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- 12:21 pmAs Apple reboots its AI work, OpenAI ramps up the pressure by declaring ‘code red’
As Apple loses its AI head and reboots its work with a restructure, OpenAI is ramping up the pressure by declaring “code red.” Concerned about being overtaken by Google’s Gemini, CEO Sam Altman has said that all of the company’s efforts will be devoted to improving the quality of ChatGPT … more…12:15 pmApple’s new AI leader has one job: Save the entire industry
Macworld You remember that dress? You know the one. Wanna feel old? That was 10 years ago. Anyway, if you’re nostalgic for those heady days of 2015 when people looked at something and were 100 percent sure they were right and the people who saw it differently were wrong, just ask someone their opinion on AI. The Macalope has noticed lately that AI is a real divider. Many people now simply view it as normal and use it all the time. Certainly, lots of developers do but also, honestly, just everyday users. A lot of other people, however, see it as an utterly useless abomination, a harbinger of the downfall of society. Today we’re going to figure out who’s right. Okay, not really. Because the Macalope would like to posit that, much like the dress, they’re both right. BOOOOOOOOO! Hey! You can’t boo the Macalope in his own column! Can you? How did that even get in here? And why can’t the Macalope delete it? Look, AI has some great applications and can be a useful tool. It’s also sadly a business largely run by some of the worst people possible. Much like most major league sports, the game is not so much the problem as the business that’s running it. Tech exec Anil Dash recently noticed how AI seems to drive people to fits. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: Extremely bad for society, in many ways. Very genuinely popular with lots of people. Anil Dash via BlueSky Let’s try to unpack this a little. If you’d like to receive regular news and updates to your inbox, sign up for our newsletters, including The Macalope and Apple Breakfast, David Price’s weekly, bite-sized roundup of all the latest Apple news and rumors.Foundry AI detractors need to recognize that, despite the concerns, AI tools are providing value for many people. (Here, the Macalope is really just talking about LLMs.) “Vibe coding” may be an oversimplified marketing term, but AI coding tools make development easier. AI actually has an accessibility aspect to it that a lot of detractors don’t really want to talk about because social benefits don’t factor into their notion of AI as the knowledge equivalent of Juicero. Like it or not, AI results are faster and more convenient for average users who don’t have the time or capacity to digest large volumes of information. Meanwhile, AI fans need to understand that there are some very good reasons for people to be distrustful and resentful of AI. AI is already being used (often just as an excuse) to lay off actual human beings, often leading to dubious results at best. AI companies routinely think nothing of scraping up whatever they want without concern for copyright or the labor of others in order to train their models. While sometimes exaggerated, there are real environmental issues to shoving rainforests into stoves in order to power server farms to churn out wrong answers to the simplest of questions. If we are, as many suspect, in an AI bubble, you can bet your bottom dollar that when it pops the wealthy investors in AI will head right to the Trump administration and demand your bottom dollar as part of a bailout of their over-investment of a technology that, while useful, never should have been jammed into literally everything. You can obviously kind of see which side of this argument the Macalope leans toward. Dash is not wrong that AI tools are being used by many people every day, but there are signs that it is not nearly popular enough to support the level of investment being poured into it, as The Economist notes (subscription required). The Economist’s basic point is that no matter how much they might find AI tools convenient and useful, consumers are unlikely to shell out nearly enough for them in order for AI companies to make a return on the Dyson sphere-sized investment being made in them. Businesses must do the rest. The Economist, November 26, 2025 And many signs indicate AI use in businesses is currently falling rather than rising. Evidence is mounting that the current generation of models is not able to transform the productivity of most firms. This brings us to Apple, the company still trying to figure out this whole AI thing. On Monday, surprising literally no one, Apple announced that its VP in charge of AI development, John Giannandrea, is retiring. Giannandrea will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, who was head of engineering for Google’s Gemini Assistant prior to leaving the company for Microsoft. It remains to be seen whether or not Subramanya can turn around the giant iceberg that is Apple’s AI effort to date. The Macalope knows what he wrote. Apple’s business practices are not always the best, particularly of late. And that’s too bad. Because the company has often been better than its peers on the environment, social issues, and privacy. And what’s needed most right now is a company that’s able and willing to do AI the right way. Until that happens, don’t expect opinions about AI to change.12:09 pmGoogle Gemini AI Now Built Into Opera One and Opera GX Browsers
Opera has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google to integrate the latest Gemini AI models across much of its browser lineup. The expansion means the Gemini-powered side panel previously exclusive to Opera Neon is now freely available in the company's free-to-download Opera One and Opera GX browsers. By interacting with the side panel's AI chatbot, users can get contextually relevant answers based on the current webpage and group of webpages, as well as videos. Opera says responses can include easy research, content summaries, and comparisons between different tabs. In addition, Opera AI supports voice input and output, along with file analysis for multiple file types, including images and video. The company says the engine has been rebuilt for speed, with 20% faster responses thanks to the use of a new architecture that adopts an agentic-approach from Opera Neon. Opera also emphasizes that its privacy features ensure the user has full control over what context is shared with Opera AI and what is kept outside its awareness. "AI is reshaping how people interact with the web, and the browser is the natural entry point for those experiences,” said Opera's EVP Commercial, Per Wetterdal. "Through our partnership with Google, we are able to offer users the experiences they really want through native search and AI features, for free, directly in their Opera One and Opera GX browsers while our most advanced users of the agentic Opera Neon browser are already getting access to Gemini 3 Pro."Many users have been critical of AI's creep into browsers, but Opera argues that browsing is the next AI frontier. "Unlike a standalone chat interface, the browser has access to real-time context such as a user's open tabs, page content, and browsing flows," says the company's press release. "This enables more relevant and efficient assistance, supporting task completion directly within the browsing experience." You can decide for yourself by visiting Opera's website, which includes download links for Opera Browser, Opera Air, Opera GX, and Opera Mini.Tag: Opera BrowserThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums12:06 pmI’ve been profiling a lot lately, now I’m hooked
Using instruments I've been: finding orphaned Tasks understanding how my dependencies affect memory allocation (Sentry seems to be my biggest contributor) finding leaks (here's a good WWDC vid for that) Also, now just in general, I know how many Tasks each one of my in app features should spawn. That helps me determine if I've […]11:52 amThis cute $50 case makes your M4 Mac mini look like a Mac Pro
Buying a Mac Pro makes absolutely no sense at the moment given that the Mac Studio is more powerful while also being substantially cheaper. But if you secretly lust after one anyway, then a cute $50 case can make an M4 Mac Mini look just like a miniature Mac Pro – with a couple of practical benefits thrown in … more…11:35 am34 years ago, Apple created a multimedia file format for the Mac, and it’s still all around us | Macworld34 years ago, Apple created a multimedia file format for the Mac, and it’s still all around us
Macworld The late 1980s and early to mid-1990s were Apple’s weirdest and wildest era. Wedged between the triumph of the original Macintosh and the return of Steve Jobs were a sort of Wilderness Years where the company flailed all over the place, ultimately flaming out and requiring the now-famous rescue by its co-founder. To be sure, 1990s Apple was a company with a load of problems, from out-of-control research labs building unsellable products to fruitless quests for software stacks that would reinvent documents and replace Mac OS itself. But that era of calamity and excess was also the source of some real gems, including the product that debuted 34 years ago, on Dec. 2, 1991: QuickTime. Prehistory of multimedia If you’re under the age of 40, you probably don’t remember the pre-multimedia era. Computers used to be really, really bad at audio and video. I once spent half an hour downloading a file to a floppy disk so I could play the first ten seconds of “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin through the telephone handset attached to the modem in my Apple II. It was far cry from MP3s. By the late ’80s and early ’90s, digital audio had been thoroughly integrated into Macs. (PCs needed add-on cards to do much more than issue beeps.) The next frontier was video, and even better, synchronized video and audio. There were a whole lot of challenges: the Macs of the day were not really powerful to decode and display more than a few frames per second, which was more of a slideshow than a proper video. Also, the software written to decode and encode such video (called codecs) was complex and expensive, and there were lots of different formats, making file exchange unreliable. Apple’s first promo video for QuickTime. Apple’s solution wasn’t to invent entirely new software to cover every contingency, but to build a framework for multimedia creation and playback that could use different codecs as needed. At its heart was a file that was a container for other streams of audio and video in various formats: the QuickTime Movie, or MOV. The early days were a bit of a mess, but I can tell you that I can still remember where I was when I first played a QuickTime movie (in a basement on the UC Berkeley campus, in front of a very fast Mac). The first time I plugged live video into a capture card, and it appeared, digitized, on my Mac’s screen was similarly revelatory. Keep in mind, this was unbelievably rudimentary even by the standards of the time. When Apple introduced QuickTime 2.0, it supported video at 320 by 240 pixels at 30 frames per second. That is to say, full-motion video at half the quality of the standard-definition video found on television at the time. There was a lot of work still to be done. The CD-ROM era QuickTime couldn’t have come along at a better time. Its arrival coincided with the roll-out of CD-ROM drives in Macs and PCs, which let developers fill discs with enormous video and audio files that would’ve flooded the average hard drive of the era. QuickTime (which was available for Mac and Windows alike) became a major mover in the CD-ROM world, providing accompanying video and audio for talking encyclopedias, movie databases, and games. The Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual CD-ROM was a showcase for QuickTime VR.Simon & Schuster Interactive Over the years, Apple added interactive layers to QuickTime, since so much of the CD-ROM content field demanded it. And in a great burst of creativity, Apple introduced QuickTime VR, a development kit that let you build 360-degree environments from stitched-together photos. The most beloved QuickTime VR CD-ROM was probably the Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual CD-ROM, which provided multiple 360-degree panoramas of various parts of the Enterprise. Today, you can set your iPhone’s camera app to Panorama mode to capture similar vistas–back then, it took dozens of photos and a Power Mac powerful enough to slowly merge them all together. Since the first days of desktop publishing, the Mac has always been a leader in the media world. QuickTime allowed Apple to push into the video side of things, most notably with the purchase of Final Cut Pro in 1998. The company even held its own QuickTime Live conference event, catering to the video industry. The rise of the internet The rise of the internet changed the game for QuickTime, of course. CD-ROMs offered relatively limited storage, but pretty decent bandwidth. You could store infinite amounts of video on the internet and add new videos all the time, but it had to come through a very, very slow data pipe in those early days. Apple built its own streaming software (the QuickTime Streaming Server) to provide different video qualities for different bandwidths, but a lot of the light and heat in the early days of internet multimedia streaming went elsewhere, to companies like RealNetworks, the makers of RealAudio. Apple did turn QuickTime into its own sort of multimedia browser, letting you click to various sites that offered videos in QuickTime format, including a very popular movie trailers library that survived for many years. QuickTime played an important role in the Mac’s support of internet video.512 Pixels Still, QuickTime remained a staple video tool for Mac users. Macs came with QuickTime Player, but you could pay to upgrade (!) to access QuickTime Pro, which let you slice and dice movie files, adding and removing audio and video tracks. For an app that purported to be a simple player utility, QuickTime Pro was actually incredibly useful on its own. Sadly, it was discontinued when Apple stopped supporting 32-bit apps with macOS Catalina. The current QuickTime Player X app that ships on every Mac uses a different set of frameworks and doesn’t support many of the codecs that had been supported by “classic” QuickTime. In many ways, the release of macOS Catalina marked the end of the road for QuickTime. Except… QuickTime’s legacy lives on. At a recent event I attended at Apple Park, Apple’s experts in immersive video for the Vision Pro pointed out that the standard format for immersive videos is, at its heart, a QuickTime container. And perhaps the most ubiquitous video container format on the internet, the MP4 file? That standard file format is actually a container format that can encompass different kinds of audio, video, and other information, all in one place. If that sounds familiar, that’s because MPEG-4 is based on the QuickTime format. Thirty-four years later, QuickTime may seem like a quaint product of a long-lost era of Apple. But the truth is, it’s become an integral part of the computing world, so pervasive that it’s almost invisible. I’d like to forget most of what happened at Apple in the early 1990s, but QuickTime definitely deserves our appreciation.11:06 amApple to refuse Indian government order to pre-install state security app on iPhones
The Indian government issued a mandate that intends to force smartphone companies like Apple and Samsung to preinstall a state-run security app called ‘Sanchar Saathi’ on phones sold in the region. The companies have 90 days to comply. But Reuters reports Apple intends to refuse the order and will not install the app on iPhones. The company will tell the Indian government that it does not comply with such orders in any market in which it participates, due to the associated security and privacy risks. more…11:00 amApple @ Work Podcast: What’s driving 1Password’s $400M ARR momentum?
