Apple has confirmed that it has an “exciting week” of Mac announcements planned starting on Monday. We’re expecting updates to the MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac mini – alongside the launch of the first Apple Intelligence features.
Here’s everything you need to know about next week.
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Friday’s best Apple deals are now ready to go with the very first straight up cash price drops on the brand new iPad mini 7 joined by clearance pricing on the mini 6 starting from $350 Amazon lows. The iPad deals carry on with this weekend’s Best Buy event that is taking an additional $50 off just about every M4 iPad Pro in the lineup for members, amounting to as much as $200 in savings and $150 off most of the mid-tier configs. The 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 has now dropped even lower to a new $369 Amazon all-time low, much like the price drops we spotted this morning on Apple’s brand new 2-meter 25W MagSafe Charger at its best price ever, and we also have ongoing $249 price drops on the latest M3 MacBook Air. All of that and much more await in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
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A new report from Bloomberg today details that Apple quietly tested an app this year designed to “help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes.”
The test comes as Apple continues its work on a noninvasive glucose tracker, a long-running moonshot project that dates back to the Steve Jobs era.
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The ideal HomeKit accessories run themselves. Turning off and on lights from an app is a nice feature, but it’s a similar level of effort to using a light switch. The real magic is when you can “set it and forget it.” The is the perfect example of this reality when you need a night light for a kid’s room or to light up a hallway/stairwell at night. Once installed, you can turn on an automation and never think about it again.
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Apple News+ is once again expanding its collection of puzzles. With the release of iOS 18.2 beta 1, Apple News+ now offers daily sudoku puzzles across easy, moderate, and challenging difficulty levels. You can also track your sudoku performance right in the Apple News app.
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Last month, Apple announced that support for it would be adding support for spatial photos and spatial videos to Safari. In a new interview with PetaPixel, Apple confirmed that this feature is on track to arrive this year.
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Apple and medical device company Masimo are currently embroiled in multiple legal battles, headlined by the ongoing fight over the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor.
In a separate case, however, Apple was handed a victory today courtesy of a jury in Delaware. The jury ruled that two of Masimo’s smartwatches and chargers “willfully violated Apple’s patent rights in smartwatch designs,” as reported by Reuters.
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The Bluesky microblogging platform has grown significantly over the last year, from 2 million users last November to more than 13 million users. But Bluesky seems to have more ambitious plans for the future, as its chief operating officer Rose Wang has confirmed that the platform will soon have a paid subscription.
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The popular Blackmagic Camera app has just received a huge update with multiple new features for iOS users. The new version brings support for the iPhone 16’s Camera Control, as well as more bitrate options and many other improvements. Read on as we detail everything that’s new in Blackmagic Camera.
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