. […]
The post The M4 Mac mini with 24GB Memory and 512GB Storage is $150 Off appeared first on iLounge.
| Read more »Popular messaging platform WhatsApp announced a new feature where unread messages are summarized using AI. With the AI-assisted feature, users can get a private summary of any unread message, divided into bulleted summaries with the help of Meta AI. It will use the company’s ‘Private Processing’ technology, which Meta says will keep the messages private. […]
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| Read more »A new online report suggests that the upcoming iPhone Fold will have not just one, but two rear cameras. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the iPhone Fold is expected to have a dual-lens rear camera. Supporting the claim is a recent leak from Digital Chat Station, which implied that the two lenses will have […]
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| Read more »Ring launched a new feature that lets AI describe video footage for iOS users. Collected videos will now have a description powered by AI in the iPhone notification field, specifically when motion alerts are triggered. iPhone users will see a text summary of the motion captured so they can identify what it is at a […]
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| Read more »If you’ve been waiting for the price of the iPad mini 7 to drop, then this is the time. Today, the wi-fi model with 128GB of storage is down to just $399 from its original price of $499 on Amazon. The latest iPad mini is more powerful, thanks to the A17 Pro chip that’s able […]
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| Read more »Both LG Display and Samsung Display have reportedly begun to mass produce the OLED panels for the upcoming iPad Pro with M5 chip. The iPad Pro with OLED display debuted last year- LG covered the 13-inch panels while the 11-inch panels were manufactured by Samsung. ZDNet Korea said that the supply will be shared for […]
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| Read more »A new update for the Sports app was announced just in time for the Wimbledon tournament. The Sports app now supports tennis scores and other information, with users able to check Grand Slam and other tournament live scores, as well as track singles matches for both the men’s and women’s divisions. It’s worth noting that […]
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| Read more »Apple is planning to debut a new AirTag with a brand-new battery feature, according to online reports. The AirTag 2 might be announced alongside the iPhone 17 lineup in September. Code found in iOS 18.6 beta points to a software update for the device tracker. It’s believed that the new AirTag will alert users to […]
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| Read more »Apple is now on its second round of betas for its current-gen testing track, with new builds of iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6, and visionOS 2.6 now available for testing.
Examples of Apple Intelligence at work.
The second iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6 developer betas have build number 22G5064d, replacing the first, 22G5054d. The second macOS Sequoia 15.6 build is 24G5065c, up from 24G5054d.
The second tvOS 18.6 build is 22M5065b and replaces 22M5054b, the second watchOS 11.6 build is 22U5065c taking over from 22U5054b, and the second visionOS 2.6 build is 22O5764b, up from 22O5754c.
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In the first major update since it was acquired by Apple, the Pixelmator Pro image editor for Mac has added features for pros with more RAW support, plus Image Playground from Apple Intelligence.
The new Pixelmator Pro 3.7 remains a standalone app, but has Apple improvements throughout — image credit: Pixelmator
If you've been crossing your fingers since November 2024 that Apple wouldn't strip its newly-acquired Pixelmator Pro for parts, now is the first real clue of just how Apple intends to use the...
Apple sold 2.7 million Macs in the first quarter of 2025. That compares to sales of 2.1 million in the first quarter of 2024. That’s annual growth of 28.7%.
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| Read more »Tom Gunter, one of Apple's most senior large language model researchers, has left the company after eight years.
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| Read more »Another day, another lawsuit. Privacy-focused software provider Proton has sued Apple, alleging anticompetitive practices at Apple’s App Store.
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| Read more »Apple shouldn't have to change its App Store rules to meet a court order in its everlasting lawsuit with Epic Games as this would violate Apple's First Amendment rights.
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| Read more »Apple has updated Pixelmator Pro for the Mac (the drawing and photo editing app it acquired last year) to version 3.7.
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| Read more »Apple has just released iOS 18.6 beta 2 to developers, alongside companion updates like macOS Sequoia 15.6 and more. Here’s what to expect.
| Read more »It’s all very well telling people to back up their Mac. But human nature means that searching for backup advice is something that usually happens after the worst has already happened.