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. In this episode of Apple @ Work, 1Password CEO David Faugno joins the show to discuss the company’s growth to $400M ARR, agentic browsers, and more. more…10:52 amTaiwan SMS Carrier Maintenance – FarEasTone
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 4, 10:00 - 12:30 PSTDec 2, 02:41 PSTScheduled - The FarEasTone network in Taiwan is conducting a planned maintenance from 04 December 2025 at 10:00 PST until 04 December 2025 at 12:30 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS to FarEasTone Taiwan handsets.10:18 amSamsung’s first tri-fold phone unfolds into a 10-inch tablet
The Galaxy Z TriFold marks Samsung’s leap past standard foldables, offering a tri-fold form factor that opens into a tablet-sized display. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)10:16 amStrange files appearing
Keep getting these weird files coming up on my phone anyone know what they are ? Thanks in advance submitted by /u/MoneyPresence1311 [link] [comments]10:10 amRumor: Apple may use Intel to help produce lower-end M7 chips in the United States beginning in 2027 | PowerPageRumor: Apple may use Intel to help produce lower-end M7 chips in the United States beginning in 2027
After years of strife, Intel could see its chip foundries once again making Apple chips as soon as 2027. Per AppleInsider and industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the lower-end M7 Apple Silicon chip could be produced in the United States come 2027. Until now, all M-series chips used in Macs and iPads have been built by […] Source10:00 amApple adds original iPhone SE model to obsolete products list
You may love the original iPhone SE, but it can’t be listed as a current piece of hardware, and thereby supported, forever. Apple on Monday added the first-generation iPhone SE to its obsolete products list. With this change, the handset is no longer eligible for repairs, battery replacements, or any other service at Apple Stores […] Source09:57 amApple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in Singapore
Apple has announced that Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available in Singapore, providing a way for independent sellers, small businesses, and larger merchants in the country to use an iPhone as a contactless payment terminal. Tap to Pay first arrived in February 2022 in the US, and allows iPhones to accept payments via Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets. All transactions are encrypted, and Apple has no information about what is purchased or the person who made the purchase. No additional hardware or credit card machine is required to use Tap to Pay on iPhone. The feature uses NFC technology to securely authenticate the contactless payments, plus the feature also supports PIN entry, which includes accessibility options. Tap to Pay will initially support Adyen, Fiuu, HitPay, Revolut, Stripe, and Zoho in Singapore. Apple says Grab will offer Tap to Pay on iPhone beginning early next year. Tap to Pay on iPhone requires iPhone XS or newer models, and works for customers as any normal Apple Pay transaction would. Sellers just need to open up the app, register the sale, and present their iPhone to the buyer, who can then use an appropriate contactless payment method. Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available in 50 countries and regions around the world. Apple's website maintains a list of countries where it is available.Tags: Singapore, Tap to Pay on iPhoneThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums09:48 amApple to Resist India's Order to Preload Government App on iPhones
Apple will resist a new Indian government directive that would require all iPhones sold in the country to ship with a preinstalled state-run security app, reports Reuters. This week, India's Department of Telecommunications ordered all smartphone makers to preload Sanchar Saathi, a non-removable government app designed to help users block stolen devices, report fraudulent calls, and verify second-hand phones. The app includes detailed tracking functionality controlled by the government, potentially opening a pathway for broad data access and potential surveillance, so there are privacy and security implications for iPhone users. According to The Business Standard, citing industry sources familiar with the matter, Apple has informed officials it does not plan to comply with the requirement. The company will reportedly tell the government it does not follow such mandates anywhere in the world as they raise a host of privacy and security issues for the company's iOS ecosystem. Apple's resistance to the directive will put added pressure on New Delhi, with political opposition parties already accusing the government of overreach. In response to the criticism, India's telecom minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Tuesday said the app was "completely optional," adding that users can choose to activate it and can "easily delete it from their phone at any time." Scindia rejected allegations of surveillance, stating the app contains no provisions for snooping or call monitoring. There are more than 700 million smartphone users in India, so any final decision will have major implications for how much control the government can exert over device software and how far tech companies like Apple can go in enforcing their own privacy standards.Tag: IndiaThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums09:44 amIssue enrolling in Apple Developer Program payment failed on Apple’s side? Anyone experienced this? | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingIssue enrolling in Apple Developer Program payment failed on Apple’s side? Anyone experienced this?
Hey everyone, I tried enrolling in the Apple Developer Program a few days ago I went through the normal process, submitted the payment (US$99), and got the “will be processed in 2 business days” email. But nothing happened after that. I contacted Apple Developer Support today and they told me there was an error processing […]09:23 amCzech Republic SMS Carrier Maintenance – T-Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 8, 14:00 - 14:30 PSTDec 2, 00:54 PSTScheduled - The T-Mobile network in the Czech Republic is conducting a planned maintenance from 08 December 2025 at 14:00 PST until 08 December 2025 at 14:30 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS to T-Mobile Czech Republic handsets.09:22 amRussia SMS Carrier Maintenance – Gazprombank Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 3, 12:00 - 13:00 PSTDec 2, 00:54 PSTScheduled - The Gazprombank Mobile network in Russia is conducting an emergency maintenance from 03 December 2025 at 12:00 PST until 03 December 2025 at 13:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS to Gazprombank Mobile Russia handsets.08:57 am10 simple steps to speed up your iPhone
Macworld Have you ever wondered if your iPhone is getting slower, or if it’s just your imagination? Have you ever wished there was some way to speed it up? If the answer to either question is yes, then you’re not alone. iPhones absolutely do get slower with age. The issue is often caused by a lot of junk files and not enough free space, as well as outdated software and unnecessary processes running in the background. So before splashing out on an expensive new device, it’s worth doing your best to solve those issues. Can you make your iPhone run faster? Yes. Whatever has made your phone slow down, there’s a solution. And in this article we show how to get it back up to speed. Step 1: Update iOS At time of writing Apple’s current operating system for the iPhone is iOS 26. From time to time there will be small ‘point’ updates (iOS 26.0.1, iOS 26.1 and so on) while the next major new version (iOS 27) will be here in September 2026. If you haven’t got the latest version of iOS, whatever that is when you read this, you may want to update. You can check by opening the Settings app on your iPhone and going to General > Software Update. This screen will let you know if there’s an update waiting for you to install, and guide you through the process of installing it. For more details, check out our complete guide to updating iOS. Updating to the latest version of iOS will often fix issues with your iPhone, because it will give you access to the latest patches and fixes for known problems. It’s almost always a good idea to install the latest point update for this reason. If you’re on iOS 26.1 and iOS 26.1.1 becomes available, grab it. It might make your iPhone a little faster, and it’s extremely unlikely to make it any slower. Larger updates (iOS 27, iOS 28, and so on) are a more complicated case. They don’t just add patches; they also add visual tweaks and new features, all of which are designed for the latest hardware and can be overwhelming for older models. They may also take up more space on your device, which is a whole other problem we discuss later in this article. Apple is supposed to address this by only allowing iPhones which are capable of handling an update to install it: you’ll find the list of supported devices for each version of iOS in this article. The ultra-cautious approach would be to only install a yearly update if your iPhone is comfortably inside the compatible zone. iOS 26, for instance, is supported by the iPhone 11 and later, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone 11 will deliver optimal performance. The safe bet would be to stay on the previous version (iOS 18; there was a change to the numbering system!) unless you’ve got an iPhone 12 or later. iOS 26 looks amazing, but it may be too demanding for older iPhones.Foundry Step 2: Restart your iPhone A common first piece of advice is to close down unused apps–and if it comforts you to do so, swipe up from the bottom of the screen (or double-press the Home button, if you’re using an older device that still has one) and swipe upwards on non-essential apps to close them. But this strategy has long been debunked, by Daring Fireball, Apple itself, and many others. Instead, let’s restart the iPhone completely. Press volume up, then volume down, then press and hold the power button on the righthand side. (If there are two buttons on the right of your iPhone, press the upper one. The lower one will be Camera Control.) You’ll then see the Power Off slider; swipe across this to restart your iPhone. (Again, if you’ve got an older model with a Home button, the method is a little different. You simply have to press and hold the power button on the top or righthand edge until the Power Off slider appears.) Once your iPhone has finished shutting down, which will take 10 seconds or so, start it up again by pressing and holding the power/sleep button for about 5 seconds. You’ll see the Apple icon, then the iPhone will restart. You shouldn’t have to do this very often, but when you do it’ll clear out the memory and can often fix unruly apps. The occasional power cycle helps keep iOS ticking over. Step 3: Kill automatic background processes The next step is to turn on Low Data Mode. This means apps won’t use data in the background, there won’t be any automatic app downloads, and emails won’t be automatically retrieved. As well as saving you data, this can also speed up your iPhone and improve battery life. To turn on Low Data Mode, open the Settings app and select Cellular > Cellular Data Options and tap the toggle labeled Low Data Mode. (You may also have to tap Data Mode before you get to the toggle, depending on your data plan. And readers in the U.K. will instead follow the Settings path Mobile Service > Mobile Data Options > [Data Mode] > Low Data Mode.) You can also turn off these data-hogging processes in Wi-Fi. Open Settings and select Wi-Fi. Tap the i next to the network you wish to limit, and choose Low Data Mode. Step 4: Turn down the graphics Dialling down the fancy visual effects can help to improve performance. Start by turning off Motion. Open Settings and go to Accessibility > Motion and tap the toggle next to Reduce Motion. This turns off the parallax effect on icons. Some people have complained that this effect makes them feel seasick, so you might even find the phone easier to use in this setting (although it will probably take some time to get used to). And of course, it will also use less power. iOS feels different with Reduce Motion enabled, but it may be worth it. David Price / Foundry Next you can reduce the see-through background effects which can also slow things down. In Settings, select Accessibility > Display & Text Size and then turn on Reduce Transparency. Similarly, if you’re running iOS 26 or later, you may want to tone down Liquid Glass, whose visual effects can make the interface confusing as well as increasing the drain on your phone’s processor and memory. Open Settings and go to Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass and change the toggle from Clear to Tinted. Keep an eye on this page; more Liquid Glass toggles may appear here in the future. Step 5: Clear cookies and data in Safari Next you should try emptying Safari’s cookies and data to free up some memory. Open the Settings app and select Apps, then use the alphabetic selector to find Safari. Scroll down to the section headed History and Website Data, then tap Clear History and Website Data. iOS will ask how much history you’d like to delete; the most effective option is All history. Bear in mind that this action may make browsing the web slightly less convenient for a while. Safari will forget the URLs you’ve been visiting so won’t suggest them as you type, unless they’re bookmarked (although it will start remembering new ones from now on). And clearing data may mean some websites forget your preferences. Step 6: Free up space on your iPhone If you’re running out of space on your iPhone, this could account for the sluggishness. Your device will tend to run better if it has at least 10GB free, or around 10% of the available storage. To find out just how much storage you’re wasting, open the Settings app and go to General > iPhone Storage. You’ll see how much space is left on your iPhone and what apps and files are using the most. There are various ways to free up space, such as deleting photos and music, or offloading data to iCloud. But we’ll start with deleting apps. Delete unwanted apps Identify apps worth deleting by going to the iPhone Storage page mentioned above; by default your apps will be listed in order of the space they take up, although you can tap the dropdown menu to filter them by name or date last used instead. Hunt out apps that are big, or you don’t use very often, or both. And remember that once you own an app you can download it again for free at a later date. Once you’ve decided what needs to go, tap on the app in the list, then choose Offload App (if you want to hang on to any documents and data) or Delete App (if you just want to get rid of it). You can also delete apps from your Home Screen by pressing and holding the app icon and selecting Remove App, but it’s probably simpler to do it from Settings. David Price / Foundry iOS will also offer specific recommendations. In the screenshot above, for example, you can see the option to save 26.86GB by deleting photos and videos, or 83.4GB by offloading unused apps. Delete messages Messages can take up a considerable amount of space, especially if you send and receive a lot of images. One option is to sync Messages to iCloud. Open Settings and tap on your Apple ID at the top, then select iCloud > Messages, and tap the slider next to Use on this iPhone so it turns green. With this setting turned on your Messages will be stored in iCloud rather than on your phone. You’ll need to pay for iCloud storage to reap the benefits of this option. If you don’t want to pay to store your Messages in iCloud, you can delete them from your iPhone quite easily. Start by opening Messages and scrolling down to find any message threads that you can manage without. Swipe to the left and tap the red trashcan icon, then hit Delete (or Delete and Block/Delete and Report Spam if either is relevant). Or, if you swipe all the way left until the trashcan icon expands, you can do this with fewer taps. Pro tip! David Price / Foundry Deleting threads with only text-based messages won’t free up much space, so it’s worth concentrating on those that include images, videos and voice notes. If you have a friend who sends you a lot of pictures, but you don’t want to delete the whole conversation, there’s an easy way to quickly and selectively delete a few images. Open their message, tap their name at the top of the screen, then select Photos. You’ll see all the images exchanged between you in a convenient list. You can then either press and hold on individual images and hit Delete, or select Edit at the top right, followed by Select Photos. Tap the photos you don’t want, then hit the trashcan icon at the bottom right. Finally, if you’re sent a lot of audio messages, make sure iOS knows to delete them after you’ve listened to them. Open the Settings app, navigate to Apps > Messages, scroll down to the section headed Audio Messages, and tap Expire. Check this is set to After 2 Minutes rather than Never. That’s two minutes after they’re opened, not after they’re sent, so don’t worry about rushing to listen before they vanish forever. Delete music These days many of us stream music using a service such as Spotify or Apple Music. (Apple Music costs $10.99/£10.99 a month, and gives you access to a library of more than 100 million songs wherever you have internet access.) But if you’ve got a lot of tracks stored on your phone, whether they’re temporarily borrowed from a streaming service or sourced from elsewhere, that could be contributing to a lack of free space, and therefore a lack of speed. Open the Settings app and go to Apps > Music, swipe down to the section headed Downloads and tap Downloaded Music. You’ll see all your tunes arranged by artist, together with the number of albums and the storage allocation taken up by each. To delete an entire artist’s worth of music, swipe left across their name and hit Delete; or tap their name to go in and delete individual albums or tracks. Delete photos Again, the temptation is to throw money at the problem. The simplest way to free up space on your phone is to pay for a decent chunk of iCloud storage and turn on the iCloud Photos feature: open Settings and go to Apps > Photos and tap the toggle labelled iCloud Photos. This means all the photos from all your Apple devices will be stored together in the cloud, and you’ll be able to see thumbnails on all your devices. The full-res version won’t be stored on your iPhone, unless you choose to download it, which means you’ll save lots of space. However, if you don’t want to pay, you could back up your photos on your Mac and then delete them from your iPhone. The easiest way to do this is to plug your iPhone into your Mac, open Photos, and then import your iPhone photos. To delete photos on the phone, open the Photos app, hit Select and then tap on the images you want to delete. Then tap the trashcan icon and confirm. If you want to enjoy the extra space right away, you’ll need to go to the Recently Deleted folder (go to Collections, scroll down to the section headed Utilities, then tap Recently Deleted) to actually delete the images, as Apple will otherwise keep them on your phone for 30 days just in case you change your mind. Here’s one last tip: if you take a lot of screenshots on your iPhone, find the screenshots album (you’ll find it under Collections > Media Types) and delete them there. Screenshots are unlikely to be wanted in the long term. It’s also worth targeting any Burst photos you’ve taken: you may have ended up with 14 pictures because you kept the shutter pressed too long. Delete these for easy space gains. Step 7: Check for throttling Back in 2017, Apple added a controversial iOS function to automatically throttle the performance of iPhones with ageing batteries in order to prolong their life and “prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down.” The company later made it possible to turn this off, and if your phone is slow (and particularly if it’s on the older side) it’s worth checking to see if this is an option. Just bear in mind that any speed increases may come at the cost of reliability. If you’re running iOS 18 or earlier, open the Settings app and go to Battery > Battery Health & Charging and look for a reference to performance. If it says Peak Performance Capability, everything is running normally. If it says Below Peak Performance, throttling is being applied to slow down your phone: tap the Disable button to turn this off. Those on iOS 26 or later will see different options because the function was changed and rebranded as Adaptive Power. Open Settings and go to Battery > Power Mode. Tap the toggle labelled Adaptive Power so it turns gray. This should ensure any system throttling is switched off. Adaptive Power may slow down performance slightly.David Price / Foundry Again, bear in mind that these functions are supposed to be there for your protection. A better solution would therefore be to ensure your battery is in optimal health so throttling isn’t necessary; that way you’ll get both performance and reliability. We have a separate article that shows you how to check your iPhone battery and find out if it needs to be replaced. Step 8: Restore to factory settings We’re getting into drastic solutions now. We’re going to perform a full restore, which deletes all the data on the iPhone and returns it, in effect, to the state it was in when you bought it. (Except that the hardware components will still have suffered a number of years of wear and tear, of course.) Since we’re deleting all the data, you should back up the iPhone first. Then you can restore the iPhone to its factory settings by opening Settings and going to General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase All Content and Settings. You’ll then have to enter your passcode and confirm. After a few minutes, you’ll be presented with the welcome screen you saw when you first started up the iPhone. You can now restore from the backup you made and see if the speed problems have gone away. If they persist, it’s possible the issue was caused by something on you phone that you’ve now reintroduced, so as a last resort try erasing everything once more and this time set up from scratch, rather than using the backup. Step 9: Ask Apple for help If none of the above techniques work, you can ask Apple for help. Just bear in mind that there may not be an easy (or cheap) solution. As we mentioned earlier, slowness can be a matter of perception. But if you’re sure something’s up, and you’ve tried all our tricks, you may wish to ask Apple to check for a faulty component or other hardware issue. (This may be covered by your Apple warranty if you’ve got one.) Read our article on booking an appointment with Apple for the details. Step 10: Buy a new iPhone If Apple can’t help, or the company’s help is too expensive to be worth it, we reach the final option: give up on your older iPhone and buy something new(er). If you’ve reached that point, check out our iPhone buying guide to help figure out the right model for you. Then read about the best iPhone deals to make sure you’re paying the lowest price. Or, if you’re determined to buy direct from Apple, jump straight to the Apple store and pick a replacement.08:57 am10 simple steps to speed up your iPhone
Macworld Have you ever wondered if your iPhone is getting slower, or if it’s just your imagination? Have you ever wished there was some way to speed it up? If the answer to either question is yes, then you’re not alone. iPhones absolutely do get slower with age. The issue is often caused by a lot of junk files and not enough free space, as well as outdated software and unnecessary processes running in the background. So before splashing out on an expensive new device, it’s worth doing your best to solve those issues. Can you make your iPhone run faster? Yes. Whatever has made your phone slow down, there’s a solution. And in this article we show how to get it back up to speed. Step 1: Update iOS At time of writing Apple’s current operating system for the iPhone is iOS 26. From time to time there will be small ‘point’ updates (iOS 26.0.1, iOS 26.1 and so on) while the next major new version (iOS 27) will be here in September 2026. If you haven’t got the latest version of iOS, whatever that is when you read this, you may want to update. You can check by opening the Settings app on your iPhone and going to General > Software Update. This screen will let you know if there’s an update waiting for you to install, and guide you through the process of installing it. For more details, check out our complete guide to updating iOS. You may find you can’t run the latest version of iOS, but at least install the latest version of iOS for your iPhone. Updating to the latest version of iOS will often fix issues with your iPhone, because it will give you access to the latest patches and fixes for known problems. It’s almost always a good idea to install the latest point update for this reason. If you’re on iOS 26.1 and iOS 26.1.1 becomes available, grab it. It might make your iPhone a little faster, and it’s extremely unlikely to make it any slower. Larger updates (iOS 27, iOS 28, and so on) are a more complicated case. They don’t just add patches; they also add visual tweaks and new features, all of which are designed for the latest hardware and can be overwhelming for older models. They may also take up more space on your device, which is a whole other problem we discuss later in this article. You can also experience slow downs for the first few days after a larger update because Spotlight reindexes your iPhone, so if that matches your experience right now, that’s probably the reason. Apple is supposed to address this by only allowing iPhones which are capable of handling an update to install it: you’ll find the list of supported devices for each version of iOS in our iOS compatibility checker. The ultra-cautious approach would be to only install a yearly update if your iPhone is comfortably inside the compatible zone. iOS 26, for instance, is supported by the iPhone 11 and later, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone 11 will deliver optimal performance. The safe bet would be to stay on the previous version (iOS 18; there was a change to the numbering system!) unless you’ve got an iPhone 12 or later. iOS 26 looks amazing, but it may be too demanding for older iPhones.Foundry Step 2: Restart your iPhone A common first piece of advice is to close down unused apps–and if it comforts you to do so, swipe up from the bottom of the screen (or double-press the Home button, if you’re using an older device that still has one) and swipe upwards on non-essential apps to close them. But this strategy has long been debunked, by Daring Fireball, Apple itself, and many others. Instead, let’s restart the iPhone completely. Press volume up, then volume down, then press and hold the power button on the righthand side. (If there are two buttons on the right of your iPhone, press the upper one. The lower one will be Camera Control.) You’ll then see the Power Off slider; swipe across this to restart your iPhone. (Again, if you’ve got an older model with a Home button, the method is a little different. You simply have to press and hold the power button on the top or righthand edge until the Power Off slider appears.) Once your iPhone has finished shutting down, which will take 10 seconds or so, start it up again by pressing and holding the power/sleep button for about 5 seconds. You’ll see the Apple icon, then the iPhone will restart. You shouldn’t have to do this very often, but when you do it’ll clear out the memory and can often fix unruly apps. The occasional power cycle helps keep iOS ticking over. Step 3: Kill automatic background processes The next step is to turn on Low Data Mode. This means apps won’t use data in the background, there won’t be any automatic app downloads, and emails won’t be automatically retrieved. As well as saving you data, this can also speed up your iPhone and improve battery life. To turn on Low Data Mode, open the Settings app and select Cellular > Cellular Data Options and tap the toggle labeled Low Data Mode. (You may also have to tap Data Mode before you get to the toggle, depending on your data plan. And readers in the U.K. will instead follow the Settings path Mobile Service > Mobile Data Options > [Data Mode] > Low Data Mode.) You can also turn off these data-hogging processes in Wi-Fi. Open Settings and select Wi-Fi. Tap the i next to the network you wish to limit, and choose Low Data Mode. Step 4: Turn down the graphics and visual effects Dialling down the fancy visual effects can help to improve performance. Start by turning off Motion. Open Settings and go to Accessibility > Motion and tap the toggle next to Reduce Motion. This turns off the parallax effect on icons. Some people have complained that this effect makes them feel seasick, so you might even find the phone easier to use in this setting (although it will probably take some time to get used to). And of course, it will also use less power. iOS feels different with Reduce Motion enabled, but it may be worth it. David Price / Foundry Next you can reduce the see-through background effects which can also slow things down. In Settings, select Accessibility > Display & Text Size and then turn on Reduce Transparency. Similarly, if you’re running iOS 26 or later, you may want to tone down Liquid Glass, whose visual effects can make the interface confusing as well as increasing the drain on your phone’s processor and memory. Open Settings and go to Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass and change the toggle from Clear to Tinted. Keep an eye on this page; more Liquid Glass toggles may appear here in the future. Step 5: Clear cookies and data in Safari Next you should try emptying Safari’s cookies and data to free up some memory. Open the Settings app and select Apps, then use the alphabetic selector to find Safari. Scroll down to the section headed History and Website Data, then tap Clear History and Website Data. iOS will ask how much history you’d like to delete; the most effective option is All history. Bear in mind that this action may make browsing the web slightly less convenient for a while. Safari will forget the URLs you’ve been visiting so won’t suggest them as you type, unless they’re bookmarked (although it will start remembering new ones from now on). And clearing data may mean some websites forget your preferences. Step 6: Free up space on your iPhone If you’re running out of space on your iPhone, this could account for the sluggishness. Your device will tend to run better if it has at least 10GB free, or around 10% of the available storage. To find out just how much storage you’re wasting, open the Settings app and go to General > iPhone Storage. You’ll see how much space is left on your iPhone and what apps and files are using the most. There are various ways to free up space, such as deleting photos and music, or offloading data to iCloud. But we’ll start with deleting apps. Delete unwanted apps Identify apps worth deleting by going to the iPhone Storage page mentioned above; by default your apps will be listed in order of the space they take up, although you can tap the dropdown menu to filter them by name or date last used instead. Hunt out apps that are big, or you don’t use very often, or both. And remember that once you own an app you can download it again for free at a later date. Once you’ve decided what needs to go, tap on the app in the list, then choose Offload App (if you want to hang on to any documents and data) or Delete App (if you just want to get rid of it). You can also delete apps from your Home Screen by pressing and holding the app icon and selecting Remove App, but it’s probably simpler to do it from Settings. David Price / Foundry iOS will also offer specific recommendations. In the screenshot above, for example, you can see the option to save 26.86GB by deleting photos and videos, or 83.4GB by offloading unused apps. Delete messages Messages can take up a considerable amount of space, especially if you send and receive a lot of images. One option is to sync Messages to iCloud. Open Settings and tap on your Apple ID at the top, then select iCloud > Messages, and tap the slider next to Use on this iPhone so it turns green. With this setting turned on your Messages will be stored in iCloud rather than on your phone. You’ll need to pay for iCloud storage to reap the benefits of this option. If you don’t want to pay to store your Messages in iCloud, you can delete them from your iPhone quite easily. Start by opening Messages and scrolling down to find any message threads that you can manage without. Swipe to the left and tap the red trashcan icon, then hit Delete (or Delete and Block/Delete and Report Spam if either is relevant). Or, if you swipe all the way left until the trashcan icon expands, you can do this with fewer taps. Pro tip! David Price / Foundry Deleting threads with only text-based messages won’t free up much space, so it’s worth concentrating on those that include images, videos and voice notes. If you have a friend who sends you a lot of pictures, but you don’t want to delete the whole conversation, there’s an easy way to quickly and selectively delete a few images. Open their message, tap their name at the top of the screen, then select Photos. You’ll see all the images exchanged between you in a convenient list. You can then either press and hold on individual images and hit Delete, or select Edit at the top right, followed by Select Photos. Tap the photos you don’t want, then hit the trashcan icon at the bottom right. Finally, if you’re sent a lot of audio messages, make sure iOS knows to delete them after you’ve listened to them. Open the Settings app, navigate to Apps > Messages, scroll down to the section headed Audio Messages, and tap Expire. Check this is set to After 2 Minutes rather than Never. That’s two minutes after they’re opened, not after they’re sent, so don’t worry about rushing to listen before they vanish forever. Delete music These days many of us stream music using a service such as Spotify or Apple Music. (Apple Music costs $10.99/£10.99 a month, and gives you access to a library of more than 100 million songs wherever you have internet access.) But if you’ve got a lot of tracks stored on your phone, whether they’re temporarily borrowed from a streaming service or sourced from elsewhere, that could be contributing to a lack of free space, and therefore a lack of speed. Open the Settings app and go to Apps > Music, swipe down to the section headed Downloads and tap Downloaded Music. You’ll see all your tunes arranged by artist, together with the number of albums and the storage allocation taken up by each. To delete an entire artist’s worth of music, swipe left across their name and hit Delete; or tap their name to go in and delete individual albums or tracks. Delete photos Again, the temptation is to throw money at the problem. The simplest way to free up space on your phone is to pay for a decent chunk of iCloud storage and turn on the iCloud Photos feature: open Settings and go to Apps > Photos and tap the toggle labelled iCloud Photos. This means all the photos from all your Apple devices will be stored together in the cloud, and you’ll be able to see thumbnails on all your devices. The full-res version won’t be stored on your iPhone, unless you choose to download it, which means you’ll save lots of space. The size of your photo library on your iPhone will be significantly smaller if you store the high res images in the cloud, but expect that it will still take up a lot of space on your device if you have a lot of photos. If you want to reduce the space given to your photos you will still need to delete some. However, if you don’t want to pay to store your photos in iCloud, you could back up your photos on your Mac and then delete them from your iPhone. The easiest way to do this is to plug your iPhone into your Mac, open Photos, and then import your iPhone photos. To delete photos on the phone, open the Photos app, hit Select and then tap on the images you want to delete. Then tap the trashcan icon and confirm. If you want to enjoy the extra space right away, you’ll need to go to the Recently Deleted folder (go to Collections, scroll down to the section headed Utilities, then tap Recently Deleted) to actually delete the images, as Apple will otherwise keep them on your phone for 30 days just in case you change your mind. Here’s one last tip: if you take a lot of screenshots on your iPhone, find the screenshots album (you’ll find it under Collections > Media Types) and delete them there. Screenshots are unlikely to be wanted in the long term. It’s also worth targeting any Burst photos you’ve taken: you may have ended up with 14 pictures because you kept the shutter pressed too long. Delete these for easy space gains. Video also takes up a lot of space, so look at your album of videos and delete those you don’t want. Step 7: Check for throttling Back in 2017, Apple added a controversial iOS function to automatically throttle the performance of iPhones with ageing batteries in order to prolong their life and “prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down.” The company later made it possible to turn this off, and if your phone is slow (and particularly if it’s on the older side) it’s worth checking to see if this is an option. Just bear in mind that any speed increases may come at the cost of reliability. If you’re running iOS 18 or earlier, open the Settings app and go to Battery > Battery Health & Charging and look for a reference to performance. If it says Peak Performance Capability, everything is running normally. If it says Below Peak Performance, throttling is being applied to slow down your phone: tap the Disable button to turn this off. Those on iOS 26 or later will see different options because the function was changed and rebranded as Adaptive Power. Open Settings and go to Battery > Power Mode. Tap the toggle labelled Adaptive Power so it turns gray. This should ensure any system throttling is switched off. Adaptive Power may slow down performance slightly.David Price / Foundry Again, bear in mind that these functions are supposed to be there for your protection. A better solution would therefore be to ensure your battery is in optimal health so throttling isn’t necessary; that way you’ll get both performance and reliability. We have a separate article that shows you how to check your iPhone battery and find out if it needs to be replaced. Step 8: Restore to factory settings We’re getting into drastic solutions now. We’re going to perform a full restore, which deletes all the data on the iPhone and returns it, in effect, to the state it was in when you bought it. (Except that the hardware components will still have suffered a number of years of wear and tear, of course.) Since we’re deleting all the data, you should back up the iPhone first. Then you can restore the iPhone to its factory settings by opening Settings and going to General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase All Content and Settings. You’ll then have to enter your passcode and confirm. After a few minutes, you’ll be presented with the welcome screen you saw when you first started up the iPhone. You can now restore from the backup you made and see if the speed problems have gone away. If they persist, it’s possible the issue was caused by something on you phone that you’ve now reintroduced, so as a last resort try erasing everything once more and this time set up from scratch, rather than using the backup. Step 9: Ask Apple for help If none of the above techniques work, you can ask Apple for help. Just bear in mind that there may not be an easy (or cheap) solution. As we mentioned earlier, slowness can be a matter of perception. But if you’re sure something’s up, and you’ve tried all our tricks, you may wish to ask Apple to check for a faulty component or other hardware issue. (This may be covered by your Apple warranty if you’ve got one.) Read our article on booking an appointment with Apple for the details. Step 10: Buy a new iPhone If Apple can’t help, or the company’s help is too expensive to be worth it, we reach the final option: give up on your older iPhone and buy something new(er). If you’ve reached that point, check out our iPhone buying guide to help figure out the best iPhone for you. Then read about the best iPhone deals to make sure you’re paying the lowest price.08:17 amAppstore Connect is the biggest pile of shit – how did we get here?
