Your iPhone’s storage crisis just got a $10 solution
Macworld TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Cleaner Kit for iOS for just $19.97 (reg. $104.97) with coupon code CLEAN10. This AI-powered app removes duplicate photos, compresses videos, and declutters your contacts. If your iPhone storage is constantly maxed out, Cleaner Kit for iOS Premium might be exactly what you need. This AI-powered utility has earned the trust of over 67 million users by making it remarkably simple to reclaim gigabytes of space without accidentally deleting anything important. The app’s smart gallery cleanup is where it really shines. Instead of manually scrolling through thousands of photos, Cleaner Kit uses AI to identify duplicates and low-quality shots, then groups them by time period. You simply swipe right to keep or left to archive. It’s five times faster than manual cleanup. The video compressor is equally impressive, shrinking file sizes while keeping your memories looking sharp. Beyond photos, the app tackles those messy contact lists by merging duplicates and removing empty entries. It’ll even help you clear out old calendar events and organize your Gmail inbox by grouping messages by sender. For Mac users, this is perfect for keeping your iOS device lean while you work across platforms. Get Cleaner Kit for iOS Premium for $19.97 (reg. $104.97) with coupon code CLEAN10. Cleaner Kit for iOS Premium Plan: Lifetime SubscriptionSee Deal StackSocial prices subject to change.

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MacBook Pro ‘overhaul’ launching as soon as next year: Here are five upgrades to expect
Rumors strongly suggest that Apple will be MacBook Pro, and we’ll be delving into them here. more…

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Grab Apple's M5 MacBook Pro 24GB RAM for $1,499 with free 2-day shipping
Apple's Late 2025 M5 MacBook Pro with 24GB of RAM is on sale for $1,499, a discount of $300 off MSRP. Plus, get delivery by Christmas to many locations.Save $300 on Apple's M5 MacBook Pro with an upgrade to 24GB RAM - Image credit: AppleThe exclusive deal can be activated through this pricing link or via our M5 MacBook Pro Price Guide when you shop from a laptop or desktop computer (it cannot be activated through B&H's mobile app).This 14-inch MacBook Pro in Space Black not only includes Apple's latest M5 chip, but it also includes a bump up to 24GB of RAM, along with 512GB of storage. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Today in Apple history: Marathon is Mac’s answer to Doom
On December 21, 1994, Mac gamers got their hands on "Marathon," an innovative sci-fi game that quickly became a fan favorite. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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Frozen out: Apple cancels 'The last Frontier' after just one season
The Jason Clarke drama "The Last Frontier" did not survive on Apple TV, as the streaming service canceled the Alaskan wilderness show after a single season.The Last Frontier - Image Credit: Apple TVFollowing the release of the trailer on September 18, there were high hopes for the ten-episode series The Last Frontier on Apple TV. However, after the broadcast of its season finale, it seems the show has crashed and burned.According to Variety on December 19, Apple declined to move to a second season of the show. While a reason for the cancellation wasn't disclosed, the show did suffer from mixed reviews, including a score of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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8 Mac settings and shortcuts you need to start using right now
Macworld Your Mac is full of surprises, and even many years after first owning one, you can still find yourself learning new tips and tricks that you weren’t aware of before. There are many ingenious hidden features stashed away in macOS, and we’re here to highlight eight of our favorites. They range from little-known tricks to overlooked gems, and each one should help improve the way you use your Mac. 1. Desktop stacks Foundry After using your Mac for a while, it’s easy to clog up your desktop with files and folders. I get it, I’m no monastic ascetic with a zen-like calm on my Mac desktop either. Thankfully, there’s a way to bring order to chaos without having to laboriously stash all those items away one by one. Let me introduce a feature called desktop stacks. With this enabled, macOS will automatically group related files into what are essentially heaps on your desktop. So, you’ll find one pile for images, one stack for PDF documents, one for presentations, and more. If you want to find an individual file, just click the stack and everything it contains will be revealed. Click again to hide the mess once more. Swipe two fingers across the stack and you can even browse through its files. To get going with desktop stacks, just right-click your desktop and select the Use Stacks option. To turn it off, simply disable this option. And with that, your Mac brings the illusion of calm and order to your desktop, even if we all know what’s lurking beneath the façade. 2. Menu customization Foundry The menu bar is a go-to place to find helpful controls for your apps and settings, but you don’t need to just rely on what Apple decides to put there. Instead, you can dive in and customize it as you see fit. To get started, open the System Settings app and select Menu Bar or Control Center (depending on which version of macOS you’re running) in the left-hand sidebar. Here, you can browse through a range of options and decide whether to show them in the menu bar at all times, only when the app is active, or to hide them instead. If you want to remove an icon from the menu bar, you have another option beyond using the Control Center section of the System Settings app. Instead, hold the Command key, then click and drag the item out of the menu bar. When an X appears next to your pointer, release your mouse button, and the icon will be removed. 