Hopefully, you’ll be able to fix the damaged drive and get your data back by following our advice, but we will also cover what you need to know about crashing without a backup and how to recover data from damaged hard disk or an external drive.
This guide is also relevant if you have accidentally deleted a file. Deleted files can be retrieved too, but only if they haven’t been overwritten. Once the part of the disk with the data is overwritten, nothing can get it back.
How to repair a failed Mac hard disk with Disk Utility
If you are very lucky your hard drive or SSD isn’t...
| Read more »As more features continue to arrive with the release of new iOS 26 betas, I wanted to take a look at some of my favorite features. It’s been around three weeks since I installed the first Developer Beta version, and in that time I’ve been using the new operating system daily. It has proved useful […]
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| Read more »Pixelmator is now owned by Apple, so it was only a matter of time before the suite of photo apps was updated with Apple Intelligence support. Today, Pixelmator Pro for Mac is the first in Apple’s trio of products to get new AI features alongside accessibility improvements and more.
| Read more »Apple's potential low-cost MacBook using the A18 Pro iPhone chip may have surfaced earlier than thought, with code references to the model apparently surfacing back in July 2024.
A new MacBook could use an A-series chip
Early on Monday, commentary from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo advised that Apple was working on a MacBook that runs on an A-series processor instead of an M-series chip. Hours later, it seems that the model may have been teased quite a while ago.
According to posts shared by Aaron Perris via X in July 2024, code references in...
iOS 26 is one of CarPlay’s biggest updates in years, but we shouldn’t forget that Apple has another major CarPlay launch this year. CarPlay Ultra has officially arrived, and a hands-on published today identifies its strengths.
| Read more »The EU's DMA is said to be in the interests of consumers, but as its been implemented, it's just denying them iOS 26 features Apple can't risk giving away to rivals.
An EU flag with the App Store logo
EU Mac users still haven't got iPhone mirroring, and they aren't going to get Live Activities on the Mac, either. Now Apple has directly told the EU regulators that there are more iOS 26 features that its users at least won't see remotely as soon as anyone, anywhere else.
The only one named is ...
As a diehard Apple fan and a technology journalist, I try to refresh my gear every year or so to keep up with the latest features. However, while my three-year-old M2 MacBook Air could certainly use an upgrade—and I’ve got my eye on a new MacBook Pro—it’s going to have to last for another year. Not only are the M5 MacBooks not expected to bring...
| Read more »When Apple previewed iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, I was not only excited to try the new features but was also curious how my older iPhone 12 would handle the update. I installed the iOS 26 Developer Beta and I put it through different tasks. After almost two weeks of testing, I can definitely say […]
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| Read more »The 4th of July Apple deals are starting to fly with up to $170 in savings on the latest 24GB M4 MacBook Air models alongside some relatively rare $200 or $300 price drops on M4 Max Mac Studio configurations. We also have $100 off just about every model iPad mini 7 joined by deals on Apple Pencil Pro and a straight $79 in savings on...
| Read more »Earlier today, Ming-Chi Kuo reported that a new, cheaper MacBook would include the iPhone’s A18 Pro chip. Now, the first reference to the device has been discovered in Apple code.
| Read more »Early Prime Day sales are heating up, with today's MacBook Pro sale discounting the 14-inch model with an upgrade to 24GB RAM and 1TB of storage by a substantial $240.
Get an early Prime Day discount on Apple's MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple
Save $240: Pick up Apple's M4 14-inch MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD for $1,759 at Amazon and B&H Photo.
Save $240 on Apple's current 14-inch MacBook Pro with a bump up to...
Thanks to the excellent quality of smartphone cameras these days, we take so many pictures when we’re on holiday, with friends, or just when we see something that we want to remember. Sadly, the results aren’t always as good as we’d hope, and there’s the problem of how you can easily share the images with your family or friends.
Yes, there are plenty of photo-editing options around that can help fix the problems, but they can be expensive or have too many options and features for someone who just wants to quickly remove something or have the colours and lighting look their best. Well, that’s why Adobe offers its Lightroom app – all the power to make your photos look professional, with none of the complications.
