Best Apple Deals of the Week: Record Low Prices Return for AirTag, iPad, and MacBook Air It’s the last-minute rush before Christmas, and that means it’s getting very difficult to find great deals that also have guaranteed delivery by the 25th. With that in mind, some of the week’s best deals that we’re recapping below might not arrive in time for the holiday, but you can still find multiple record low prices on products like the 10t…

Top Stories: iPhone 17 Designs, Foldable iPad or MacBook, and More 2024 is rapidly drawing to a close, but the Apple news and rumor mill remains busy. On the software side, users are still exploring the new features in iOS 18.2 such as expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities, while Apple is moving ahead with beta testing of iOS 18.3 and related updates. On the hardware side, we’re hearing lots of rumors about…

Top 5 Apple Products to Look Forward to in 2025 It’s looking like 2025 is going to be an important year for Apple, with the company planning to revamp the iPhone, push further into smart home products, and improve Apple Intelligence. There are tons of new products rumored for 2025, including new iPhones, M4 Macs, a smart home command center, and much more. We’ve highlighted the top five Appl…

The MacRumors Show: Every Apple Product Coming in 2025 On this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show, we take a look ahead to all of Apple’s expected hardware announcements for 2025. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Rumors and reports from a range of reliable sources suggest that Apple will release at least 22 new products in 2025, with a series of minor to major updat…

‘Ice Dive’ Apple Vision Pro Immersive Video Now Available Apple Vision Pro users can watch a new episode of the “Adventure” series starting today, delving into a freezing underwater dive in the Arctic with athlete Ant Williams. The Ice Dive episode follows Williams as he attempts to shatter the world record for swimming the longest distance under ice with just one breath. Ice Dive is the third episo…

Amazon Discounts USB-C AirPods Max to $499.99 ($49 Off) Amazon today has the USB-C AirPods Max on sale for $499.99 in four colors, down from $549.00. This is a return of the Black Friday price on the headphones, and only a few dollars higher when compared with the previous record low price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive …

Apple Begins Discontinuing iPhone SE and iPhone 14 in EU Ahead of USB-C Requirement Starting today, the third-generation iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and iPhone 14 Plus, are listed as unavailable on Apple’s online store in Switzerland, ahead of a regulation that will require smartphones with wired charging capabilities that are newly placed for sale to be equipped with a USB-C port in the European Union (EU). Switzerland is not offic…

Apple’s AirTag 4-Pack Hits Best-Ever $69.99 Price on Amazon Today we’re tracking the return of an all-time low price on Apple’s AirTag 4-Pack, which has hit $69.99 on Amazon, down from $99.00. The AirTag 4-Pack was priced at $72.99 for most of December, so this is the first time we’ve seen it return to its record low price in a few weeks. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you clic…

Apple Teams Up With NVIDIA to Speed Up AI Language Models Apple has shared details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to greatly improve the performance of large language models (LLMs) by implementing a new text generation technique that offers substantial speed improvements for AI applications. Apple earlier this year published and open-sourced Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter), an approach that combines bea…

ChatGPT for Mac Can Now Read Your Apple Notes – Here’s How OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its ChatGPT app for macOS, adding support for Apple Notes and a range of popular third-party apps. The update builds on last month’s release that introduced the ability to read on-screen content from select Mac apps. This expansion should broaden ChatGPT’s utility for both casual users and developers usin…

Apple Launched the Controversial ‘Trashcan’ Mac Pro 11 Years Ago Today Apple launched the controversial “trashcan” Mac Pro eleven years ago today, introducing one of its most criticized designs that persisted through a period of widespread discontentment with the Mac lineup. The redesign took the ‌Mac Pro‌ in an entirely new direction, spearheaded by a polished aluminum cylindrical design that became unofficially …

iCloud Backups No Longer Available for iPhones and iPads Running iOS 8 or Earlier Making a device backup over iCloud now requires iOS 9 or later, which means iPhones and iPads that are running iOS 8 or earlier are no longer able to be backed up using ‌iCloud‌. Apple announced the change in November, and as of this week, it has gone into effect. Support for ‌iCloud‌ backups on devices that run iOS 8 or older has ended, and Ap…

Apple Faces Criticism Over AI-Generated News Headline Summaries Apple is facing calls to remove its AI-powered notification summaries feature after it generated false headlines about a high-profile murder case, drawing criticism from a major journalism organization. Updated to iOS 18.2? Then you may have received this notification (image credit: BBC News) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Apple to d…

Apple Stops Signing iOS 18.1.1, Downgrading No Longer an Option Apple has stopped signing iOS 18.1.1, preventing iPhone users who have upgraded to iOS 18.2 from downgrading to that version of iOS. Apple released iOS 18.2 a week ago on December 11. Apple often stops signing an older version of iOS, usually within a week or two after a new version is released. When an update is no longer signed, it can’t be i…

Apple Likely to Make Vision Pro Lineup More Affordable in Two Ways Apple plans to launch its next-generation Vision headsets as early as 2026, and they will likely be more affordable, according to TrendForce. In line with previous rumors, the Taiwanese research firm today said Apple is planning to introduce both a next-generation Vision Pro and a mainstream headset, which would likely be named “Apple Vision” w…

Apple’s 10th Gen iPad Returns to Black Friday Price of $249.99 ($99 Off) Amazon has brought back the all-time low Black Friday price on Apple’s 10th generation iPad (64GB Wi-Fi), available for $249.99 in Silver, down from $349.00. You’ll need to clip an on-page coupon worth $29.01 in order to see the final deal price at checkout. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a pu…

Report: Apple in Talks with Tencent, ByteDance for Chinese iPhone AI Apple is reportedly negotiating with China’s ByteDance and Tencent to bring their artificial intelligence models to iPhones sold in China, as the company adapts its AI strategy for the Chinese market. Apple began integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its devices globally earlier this month with the release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoi…

Apple Released the Original AirPods Eight Years Ago Today Today marks eight years since Apple launched the original AirPods. Unveiled in September 2016 alongside the iPhone 7, the wireless headphones became available on December 19, 2016, following a slight delay. At the time, wireless headphones were already on the market but had not yet reached true mass popularity. AirPods helped redefine the categ…

Apple Warns of Privacy Risks in EU’s DMA Interoperability Requirements Apple has released a report highlighting its concerns about how some companies could “weaponize” the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) interoperability requirements to access sensitive user data. The report came on the same day that the European Commission began consulting on the proposed measures for requesting interoperability with Apple’s iOS an…

Apple’s $1 Billion Investment May Soon End Indonesian iPhone Ban Apple is close to reaching an agreement with Indonesia to lift the ban on iPhone 16 sales in the country after securing preliminary approval for a $1 billion investment proposal, according to Bloomberg. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is said to have given his support for the government to accept Apple’s investment plan following a weeken…