‘Spotify Wrapped’ Recaps Your Listening History for 2024 Using AI Hosts Spotify has made its annual recap feature “Spotify Wrapped” available to users on the iOS and Android app. This feature tracks your top artists, genres, songs, podcasts, and minutes listened, and generates graphics for sharing on social media. This year’s Spotify Wrapped has a distinctly AI-driven twist: The company has partnered with Google t…

Aloha Browser Update Promises End to Endless Cookie Prompts Privacy-focused Aloha Browser has announced a new Cookie Consent Management feature that aims to eliminate repetitive cookie permission pop-ups while maintaining user privacy controls. Released today for its iOS app, the new feature allows people to set their cookie preferences once at the browser level rather than responding to prompts on eve…

M5 iPad Pro to Enter Mass Production in Late 2025 An iPad Pro equipped with Apple’s next-generation M5 processor is expected to enter mass production in the second half of next year, according to Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Writing in a Medium post, Kuo said the primary assembler of the M5 iPad Pro will be China’s BYD Electronics, which will also be the exclusive assembler of Apple’s …

Kuo: New HomePod With Smart Home Display Arriving in Late 2025 Apple’s long-rumored HomePod with a display has been delayed again and is now expected to launch after WWDC 2025, likely in the third quarter of the year, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. This timeline is a shift from Kuo’s earlier prediction of a 2024 release. The new smart speaker is expected to feature Apple’s A18 processor and a 6-7 inch …

Miss the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar? Check Out the Flexbar With the 2016 MacBook Pro models, Apple introduced the Touch Bar, a small multi-touch display available above the keyboard. The Touch Bar replaced the function row of keys and added dynamic buttons that changed for each app, but it was a polarizing feature that many Mac users disliked. Apple started phasing out the Touch Bar with the launch of…

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Launches on Mac App Store Popular Ubisoft game Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is available for download from the Mac App Store as of today, allowing Mac users to play the title for the first time since its January 2024 launch. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is an action adventure game that joins a long list of other Prince of Persia titles that are based on Persian…

Apple Uses Amazon’s Custom AI Chips for Search Services Apple uses custom Trainium and Graviton artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services for search services, Apple machine learning and AI director Benoit Dupin said today at the AWS re:Invent conference (via CNBC). Dupin said that Amazon’s AI chips are “reliable, definite, and able to serve customers worldwide.” AWS and Amazon h…

Apple Releases First Firmware Update for Beats Solo Buds Apple today released a firmware update for the Beats Solo Buds, marking the first new software the earbuds have received since their June 2024 launch. The firmware has a build number of 3A130, up from the 3A112 firmware the Solo Buds shipped with. We don’t know what’s included in the new firmware, and Apple does not typically provide informatio…

Beats Cyber Week Sale Includes Big Savings on Earbuds, Headphones, and Speakers Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have disappeared for many products, but you can still find multiple Beats headphones and speakers at up to 52 percent off on Amazon. You’ll find many of the same prices at other retailers like Best Buy as well. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we m…

Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of visionOS 2.2 to Developers With Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming visionOS 2.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a week after the third visionOS 2.2 beta. visionOS 2.2 can be installed by going to the Software Update section of the Settings app on the Vision Pro and opting into Beta Updates. The visionOS 2.2 update adds a new fea…

iPhone SE Now Over 1,000 Days Old as New Model Edges Closer Apple’s third-generation iPhone SE, introduced on March 8, 2022, has now reached the milestone of being over 1,000 days old. The ‌iPhone SE‌ debuted in 2016 as Apple’s answer to customers who wanted a more affordable iPhone without sacrificing key features. The first SE model was based on the design of the ‌iPhone‌ 5s but packed the then-flags…

Samsung Cyber Week Sale Has Year’s Best Prices on Monitors, TVs, Fridges, and More Samsung kicked off its Cyber Week sale a few days ago, offering discounts across smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, computers, and home appliances. Many of the deals in this sale are the same prices we tracked during Samsung’s Black Friday sale, making Samsung one of the few retailers to keep these best-ever prices around all week. Note: MacRum…

Apple Podcasts Reveals 2024 Show of the Year Apple today announced that the true crime podcast “Hysterical” by Dan Taberski has received an Apple Podcasts Award for 2024 Show of the Year. Apple Podcasts Award The seven-part series debuted in July, and it reached the number-one spot in the Top Shows chart, according to Apple. The podcast investigates a mysterious illness that spreads amo…

Stop Live Activities Taking Over Your Apple Watch Face In watchOS, the Smart Stack for your Apple Watch is pretty clever. The collection of widgets can be pulled up with a scroll of the Digital Crown, and shows you relevant information throughout your day. But sometimes, its eagerness to help can be a bit much, especially when it comes to Live Activities. You’re probably familiar with this scenario…

Apple Fails to Block $995M UK App Store Commission Lawsuit A UK class action lawsuit against Apple over App Store commission fees will proceed after judges dismissed the company’s attempt to block the case, Bloomberg reports. Led by competition policy professor Sean Ennis, the suit alleges Apple’s 15-30% commission on App Store sales creates an anti-competitive tax on the UK technology industry. The l…

Apple Raises Indonesia Investment Offer to $1B Amid iPhone Ban Apple has significantly hiked its investment proposal to Indonesia and is now offering $1 billion in a bid to resolve the ongoing iPhone 16 sales ban in the country, according to the country’s investment minister Rosan Roeslani (via Reuters). Speaking to lawmakers on Tuesday, Roeslani said the government expects to receive a written commitment…

Apple Music Replay 2024 Experience Now Live Apple has launched Apple Music Replay for 2024, giving subscribers early access to their personalized music listening statistics and trends for the year. Accessible through music.apple.com/replay, the feature provides users with detailed insights into their music preferences and listening habits over the last 12 months. Apple has been offering…

Apple Vision Pro Launching in Taiwan on December 17 Apple today announced that its Vision Pro headset will be launching in Taiwan on Tuesday, December 17, with pre-orders beginning this Thursday, December 5, at 9:00 a.m. Apple’s localized Vision Pro page for Taiwan highlights the pre-order and launch dates and provides all of the usual details about the high-end headset. The online Apple Store f…

Apple’s 2026 Foldable iPhone Could Reinvigorate Stalling Market The foldable smartphone market has stalled with customer interest in foldables waning, but that could change when Apple debuts a foldable iPhone, according to display analyst Ross Young. In a report on the current foldable smartphone market, Young says that Apple is expected to “enter the foldable market” in the second half of 2026. Apple’s “do…

Paid Version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Now Available Nintendo today debuted Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, a paid offline version of Pocket Camp that lets customers continue to play now that the freemium version of the game has been shut down. The original Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp game was shuttered last week on November 29, almost exactly seven years after it launched. Because it was…