Not much more needs to be said. They need to just nuke it and start again. Laughably bad engineering work for a supposedly decent engineering company. submitted by /u/killthenoise [link] [comments]08:00 amFor stargazers, birders & curious humans—a smartphone-based telescope for 49% off
Macworld TL;DR: The Viztalab smartphone telescope turns your smartphone into a high-precision viewing tool for crystal-clear stargazing and birdwatching—no PhD required—for just $199.99 (MSRP $399). Stargazing, birdwatching, and wildlife spotting just got a whole lot smarter. The Viztalab Smartphone-Based AI Telescope brings next-level clarity and intelligent guidance straight to your phone, all for $199.99 while this limited-time offer lasts. Whether you’re scanning the skies or tracking rare birds, this gadget makes discovery feel easy and incredibly cool. Powered by advanced ED lenses and AI technology, Viztalab delivers 24x true optical zoom with zero quality loss, ensuring every view is sharp, vibrant, and glare-free. The real magic? The Vizta App. It identifies over 10,000 bird species, offers an interactive sky map, and guides you to constellations, planets, and celestial events with simple, tap-to-follow instructions. Designed for both beginners and seasoned explorers, this telescope stacks multiple exposures to reveal jaw-dropping detail and stores your best shots safely in the cloud. Setup is refreshingly simple — attach your phone and launch the app. From spontaneous backyard stargazing sessions to planned wildlife adventures, Viztalab turns curiosity into crystal-clear knowledge. It’s smart, portable, and ready for wherever your sense of wonder takes you. Get the Viztalab Smartphone-Based AI Telescope while it’s just $199.99 during this holiday sale. Viztalab Smartphone-Based AI TelescopeSee Deal StackSocial prices subject to change.07:01 amIs this worth uploading to the App Store?
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a small side project for the last couple of days…basically a stress-relief game inspired by all the shooters I grew up playing (Galaga, 1945, Raiden, etc.). It started as something I built just for fun on my iPad on the swift playgrounds app…but now it’s becoming something real and […]05:17 amiOS 26 navigation bar’s position is positioned lower than iOS 18 in landscape mode | Stack Overflow on iOS DeviOS 26 navigation bar’s position is positioned lower than iOS 18 in landscape mode
My app simply contains a navigation bar, and notice that iOS 26 renders it lower than expected. As you can see from the screenshot, it's positioned at 24 pt down. However, on iOS 18, the navigation bar is positioned at the top. The iOS 26 version takes too much screen space and doesn't look good. How can I change it to match iOS 18 behavior? Here's a minimum repro code: import UIKit class ViewController: UIViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Do any additional setup after loading the view. let w: CGFloat = 64 let h: CGFloat = 64 let v1 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) let v2 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) let v3 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) let v4 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) let v5 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) let v6 = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h)) v1.backgroundColor = .red v2.backgroundColor = .green v3.backgroundColor = .yellow v4.backgroundColor = .gray v5.backgroundColor = .cyan v6.backgroundColor = .purple let views: [UIView] = [v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6] let gap: CGFloat = 16 let width: CGFloat = 32 let height: CGFloat = 32 let totalWidth: CGFloat = width * CGFloat(views.count) + gap * CGFloat(views.count-1) let container = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, totalWidth, height)) container.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: totalWidth).isActive = true for (i, view) in views.enumerated() { view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false container.addSubview(view) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ view.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: width), view.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: height), // match container view.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.centerYAnchor), view.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.leadingAnchor, constant: CGFloat(i) * (width + gap)) ]) } let containerItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: container) if #available(iOS 26.0, *) { containerItem.hidesSharedBackground = true } navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = containerItem } } extension UIView { func anchor(to size: CGSize) { translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false let constraints = [ heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: size.height), widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: size.width) ] for constraint in constraints { constraint.priority = UILayoutPriority(rawValue: 1000) } NSLayoutConstraint.activate(constraints) } } On iOS 26 (see the gap): On iOS 18 (no gap):04:57 amNew to iOS dev, sent my first app for review. hello, world
Hi everyone, this seems like a nice community. Lately I’ve been interested in learning how to make iOS apps, especially with the arrival of Liquid Glass which I find pretty cool. I made an App that I just submitted to review. Professionally I’ve been a backend developer for 10 years and recently started touching the […]04:56 amApp Store rejection response
Hello, My app got rejected but for reasons that I can explain. Am I better off submitting my app for review again and putting my response into the review notes, or just responding to the comment? Which way is typically faster? Thanks! submitted by /u/disinton [link] [comments]04:20 amUPDATE: **Summary** Some Google Meet customers may experience an issue with ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature **Description** Google Workspace released a feature to a subset of Workspace customers [Continue your conversations in Google Chat](https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308979?visit_id=639002449653293387-821172296&p=chat_in_meet&rd=1). Some Google Workspace users are experiencing issues with Google Meet host controls for this feature. This may include inability to disable the feature or the ‘disable’ option not being visible under the host controls within Google Calendar meeting invites. We are investigating and will provide an update by Friday, 2025-12-05 10:00 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by this issue. **Symptoms** The impacted users are unable to observe Chat moderation settings under the Host Controls for ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature. **Workaround** None at this time. | Google AppsUPDATE: **Summary** Some Google Meet customers may experience an issue with ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature **Description** Google Workspace released a feature to a subset of Workspace customers [Continue your conversations in Google Chat](https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308979?visit_id=639002449653293387-821172296&p=chat_in_meet&rd=1). Some Google Workspace users are experiencing issues with Google Meet host controls for this feature. This may include inability to disable the feature or the ‘disable’ option not being visible under the host controls within Google Calendar meeting invites. We are investigating and will provide an update by Friday, 2025-12-05 10:00 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by this issue. **Symptoms** The impacted users are unable to observe Chat moderation settings under the Host Controls for ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature. **Workaround** None at this time.
Incident began at 2025-12-01 08:00 (times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)).Summary Some Google Meet customers may experience an issue with ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature Description Google Workspace released a feature to a subset of Workspace customers Continue your conversations in Google Chat. Some Google Workspace users are experiencing issues with Google Meet host controls for this feature. This may include inability to disable the feature or the ‘disable’ option not being visible under the host controls within Google Calendar meeting invites. We are investigating and will provide an update by Friday, 2025-12-05 10:00 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by this issue. Symptoms The impacted users are unable to observe Chat moderation settings under the Host Controls for ‘Continuous meeting chat’ feature. Workaround None at this time. Affected products: Google Meet02:52 amUnited States SMS and MMS Carrier Maintenance – T-Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 2, 20:00 PST - Dec 3, 04:00 PSTDec 1, 18:41 PSTScheduled - The T-Mobile network in the United States is conducting a planned maintenance from 02 December 2025 at 20:00 PST until 03 December 2025 at 04:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS and MMS to and from T-Mobile United States handsets.01:08 amWhat is up with Apple reviewers lately? Feels like they do not reference the test review notes and only test 1-2 things at a time… | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingWhat is up with Apple reviewers lately? Feels like they do not reference the test review notes and only test 1-2 things at a time…
I have probably gone through 10 reviews now where I have to keep messaging back and forth with reviewers because they can’t find something but I have it well documented in the review note at the very top to make sure they see it. It’s been getting quite irritating submitted by /u/RiMellow [link] […]01:02 amSamsung Launches Galaxy Z TriFold Smartphone With 10-Inch Display
Samsung today introduced the Galaxy Z TriFold, its first smartphone that has three total screens and two folds instead of one. The Galaxy Z TriFold features a 10-inch display when opened, and a 6.5-inch cover screen when closed, with "minimized creasing." The device has an inward-folding design that's meant to protect the main display, and Samsung says that the "easy opening and closing" folding mechanism has been engineered with an alarm that alerts the user if it's folded incorrectly. Samsung is using a titanium Armor FlexHinge with two differently sized hinges that work together with a dual-rail structure. Samsung claims that the new design offers a smoother, more stable fold despite the varying weight across each display, plus greater durability thanks to the inclusion of a "thin piece of metal" that protects the folding mechanism. A third of the display is 3.9mm thick when the smartphone is unfolded, though it is thicker in the area with the triple-lens camera. The main center screen is a bit thicker at 4.2mm, and the screen with the side button is 4mm. There is a reinforced overcoat over a shock absorbing display layer for better resistance, and the aluminum frame keeps the screens from making contact with one another. There's a 5,600 mAh three-cell battery system with one battery behind each display panel. Samsung says it is the largest battery that it has used in a smartphone to date. There are three cameras at the rear of the device, including a 200-megapixel wide angle camera, a 12-megapixel ultra wide camera, and a 10-megapixel telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. There are two 10-megapixel selfie cameras on the cover screen and the main screen. Galaxy Z TriFold users can use three different portrait-sized apps side-by-side, resize apps in a multi-window view, watch shows in full screen, or hold the device vertically for reading. Samsung added standalone Samsung DeX, so the Galaxy Z TriFold supports up to four workspaces with five apps running simultaneously. Samsung apps have been optimized for the larger screen, as has Google's Gemini Live. The Galaxy Z TriFold is launching in Korea on December 12, and it will expand to other markets like China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the UAE later. It will launch in the United States in the first quarter of 2026, and pricing is unknown. Tag: SamsungThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums12:46 amApple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down
Macworld Apple has formally announced that John Giannandrea, its Senior VP of Machine Learning and AI, is stepping down from his position. He will serve as an advisor to the company before retiring in the spring of 2026. Giannandrea will not be directly replaced by a Senior VP role, but by a Vice President: Amar Subramanya. Subramanya was at Google for 16 years and made a name for himself as a prominent AI researcher. Just this summer, he joined Microsoft as Corporate VP of AI. Now, after just six months, he’s joining Apple. Subramanya was a principal member of the team that created Gemini (released in 2023) and Imagen 3 at Google. In other words, after OpenAI caught the industry off guard with ChatGPT, he appears to have been instrumental in helping Google catch up. Now, he’s at Apple, where the same work is desperately needed. Subramanya will report to Senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Frederighi. He will be responsible for leading Apple’s efforts in Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. Most of those who worked under Giannandrea’s group will now report to Eddy Cue, the Senior VP of Services. Giannandrea was brought into Apple from Google back in 2018, when Apple’s biggest AI effort was the ill-fated Apple Car project. He and his team have been responsible for many of the advancements Apple has made in the field of AI and ML, but he is perhaps also to blame for Siri–Apple’s most visible and important AI product–falling far behind the state of the art. Apple’s press release reads as though Giannandrea will step back from his role right away, staying on to advise during the transition, and will fully retire in the spring of 2026, which is when we expect Apple’s next-gen Siri to be released. That gives Apple several months to get this new AI organization in place and its leadership running well by the time it introduces the new Siri to over a billion users.12:37 amApple replaces AI chief, taps ex-Googler to fix Apple Intelligence
Apple's AI chief is out after a string of failures. Learn about the new leadership for the company's critical AI development efforts. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)12:37 amWhen Will Apple Release iOS 26.2?
