Eufy Launches 4K E30 Indoor Camera With HomeKit Support Anker brand Eufy has launched a new Apple Home-compatible 4K indoor pan-and-tilt camera, bettering its 2K offering launched back in 2020. The Eufy Indoor Cam E30 features a 4K resolution for crisp, sharp video, and it is compatible with HomeKit. However, since Apple’s Home app only supports the viewing of streams up to 1080p, users will need to…

iOS 18.2: Bring Volume Slider Back to iPhone Lock Screen Apple in iOS 18.2 has reinstated a Lock Screen feature that was unceremoniously nixed from its iPhone OS two years ago, leaving many users wondering why it was taken away in the first place. The feature in question is the on-screen volume control slider in the Lock Screen media player interface. Prior to 2022, the volume slider was a familiar p…

AirTag 2 Expected to Launch Next Year With ‘Considerable’ Upgrade to Item Tracking Apple plans to release a second-generation AirTag next year with “considerably” longer range for item tracking, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the new AirTag will use Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, or equivalent technology. The chip debuted last year in the iPhone 15 and the A…

‘iPhone 17 Air’ With ‘Major’ Design Changes and 19-Inch MacBook Detailed in New Report Apple is planning a series of “major design” and “format changes” for iPhones over the next few years, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Aaron Tilley and Yang Jie. The paywalled report published today corroborated the widely-rumored “iPhone 17 Air” with an “ultrathin” design that is thinner than current iPhone models. The report did not me…

Apple ‘Working’ on Redesigned Magic Mouse With a Long-Awaited ‘Fix’ Apple is working on a redesigned Magic Mouse that will address some “longstanding complaints,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said Apple in recent months has been working on a “full overhaul” of the Magic Mouse with a design that “better fits the modern era.” However, he does not expect the new Ma…

Mic Drop mutes your microphone everywhere Mic Drop offers temporary floating status warnings and a persistent Menu Bar item as options.I’ve gotten so used to having a physical mute button on my podcast recording setup that it’s quite disconcerting when I use a different setup that doesn’t offer one.…

(Podcast) Downstream 84: The Hulu of It All How Disney’s strategy has led to ESPN inside the Disney+ app, Disney and Netflix content strategies, Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast make a deal, the ramifications of Comcast’s “SpinCo,” crafting a theatrical hit out of a Disney+ TV show, and TV picks!…

(Podcast) The Rebound 525: I’m Wrong But I Feel Like I Should Be Right We’ve all got problems.…

(Podcast) Clockwise 584: Hush, We Don’t Have Time Our interest in current smart glasses, the smart tech we use to monitor our homes and pets, our thoughts on iOS 18.2 features like Genmoji and Image Playground, and how we organize and manage holiday gift-giving lists for ideas and tracking.…

Appearance: Apple Intelligence’s generic humans Choose from three different collections of appearances.On Wednesday iOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2 were released, and we wrote about it here. One of my complaints is that you can’t just make generic figures of people—you have to choose actual people in your library.…

The iPhone-as-computer experience ↦ So many words spent handwringing on whether you can do “real work” on an iPad and yet nobody ever stops to ask the actual question: can you do real work on an iPhone?…

The long, strange story of Audio Hijack ↦ Audio Hijack is a thing of beauty. And we almost lost it.Back in the early Apple silicon era, must-have Mac audio tool got a serious downgrade via a new installation process that required many steps and multiple reboots.…

UGREEN Takes Up to 40% Off Uno Chargers and More in Amazon Sale UGREEN has launched a big holiday sale on its Amazon storefront, with savings on USB-C wall chargers, portable batteries, MagSafe-compatible wireless chargers, and more. This sale includes discounts on UGREEN’s popular Uno line of robotic chargers, which make great holiday gifts. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you clic…

Top Stories: iOS 18.2 Out Now, iPhone and Mac Rumors, and More iOS 18.2 is finally here, delivering several new highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features and expanding availability to new countries. This week also saw a number of hardware rumors including Apple itself leaking the existence of upcoming M4 MacBook Air models, plus we heard details about the next iPhone SE, the so-called “iPhone 17 Air,”…

iMac Pro Launched Seven Years Ago Today Apple’s iMac Pro launched seven years ago today, offering a high-end all-in-one desktop machine to bridge the gap between new Mac Pro models. In April 2017, Apple uncharacteristically apologised for its approach to the Mac in recent years and pre-announced it was working on a “completely rethought” ‌Mac Pro‌ with a modular design, a new pro-lev…

iOS 18.2: What You Can Do With Visual Intelligence Visual Intelligence is an Apple Intelligence feature that’s exclusive to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models because it relies on the Camera Control button. Visual Intelligence is available as of iOS 18.2, and this guide outlines what it can do. Activating and Using Visual Intelligence To use Visual Intelligence, you need to hold down on the…

What You Can and Can’t Make With iOS 18.2’s Genmoji Feature With iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, Apple introduced Genmoji, the feature that lets you create a custom emoji character if there’s not already an emoji that exists for what you want to depict. You can create ‌Genmoji‌ from the emoji keyboard in Messages, Notes, and more, and the characters work much like emoji. ‌Genmoji‌, like Image Playground, have…

iOS 18.2: Here’s How Mail Categories Work With iOS 18.2, Apple added a Categories view in the Mail app, which is designed to organize your incoming emails by type. Categories hasn’t been receiving the best response from iPhone users, so we thought we’d check it out. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Mail Categories organizes your email inbox into the following…

Report: Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in EU This Month Apple plans to stop selling the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and third-generation iPhone SE in European Union countries later this month, to comply with a regulation that will soon require newly-sold smartphones with wired charging to be equipped with a USB-C port in those countries, according to French blog iGeneration. All three of these iPhone …

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Steep Discounts Hit Apple Watches and Bands, Plus Sales on AirTag, Anker, and More This was a big week for Apple Watch and band accessory deals, and you can still find all-time low prices on both Series 10 and Ultra 2 models right now on Amazon, as well as Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop at Woot. Otherwise, below we’re still tracking great deals on AirTag, Anker accessories, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner wi…