iPad Mini 7 Reviews Say ‘Jelly Scrolling’ is Fixed, With a Major Exception The first iPad mini 7 reviews were published today, and many of them said that “jelly scrolling” display behavior is either less noticeable or fully unnoticeable on the device. However, one prominent technology website disagrees. The major exception is The Verge. “The ‘jelly scrolling’ effect from the last model is still very much present,” op…

Gurman: New MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini Models With M4 Chips Launching ‘Very Soon’ Apple is planning to launch its first Macs with the M4 series of chips “very soon,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In a social media post today, Gurman said these Macs will include new MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini models specifically. He continues to expect the next Mac mini to feature a “revamped” design, in line with his previous re…

iOS 18.1: AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Features Availability Limited to US and Canada at Launch Apple’s new hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2 launching with iOS 18.1 next week will initially be available only in the United States and Canada, according to Apple’s website. The limitation affects all of the new hearing capabilities, including the hearing test feature, hearing aid functionality, and enhanced hearing protection. These …

iOS 18: Create a Dark Mode Icon for Almost Any App Have you tried making your iPhone’s Home Screen app icons dark using the new customization options in iOS 18? If so, you may have run up against the issue that, despite all efforts, some app icons simply refuse to turn dark. Well, we may have a solution for you. It’s been over two months since Apple released iOS 18, but not all app developers h…

Qualcomm Says New Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC Has ‘World’s Fastest Mobile CPU’ Qualcomm today unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform, which features a next-generation custom Qualcomm-designed Oryon CPU instead of the semi-custom Kryo Arm-based chips from prior SoCs. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 8 Elite features the “world’s fastest mobile CPU,” outperforming even the A18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro seri…

Testing the New iOS 18.1 Hearing Aid Functionality With iOS 18.1, Apple is adding a new set of hearing health features to the AirPods Pro 2. The iOS 18.1 release candidate for developers and public beta testers includes the full hearing aid functionality, so we thought we’d give it a try to see just how it works. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. To use the new hearing…

WhatsApp for iOS Gets New Home Screen Widget for Chats, Camera Updates Popular messaging app WhatsApp was today updated to add a new Home Screen widget that’s specific to chats. The widget is available on the iPhone after updating to version 24.21.81, which came out this afternoon. After updating the widget can be added to the ‌Home Screen‌ using the Edit interface. Users can choose from Recents, Favorites, Pinned…

iPad Mini 7 Will Have Day One Update Apple is set to release the iPad mini 7 on Wednesday, and new iPad mini owners will have an update waiting right out of the box. Apple is shipping the ‌iPad mini 7‌ with a version of iOS 18.0, which is no longer the current version of iOS 18. ‌iPad mini‌ owners will need to install iOS 18.0.1, and Apple has a special version of the update ready…

Hulu and Disney+ No Longer Support Signups and Payment Using App Store Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple’s App Store, cutting out any subscription fees that Disney would have needed to pay to Apple for using in-app purchase. The change was noted on Reddit over the weekend, and there are details on the Disney+ and Hulu websites. Bot…

(Podcast) The Rebound 517: MoviePass for Vision Pro A harrowing tale of survival and Rock Band.…

The last Kindle with page-turn buttons is dead ↦ The two previous Kindle Oasis models, in happier times.Amazon announced a bunch of brand-new Kindle models Wednesday, including a refreshed Paperwhite and a new color model, both of which I’ve ordered and will review soon.…

In Praise of Keith from Sonos ↦ I really enjoyed this story by Rachel Karten about how, amid widespread outrage about a disastrous software update from Sonos, the company’s Social Media Program Lead was doing it right: KeithFromSonos is a Sonos employee who is very active in the r/Sonos subreddit and has somehow won over customers in a particularly tumultuous time for the b…

Apple Pay turns 10, adds new wrinkles My first Apple Pay transaction, in 2014.It’s hard to believe Apple Pay launched a decade ago, and only slightly less hard to believe that we’ve reached the point that I can link to my decade-old story about using Apple Pay for the first time at my local Whole Foods: “Oh, you’re going to try that?”…

(Podcast) Downstream 80: Shifting Landscape Apple TV+ comes to Prime Video, and the Diamond bankruptcy continues to disrupt the entire economy of sports. …

Apple’s strong but “easy” password generation algorithm ↦ Apple’s Ricky Mondello recaps how the company’s password generation system tries to come up with easy to type—but still very secure—passwords: To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where the mode switching might be difficult, these new passwords are actually dominated by low…

(Sponsor) 1Password My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Strings of data breaches and other cybersecurity failures have forced greater investment in vulnerability management. The SEC now requires companies to report on how their managers and board of directors deal with vulnerabilities.…

Tim Cook Admits Truth About Vision Pro Following Lackluster Sales The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen this summer interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the Vision Pro, innovation, Apple Intelligence, and more. Image Credit: Vanity Fair Cook admitted that the Vision Pro headset is not a mass-market product due to its high price. “At $3,500, it’s not a mass-market product,” said Cook. “Right now, it’s an earl…

AirPods Pro vs. AirPods Max Buyer’s Guide: 30+ Differences Compared The AirPods Pro and AirPods Max are Apple’s highest-end headphone options, so which should you choose? Almost three years after the launch of the first-generation ‌AirPods Pro‌, Apple unveiled the second-generation model alongside the iPhone 14 lineup and several new Apple Watches in 2022, and swapped the Lightning port for USB-C a year later i…

Tesla Plans to Release Apple Watch App That Will Work as a Digital Key Tesla last week updated its iPhone app with new Control Center controls on iOS 18. In addition, the latest version of the app added hidden code references to an upcoming Apple Watch version of the app, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. The code indicates that it will be possible to use the Apple Watch as a digital key to remotely…

Apple Seeds visionOS 2.1 and tvOS 18.1 Release Candidates Apple today seeded release candidate versions of upcoming visionOS 2.1 and tvOS 18.1 updates to developers and public beta testers for testing purposes. The new software comes approximately week after Apple released the fourth betas. tvOS 18.1 can be downloaded and installed through the Apple TV Settings app, and visionOS 2.1 can be installed b…