We're getting closer to the launch of the final major iOS update of the year, with Apple set to release iOS 26.2 in December. We've had three betas so far and are expecting a fourth beta or a release candidate this week, so a launch could follow as soon as next week. Past Launch Dates Apple's past iOS x.2 updates from the last few years have all happened right around the middle of the month, which gives us some insight into when iOS 26.2 will launch. iOS 18.2 - RC on Thursday, December 5, launch on Wednesday, December 11. Four betas total before RC, with beta 4 on Wednesday, November 20. iOS 17.2 - RC on Tuesday, December 5, launch on Monday, December 11. Four betas total before RC, with beta 4 on Tuesday, November 28. iOS 16.2 - RC on Wednesday, December 7, launch on Tuesday, December 13. Four betas total before RC, with beta 4 on Thursday, December 1. iOS 15.2 - RC on Tuesday, December 7, launch on Monday, December 13. Four betas total before RC, with beta 4 on Thursday, December 2. iOS 14.2 - RC on Friday, October 30, launch on Thursday, November 5. Four betas total before RC, with beta 4 on Tuesday, October 20. Apple has stuck to a December launch schedule for x.2 updates since 2021. Before that, updates were less scheduled with more variation in launch timeline. RCs have consistently come during the first week of December, with a launch during the second week. Possible Scenarios Compared to the past two years, Apple is a bit behind on the launch of the fourth beta. With iOS 17.2 and iOS 18.2, the last beta came in November, so the RC was able to launch earlier in the month. This year, we haven't had a fourth beta yet. We should be getting it sometime this week between Tuesday and Thursday. Apple has historically waited a week between beta 4 and the RC, and then another week before releasing the update. If Apple sticks to a similar timeline this year, we'll see the following: Beta 4 between December 2-4, RC between December 8-11, iOS 26.2 launch on December 15 or December 16. December 15 or 16 would mark the latest that we've had an x.2 release since Apple adopted a more consistent update schedule. It's possible Apple might want to speed things up. If that's the case, we could see this launch timeline: Beta 4 between December 2-4, RC between December 4 and 8, launch around December 11. Apple could condense the amount of time between the fourth beta and the RC, or the amount of time between the RC and launch. There's also a possibility that we don't get a fourth beta at all. With no fourth beta, the timeline looks like this: RC between December 2-4, launch between December 8-11. Apple has consistently done four betas before an RC, and there are some major regulatory updates in Japan, so the first scenario with the later iOS 26.2 launch date seems the most likely at this point. Either way, iOS 26.2 is coming in just a couple of weeks. iOS 26.2 Features iOS 26.2 isn't a major update for most people outside of Japan, but there are a handful of useful new features. Reminder Alarms - You can elect to have an alarm go off when a reminder is due, with standard stop and snooze options. Lock Screen - There's a slider that lets you adjust the Liquid Glass transparency of the clock. AirDrop - iOS 26.2 lets you generate a one-time AirDrop code for file sharing with someone who isn't in your contacts list. It supports file exchanges for a 30-day period. Sleep Score - Sleep Score ranges have been adjusted to better reflect how people might be feeling after a night's sleep. Live Translation - AirPods Live Translation is expanding to the EU. Japan - iPhone users in Japan will be able to download apps from alternative app stores and replace Siri with a different personal assistant. There are even more features in iOS 26.2, with a full list available in our features guide. iOS 26.3 Apple often follows launches with new betas, so while iOS 26.2 will be the last major software update of the year, we're still likely to get a glimpse of what's in iOS 26.3 before 2026 rolls around. The first beta of iOS 18.3 came out on December 16, the first beta of iOS 17.3 came on December 12, and the first beta of iOS 16.3 came out on December 14. The first beta of iOS 26.3 should come the day after iOS 26.2. Unfortunately, the x.3 updates are often more focused on internal improvements than outward-facing features, so we are finished with exciting updates until 2026.Related Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26Related Forum: iOS 26This article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums12:32 amChatGPT is Going to Start Showing You Ads
OpenAI appears to be gearing up to introduce ads in ChatGPT, presumably for users who don't pay to access the chatbot. Engineer Tibor Blaho recently found references to upcoming ad functionality in the ChatGPT Android app. Code strings mention search ads, a search ad carousel, and an ad API. Though ad mentions were found in the Android app, it's likely a change that's coming to ChatGPT on all platforms, including iOS, Mac, and the desktop. ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an "ads feature" with "bazaar content", "search ad" and "search ads carousel" pic.twitter.com/BdHOJIQHmA— Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) November 29, 2025 Given the "search" wording, it's possible ads will be limited to web searches and shopping research requests. Access to ChatGPT starts at $20 per month for the Plus plan, with a ChatGPT Pro plan available for $200 per month with higher access limits. There are also business and education plans, along with the current free plan. In other countries, OpenAI offers a cheaper "Go" plan that could also expand to the United States when ads roll out. There have been rumors that OpenAI plans to gradually raise the price of ChatGPT access, and a plan restructuring with an ad-supported tier seems like the ideal time to make pricing changes. As noted by Search Engine Land, OpenAI executives have been changing their messaging around ads over the course of the last 12 months. In late 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ads were a "last resort," but in early 2025, leaked internal forecasts included $1 billion in "free user monetization" revenue in 2026. Earlier this year, Altman said that he loved Instagram ads and felt they were valuable. He said he thought OpenAI could find "some cool product ad" that's a "net win to the user."Tags: ChatGPT, OpenAIThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums12:26 amHere are the main challenges that Apple’s new AI lead will face from day one
Amar Subramanya will likely become one of the most closely watched hires Apple has made in years. Here’s what he needs to do first. more…12:23 amApple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
Apple's longtime AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring, with former Microsoft and Google AI leader Amar Subramanya stepping in to take over. MacRumors notes the retirement comes after the company's repeated delays in delivering its revamped Siri and internal turmoil that led to an AI team exodus. From the report: Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Apple engineering chief Craig Federighi, and will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. Subramanya was previously corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft, and before that, he spent 16 years at Google. He was head of engineering for Google's Gemini Assistant, and Apple says that he has "deep expertise" in both AI and ML research that will be important to "Apple's ongoing innovation and future Apple Intelligence features." Some of the teams that Giannandrea oversaw will move to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue, such as AI Infrastructure and Search and Knowledge. Khan is Apple's new Chief Operating Officer who took over for Jeff Williams earlier this year. Cue has long overseen Apple services. [...] Apple said that it is "poised to accelerate its work in delivering intelligent, trusted, and profoundly personal experiences" with the new AI team. "We are thankful for the role John played in building and advancing our AI work, helping Apple continue to innovate and enrich the lives of our users," said Apple CEO Tim Cook in a statement. "AI has long been central to Apple's strategy, and we are pleased to welcome Amar to Craig's leadership team and to bring his extraordinary AI expertise to Apple. In addition to growing his leadership team and AI responsibilities with Amar's joining, Craig has been instrumental in driving our AI efforts, including overseeing our work to bring a more personalized Siri to users next year." Read more of this story at Slashdot.Monday December 0111:58 pmHuge discounts hit iPad, iPad Air, and more for Cyber Monday (from $274)
The Cyber Monday deals for Apple’s entire lineup of iPads have arrived. Whether you’re looking for the ultimate Netflix machine or something with an obscene amount of power, we’ve got you covered. We’re tracking low prices on the base iPad, iPad Air, adorable iPad mini, and powerful iPad Pro. These are the best Cyber Monday prices on iPads that you’ll find. Keep up with all the best Apple Cyber Monday deals in our dedicated roundup right here! more…11:48 pmMKBHD Shutting Down Controversial 'Panels' Wallpaper App
Panels, a wallpaper app launched by well-known YouTuber Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), is shutting down at the end of 2025. According to a notice on the Panels website, the "makeup of the development team" changed earlier this year, and MKBHD wasn't able to find other collaborators who were the "right fit" to continue work on the app. Brownlee said in an accompanying video that he wasn't able to turn Panels into the vision that he had. The Panels app is being shut down on December 31, 2025. The Panels app code will be open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license in January 2026 for anyone who wants to create new projects based on the code. Panels users who have downloaded or purchased wallpapers can continue to use them, and wallpapers can be downloaded until the end of December. When the app is removed from the App Store, active subscriptions will be automatically canceled, and annual subscriptions will be proactively refunded. Purchases in the app have been discontinued as of today. Panels was heavily criticized when it launched in September 2024 due to pricing and aggressive data collection. The app cost $11.99 per month or $49.99 per year to download full resolution wallpapers. There was an option to watch two ads to download a wallpaper, but only at a limited 1080p resolution. It also asked to track activity across websites and apps, requested location information, and displayed ads in the feed. Brownlee updated the app to address user concerns and dropped the subscription price to $2 per month, but Panels failed to catch on after its initial problems.This article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums11:35 pmB&H's Cyber Monday sale slashes up to $500 off MacBook Pro, Air, Mac Studio, Mac mini | AppleInsiderB&H's Cyber Monday sale slashes up to $500 off MacBook Pro, Air, Mac Studio, Mac mini
Time is running out to grab B&H's Cyber Monday deals on Apple computers, with inventory still available at some of the lowest prices on record.Cyber Monday Mac deals end tonight.With some of the steepest discounts available on MacBook Pros, including new M5 models, B&H is a prime destination for Cyber Monday deals on Apple.Shop B&H Cyber Monday deals Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums11:23 pmUnited States SMS and MMS Carrier Maintenance – T-Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 3, 20:00 PST - Dec 4, 04:00 PSTDec 1, 15:12 PSTScheduled - The T-Mobile network in the United States is conducting a planned maintenance from 03 December 2025 at 20:00 PST until 04 December 2025 at 04:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS and MMS to and from T-Mobile United States handsets when sending via long codes and short codes.11:23 pmFrance SMS Carrier Maintenance – Free Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 2, 22:00 - 23:00 PSTDec 1, 15:04 PSTScheduled - The Free Mobile network in France is conducting a planned maintenance from 02 December 2025 at 22:00 PST until 02 December 2025 at 23:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS to Free Mobile France handsets when sending via long codes and short codes.11:22 pmUnited States SMS and MMS Carrier Maintenance – T-Mobile
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 2, 20:00 PST - Dec 3, 04:00 PSTDec 1, 15:12 PSTScheduled - The T-Mobile network in the United States is conducting a planned maintenance from 02 December 2025 at 20:00 PST until 03 December 2025 at 04:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS and MMS to and from T-Mobile United States handsets when sending via subset of long codes and short codes.10:42 pmApple's head of AI John Giannandrea is retiring
Apple has announced that senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea, is retiring and being replaced by Amar Subramanya, formerly a Microsoft AI executive.Apple Intelligence has a new executive in chargeAfter months of internal reorganizing and speculation around Giannandrea's fate at Apple, the news has finally broken about Apple's plans for its AI group. First, John Giannandrea will step down from his position and serve in an advisory role until the spring of 2026.He will then retire fully from Apple, leaving Amar Subramanya in his place, though the role is changing slightly. Subramanya will be under Craig Federighi as vice president of AI. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums10:41 pmPrice drop: This app can identify more than 33,000 plant species
iOS plant identifier app Plantum also serves up tips for plant care. Get a lifetime premium sub for just $14.97 (regularly $59.99). (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)10:39 pmHow does Apple extend their views behind the traffic lights and into the title bar? | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingHow does Apple extend their views behind the traffic lights and into the title bar?