How Adobe Lightroom can instantly improve your photos
One of the main aims of Adobe Lightroom is that anyone can...
| Read more »Apple plans to release a cheaper MacBook powered by the A18 Pro chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro line, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The laptop will be priced below $999 -- first time for a MacBook Air -- and go into production in late 2025 or early 2026 on the new laptop, the analyst noted.
The device will feature the same 13-inch screen as the current MacBook Air, with the chip representing the primary difference between models. The A18 Pro chip delivers single-core performance around 3,500 on Geekbench, trailing the M4 chip only slightly, though multicore performance lags significantly at approximately 8,780 versus 15,000 for the M4. The A18's multicore performance matches the original 2020 M1 chip.
| Read more »Earlier this month Apple unveiled iOS 26 and the host of changes it introduces. But now the company has confirmed that, due to regulatory concerns, iOS 26 will ship without certain features enabled for EU users.
| Read more »Apple is expected to introduce noticeable changes to the iPhone this fall, especially with the Pro models. For the first time, the camera won’t be confined to a square in the upper-left corner but will now stretch across the entire back of the device with the flash at the far right.
For a company obsessed with symmetry and balance, that change will force another adjustment that’s both visual and practical. According to leaker Majin Bu, Apple will reposition the Apple logo that’s long been centered on the back of the iPhone, about an inch lower on the back of the Pro models.
| Read more »Verizon denies that a database offered for sale on a public forum contains real customer records, describing it as old data not connected to the company or its users.
Verizon denies data breach
A report by cybersecurity researchers at SafetyDetectives found a forum post advertising a database labeled "Verizon USA" with over 61 million records. The listing claimed the data was 3.1 gigabytes in CSV or JSON format and included sample screenshots of personal information fields.
Verizon told TechRadar it reviewed the postings and dismissed the data as old information recycled from forums. The company insists it has no link to its systems or customers and rejects any claim of a new breach....
F1 The Movie is turning out to be the hit Apple was hoping for. Early box office results show it’s the company’s biggest theatrical success by far. But while plenty of people might be waiting for it to hit Apple TV+, here’s why F1 The Movie is uniquely worth seeing in theaters.
| Read more »On the latest HomeKit Insider Podcast, Ryan Okimoto joins to talk about the latest home automation news, and the relaunch of Brilliant.
HomeKit Insider Podcast
Ryan Okimoto — or Oki — is the Senior Director of Customer Engagement at Brilliant, and is our special guest this week on the show. He has a long history in tech hardware companies, spending time at Sonos and Eero before Brilliant.
Brilliant had faced a future of uncertainty after it was unable to meet its financial obligations. Despite this, the company website and its servers never went dark.
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Only a few Google services offer Apple Watch clients, with Google Calendar unexpectedly becoming the fourth app today.
| Read more »After a rocky start in Apple's display supply chain, display supplier BOE has bulked out its OLED panel supply chain in the hope it can secure more iPhone screen orders.
The iPhone 17 generation is on the way - Image Credit: AppleInsider
The display supply chain for iPhones has been dominated by Samsung Display and LG Display, with BOE being a much smaller supplier in comparison. However, BOE really wants to be a big player, and has expanded its production capacity in the hope that Apple will use it.
According to the China Display Trend Report from UBI Research, seen by ZDNet Korea on Friday, BOE has managed to construct an annual production capacity for 100 million OLED panels for iPhones.
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Marking ten years of Apple Music, the streaming service is hosting a week of special programming, ranging from the countdown of its top streaming chart, to documentaries about the streamer.
Apple Music celebrates its tenth anniversary with special programming
Since it launched on June 30, 2015, Apple Music has continuously streamed radio shows as well as individual tracks, and it has created performances from live sessions to the Super Bowl. Now, alongside unveiling a new Los Angeles studio for musicians, Apple...
Apple Music is turning 10, and to celebrate, it's giving you the "Replay All Time" playlist of your all-time most-played songs. Here's how to listen to it.
