Real or Fake? Lightning to USB-C Cables for Previous iMacs Shown in ‘Unreleased’ Colors Apple enthusiast @StellaFudge today shared photos of USB-C to Lightning cables in six “unreleased” colors, including what appears to be teal, blue, purple, yellow, red, and orange. He said Apple allegedly planned to include the cables with Apple silicon Macs, but the cables have never been released in these exact shades. Image Credit: @StellaFu…

What to Expect From Apple This November After a busy October in which Apple announced new Macs and Apple Intelligence launched, the calendar has now turned to November. Below, we outline what to expect from Apple this month as the slower-but-still-busy holiday season approaches. After seeding the first betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 with additional Apple Intel…

Amazon Introduces First Discounts on New iPad Mini 7 at $99 Off Amazon today has introduced the first major discounts on Apple’s new iPad mini. All of the deals on the iPad mini 7 in this article require you to clip an on-page coupon in order to see the discounts. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us kee…

Apple Expands Globalstar Relationship to Support Growing Satellite Services Globalstar today announced an amended agreement with Apple that will see an expansion of the satellite services that support Apple features like Emergency SOS, Roadside Assistance, Messages, and Find My location updates that can now be handled in areas with no terrestrial Wi-Fi or cellular coverage in select countries. According to the SEC fili…

Apple TV+ Launched Five Years Ago Today Apple’s video streaming subscription service, Apple TV+, launched five years ago today. Announced at an Apple event in March 2019, ‌Apple TV‌+ was part of a major services push that included Apple News+, Apple Card, and Apple Arcade. At its inception, ‌Apple TV‌+ began with a modest library of original content, focusing on high-quality, exclus…

Here’s How Much Faster M4 Pro/Max Are for Graphics vs. M3 Pro/Max Apple’s new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips are impressively fast in terms of CPU performance, topping the M2 Ultra, but what about graphics performance? The first Geekbench 6 results for GPU performance are now available for the M4 Pro and M4 Max, and the Metal scores reveal some impressive year-over-year gains. Based on the Metal scores that are avai…

The MacRumors Show: Jon Prosser Talks Apple’s New iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro With M4 Jon Prosser joins us on this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show to talk through all of Apple’s major Mac announcements from this week. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Over the first three days of the week, Apple unveiled the new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro with the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. The chips of…

Apple Acquires Photo Editing App Maker Pixelmator Apple has reached an agreement to acquire Pixelmator, the company behind popular photo and image editing apps Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval, according to an announcement made by the Pixelmator team on Friday. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Pixelmator has developed a suite of…

M1 vs. M2 vs. M3 vs. M4 MacBook Pro Buyer’s Guide: 30+ Differences Compared Apple this week refreshed the MacBook Pro with its latest Apple silicon chips, but what exactly do the latest machines bring to the table and is it worth upgrading from the previous generations? The 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with the M4 chip starts at $1,599, replacing the previous M3 model as the entry-level machine in Apple’s pro notebook lineup….

Google Maps Rolling Out These New Navigation Features This Week Google Maps is rolling out several new features to iOS and Android users this week, focusing on improved navigation and travel planning tools. A new prominent “Add stops” button is being added alongside the Start button with the idea of simplifying route planning: It displays restaurants, gas stations, and points of interest along the way. This…

Find WhatsApp Conversations Faster With New Custom Chat Lists WhatsApp has made it easier to organize your conversations with the global rollout of custom chat lists. This new feature expands on the chat filters introduced earlier this year, and offers a more personalized way to manage your messaging. To create a custom list, tap the plus (+) icon in the filter bar at the top of the Chats tab. You can add…

M4 Max Chip Up to 25% Faster Than M2 Ultra in First Benchmark Results The first Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the high-end M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU surfaced today, and they show that the chip is up to 25% faster than the high-end M2 Ultra chip with a 24-core CPU in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance. M4 Pro chip benchmark results already surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database on Thursday. Based on t…

iPhone SE 4 First to Get Apple-Designed 5G Modem, iPhone 17 Pro to Add Custom Wi-Fi 7 Chip The iPhone SE 4 that’s set to come out early next year is expected to debut Apple’s first in-house 5G modem, according to Jeff Pu, an analyst who covers companies within Apple’s supply chain. In a research note this week with Hong Kong-based investment firm Haitong International Securities, Pu said Apple is expected to roll out its custom-made …

M4 Pro Chip Benchmark Results Reveal an Extremely Impressive Performance Feat The first Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the M4 Pro chip surfaced today. Impressively, the results that are available so far show that the highest-end M4 Pro chip is faster than the highest-end M2 Ultra chip in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance. Here is a comparison of the results: Mac mini with M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 22,094 multi-co…

Apple’s Q4 2024 Earnings Call Takeaways Apple held its earnings call for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024 today (third calendar quarter), announcing quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up six percent year over year. During the call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri provided a look into Apple’s performance, sales of the iPhone 16 models, Apple’s services growth, and more. We’v…

Skipping the New MacBook Pro? Here Are Two Bigger Changes Rumored While the new MacBook Pro lineup features faster M4 chip options, Thunderbolt 5 support for higher-end configurations, a nano-texture display option, and more, most of the previous MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon chips still offer the latest overall design, and fast performance, which might lead you to avoid upgrading this year. If you ar…

Apple Reports 4Q 2024 Results: $14.7B Profit on $94.9B Revenue Apple today announced financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, which corresponds to the third calendar quarter of the year. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $94.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $14.7 billion, or $0.97 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $89.5 billion and net quarterly profit of $23.0 billion, …

iPhone Users Updating to iOS 18.1 Twice as Fast as iOS 17.1 Following Apple Intelligence Launch The new Apple Intelligence features that Apple released in iOS 18.1 are spurring people to update to the new software, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today in an interview with CNBC. Customers are downloading and installing iOS 18.1 at twice the rate that they adopted iOS 17.1 during the same timeframe last year, according to Cook. Apple has not yet …

Amazon Offers Massive $299 Discount on 8GB M2 MacBook Air, Available for $699.99 Apple’s 256GB 13-inch M2 MacBook Air is back down to its all-time low price of $699.99 with the use of an on-page coupon. This is $299 off the original price of the 2022 computer. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search Now Available as Google Alternative OpenAI today announced the addition of ChatGPT Search to ChatGPT, allowing for improved AI-based internet searches. OpenAI says that ChatGPT is able to search the web “in a much better way than before,” with the chatbot able to provide links to relevant web sources like a traditional search engine. ChatGPT Search uses ChatGPT-4o, and it is avai…