I’ve been trying to recreate this look on my Mac app. I am using swift UI, and have a NSViewRepresentable view modifier to try to configure the title bar. In apples apps and other third party apps, the title bar is hidden and the content extends all the way to the top of the screen. […]10:38 pmThis last-minute Cyber Monday MacBook Pro deal will make you happy you waited to buy one
Macworld What Black Friday? The best deal we’ve ever seen for the fully-loadede M4 Max MacBook Pro is happening right now, as the decked-out configuration with 36GB of RAM and 1TB of storage drops to $2.699, a massive $500 discount and an incredible deal for a fantastic machine. We gave the M4 Pro version of this MacBook Pro a 4.5-star rating, appreciating the excellent performance of the laptop, including its new 12MP CenterStage camera. The 14-inch Liquid Retina display is as stunning as ever, boasting sharp images and gorgeously vivid colors. Plus, with three Thunderbolt 5 ports, connectivity is a breeze, whether you’re hooking up a drive or a monitor. And with an M4 Max and 36GB of RAM, you won’t even need to think about getting a new machine for years to come. We wouldn’t wait too long to get our hands on this deal because discounts are shifting fast these days, so hurry up and add the MacBook Pro M4 for $2,699 to your cart at Amazon. That's a 20% discount for the MacBook Pro M4Buy now at Amazon10:38 pmSignal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS
A user-hostile “lose your phone, lose your account history” architecture may well be “secure” in a technical sense, but it’s the sort of brittleness that’s kept Signal from achieving more mainstream use.10:27 pmMagSafe Monday: This new hub is basically a Swiss Army knife for your iPhone or Mac
There has always been this tension with Apple’s devices. Some people want no ports, and some people want them all. I can argue both sides, but the trend is clearly moving toward fewer ports. Satechi’s new MagSafe 7-in-1 hub is one of the first accessories I have used that actually fills that gap in a smart way. It gives the iPhone some of the flexibility of a Mac without adding much clutter or complexity, but can also serve as a portable hub for your Mac as well. more…10:21 pmApple’s AI chief John Giannandrea to retire
Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.10:18 pmJohn Giannandrea leaving Apple following AI strategy miss
Apple has announced that John Giannandrea, the company’s Machine Learning and AI Strategy boss, is retiring from the company. The move may not come as a surprise for anyone closely following Apple and its AI missteps over the last few years. more…10:16 pmApple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring, 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi, and will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. Most of the teams that Giannandrea oversees will move to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue. "We are thankful for the role John played in building and advancing our AI work, helping Apple continue to innovate and enrich the lives of our users," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "AI has long been central to Apple's strategy, and we are pleased to welcome Amar to Craig's leadership team and to bring his extraordinary AI expertise to Apple. In addition to growing his leadership team and AI responsibilities with Amar's joining, Craig has been instrumental in driving our AI efforts, including overseeing our work to bring a more personalized Siri to users next year." Apple CEO Tim Cook thanked Giannandrea for his role advancing Apple's AI work, and he said that he looks forward to working with Subramanya.This article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums10:16 pmMaclock is an adorable desk clock for 1984 Macintosh lovers
Featuring three display modes, including one with Susan Kare’s original Happy Macintosh icon, this limited-edition scale recreation of the 1984 Mac is too cute to ignore. more…10:09 pmNew or Updated Apple Stores to Open in Barcelona, Montréal, and India
Apple's Passeig de Gràcia store in Barcelona, Spain will be temporarily closed for remodeling starting in February, according to a source familiar with the matter. Apple Passeig de Gràcia In Montréal, Canada, a separate source indicated that Apple's Sainte-Catherine store will be moving to a new location in mid-January. Last year, the newspaper La Presse reported that the new store would be located in a 125-year-old heritage building, at the northeast corner of Rue Saint-Catherine and Rue de la Montagne. Apple recently announced that it will be opening its fifth retail store in India this month, at the DLF Mall of India in Noida, a city near New Delhi. Apple Noida is set to open on Thursday, December 11, at 1 p.m. local time. Apple's first two stores in India opened in 2023, in Mumbai and New Delhi. The company then opened another two stores in India in September, in Bengaluru and Pune. In addition, the Apple Store app launched in India earlier this year.Tag: Apple StoreThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums09:48 pm9to5Mac Daily: December 1, 2025 – OLED iPad mini, new Macs coming soon
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Roborock: Save up to 50% on Roborock’s flagship vacuums during their Black Friday event — but hurry, these deals won’t last long! more…09:37 pmWhy is Apple Review such a coin flip? Some days smooth as butter, other days absolute chaos. | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingWhy is Apple Review such a coin flip? Some days smooth as butter, other days absolute chaos.
Just needed to vent a little because I swear Apple Review is either the easiest thing in the world or pure pain depending on which reviewer you get. Our app just got rejected for: • 2.1.0 Performance: App Completeness • 4.8.0 Design: Login Services The funny part? Both reasons don’t even apply to our app. […]09:23 pmHKG (Hong Kong) on 2025-12-03
THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Dec 3, 18:00 - 23:30 UTCDec 1, 21:06 UTCScheduled - We will be performing scheduled maintenance in HKG (Hong Kong) datacenter on 2025-12-03 between 18:00 and 23:30 UTC.Traffic might be re-routed from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency during this maintenance window for end-users in the affected region. For PNI / CNI customers connecting with us in this location, please make sure you are expecting this traffic to fail over elsewhere during this maintenance window as network interfaces in this datacentre may become temporarily unavailable.You can now subscribe to these notifications via Cloudflare dashboard and receive these updates directly via email, PagerDuty and webhooks (based on your plan): https://developers.cloudflare.com/notifications/notification-available/#cloudflare-status.09:19 pmHow to make Apple Watch tick like a quartz watch
We mentioned last week that in iOS 26.1, Apple changed how the Clock app icon’s seconds hand moves in low power mode. Instead of continuously moving, the seconds hand ticks with each second like a quartz clock. Analog faces on new Apple Watches have a similar behavior, using a sweeping seconds hand in active mode and a ticking seconds hand in always on mode. If you’re like me and prefer the quartz-like movement, there’s a workaround that can help. more…09:19 pmCyber Monday: Save on Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3, and more (from $129)
From tracking your fitness to keeping you connected wherever you go, Apple Watch is a must-have this holiday season. For Cyber Monday, we’re tracking huge savings on the entire Apple Watch lineup. This includes the cheapest Apple Watch SE 3 and the flagship Apple Watch Series 11. Plus, last year’s Apple Watch Series 10 is still on the market as an excellent middle ground option. We’re also tracking a $100 savings on the rugged Apple Watch Ultra 3, with its multi-day battery life in tow. Whether you’re a newcomer to the Apple Watch ecosystem or looking to upgrade your aging wearable, there’s a deal in here for you. Keep up with all the best Apple Cyber Monday deals in our dedicated roundup right here! more…09:11 pmApple shares hit new all-time intraday and closing highs
In Nasdaq trading today, shares of Apple Inc. rose to hit a new all-time closing high. Apple’s all-time intraday high was also set today… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.09:01 pmOpera rolls out Gemini-powered AI features across its Neon, One, and GX browsers
Following the launch of Opera Neon, the company is now expanding some of its AI features to other browsers, including Opera GX and Opera One. Here’s what’s new. more…08:59 pmPSA: Apple’s official 2025 Black Friday Shopping Event ends today
Apple’s annual Black Friday Shopping Event kicked off on Friday, and time is running out to take advantage. The deals officially end tonight at midnight. You can score an up to $250 gift card with purchase of an eligible product, including select iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches, AirPods, and more. Head below for the full details. As always, however, you can save far more in cash by shopping at other retailers. Our friends over at 9to5Toys are meticulously rounding up all of the best Cyber Monday deals. more…08:51 pmFor startup founders whose product is only an ios app, how do you track it all. Do you use a custom dashboard? | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingFor startup founders whose product is only an ios app, how do you track it all. Do you use a custom dashboard?
I want to create a startup by building the idea out as an iOS app but without having a web app, am I to just use whatever platform I use to host the api/backend? What am I missing? Also, I’m aware I have a lot to learn. submitted by /u/TurtleSlowRabbitFast [link] [comments]08:47 pmApple tops Warren Buffett’s biggest stock holdings; accounts for 21.2% of Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio | Mac Daily NewsApple tops Warren Buffett’s biggest stock holdings; accounts for 21.2% of Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported 46 holdings, but its portfolio is quite top heavy with 238,212,764 shares of Apple accounting… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.08:42 pmMKBHD is shutting down his iPhone wallpaper app
Marques Brownlee launched his first iPhone app last year, but it’s now being sunset. Here are the details on MKBHD’s Panels app getting shut down. more…08:31 pmToday marks 13 years of XR development, and Friday marks 15 years of iOS development. What a ride it’s been! | Reddit on iOS ProgrammingToday marks 13 years of XR development, and Friday marks 15 years of iOS development. What a ride it’s been!
Today marks 13 years of building hardcore nerd shit with #XR headsets (yes, that's a real Oculus DK1 on the far right in the picture), and 15 years ago on Friday, I released my first #iOS app, a multiplayer world puzzle game that required me to build a custom Rails backend because #GameKit didn't exist […]08:25 pmiOS 26’s Messages app adds five great new group chat features
iOS 26 is packed full of changes for iPhone users, including five great new group chat features in the Messages app. Here’s what’s new. more…08:16 pmDon’t miss out on these 800+ app discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday [Updated]
As it’s tradition, many indie (and major) app developers take Black Friday and Cyber Monday to offer steep and rare discounts for their apps. Here’s a list of great deals you should check out. more…07:23 pmIndia Orders Apple to Preinstall Government Security App on All iPhones
India is requiring smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung to preload devices sold in the country with a state-owned cyber security app that can't be deleted, reports Reuters. The Department of Communications in India is giving smartphone companies 90 days to begin preinstalling the Sanchar Saathi government app on all new devices that are sold. It has also requested that manufacturers push software updates to devices that are already in the supply chain. Users are supposed to be informed of the app at the first use or when the device is set up, and the app's feature set is not able to be turned off or restricted. India is aiming to cut down on fraud and cyber crime, and the app is supposedly meant to provide additional security to smartphone users while also informing them about government initiatives. It is able to verify the authenticity of IMEIs to prevent stolen devices from being used with duplicate or spoofed identifiers. A website for the app says that it lets users report suspected fraud, block and track lost or stolen devices from being used, verify the authenticity of a device, report international spam calls, and verify telephone numbers. The app includes detailed tracking functionality controlled by the government, so there are privacy and security implications for iPhone users. The majority of smartphone users in India have Android devices, and it's a market that Apple is trying to expand in. Apple has not acquiesced to a government request for a fully preloaded iPhone app, so it will presumably find a way around India's mandate. Counterpoint Research told Reuters that Apple will likely negotiate for a middle ground, such as informing users of the app rather than preinstalling it. Russia has a similar preinstall mandate for government-approved apps. During setup, iPhones in Russia have a prompt suggesting users install the apps, but opting out is possible.Tag: IndiaThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums07:14 pmAmazon, Google’s new ‘interconnect’ might prevent major web outages
Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage. But a new collaboration between Amazon and Google might just be the start of putting major outages in the past. more…07:03 pmApple fans really want a red iPhone 17 for World AIDS Day
Apple fans want a red iPhone 17 Pro, according to many responses to a recent X.com post from Apple marketing honcho Greg Joswiak. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)07:03 pmApple Developer Support is terrible.