Apple Music adds Replay All Time playlist
Apple Music's new Replay All Time playlist shows you the songs you've played the most since you joined the service. It is, essentially, your annual Replay, but for your entire listening history.
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Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better …
| Read more »Alongside celebratory shows on Apple Music live streaming, Apple is marking the first decade of its streaming service by opening a 15,000-square foot studio for musicians.
Exterior of the new Apple Music studio in Los Angeles— image credit: Apple
Apple Music went live on June 30, 2015, and since then has added Apple Music Classical, Spatial Audio — and opened a studio in Paris. Now Apple has announced a new complex that provides two studios, a soundstage, and facilities for artists in Los Angeles...
As Apple Music marks its 10th anniversary this year, Apple has unveiled a state-of-the-art music studio in LA.
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| Read more »As we keep warning prospective testers, Apple’s software betas are prone to bugs. Until a big software update is pushed live to the general public—and sometimes even beyond that point—it should be regarded as unfinished, flawed, and liable to go wrong in all sorts of unexpected ways.
This particularly applies to a first developer beta, the most speculative and the least finished of an update’s run; the one that has been subject to precisely zero testing in the real world outside Apple’s labs. And so the first dev betas of iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26 and so on, which became available on the first day of WWDC 2025 earlier this month, were a risky proposition. And the second betas, which landed last week, were eagerly awaited. And...
| Read more »Apple Music celebrates 10 years today since its June 30, 2015 launch. To mark the occasion, Apple has announced several new initiatives, including a ‘Replay All Time’ playlist where users can see their most streamed music since joining Apple Music, plus a new top 500 countdown, an LA-based “global hub for artists,” and more.
| Read more »An alleged Verizon data breach has seen hackers offering for sale a database of 61 million customer records, which includes personal information useful for both phishing attempts and identity theft.
The sample data supplied includes name, full postal address, date of birth, email address, phone number(s), tax identification code, and other ID codes …
| Read more »Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple plans to release a MacBook powered by an A18 Pro processor. I don't think this will happen.
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| Read more »Analyst Ming–Chi Kuo has suggested that Apple plans to launch an all–new MacBook next year, powered by an iPhone processor. Specifically, he expects it to have the A18 Pro chip which currently powers the iPhone 16 Pro line–up.
While there’s no word on pricing, the only way the report makes sense is if Apple is targeting an even lower price than the $999 starting–point of the current MacBook Air. Indeed, if you factor in on that, then it would have to be significantly cheaper. But there may be a more cynical possibility …
| Read more »The long-rumored Apple Glass smartglasses may actually reach consumers' faces in late 2027, Ming-Chi Kuo claims.
Optimistic renders of what Apple Glass could look like - Image Credit: AppleInsider
As a concept, Apple Glass has featured heavily in rumors. Smart glasses taking multiple forms is a hot favorite to come out of Cupertino at some point in the future.
In a Monday post TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recaps and offers new forecasts on Apple's smart glasses...
Imagine the worst. Losing irreplaceable photos because your Mac’s drive failed? Accidentally deleting your dissertation? You might think it will never happen to you, but all it takes is a glass of water falling onto your MacBook and you could lose everything.
But at least if you’ve got a backup, the financial outlay of getting a new Mac will be made less traumatic by the fact that you can recover everything from your old one. Luckily Apple makes backing up your Mac really easy, so there really is no excuse not to do it.
We have lots of general advice about the importance of backing up your Mac in a separate article, but in this article we’re going to focus on one method in particular: Time Machine.
Other apps can back up a Mac: take a look at our recommendations of the...
| Read more »On June 30, 2015, Apple launched Apple Music, the service that has brought music pleasure to millions — and cost Apple billions in fines — plus it included a social media feature no one wanted.
It's fine to be nostalgic for red blobs.
If you joined Apple Music when it first launched and have stayed with it since, you have probably paid out at least $1,198.80. The price has gone up over the years, plus there are more expensive tiers with a family plan, cheaper ones with the student offering, and Apple Music is also part of the Apple One bundle, but you've been paying something for up to a decade.
