Apple Suggests Solution for ‘Ghost Touch’ Issue on Apple Watch Series 7 and Later The touch-related bug that was known to be impacting the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 also affects the Apple Watch Series 7, Series 8, and Ultra 1, Apple said in a memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers. Service providers have been told not to replace watches for the ghost touch problem, instead instructing cust…

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 192 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed the ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 192 includes fixes and updates for Authentication, CSS, Editing…

Apple Store Employees in New Jersey File to Unionize Apple employees at the Apple Store in Short Hills, New Jersey have petitioned to unionize, reports Bloomberg. Retail store unionization efforts have died down in recent months after locations in Oklahoma and Maryland successfully unionized in 2022. There are 104 workers at Apple Short Hills, which is located in the Short Hills Mall. Communicati…

Review: Six Months With the iPhone 15 Pro It’s been a bit over six months since the iPhone 15 lineup came out in September, and MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera has been using an iPhone 15 Pro Max sans case since launch. Over on our YouTube channel, Dan did a long term review to demo how his phone has held up and his thoughts on the Action button, battery life, and camera features. Su…

iOS 17.5 Adds New ‘Quartiles’ Word Game for Apple News+ Subscribers While the first iOS 17.5 beta is slim on new features, there is one fun addition for Apple News+ subscribers: a daily word game called Quartiles. Quartiles tasks you with combining tiles to form words and earn points. Each puzzle starts with a grid of 20 tiles, and words can be formed with one to four tiles. A quartile is a four-tile word, and …

Apple Watch Series 9 Drops to New Low Price of $295 on Amazon Amazon today has discounted the 41mm GPS Apple Watch Series 9 down to $295.20, from $399.00. This price is only available in the (PRODUCT)RED color, and it’s a limited time deal at Amazon so be sure to check out the sale before it’s fully claimed. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we …

Apple Now Assembles 14% of iPhones in India Apple now produces as much as 14% of its iPhones in India, indicating the company’s accelerating efforts to diversify beyond China (via Bloomberg). The figure accounts for $14 billion of assembled iPhones in the country, or about 1 in 7 of the company’s flagship devices, a doubling of production compared to the last fiscal year. Models assemble…

iOS 18 May Feature All-New ‘Safari Browsing Assistant’ It appears that iOS 18 will feature a new Safari browsing assistant, according to backend code on Apple’s servers discovered by Nicolás Álvarez. MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris confirmed that the code exists, but not many details are known at this time. Álvarez said it seems like the browsing assistant will use iCloud Private Relay’s infrast…

TSMC’s Next-Generation Chip Technology for Apple Silicon on Schedule Apple chipmaker TSMC is making progress toward manufacturing 2nm and 1.4nm chips that are likely destined for future generations of Apple silicon, DigiTimes reports. The manufacturing time frames for mass production of 2nm and 1.4nm chips have now apparently been determined: Trial production of the 2nm node will begin at in the second half of 2…

iPhone 16 Plus Rumored to Come in These 7 Colors Apple’s iPhone 16 Plus may come in seven colors that either build upon the existing five colors in the standard iPhone 15 lineup or recast them in a new finish, based on a new rumor out of China. According to the Weibo-based leaker Fixed focus digital, Apple’s upcoming larger 6.7-inch iPhone 16 Plus model will come in the following colors, comp…

New Mid-Cycle iPhone 15 Color Looking Increasingly Unlikely This Year Apple’s usual strategy of introducing a new mid-cycle iPhone color in the spring is unlikely to be replicated for the iPhone 15 this year, if a new rumor out of Asia is anything to go by. Apple usually introduces new ‌iPhone‌ color options in the spring to boost sales midway through the device’s product cycle, keeping the device top-of-mind f…

Beeper App That Created Workaround for iMessage on Android Acquired by WordPress Owner Automattic Automattic, the company behind popular web management system WordPress, has purchased Beeper and will absorb Beeper’s 27 employees. Beeper made headlines back in December for Beeper Mini, an app that brought iMessage to Android devices. Beeper Mini used reverse engineered iMessage protocols and encryption, taking advantage of Apple’s own iMessa…

Teens Love iPhone and Apple Watch, But Not Apple Music and Apple TV+ The iPhone continues to be overwhelmingly popular with teens, according to Piper Sandler’s biannual teen survey. 85 percent of U.S. teens surveyed own an ‌iPhone‌, and 86 percent plan to purchase an ‌iPhone‌ as their next smartphone. While the ‌iPhone‌ is still the most popular smartphone among teens, ownership is down from the October 2023 sur…

Apple Planning to Open Large Office in Miami Apple is leasing 45,000 square feet of space in an office building in Miami, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company already has a smaller office space in the Miami area, but is planning to upgrade. Apple’s current Miami location is focused on advertising and Latin America. The upgraded office is located at The Plaza Coral Gables, south of…

Apple Vision Pro Owners Complain of Headaches, Neck Issues and Black Eyes Some Apple Vision Pro owners have been dealing with health issues related to the wearing of the headset, according to a report from MarketWatch. The site spoke to Vision Pro owners experiencing headaches and neck pain, among other issues. Emily Olman, marketing chief of Hopscotch Interactive, said she got two “superdark black eyes” after wearin…

Apple Watch Series 9 Now Available on Apple’s Refurbished Store in Select Countries The Apple Watch Series 9 is now available in Apple’s refurbished store in Australia and New Zealand for the first time since the device launched in September. These are the first countries where Apple offers refurbished Series 9 models. Availability will likely extend to Japan and the UK soon, as Apple recently added a grayed-out Apple Watch Se…

Apple Releases visionOS 1.1.2 With Bug Fixes Apple today released visionOS 1.1.2, a minor update to the ‌visionOS‌ operating system that came out alongside the Vision Pro in February. ‌visionOS‌ 1.1.2 comes a month after the launch of visionOS 1.1. ‌visionOS‌ updates can be installed by going to the Settings app on the Vision Pro, selecting the General section, and choosing Software Updat…

Apple Vision Pro CT Scans Showcase Internal Differences to Meta Quest The unique internal design of the Apple Vision Pro compared to its direct rivals was today revealed in CT scans performed by Lumafield. Lumafield used its Neptune industrial CT scanner and Voyager analysis software to conduct non-destructive teardowns of the ‌Apple Vision Pro‌, Meta Quest Pro, and Meta Quest 3. The study began by examining th…

Apple Highlights How Business Can Use Vision Pro Apple today highlighted the Vision Pro headset’s enterprise use-cases, such as customizable workspaces, collaboration on 3D designs, delivering specialized employee training, and guiding remote fieldwork. Apple explained how the Vision Pro can enhance business productivity, featuring integration with widely used applications like SAP Analytics…

Apple’s 15-Inch M3 MacBook Air Drops to New Low Prices at $150 Off on Best Buy Best Buy is on a roll this week when it comes to MacBook discounts, starting with 15-inch M2 MacBook Air and M3 MacBook Pro discounts over the weekend and then introducing new record low prices on the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air yesterday. Today, the retailer is again introducing new all-time low prices on an Apple notebook, this time on the new 15-i…