3. Hot Corners Foundry Need a quick way to access system functions like Mission Control, start a screen saver, or lock your Mac without fiddling with settings and menus? Try Hot Corners on for size. With these set up, you simply move your mouse pointer into a specified corner of your Mac’s display and your chosen action will be performed. Open the System Settings app and click Desktop & Dock in the sidebar, then scroll all the way to the bottom and click Hot Corners. You’ll now see an image of your desktop with four dropdown menus. Pick one, select an option from the menu, then select Done to confirm. You can use Hot Corners to do a wide range of things, from showing your desktop or opening the Notification Center to launching a Quick Note or putting your screen to sleep. That gives the feature a lot of flexibility to adapt to your needs. And if you’re worried about accidentally setting off one of these actions, you can add a modifier key into the mix. Just open one of the dropdown menus, then hold Shift, Control, Option or Command. You can combine any number of these keys, so you might open Launchpad by holding Option and Command, then moving your mouse to the bottom-left corner of your screen, for example. 4. Drag and Dock Foundry For most of us, the usual way of opening a file inside a specific app is to initially open the app, then load the file from there. But there’s a quicker way that doesn’t require you to load up the app first. All you have to do is drag the file onto the app icon–voilà, the app starts up with the file ready to go. The easiest way to do this is to drop the file onto an app in your Dock, but you can do this wherever an app is stored; it works with apps housed in your Applications folder, for example. It could save you a little time if you’re working with a folder of files and want to get started quickly. 5. Speedy saving Foundry There’s another useful drag-and-drop feature that you might not know about, and this time it relates to saving files. Instead of having to click through folder after folder to get to the save location you need, there’s a much faster way to save your files. The next time you have a save dialog box open in an app, drag the destination folder directly onto the save window. Doing so will set the save location as the folder you just dragged into place. You can drag a folder from anywhere: from your desktop, from inside a Finder window, even from the path bar at the bottom of a Finder window. I’m something of a neurotic organizer on my Mac, with endlessly nested folders storing my neatly sorted files. Normally, it would be a pain to save something in the right place, but using this trick saves me a bunch of time every day. Now it can do the same for you, too. 6. Find my pointer Foundry You know you’re having one of those days when even locating your mouse pointer on your Mac’s screen can feel like a chore. The problem is exacerbated if you’re using multiple monitors, where finding the pointer can seem akin to a wild goose chase. Thankfully, Apple has come up with a brilliantly elegant solution to the problem: just shake your mouse. As you rapidly wiggle it side to side, your mouse pointer is blown up to gargantuan proportions, helping you locate it in a quick second. Once you stop the movement, your pointer returns to normal, safely held under your watchful eye from now on. 7. Quick Look Foundry You might already be familiar with Quick Look, which allows you to click a file and press the Space bar to get a handy preview of the file in question. But did you know that Quick Look can do much more than just provide a peek at the file? The next time you open an image with Quick Look, head over to the top-right corner of the preview window, where you’ll see some useful editing tools, including a rotate button and a share option. You can open the file in the Preview app, or detect and highlight any text that might be present using the button in the bottom-right corner. But the more useful option is the markup button. Click this and you’ll be able to draw on your image, add text, drop in a saved signature, crop it, add a comment, send it to your iPhone, and much more., without having to open the image in an app. If you just want to make a few simple changes, Quick Look could be all you need. 8. Unlock with Apple Watch Foundry Apple devices are great on their own, but just like the advice your high school coach probably once gave you, they work even better as a team. One of the best examples of this is what happens when you pair up your Mac with an Apple Watch. When these two devices are linked, you can automatically unlock your Mac and compatible apps simply by wearing your Watch. As long as your Apple Watch us unlocked, you’ll be able to log into your Mac when it wakes without raising a finger (note that this won’t work the first time you switch on your Mac; you need to have logged in once already). Despite the obvious utility of this feature, it’s not enabled by default. To turn it on, you need to open the System Settings app on your Mac and head to Touch ID & Password (or Login Password, depending on your Mac). There, under the “Use Apple Watch to unlock your applications and your Mac” text, enable the toggle next to the name of your Watch.