What won't have happened, though, is that you'...
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has two new Apple Vision Pro headsets in development, with the M5 version expected to arrive perhaps by the end of 2025.
Multiple models and new designs of the Apple Vision Pro are said to be coming
Of all the rumors concerning future versions of the Apple Vision Pro, one of the most recent was that a lighter version would be released in early 2026. Ming-Chi Kuo now disagree with that, and chiefly claims there will be no new headsets at all in 2026 — and then a small raft of them starting in 2027.
In his blog post on the topic, Kuo states that five — including...
I have long complained that, for all its impressive hardware and software technology, the Apple Vision Pro is thus far a failure mostly because Apple doesn’t understand AR. Or Spatial Computing, or whatever it wants to call it.
That’s been the case for two years, since the Vision Pro arrived in February 2024 and the first major update in visionOS 2. But based on what Apple showed of visionOS 26 at WWDC, I feel like the company is finally starting to understand what a spatial computing experience should be.
Floating iPad window syndrome
Vision Pro is a device you’re supposed to wear on your head for a long time, looking “through” it (via camera passthrough) with rendered graphics incorporated into and onto real-world objects,...
| Read more »Apple last week announced an insanely complex set of changes to its App Store terms in the EU, and hidden in the small–print is one sign that the company might be reducing its standard commission from 30% to 20%, and that it may make this change globally.
If so, it would be the first time the company has ever reduced its 30% cut for all developers, and might go a long way to tackling its legal battles with antitrust regulators around the world …
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| Read more »In online publishing, as in Hollywood, nobody knows anything. Why did a dashed-off news story get vastly more traffic than a painstakingly honed opinion piece? Who can say. As flies to wanton boys are we to the algorithms; they kill us for their sport.
Last week’s mystifying success (not that I’m ungrateful, Google!) was a short article about a ringtone. In the first beta of iOS 26, testers discovered a new variant of the Reflection ringtone; in the second beta, this became a usable option. “ReflectionAlt1-EncoreRemix,” as it almost certainly won’t be called by the time iOS 26 launches to the public in the fall, is a definite improvement on the original, and I thought it was worth a quick story. What I did not expect was for it to go viral. To be clear: not complaining.
Then again, maybe...
| Read more »Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple intends to launch a MacBook using the processor currently in the iPhone 16 Pro, as part of a plan to produce a significantly lower-cost Mac.
Apple could be looking to bring out a successor to its lower cost MacBook
Apple has been designing its A-series processors for the iPhone — and originally the iPad — since its A4 release in 2010. Consequently, when Apple Silicon's M-series was first announced for Mac,...
If you have an Anker charger, there could be a risk of it overheating and becoming a fire hazard. Accessory maker Anker recently launched two separate recalls for its power banks, some of which may pose a fire risk. The first recall addresses the Anker PowerCore 10000 Power Banks, which were sold between June 1, […]
| Read more »With so many AI tools available, it’s tough to know which ones are actually worth using. Instead of juggling multiple subscriptions or paying monthly fees for features you rarely touch, 1min.AI offers a single platform packed with the essentials. From GPT-4 to image generation, PDF summarizing, voice transcription, and more, this all-in-one solution gives you access to powerful AI tools with a one-time payment, and it’s only $29.97 (reg. $234) during this limited sale event.
A basic OpenAI subscription costs $20 per month. For $10 more, 1min.AI gives you an all-in-one AI platform for writing text, generating images, coding, translating, and so much...
| Read more »Apple’s current entry-level laptop is the , but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple is aiming to launch an even more affordable model soon.
He writes on X that Apple will go into production in late 2025 or early 2026 on a new MacBook model that will be powered by the A18 Pro chip, rather than an M-series processor. This is the same chip used in the line. The machine may feature colorful casing options, including silver, pink and yellow.
| Read more »Amazon has issued early Prime Day discounts on Apple's iPad range heading into July, with a return of a $100 price drop on the iPad mini 7.