I’ve been trying to renew my Apple Developer subscription for months and I’m completely stuck. The “Renew” button doesn’t appear at all, and when I try to renew through the “Subscriptions” section, every payment method gets rejected. All my cards work for other purchases, the issue happens only with the Developer subscription. I’ve contacted Apple […]07:02 pmApple TV debuts trailer for holiday special ‘The First Snow of Fraggle Rock’
Apple TV onMonday debuted the trailer for the all-new holiday special “The First Snow of Fraggle Rock,” set to premiere globally on… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.06:48 pmAnker Kicks Off Cyber Week Sale With Savings on Thunderbolt Docks, Wireless Chargers, and More | MacRumorsAnker Kicks Off Cyber Week Sale With Savings on Thunderbolt Docks, Wireless Chargers, and More
Anker's Black Friday sale has now become a Cyber Monday event, with notable discounts on portable chargers, USB-C hubs, cables, and more. This sale will last all Cyber Week and end on December 7. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Anker and Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. There are a few bonus offers during this event as well, including blind boxes with various random Anker accessories. The first box costs $29.99 and includes one random item or bundle worth $49.99-$169.99, while the highest box costs $129.99 and includes one random item or bundle worth $199.98-$4,799.99. SITEWIDE SALEAnker Cyber Week Sale This sale also includes some Amazon discounts, with a highlight being the 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock for $319.99, down from $399.99. This dock has three Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-C ports, three USB-A ports, an SD card reader, audio jack, and more. $80 OFFAnker 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock for $319.99 Finally, it's worth noting that MacRumors readers can get $10 off a minimum purchase of $200 with our code Ankermacrumors200 on Anker's website. You can stack this code with other discounts, so if you're shopping for a lot this holiday season it's a good opportunity to add more savings to your cart. Prime Chargers Prime Charger (100W, 3 Ports) - $41.99, down from $84.99 Prime Power Bank - $58.49, down from $89.99 Prime Charging Station (8-in-1) - $129.99, down from $164.99 Prime Charger (250W, 6 Ports, GaNPrime) - $99.99, down from $169.99 Wireless Chargers MagGo 3-in-1 Foldable Wireless Charging Station - $57.49, down from $99.99 MagGo 2-in-1 Wireless Charger Stand - $36.99, down from $49.99 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station - $149.99, down from $229.99 Amazon Nano USB-C 30W Foldable Charger - $11.19, down from $19.99 10,000 mAh Magnetic Power Bank - $29.99, down from $49.99 Soundcore V40i Open-Ear Headphones - $39.99, down from $79.99 MagGo UFO 3-in-1 Charger - $57.49, down from $89.99 10,000 mAh MagGo Qi2 Power Bank - $54.99, down from $89.99 140W 4-Port USB-C Charger - $59.99, down from $99.99 Power Station with Lantern - $79.98, down from $149.99 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock - $319.99, down from $399.99 If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find this holiday season? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple DealsThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums06:41 pmGrab an iPad mini with A17 Pro for the lowest price ever ($349) on Cyber Monday
Macworld Been thinking about a new iPad? Unless you really have a need for a big screen, the iPad mini is one of our favorites. And the latest model, with A17 Pro and 128GB of storage, just dropped to its lowest price ever on Cyber Monday. Amazon is selling this iPad mini for just $349, which is $150 off the full retail price and much lower than we’ve ever seen it before. In fact, over the entire Black Friday weekend it was on sale for $399 (a price we have seen before). In our review we gave this iPad mini 4 stars, noting it was a big speed boost from the previous model and supported Apple Intelligence—but that was for a $500 tablet. At $349, it’s a no-brainer. BUY iPad mini at Amazon Best of all, you’re not stuck with the minimum configuration. If you want more storage or another color, you’ll find nearly every configuration is $150 off. So go grab one before Cyber Monday ends at midnight.06:35 pmApple Glasses could be next year’s most attention-grabbing product
Apple has plenty of software and service launches coming in December, but new hardware products likely won’t arrive until next year. Among the company’s rumored 2026 products, there’s one that’s sure to earn a lot of attention: Apple Glasses. more…06:30 pmInstantly share photos, videos, links and more with AirDrop
If you want to know the fastest and easiest way to send someone photos, videos, files and so, so much more, you should know how to AirDrop. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)06:12 pmCyber Week deals: Save up to $2,100 on Samsung Frame, OLED TVs, plus monitors for Mac | AppleInsiderCyber Week deals: Save up to $2,100 on Samsung Frame, OLED TVs, plus monitors for Mac
Flash deals on Samsung TVs start at just $699.99, with discounts of up to $2,100 off The Frame and OLED lines. Plus, grab monitor markdowns from just $389.99.Save up to $2,100 on TVs and monitors at Samsung - Image credit: SamsungWith a modern appearance and slim-bezel frame, Samsung's line of The Frame TVs has been a hot seller at up to $1,200 off. The Black Friday savings continue into Cyber Week, making it a great time to pick up a new set to stream programming during the winter months. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums06:01 pmIntel expected to start shipping Apple’s lowest-tier M processors as early as 2027 – Ming-Chi Kuo | Mac Daily NewsIntel expected to start shipping Apple’s lowest-tier M processors as early as 2027 – Ming-Chi Kuo
There have always been rumors in the market about Intel becoming a supplier of advanced processes for Apple, but this rumor has always… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.06:00 pmThe New Hollywood: Inside GenAI’s Coming Shakeup of Film and TV
OpenAI’s Sora shows how cinematic worlds can be created with a prompt instead of a production crew. The realism is striking, but the implications for labor, ethics, and Hollywood are even more profound. The post appeared first on TechNewsWorld.05:42 pmToday in Apple history: Too little, too late for Apple III
On December 1, 1981, the Apple III revised edition launch addressed the computer's biggest hardware faults as the company did damage control. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)05:26 pmThe 5 best Apple deals you can still get before Cyber Monday ends
Macworld It’s been a wild week of Black Friday deals, with hundreds of dollars off MacBooks, all-time lows on iPads, and AirPods for less than $60. We hope you grabbed everything you wanted, but if you didn’t, there’s one more day of sales before the whole extravaganza ends (until next year). Here are our five favorite remaining Apple deals you can still get before we close the doors on another Black Friday sale: 4-pack of AirTags: $63 ($36 off) Apple’s 4-pack of AirTags has been on sale for under $80 for a while, but they’re down to $63 for Cyber Monday. That’s actually the same price as Black Friday, which works out to just $15.75 per tracker. They’ll provide some peace of mind for all of your non-Apple gear, including bags, keys, and wallets. buy AirTags at Amazon Apple Pencil USB-C: $49 ($30 off) Apple’s line of Pencils has gone from confusing to pretty straightforward—the USB-C Apple Pencil works with every tablet. Normally priced at $79, the USB-C Apple Pencil is an essential accessory at Walmart’s $49 sale, bringing drawing, writing, and navigation to the comfort of a stylus. You’re missing a couple of Pro features here, including wireless charging and pressure sensitivity, but for this price, you won’t miss them. Buy Apple Pencil at Walmart 11-inch iPad Air: $449 ($150 off) The iPad Air has always been the sweet spot of Apple’s tablet lineup, but as the iPad Pro has gotten more expensive, the spot has become even sweeter. And now the price is too. For $449—the same price Apple charged for the 10th-gen with half the storage and a third of the specs—an M3 chip, laminated Liquid Retina display, Wi-Fi 6E, and Apple Intelligence support—the 11-inch iPad is an insane deal at $449. Buy iPad Air at Amazon AirPods 4 with ANC: $99 ($80 off) We were shocked when Apple’s AirPods 4 with ANC dropped to $100 over Black Friday, but now they’re even cheaper. OK, it’s only $1, but still—you can get a pair of AirPods with active noise cancellation for $99 today, a savings of $80 on the MSRP and a ridiculously good price for a fantastic set of buds. Buy AirPods 4 with ANC at Amazon MacBook Air: $749 ($250 off) You don’t ever need to pay Apple’s full $999 MSRP for the entry-level MacBook Air, but if you did, you’d still be getting a great laptop at a very good price. At its Cyber Monday price of $749, you’re getting a great laptop at a ridiculously good price. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better Mac or PC laptop at a better value, with an M4 processor, 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, Touch ID, 18-hour battery life, and much more. Want more RAM or a bigger SSD? Every configuration of M4 MacBook Air is $250 off. Buy MacBook Air at Amazon05:23 pmIndia orders Apple, other phone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app that cannot be deleted | Mac Daily NewsIndia orders Apple, other phone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app that cannot be deleted
India's telecom ministry has directed Apple and other phone manufacturers to factory-install an un-deletable, state-owned "cybersecurity"… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.05:16 pmUS wants laws to force App Store age checks, despite Apple's existing protections
The United States wants big tech companies like Apple to protect children online by adding age verification safeguards to the App Store. It's a political push that completely ignores what protections Apple already provides to parents and children.US lawmakers want more age checks applying to the App Store. There's already a lot of protections in place. Lawmakers have been particularly keen to protect children from online dangers, and have repeatedly demanded big tech companies like Apple and Google do more to help. In the latest attempt to make big tech bend to its demands, the U.S. government is going after the App Store.The App Store Accountability Act (ASA) was introduced in May as a way for parents to get more tools to protect their children online. In late November, the ASA was brought up in Congress as part of a raft of measures to keep kids safe online, led by the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums05:10 pmCyber Monday deal drops iPad mini to record-low price
Grab this Cyber Monday iPad mini deal and save 30% on this powerful, ultra-portable tablet. Limited time offer! (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)05:10 pmDeals – Cyber Monday edition: Apple Watch Series 11 $329, iPad mini 7 $349, M5 MacBook Pro $300 off, much more | 9 to 5 MacDeals – Cyber Monday edition: Apple Watch Series 11 $329, iPad mini 7 $349, M5 MacBook Pro $300 off, much more
Cyber Monday has arrived – arguably the biggest 1-day shopping event of the year – and we not only have a series of the best ongoing Apple Black Friday deals, like AirPods 4 with ANC down at $99, but we have some brand new offers too. Just a few of the highlight offers that went live for the first time today include Apple Watch Series 11 at new all-time lows starting from $329 shipped alongside the best deal we have ever seen on iPad mini 7 at $150 offand models from $349. Those offers also join a giant $300 discount on this M5 MacBook Pro – the deepest deal we have seen on any config to date. All of that and more awaits below. more…04:49 pmCyber Monday AirPods Deals – Get Year's Best Prices on AirPods 4 ANC, AirPods Pro 3, and More | MacRumorsCyber Monday AirPods Deals – Get Year's Best Prices on AirPods 4 ANC, AirPods Pro 3, and More
Cyber Monday is one of the best times of the year to shop for AirPods, and in 2025 we're tracking massive discounts across nearly every model, including AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 3. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. AirPods 4 Walmart has the AirPods 4 for $79.99 today, down from $129.00. We tracked this model about $9 cheaper over Black Friday, making Walmart's deal a solid second-best price. The model with Active Noise Cancellation is seeing a discount to $99.99 on Amazon, which is the match of its record low price. $49 OFFAirPods 4 for $79.99 $80 OFFAirPods 4 (ANC) for $99.00 AirPods Pro 3 The AirPods Pro 3 are available for $219.99, down from $249.00, which is another new all-time low price. $29 OFFAirPods Pro 3 for $219.99 AirPods Max If you're looking for the AirPods Max, Best Buy has the USB-C model for $399.99, down from $549.00, another record low price. $149 OFFAirPods Max for $399.99 AirPods Pro 2 Finally, Woot has Apple's AirPods Pro 2 for $134.99, down from $249.00. The AirPods Pro 2 come in new condition from Woot, and with a one year Apple limited warranty. Overall, this is a solid second-best price on the AirPods Pro 2. $114 OFFAirPods Pro 2 for $134.99 If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find this holiday season? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple DealsThis article, "Cyber Monday AirPods Deals - Get Year's Best Prices on AirPods 4 ANC, AirPods Pro 3, and More" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums04:40 pmWhat to Expect From Apple This December: iOS 26.3 Beta, Replay 2025, and More
The calendar has turned to December, and the quieter year-end holiday season is now upon us. Nevertheless, we can still expect a few things from Apple this month. Apple previously announced that iOS 26.2 will be released to the general public in December, and we can expect corresponding updates to be released as well, including iPadOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, and visionOS 26.2. iOS 26.2 brings offline lyrics to Apple Music, allowing you to view a song's lyrics even when you are not connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. The update also lets you customize the Liquid Glass design of the Lock Screen's clock, set alarms for reminders, use AirPods Live Translation if you live in the EU, and more. iPadOS 26.2 allows you to drag and drop apps from the App Library, Dock, and Spotlight into Slide Over and tiled views, restoring some multitasking functionality that had been removed in the iPadOS 18 to iPadOS 26 transition. macOS 26.2 adds an "Edge Light" feature to improve lighting during video calls on a Mac. While you are on a video call, a white border appears around the edges of the screen, mimicking the look of a physical ring light. watchOS 26.2 and iOS 26.2 have revised Sleep Score ranges: Very Low: 0-40 (previously 0-29) Low: 41-60 (previously 30-49) OK: 61-80 (previously 50-69) High: 81-95 (previously 70-89) Very High: 96-100 (previously 90-100)Starting with tvOS 26.2, additional profiles created on the Apple TV no longer require their own separate Apple Account. If the profile is for a kid, the Apple TV app will only display content with up to a PG rating by default. This essentially means that the Apple TV app now has a dedicated kids mode, which is a long-awaited feature for parents. The beta train never stops, of course. Apple will likely seed the first betas of iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, macOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, and visionOS 26.3 later in December. However, given that Apple's software engineers take time off for the holiday season, do not expect the second betas of each update to arrive until January. The full-year Apple Music Replay playlist for 2025 should be released this December, along with your personalized listening stats and trends for the year. iPhone users running iOS 26 or later can access the Replay experience natively in the Apple Music app, but it also remains available on the web at replay.music.apple.com. Monthly playlists are already available for Apple Music Replay in 2025. Apple will release additional year-end charts and awards this month, across the App Store, Apple Podcasts, and its other services. Apple's hit film "F1" will be available to watch on the Apple TV streaming service starting Friday, December 12, following its theatrical release earlier this year. The film is already available to purchase or rent through the Apple TV app. In the film, Brad Pitt returns to Formula 1 racing after a 30-year absence, for one last shot at glory. Apple Arcade is getting five more games on Thursday, December 4, including endless runner Subway Surfers, the world's most downloaded mobile game. While previous rumors indicated that Apple planned to release new versions of the HomePod mini, Apple TV, and AirTag this year, the odds of that happening still seem quite low by now. Apple has surprised us with a few December product announcements over the years, including AirPods Max in 2020, but keep your expectations very low. Of course, these are only the things that we know to expect, and Apple could have some other announcements in store this December. Related Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26Tags: Apple Music, Apple Music ReplayRelated Forum: iOS 26This article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums04:29 pmCyber Monday: M4 MacBook Air hits new all-time low, plus more Mac deals