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The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Chip 16GB RAM/512GB is $250 Off
Amazon has the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro with 16GB Unified Memory and 512GB storage marked $250 off. The MacBook is powered by the next-generation M5 chip to render your computer ultra-fast and fluid. Each GPU is powered by a Neural Accelerator for faster performance of AI. You can blitz through tasks like editing, demanding workloads, […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Noise and Static on AirPods Pro 3 Still Unfixed
Since the release of the AirPods Pro 3, users have been experiencing an issue where the earbuds produce a crackling/static-like noise when using them. This specifically happens when ANC is on.  Even after 2 firmware updates have been rolled out for the earbuds, the issue is yet to be solved. Users who downloaded the firmware […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Flickering Issue On Studio Display Caused by Bug in macOS Tahoe
A bug has been introduced by macOS Tahoe, where the connected Studio Display on a Mac device flickers every now and then. The most recent update seems to have made the problem worse. Current Mac users who use a Studio Display have expressed the problem since September, when the update was released. The flickering occurs […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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New iMac with 24-inch OLED Display May be Brighter With 600 Nits
Apple is developing an iMac with an OLED display measuring 24-inches, and the device could see a release date in about two years. Reportedly, requests for information have been sent by Apple to LG Display and Samsung Display for the development of the OLED panel for the iMac. The current iMac features LED backlighting in […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air 256GB Is $250 Off
Amazon has the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air 256GB marked $250 off. The MacBook is powered by the M4 chip to give you faster speeds and fluidity when using the device, allowing you to blitz through heavy workloads such as creative projects, editing and run graphic-intensive games. The device features a 15.3-inch Liquid Retina Display capable […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Internal Kernel Debug Kit from Apple Reveals Tests for a MacBook with A15 Chip
A kernel debug kit inside Apple hints that the company has run some tests for a MacBook powered by an A15 chip, as well as a separate entry for an A18 Pro chip for a MacBook. This information came from the files leaked from an internal kernel bug used by engineers at Apple. It was […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple Currently In Talks With Suppliers for Chip Assembly & Packaging of iPhones in India
Apple is having discussions with suppliers to deal with the assembly of iPhone chips and packaging for the first time in India. The company sources display panels for the iPhone from three industry-leading OLED manufacturers, namely BOE, LG Display, and Samsung Display. The IC display drivers used are provided by Novatek, LX Semicon, Himax, Samsung, […] The post Apple Currently In Talks With Suppliers for Chip Assembly & Packaging of iPhones in India appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple Allows Easier Battery Replacement For M5 MacBook Pro with 14-inch Display
Replacing the battery of the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro has now been made easier by Apple, letting users that are a part of the self-service repair program replace it without taking out internal components of the MacBook. The M5 MacBook Pro in the past needed you to swap multiple modules other than the battery itself […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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The Apple Watch SE 3 44mm GPS is $50 Off
Amazon has the Apple Watch SE 3 44mm GPS marked $50 off. The smartwatch features health essentials like sleep score, detects if you have irregular, low or high heart rate/ rhythm, temperature sensing for better insight in the Vitals app so you can take appropriate action. Stay connected, listen to podcasts and music, take calls, […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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20th Anniversary iPhone May Launch in Two Years
Apple is thinking of releasing an iPhone to commemorate its 20th anniversary in two years. The gadget will feature curved glass and no cutouts on its display, with Face ID built underneath the screen of the device, starting with next year’s iPhone 18 Pro units. The company is developing a game-changer design for their 20th […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Better Image Generation Capabilities and Apple Music Integration Coming to ChatGPT
Multiple features were added by OpenAI to ChatGPT, rolling out support for image generation and Apple Music. Support for app integrations was added earlier this year to ChatGPT, and the addition of Apple Music will allow ChatGPT to suggest playlists and music based on the user’s listening history. Other than support for Apple Music, OpenAI […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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A20 Pro Chip Coming to Next Gen iPad Mini OLED
The next iPad Mini equipped with an OLED screen will be powered by the A20 Pro chip. This came from an analysis of a kernel debug kit for macOS that had internal codenames Apple is using for its devices. Info in the kit was leaked earlier this year by accident on the Apple website. It […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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This one feature justifies buying an iPhone 17
The iPhone 17 Center Stage selfie camera improves your video calling experience significantly. Trust me: you need this. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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Review: This MagSafe battery pack replaced multiple chargers for me [Video]
I have tested dozens of MagSafe battery packs over the years, including slim ones, chunky ones, low-capacity chargers, and full-on power bricks that aim to replace everything at once. Most of the battery packs I test are mostly fine; they do the job. But the Kuxiu S3 10,000mAh battery pack strikes a great balance of simplicity, multifunctionality, and, most importantly, reliability. Here is what you should know about their brand-new solid-state battery pack. more…

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