Save up to $220 on iPads with early Prime Day savings.
Save up to $220: Grab an iPad for as low as $299 with early Prime Day savings.
The countdown to Prime Day is in full swing, with today's top deals including Apple's iPad range. Prices have fallen to as low as $299 for the iPad 11, with the iPad mini 7 returning to the year's best $399. Plus, grab an M4 iPad Pro...
In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple’s headset and smart glasses markets. According to him, the company has at least seven head-worn devices in development across two product families, one coming in 2025.
| Read more »Whatever you think about Apple’s in-your-face advertising tactics, it seems to be paying off. The F1 movie is set to take in about $145 million in its opening weekend at the box office, with $55.6 million domestic.
This easily outstrips any of Apple Original Film’s prior theatrical debuts, and sets the movie on a path to exceed the gross box office of all previous Apple films … combined.
| Read more »A prominent leaker has proposed it is time for the Apple Ring to be the company's next wearable. It's an idea that Apple has been working on for years, but is still far from becoming a reality.
A render of a ring with the Apple logo and health sensors
The rumor mill often goes through a cycle where it surfaces hints and claims about unreleased Apple hardware. This often happens for products that sound like a logical leap for Apple's next release, but haven't been the subject of a rumor for quite some time.
On Sunday, it was the Apple Ring's turn, thanks to Mark Gurman's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg. In the email to subscribers, Gurman proposes that the...
According to the Power On newsletter from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple still has a few more iOS 26 features in the pipeline. These features weren’t announced at WWDC, though they were heavily rumored, and they should still arrive in the coming months.
| Read more »New details on the New Jersey counterfeiting indictment, Brad Pitt's home was burgled while promoting "F1: The Movie," and more charges in the Los Angeles Apple Store looting feature in this week's Apple Crime Blotter.
The Tower Apple Store in Los Angeles
The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.
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This weekend, F1: The Movie is making a big splash in its opening weekend at the box office at movie theaters around the world. The Apple Original Film is being distributed by Warner Bros. for its theatrical run. But as an Apple production, it will end up streaming on Apple TV+. Here’s the expected streaming release date.
| Read more »Writing a book can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re staring down a blank page with no clear starting point, but AI can help. Youbooks is an AI-powered platform that helps you turn non-fiction ideas into professional, polished books in a fraction of the time it usually takes. With a lifetime subscription, you get ongoing access to tools that let you generate up to 300,000-word manuscripts tailored to your style, with real research and your own supporting materials built in. It’s also only $49 for a lifetime subscription (reg. $540).
What makes Youbooks stand out is that it’s not just...
| Read more »Running Windows on a Mac isn’t just for the brave anymore—it’s for the smart. Whether you’re dual-booting with Boot Camp, running Parallels, or keeping a Windows environment handy for dev work or app testing, this bundle has you covered.
Right now, you can get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro plus a training course for only $24.99 (reg. $237). That’s a lifetime license for Windows 11 Pro (great for installing on a Mac via virtualization) and a self-paced course that helps you master its features, from productivity-enhancing tips to security tools and customizing system settings.
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With macOS 26 Tahoe this year, Apple introduced a new Control Center. Of course, it implements the new Liquid Glass design seen across the entire ecosystem, but it also brings a brand new feature to the Mac for the first time: third-party integrations.
That, on its own, is a big deal, and was a greatly appreciated feature of iOS 18 last year. However, it has an even bigger implication for...
| Read more »A leaker claims that Apple will change the position of the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone 17 Pro because of the expected camera bar at the top, marking the first such change in six years.
Apple could move its logo downwards to center in the space below the alleged camera bar. Image credit: Majin Bu
In a new image and post on his website, leaker Majin Bu, who has offered a mixed track record on rumors, claims that the new arrangement for the camera expected in the forthcoming Pro model will cause Apple to reposition the Apple logo lower. A new post from Bu says will be moved to the center bottom portion, below the camera bar.
"[A] company...
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Let’s start with Apple’s own announcement at Apple Developer News:
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A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project.
