Apple’s Back to School Sale Launches in Japan With Apple Gift Cards Apple’s annual “Back to School” promotion has launched in Japan today after returning earlier this month in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Korea. While the other countries that saw the promotion launch this month offered either free AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation with the purchase of any new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMa…

Three months with Apple Intelligence At Apple’s September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was “built for Apple intelligence” — but Apple’s leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through

Apple Continues to Be the World’s Most Admired Company Apple has been ranked as Fortune’s Most Admired Company for the 18th consecutive year. The Fortune rankings are based on a survey of 3,380 business leaders across a range of industries, who assess companies on nine criteria, including innovation, investment value, social responsibility, and the ability to attract talent. Apple once again secure…

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50 iPhone Features Apple Added to iOS 18 Since September Since iOS 18 was released in September 2024, Apple has introduced an unprecedented number of new features and improvements across several point updates. With iOS 18.1, 18.2, and 18.3, users have seen a host of tweaks and changes designed to enhance everything from the Mail app to Camera Control on the iPhone 16. Below, we’ve listed 50 of the fe…

TSMC Founder Reveals Why Apple Chose Them Over Intel as Custom Chip Supplier TSMC founder Morris Chang has revealed that Apple CEO Tim Cook rejected Intel as an iPhone chip manufacturing partner in 2011, and told him that “Intel just does not know how to be a foundry.” In a new YouTube interview with Acquired, Chang recounts how Apple briefly paused discussions with TSMC in February 2011 when Intel’s CEO approached Cook…

Costco Members: Select Stores: Apple Macbook: 14″ M3 Pro 11-Core, 18GB RAM, 512GB $1000 & More (In-Stores Only) Costco has reduced the prices further for the last generation of M3 Macbooks. These are inventory-limited and available only in the warehouse. Check in the Costco app for availability. 1780719…

When Will Apple Release the iOS 18.4 Beta? On January 27, Apple released iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, which means we’re now ready for a new round of beta testing. The next betas are rumored to have important new Siri Apple Intelligence features, so when can we expect the software? There are typically few pauses between beta updates, and Apple often seeds a new beta jus…

Apple Pay Gains Support for Citi Monthly Payment Plans Apple Pay now supports Citi Flex Pay, allowing U.S. Citi credit card holders to pay for ‌Apple Pay‌ purchases over time with the Flex Pay option. Citi Flex Pay is available for ‌Apple Pay‌ purchases over $75. The default payback period is three months, but there are longer payback durations available with a monthly fee. Flex Pay can be used whe…

Apple TV+ Introduces ‘Sunday Night Soccer’ With Weekly MLS Matches Apple and Major League Soccer today introduced Sunday Night Soccer. Apple TV+ subscribers will be able to watch a featured MLS match every Sunday evening during the upcoming 2025 season, at no additional cost. In the U.S., Apple TV+ is priced at $9.99 per month or $99 per year, and it is also included in all Apple One subscription bundles. Appl…

How to Enable (and Turn Off) Apple Intelligence on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Don’t like Apple Intelligence? You can disable it with the flip of a switch.

Apple supplier Qorvo sees swift reversal in stock price after warning of weakness in smartphone parts Qorvo, a key Apple supplier reported strong earnings and guidance, but the stock dropped after the company warned of flat sales to its “largest customer.”

Apple to Patch Web Browser Vulnerabilities Affecting Recent Macs, iPads and iPhones There are two new speculative execution attacks that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students that discovered the vulnerabilities. Named SLAP and FLOP, the two security flaws could allow an attacker to use a malicious webpage to spy on the contents of other webpages, giving attackers remote access to br…

Apple Promotes Beats Pill With Valentine’s Day-Themed Ad Apple is continuing to promote the Beats Pill speaker, today sharing a new Valentine’s Day-themed short ad that uses the cute anthropomorphized “Pill People” characters to highlight battery life. The spot features the red Beats Pill holding up a be mine sign and playing music in a Say Anything-esque scene. The white Beats Pill walks by and ask…

Everything You Need to Know about Rememory, the $150 Million Apple TV Hit That Can Be Watched Only in a Retirement Community in Ohio Following in the footsteps of Apple TV’s star-studded non-Severance critically acclaimed shows that no one has ever heard of because they never advertise them, like Disclaimer, Presumed Innocent, and For All Mankind, Rememory has been described by Apple’s Tim Cook as “our greatest achievement yet.” With the second season likely to pick up a whol…

Save 7GB Storage Per Device by Disabling Apple Intelligence Apple this week released iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, software updates that enable Apple Intelligence on supported devices by default. Whether you own an iPhone, iPad, Mac – or indeed all three – regardless of what you think about Apple Intelligence, there’s one reason why you may want to disable Apple’s AI features at the earl…

Apple Might Release a Powerful New iPhone SE This Year If you’re looking for an all-around great iPhone for a decent price, 2025 might be the time.

Apple Breaks watchOS Updates On Older Apple Watch Models With today’s watchOS 11.3 update, Apple accidentally broke watchOS updates for some older Apple Watch models, according to information circulating on social networks. For Apple Watch models that are unable to be updated to watchOS 11, such as the Apple Watch Series 4 and Series 5, there is an unintended bug that prevents some of them from insta…

Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods To update the firmware on your AirPods, first put them in the case. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeApple updated its AirPods firmware support page today with a more detailed step-by-step guide on how to upgrade the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max with their latest firmware, according to MacRumors. While most Apple devices, like the iPho…

Apple Finally Explains How to Install New Firmware on Your AirPods Apple regularly releases new firmware for the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max, but the company has historically provided limited information on how to initiate an update. That changed today, and Apple updated its AirPods firmware support page with more specific instructions. Prior to today, here’s what Apple said on the subject: Firmware …