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Today’s Apple deals are now ready to go and there’s some seriously notable offers here. After what felt like a couple weeks of one-off deals and random price drops here and there, we are now tracking a series of new all-time lows across some of Apple’s latest releases starting off with all four colors of its most affordable new M4 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM at the $849 Amazon all-time low ($150 off). On the iPad side of things, we are also now tracking the best prices to date on brand new condition 11-inch iPad (A16) models as well as solid $100 price drops across just about every model in the M3 iPad Air lineup. The AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2 are also on sale right now starting from $100 with as much as $80 in savings alongside the return of all-time lows on the Apple Watch Series 10 l...
The white iPhone 4 release day is always a fun Apple anniversary for me to think about. It comes a week before I bought my very first iPhone (the iPhone 4 in white, of course) and 308 days after the black iPhone 4 arrived in stores.
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I’ve tried many MagSafe wallets over the years, and I’ve yet to find the perfect one. I recently picked up ESR’s new five-card, and it’s become my daily carry thanks to its separate ID slots and ability to hold multiple cards.
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Apple has released iOS 18.5 beta 4 for developers. The pre-release iPhone and iPad software update has been light on features, although there are some small changes.
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Apple’s next Mac software update, macOS 15.5, is inching closer to wide distribution. Today Apple released macOS 15.5 beta 4 to developers, bringing the latest refinements and fixes.
Update 4:47 p.m. ET: A new public beta is now available too, just hours after the developer release shipped.
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Apple just shipped new betas across its array of software platforms. Beta 4 for watchOS 11.5, visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and more is now available.
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On paper, the might look like a pretty standard iterative update. But diving into the details, it stands out as one of Apple’s easiest products to recommend, and two new changes specifically may offer the best reason yet for MacBook Pro users to switch to the Air.
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Apple is gearing up to launch AirTag 2 soon, but four years after the first AirTag debuted, a new test of competing options on Google’s ‘Find My Device’ network shows that Apple is still very much ahead in lost item tracking.
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Last year, a rumor suggested that the iPhone 17 Pro might have a more durable and anti-reflective display technology. As it turns out, that might not be the case after all…
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