The secret image of the team that worked on the Power Macintosh G3. Image credit: Doug Brown
Doug Brown, who maintains a blog that documents his experiments and research into older computers, said that he accidentally discovered the Easter egg while looking through resources in the Power Mac G3's ROM. This model was made by Apple between November 1997 and August 1999.
The same ROM was used for the minitower, all-in-one, and beige desktop models. Brown said he was spending "a lazy Sunday" using a pair of tools called ROM Fiend and Hex Fiend to look through the G3's ROM...
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.
If you’re trying to find an ideal spot outdoors, whether that be a coffee shop, bar, or restaurant – but want to know whether or not it’ll be in the sun or shade, Coffee in the Sun is the premier app for you. It’s a vibe coded app, but it certainly works well – and the developer put an adequate amount of effort into crafting it.
| Read more »According to Apple leaker Majin Bu, Apple will once again be repositioning the Apple logo on the next iPhone. Apple last repositioned the Apple logo with the iPhone 11 lineup, and it’s remained centered on the iPhone ever since. Six years later, that may be changing once again – if this rumor holds up.
| Read more »After some controversial advertising, Apple's 'F1' will be the company's best-ever theatrical debut, after a $10M preview and an immersive trailer for the Apple Vision Pro.
Apple used custom cameras to capture the racing in its new film 'F1.' Image credit: Apple
The company's strong push to promote the new Brad Pitt movie F1 — including a controversial ad within the Wallet app — position the Apple Original Films theatrical release to have the company's best-ever opening weekend.
Apple's new film, which stars Brad Pitt as a race-car driver returning to the Formula One circuit after 30 years away, drew $10 million during its first US preview,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display for 27 years. While Pierre Dandumont first documented the JPEG image itself in 2014, the method to view it on the computer remained a mystery until Brown's reverse engineering work revealed that users must format a RAM disk with the text "secret ROM image."
Brown stumbled upon the image while using a hex editor tool called Hex Fiend with Eric Harmon's Mac ROM template to explore the resources stored in the beige Power Mac G3's ROM. The ROM appeared in desktop, minitower, and all-in-one G3 models from 1997 through 1999. "While I was browsing through the ROM, two things caught my eye," Brown wrote. He found both the HPOE resource containing the JPEG image of team members and a...
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Apple’s move away from Intel to its own chips has ultimately unlocked new possibilities for businesses using Apple hardware in modern enterprise environments. One of the clearest examples of that potential is LambdaTest’s...
| Read more »Pfizer researchers have challenged Apple’s recent claims about the limitations of artificial intelligence in complex reasoning. In a direct response to The Illusion of Thinking, a study co-authored by Apple scientists, Pfizer argues that the performance drop seen in large reasoning models (LRMs) has more to do with test design than with the models’ actual […]
The post Pfizer: Apple Misreads Why AI Models Struggle with Complexity appeared first on The Mac Observer.
| Read more »Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of June 23-27.
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| Read more »Juggling emails, video calls, streaming, and creative work on an outdated laptop feels like torture because you know a computer with more power would make your life just a little bit easier. This Grade “A” refurbished MacBook Air may be a few years old. Still, for everyday computing, it’s all you’ll need, and right now, you can get it for $519.99 (reg. $1,499).
The M1 chip transforms everyday performance with an 8-core CPU and 7-core GPU built for multitasking. You can edit photos in Lightroom, stream 4K video, manage work apps, and switch between dozens of tabs,...
| Read more »For a limited time, get lifetime access to all 14 Babbel languages for $129.99 (MSRP $599) with code LEARN40 at checkout. This offer ends June 30—just two days left to grab it!
Babbel is a comprehensive language learning platform developed by a team of over 100 expert linguists, and its methods are supported by research from institutions such as Yale University and Michigan State.