The Cyber Monday deals have arrived for Apple’s latest and greatest lineup of Macs. We’re tracking solid deals across the board on the Mac mini, and more. Whether you’re tempted by the ultra-slim and cute design of the Mac mini, the portability of the MacBook Air, or the sheer power of the MacBook Pro, there’s something for everyone in this lineup of Mac Cyber Monday sales. Keep up with all the best Apple Cyber Monday deals in our dedicated roundup right here! more…04:22 pmBest Cyber Monday Accessory Deals on iPhone Chargers, Monitors, Headphones, and More
Cyber Monday is here, and as part of the event we're tracking great discounts on Apple-related accessories. If you're looking for Apple products, our dedicated post on all the Apple Cyber Monday deals available now covers every Apple device on sale right now. In this article, we're focusing on accessories for smartphones and computers, as well as a few extras like robot vacuums and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Many of the deals shared below will be found on Amazon, but there are a few other notable sales at sites like Sonos, Sony, Samsung, and others that you'll find in our lists. Twelve South Twelve South's big Cyber Monday sale kicked off this week on Amazon, and you can find the year's best prices on BookArc MacBook stands, wireless charging stations, AirFly, and more. Our pick of the sale is the HiRise 3 Deluxe Wireless Charging Station, which can simultaneously charge an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods, for $59.99, down from $149.99. MacBook Stands BookArc Flex MacBook Stand (Black) - $19.99, down from $39.99 BookArc Flex MacBook Stand (White) - $19.99, down from $39.99 BookArc Flex MacBook Stand (Chrome) - $19.99, down from $36.58 Curve Nano MagSafe Stand - $28.99, down from $34.99 Chargers HiRise 2 Deluxe Wireless Charging Station - $39.99, down from $59.99 PowerBug Qi2 Magnetic Wireless Charger - $39.99, down from $49.99 HiRise 3 Deluxe Wireless Charging Station - $59.99, down from $149.99 Butterfly 2-in-1 Compact Foldable Wireless Charger - $69.99, down from $99.99 Miscellaneous PowerCord 30W USB-C Cable - $19.99, down from $29.99 AirFly SE - $25.99, down from $39.99 PlugBug 4-Port Hub - $69.99, down from $119.99 Satechi FindAll Keychain with Find My - $20.99, down from $29.99 FindAll Wallet Card with Find My - $23.99, down from $34.99 FindAll Luggage Tag with Find My - $30.99, down from $44.99 FindAll Glasses Case with Find My - $33.59, down from $49.99 Sonos Sonos is hosting its annual Cyber Monday sale, and this year you'll find up to 30 percent off the company's most popular devices. This includes the Arc Ultra soundbar, Move 2 speaker, and more. UP TO 30% OFFSonos Cyber Monday Sale All discounts in this sale have been automatically applied, so you don't need to enter a coupon code in order to see the final sale prices. We've collected all of the deals in the list below, but you can also find a few bundle discounts on sale on the Sonos website. Arc Ultra Soundbar - $879, down from $1,099 Beam (Gen 2) Soundbar - $349, down from $499 Ray Soundbar - $199, down from $219 Era 100 Speaker - $169, down from $219 Era 300 Speaker - $379, down from $479 Roam 2 Portable Speaker - $139, down from $179 Move 2 Portable Speaker - $399, down from $499 Sub Mini - $399, down from $499 Sub 4 - $719, down from $899 Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 Portable Power Station - $349.00, down from $499.00 Explorer 2000 Plus Solar Generator - $1,999.00, down from $4,399.00 Explorer 2000 Plus Kit - $2,799.00, down from $6,499.00 Ecovacs Deebot N30 Omni Robot Vacuum and Mop - $349.99, down from $699.99 Deebot T50 Pro Omni Robot Vacuum - $499.99, down from $699.99 Deebot X9 Pro Omni Robot Vacuum - $699.99, down from $1,299.99 Sony Sony is hosting a Cyber Monday sale with savings on the company's best headphones, speakers, sound bars, TVs, photography equipment, and more. $150 OFFSony WH-1000XM5 Headphones for $249.99 You can get Sony's popular WH-1000XM5 Premium Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones for $249.99 during this event, down from $399.99. There are also a few earbuds and other noise canceling headphones on sale with notable discounts, all of which have been applied automatically and do not require any coupon codes. Be sure to head to Sony's website for the full list of deals. Most devices have an option for free pickup if you live near a Best Buy location that offers local pickup. Anker Highlights of Anker's Cyber Monday sale on Amazon include the 10,000 mAh Magnetic Power Bank for $29.99 ($19 off) and the popular 60,000mAh Power Station with Smart Digital Display and Retractable Light for $79.98, down from $149.99. Nano USB-C 30W Foldable Charger - $11.19, down from $19.99 10,000 mAh Magnetic Power Bank - $29.99, down from $49.99 Soundcore V40i Open-Ear Headphones - $39.99, down from $79.99 MagGo UFO 3-in-1 Charger - $57.49, down from $89.99 10,000 mAh MagGo Qi2 Power Bank - $54.99, down from $89.99 140W 4-Port USB-C Charger - $59.99, down from $99.99 Power Station with Lantern - $79.98, down from $149.99 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock - $319.99, down from $399.99 Beats Amazon this week is discounting a collection of Beats headphones and speakers, including a low price on the Powerbeats Pro 2. You can get this new 2025 model for $199.95 in four colors, down from $249.99. This deal on the Powerbeats Pro 2 is being matched at Best Buy, along with a few other Beats deals. UP TO 57% OFFBeats Deals on Amazon This sale also includes major discounts on products like the Beats Pill, which has hit $99.95 on Amazon, down from $149.95. This discount is available in five colors of the Bluetooth speaker. Additionally, Amazon has the Beats Studio Buds+ for $149.95, down from $169.95. These have up to 9 hours of playback (up to 36 hours with charging case), USB-C, active noise cancellation, transparency mode, and an IPX4 rating for sweat and water resistance. You'll also find a few steep discounts on over-ear headphones, like the Beats Studio Pro at $169.95, down from $349.99. This is another all-time low price on this pair of Beats headphones. Beats Studio Buds+ - $149.95, down from $169.95 Beats Pill - $99.95, down from $149.95 Beats Solo 4 - $129.99, down from $199.95 Beats Studio Pro - $169.95, down from $349.99 Powerbeats Pro 2 - $199.95, down from $249.99 Samsung Samsung's Black Friday sale is now bleeding into Cyber Monday, and you can still find great deals on monitors, storage accessories, TVs, Galaxy smartphones, home appliances, and more. SITEWIDE DISCOUNTSSamsung Cyber Monday Sale Highlights from this event include quite a few models of The Frame TV on sale, including a new all-time low price on The Frame Pro models. You can get the 65-inch The Frame TV for $999.99 ($1,000 off), as well as The Frame Pro for $1,999.00 ($1,200 off). For even more potential savings, eligible shoppers have the chance to get additional discounts through Samsung offer programs. These programs provide extra discounts for students, military, and employees of select businesses, and they provide up to 30 percent extra savings on Samsung's website, so be sure to check whether you're eligible for any of these programs. TVs 65-inch The Frame - $999.99, down from $1,999.99 (extra $100 off available through offer programs) 75-inch The Frame Pro - $1,999.99, down from $3,199.99 85-inch The Frame Pro - $3,299.99, down from $4,299.99 (extra $660 off available through offer programs) 65-inch OLED S90C TV - $1,699.99, down from $2,699.99 65-inch Neo QLED 4K TV - $1,399.99, down from $2,699.99 77-inch OLED S90F TV - $1,999.99, down from $3,499.99 75-inch Neo QLED QN90D TV - $1,499.99, down from $3,299.99 Monitors and Storage 32-inch Smart Monitor M8 - $389.99, down from $699.99 40-inch Odyssey G7 G75F Curved Monitor - $749.99, down from $1,199.99 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 Monitor - $899.99, down from $1,799.99 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 Monitor - $1,499.99, down from $2,299.99 (extra $200 off available through offer programs) 55-inch Odyssey Ark Gaming Monitor - $1,699.99, down from $2,699.99 Appliances Bespoke Smart Dishwasher - $999.00, down from $1,399.00 Large Capacity Side-by-Side Fridge - $1,099.00, down from $1,666.00 4-Door French Door Fridge - $1,699.00, down from $2,999.00 Bespoke All-in-One Combo Washer/Dryer - $1,999.99, down from $3,299.00 Mega Capacity 3-Door French Door Fridge - $2,399.00, down from $3,499.00 Bespoke 4-Door Flex Fridge - $2,050.00, down from $4,099.00 Bespoke 4-Door Flex Fridge - $2,849.99, down from $4,999.00 Galaxy Products Galaxy XR - Save up to $1,140 with the Explorer Pack Galaxy S25 Ultra - Save up to $700 in instant trade-in credit Galaxy Z Fold7 - Save up to $1,000 Galaxy Ring - Get up to $150 trade-in credit Galaxy Watch Ultra - Save up to $300 Galaxy Watch 8 - Save up to $250 Video Games Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 - $109.99, down from $149.99 PlayStation Portal - $179.00, down from $199.99 PlayStation DualSense Edge - $169.00, down from $199.99 Meta Quest 3S - $249.99, down from $299.99 PlayStation VR2 Horizon Bundle - $299.00, down from $399.99 Keep up with all of this week's best discounts on Apple products and related accessories in our dedicated Apple Deals roundup. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find this holiday season? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple DealsThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums04:21 pmLive Major League Baseball drives Apple TV signups
Major League Baseball games on Apple TV generated more subscriber sign-ups than high-profile shows such as "The Morning Show" and… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.04:21 pmApple smart display rumors, Matter camera & a new tracking card on HomeKit Insider
On this week's episode of the HomeKit Insider podcast, your host goes over some Matter camera news, the launch of new devices, and hypothesizes on the future of Apple's smart home display.HomeKit Insider PodcastWith the announcement of Matter 1.5 and camera support, we reached out to a few accessory makers to get their take. Multiple companies have pledged support for new and existing cameras over the next several months ahead of CES.Xthings has announced its Ulticam IQ 2 that will be available in December and ship with Matter, even if no platforms support it yet. Aqara has announced some of its cameras will be updated, while new devices will be coming in the first half of 2026. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums03:59 pmApple says certain iPhone SE, iPad Pro, Apple Watch models now obsolete
Apple has updated its list of vintage and obsolete products, with five new additions to the ‘obsolete’ category including the original iPhone SE, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2nd generation), and more. Here are the details. more…03:58 pmTurn your M4 Mac mini into a desktop Mac Pro for less than $40
Macworld Let’s be honest here — we all love the Mac Pro, but no one loves that price, right? Well, what if we told you you could save $120 on a new Mac mini and dress it up to look just like a tiny Mac Pro? And that it’s only going to cost you less than $40? That’s right, this Cyber Monday find hides your M4 Mac mini in a gorgeous meta case that looks just like a mini Mac Pro with a cheese-grater front, rear-facing ports, and tiny feet. (Sorry, it doesn’t come with wheels.) The Ulanzi QT01 mount rack for the 2024 Mac mini is one of the coolest and cutest things we’ve ever seen. It even has a magnetic front plate that can be removed if you need to access the front-facing USB-C ports. If you don’t have an M4 Mac mini, this Cyber Monday deal gets you 24GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for $869, a savings of $130, and the best price we’ve seen since the summer. We loved this tiny computer when we gave it a 4-star rating in our review. It’s impressive on its own, but even more so when you pop it into one of these awesome cases. If you get the whole package, you’ll be paying just over $900, which means you’re still shelling out about seven times less than you would on the Pro. Now that’s a killer deal! Get the M4 Mac mini for $869Buy now at Amazon Get the Ulanzi Mac mini M4 mount rackBuy now at Amazon03:52 pmBest Cyber Monday deals on Apple gear beat Black Friday’s lows
Our guide to the best Cyber Monday 2025 deals on Apple products and accessories showcases some prices that are even lower than Black Friday. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)03:35 pmiPad Mini Drops to New All-Time Low Price of $349 for Cyber Monday
Amazon and Best Buy have introduced new low prices on the iPad mini 7 for Cyber Monday, starting at $349.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi tablet, down from $499.00. You'll also find a few deals on cellular models during this sale. 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. You can also get the 256GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for $449.00 at Best Buy and the 512GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for $649.00 at Amazon and Best Buy, both $150 discounts and available in multiple colors. These sales are new best-ever prices on the iPad mini 7, beating the prices we saw on Black Friday by about $30. $150 OFF128GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for $349.00 $150 OFF256GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for $449.00 $150 OFF512GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for $649.00 Deals on cellular models are a bit rarer on Amazon, with one color of the 128GB cellular iPad mini 7 on sale for $499.00 and a few colors of the 256GB cellular iPad mini 7 on sale for $599.00, both $150 off. You can also pair a new iPad mini with the Apple Pencil Pro for $94.99 on sale right now on Amazon, down from $129.00. $34 OFFApple Pencil Pro for $94.99 If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find this holiday season? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we'll keep you updated so you don't miss the biggest deals of the season! Related Roundup: Apple DealsThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums03:28 pmApple TV’s top 10 list that drove signups reveals big surprises
Apple TV (only $5.99/month for Cyber Monday) is best known for prestige TV shows and movies. But according to a new report covering six months of Apple TV signups this year, it appears sports is a surprisingly strong driver of new subscribers. more…03:16 pmApple Says Original iPhone SE is Now 'Obsolete'
Apple today added the first-generation iPhone SE to its obsolete products list, meaning the device is no longer eligible for repairs, battery replacements, or any other service at Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers worldwide. Apple considers a product to be obsolete once seven years have passed since the company stopped distributing it for sale. The original iPhone SE was discontinued in September 2018, so the device recently crossed that seven-year mark. The original iPhone SE was released in March 2016. The device's design is largely based on the iPhone 5s, with key specs including a 4-inch display, a Touch ID home button, and an aluminum and glass frame with chamfered edges. However, the original iPhone SE is powered by a newer A9 chip from the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. "Everyone who wants a smaller phone is going to love iPhone SE," said Apple's former marketing chief Phil Schiller, in a press release announcing the device. Apple went on to release second-generation and third-generation iPhone SE models in April 2020 and March 2022, respectively, with both of those devices having a similar design as the iPhone 8. In February 2025, the iPhone SE was entirely discontinued for the foreseeable future, after it was effectively replaced by the iPhone 16e.Tag: Vintage and Obsolete Apple ProductsRelated Forum: iPhoneThis article, "" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums03:01 pmApple seeks to block India antitrust case with challenge to penalty law
Apple is attempting to halt antitrust investigations in India by legally challenging a provision that permits penalties to be based on the… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.02:53 pmUkraine SMS Carrier Maintenance – MTS, life:), Kyivstar and TriMob
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