Apple Pencil With USB-C Now Available in Apple’s Refurbished Store in These Countries Apple today added the lower-cost Apple Pencil with a USB-C port to its online refurbished store for the first time in select European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. The refurbished model is discounted by around 15% in each country. For example, pricing is …

iOS 18: Prevent Motion Sickness With Vehicle Motion Cues In iOS 18, Apple added several new accessibility features, and one feature in particular that is likely to have widespread appeal among car passengers is Vehicle Motion Cues, which aims to prevent motion sickness when looking at an iPhone or iPad. According to Apple, research shows that motion sickness is commonly caused by a sensory conflict b…

Apple Store in Southern Sweden Permanently Closing Later This Week Apple has announced that its retail store at the Väla Centrum shopping mall near Helsingborg, Sweden will be permanently closed after July 13. The date was spotted by Michael Steeber, who writes a weekly newsletter about Apple retail. Apple Väla Centrum Apple in January told Swedish publication Feber that it would not be renewing its lease at…

Get Up to $550 Off Apple’s M2 iPad Pro With New Record Low Prices Best Buy today has some of the biggest discounts on the M2 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro that we’ve tracked in months, starting as low as $699.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi 11-inch tablet. A My Best Buy Plus/Total membership is not required to see these discounts. Best Buy has every model of the 2022 iPad Pro on sale except the 128GB Wi-Fi model of t…

Apple to Report Earnings Results on August 1 After Releasing New iPads Apple recently announced that its next quarterly earnings conference call will be held on Thursday, August 1 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. On the call, which anyone can listen to, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will discuss the company’s earnings results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. During the quarter, spanning March 31 t…

Nothing Debuts CMF Phone 1 With Modular Design Starting at $199 CMF, a London-based sub-brand of Nothing, has officially announced the CMF Phone 1, boasting a highly customizable modular design and featuring some decent hardware specs for an Android smartphone that starts at just $199. The CMF Phone (1) is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chipset and features a 6.67-inch FHD, 120Hz AMOLED display. There…

Best Buy Takes Up to $500 Off M3 MacBook Pro in New Sale Best Buy this weekend is offering a big selection of discounts on Apple’s late 2023 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, with up to $500 off select models. These deals are available to all shoppers and do not require a My Best Buy Plus or Total membership. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Best Buy. When you click a link and make a purcha…

AirPods 3 Drop to Record Low Price of $139.99 on Amazon, Plus More AirPods Deals Amazon today has Apple’s AirPods 2, AirPods 3 with Lightning Charging Case, and AirPods Max on sale, with up to $100 in savings on these earbuds. For the AirPods 3, this is the first time we’ve tracked a discount on the device since Father’s Day in June. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purcha…

Apple Reportedly Developing Apple Watch SE With Plastic Casing Apple is developing a new version of the low-cost Apple Watch SE with a plastic casing, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today claimed. Writing in this weekend’s “Power On” newsletter, Gurman mentioned Apple’s work on an ‌Apple Watch SE‌ that features a rigid plastic casing in lieu of anodized aluminum. He postulated that this may be one technique Apple…

New Siri Experience With Apple Intelligence Likely to Debut in Spring 2025 Apple’s revamped version of Siri is unlikely to be available with the initial rollout of Apple Intelligence later this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his latest “Power On” newsletter, Gurman wrote that the full new version of ‌Siri‌ should arrive with iOS 18.4 in the spring of 2025, preceded by a beta testing period that is due …

Report: Apple Watch Series 10 to Offer Larger Screens and Faster Chip, but New Health Features in Trouble The Apple Watch Series 10 will feature a larger display and a new chip, but new health monitoring features for the device are now in question, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. In the latest edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Gurman said that the design of the Apple Watch Series 10 is “unlikely to look much different” to its predecessor, but …

Top Stories: iOS 18 Beta Features, Apple Intelligence for Vision Pro, and More With the calendar flipping over to July, public betas of iOS 18 and related operating system updates are right around the corner, so we’re continuing to take a look at what changes and features users can expect to see. Other Apple news and rumors this week included several iconic devices being added to Apple’s list of “vintage” products, a leak…

Apple Approves Epic Games Store for iPhone and iPad in EU Apple today said it has approved the third-party Epic Games Store in the European Union, allowing the Fortnite developer to launch its alternative app marketplace in those countries, reports Reuters. ‌Epic Games‌ had submitted the ‌Epic Games‌ Store to Apple for notarization earlier this week. Earlier today, Epic stated Apple had twice rejected…

The MacRumors Show: Luke Miani Talks Apple Watch X YouTuber and podcaster Luke Miani joins us on this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show to discuss all the latest rumors about the upcoming Apple Watch “Series X.” Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos The Apple Watch Series X, coming ten years after the Apple Watch was originally announced alongside the iPhone 6, was …

Apple Again Rumored to Bring 5x Telephoto Camera to iPhone 16 Pro Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 Pro will gain the tetraprism periscope camera with 5x optical zoom that debuted last year on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, DigiTimes reports. Taiwanese lens manufacturers Largan Precision and Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) are said to be the primary suppliers for the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌’s tetraprism camera components. Sources …

Antitrust Lawsuit Threatens Apple’s Lucrative Deal with Google Apple’s deal with Google that makes it the default engine on Safari faces uncertainty as the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit looms, The Information reports. Apple’s contract with Google, which ensures that Google’s search engine is the default on Apple’s Safari browser, has been a significant source of revenue. In 2022, the arran…

iPhone 17 ‘Slim’: Everything We Know So Far In 2025, Apple is expected to discontinue the iPhone “Plus” device in its iPhone 17 lineup to make way for an iPhone “Slim” – although it may not actually be called this when it debuts in the fall of next year. Even though the iPhone 16 series launch is still over two months away, when you consider that we learned about larger displays on the iP…

Authy Users Urged to Stay Alert After Hack Exposes 33 Million Phone Numbers Twilio has updated its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service after a hacker claimed to have retrieved 33 million phone numbers from its user database. TechCrunch reports that the hacker(s) known as ShinyHunters took to a well-known hacking forum to boast about the theft of 33 million cell phone numbers, achieved by what Twilio described …

Leak Confirms Apple’s Work On ‘Home Accessory’ Code discovered on Apple’s backend by MacRumors confirms Apple is indeed working on a long-rumored home accessory in addition to the HomePod and Apple TV. The code references a device with the identifier “HomeAccessory17,1,” which is a new identifier category. The name is similar to the ‌HomePod‌’s “AudioAccessory” identifier. Interestingly, t…

ChatGPT Mac App Stored User Chats in Plain Text Prior to Latest Update OpenAI has issued an update to its ChatGPT app for Mac, after a developer discovered the app was locally storing users’ conversations with the chatbot in plain text. Pedro José Pereira Vieito told The Verge’s Jay Peters: “I was curious about why OpenAI opted out of using the app sandbox protections and ended up checking where they stored the ap…