Alongside the now live Best Buy early Black Friday Doorbuster deals, it’s now time for your Friday edition of our daily 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals on Apple gear and accessories. Alongside an ongoing deal on the brand new AirPods 4, Amazon is now taking its turn with one of the best prices to date on Apple’s flagship AirPods Pro 2. But we also spotted a new all-time low on the brand new M4 Mac mini and as well as the best deals to date on the new M4 iMac configurations at up to $120 off the going rate. Those offers join upgraded 16GB M3 MacBook Airs at up to $310 off the original prices and much more. Everything awaits below.
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Update: A security researcher on Mastodon has cracked the case on this, proving that it has nothing to do with iPhones secretly communicating with each other.
A new report from 404 Media says that law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan believe that iOS 18 includes a “new security feature that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have been disconnected from a cellular network for some time.”
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Keeping tabs on battery-powered HomeKit accessories like the can be challenging. From smart locks to motion sensors, battery status is often out of sight, out of mind—until the moment a device fails to respond. Enter HomeBatteries, an app designed to solve this problem by giving you an easy place to monitor HomeKit battery and ensuring you lose access to one of your devices.
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TikTok already lets users add a song to their Spotify library without leaving the app, and both platforms are now introducing another quite convenient feature: the ability to easily share Spotify songs on TikTok.
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Fernando and Jeff discuss today’s official availability of the M4 Mac mini, including first impressions and planned use cases. Also, why visionOS 2.2 makes the Apple Vision Pro worth buying if you can get one used for a good price.
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According to multiple sources, Apple is planning an all-new iPhone 17 model for 2025 with a dramatic design overhaul. Here’s everything we know so far about the so-called iPhone 17 Air (which could also be called the iPhone 17 Slim or something completely different).
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A new study published this week by researchers at the University of California, San Diego highlights how Apple Vision Pro can be used in healthcare settings. In particular, this study sought to compare diagnostic performance when using Apple Vision Pro versus using a desktop.
Researchers also touted the “new opportunities for 3D virtualization” and ergonomics offered by Apple Vision Pro.
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OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT is currently down, making the platform inaccessible to users around the world on Friday night. The outage has also affected integration with Siri in the iOS 18.2 beta as a consequence.
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Everywhere you read, discussions around AI everywhere. It’s in the tools we use, the news we read, and the discussions happening across nearly every industry. But with AI so embedded in our conversations, AI fatigue has set in. IT practitioners are becoming weary of promises that AI w...