You’ll get lifetime access to over 10,000 hours of content across 14 languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, German, Turkish, and more. Each lesson is built around real-life scenarios...
| Read more »Just days after issuing a voluntary recall for the Anker PowerCore 10000, the company has now issued a second, broader recall, this time with global reach and five additional power bank models affected.
| Read more »Summer is here, and the last thing anyone wants is to think about cleaning floors in the sweltering heat. Fortunately, Roborock robot vacuum and mop solutions are coming to the rescue with groundbreaking innovation and incredible value. Now is the perfect time to plan your next robot cleaner purchase, as the Roborock Prime Day launch is upon us, bringing discounts as significant as $800 off on these top-tier devices. Whether you’re battling pet hair, daily dust, or stubborn spills, Roborock’s latest lineup offers an intelligent, effortless cleaning solution for every home and budget. Let’s explore four standout models poised to make waves during this exclusive sales event.
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| Read more »The AlgoLaser Pixi Smart Laser Engraver is great starter machine for etching onto practically anything, without taking up too much desk space. The software leaves something to be desired, though.
AlgoLaser Pixi Smart Laser Engraver
The maker movement helped propel a new market of small hardware for producing or designing things. It helped the widespread adoption of 3D printing, while speciality hardware like Cricut is seeing massive growth.
The success of high-end tools for consumers to get creative with has also spread into the field of engraving. While you could previously try to freehand an etched design using a Dremel and some careful fingerwork, even engraving has become so much easier to do.
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Germany just became the latest country to move against DeepSeek over mounting data privacy concerns. Here’s why this keeps happening.
| Read more »Last October, Apple announced the . On the surface, it looks like yet another MacBook Pro spec bump. However, there are a number of key features that make it worth upgrading to, even if you already have an older .
| Read more »MacWhisper has long been one of the best and easiest ways to transcribe anything on a Mac. I’ve relied on it heavily since it launched, and I can’t recommend it enough. Today, it got even better with an update that adds support for Nvidia’s insanely fast Parakeet model. And I mean fast.
| Read more »Meta's latest feature gives Facebook the power to continuously upload your private photos to its cloud — even the ones you never intended to share. Here's how to stop it.
Image credit: Meta
In a time where internet users are goaded into giving away their data to nearly every company, Meta has decided to take it several steps further. It wants you to give Facebook access to your entire camera roll and allow it to upload your photos to its cloud.
The "feature," spotted by TechCrunch has recently begun rolling out to users. When creating a story, a prompt pops up and asks users to opt into "cloud processing."
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Germany's data protection commissioner has urged Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores due to concerns about data protection. Reuters reports: Commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement on Friday that she had made the request because DeepSeek illegally transfers users' personal data to China. The two U.S. tech giants must now review the request promptly and decide whether to block the app in Germany, she added, though her office has not set a precise timeframe. According to its own privacy policy, DeepSeek stores numerous pieces of personal data, such as requests to its AI program or uploaded files, on computers in China.
"DeepSeek has not been able to provide my agency with convincing evidence that German users' data is protected in China to a level equivalent to that in the European Union," [Commissioner Meike Kamp] said. "Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese...
| Read more »It’s been a good week for Apple’s real estate team. Just days after finalizing a $166.9 million deal for the Cupertino Gate office complex, the company has closed another major acquisition, pushing its South Bay real estate tab to over half a billion dollars in a single week.
| Read more »It looks like Meta is finally treating Threads as its own app, rather than just an Instagram sidekick. After rolling out a standalone DMs system, Threads is now getting its own mute lists, along with something new (and very welcome): temporary filters that expire automatically.
| Read more »Apple’s next big iPhone update, iOS 26, will bring a Liquid Glass redesign and tons of new features. Beta testers can try out iOS 26 now, but its release date for the public is still a ways off—here’s when to expect its launch.
| Read more »Stillwater is one of the highest-rated Apple TV+ shows for kids, and it has snatched quite a few awards since it premiered in 2020. And after a two-year hiatus since the end of last season, Apple has officially confirmed the show’s return date for season 4.
| Read more »iOS 18.6 is currently being beta tested, with a launch expected in the next month or so. Unlike the major iOS 26 update arriving this fall, 18.6 will focus primarily on bug fixes and stability. But Apple has just shared details on two new features coming in iOS 18.6 too—at least for EU users.
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