In a post on X today, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple will make a donation to help with relief efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. Here’s what he said.

Following its series of teardowns of Apple’s recent announcements, iFixit has taken apart the new M5 iPad Pro. Here’s what they found.

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watchOS 26 is the latest major software version for Apple Watch, and among its host of new features, the popular Apple Notes app is now available on the wrist.

Apple Music in iOS 26 is packed with new features, and my favorite of the bunch is pinned music. But much to my surprise, I just discovered that music pins have a hidden feature that makes them even better.

At WWDC in 2020, Apple announced a new car key feature that lets people use the Wallet app on the iPhone or Apple Watch to control their car. While adoption of this feature has been slow, head below to find the full list of cars that support Apple car key integration.

Apple TV has increasingly become one of the best streamers for thriller series. Here are two big new crime thrillers airing now, and a preview of three more series right around the corner.

Presence/motion sensors are one of the best ways to make automations feel more natural, but most of them run on batteries and eventually have to be swapped. That’s one of the main reasons I really like the Meross MS600 Smart Presence Sensor. It plugs into the wall, so you don’t have to worry about battery swaps. It combines millimeter wave radar, motion detection, and a built-in light sensor to detect it all.

Unlike any ‘Pro’ iPhone before it, the iPhone 17 Pro is available in a bright cosmic orange color. This trend of bold colors might continue with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup next year.

A new report from Weibo user Digital Chat Station, which has previously shared accurate iPhone rumors, the iPhone 18 Pro could be available in brown, purple, and burgundy.

Rumors indicate Apple has a touchscreen-equipped HomePod (likely named ‘HomePod Touch’ or ‘HomePad’) launching early next year. But a recent report on pricing indicates Apple might repeat a mistake it made with the first HomePod.

The Aura Ink is not your typical digital photo frame, and on the basis of the specs alone it doesn’t sound too impressive. That’s because it’s a color e-ink display, with all the drawbacks that entails.

It can display only four different colors – white, yellow, red, and blue – takes around 30 seconds to change from one photo to the next, and is expensive at $499 for a 13.3-inch model. And yet, despite all this, it’s actually the best digital photo frame I’ve ever used …

Baseus’ recently announced EnerGeek GX11 power bank is not only a great power bank, but it also doubles as a cellular hotspot.

The Week 1 Best Buy Black Friday Doorbusters are now live and today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is loaded with some big-time price drops. Firstly, we are now tracking the best prices ever on several Apple Watch Ultra 3 configurations at $99 off the list price. From there we move over to the very first price drop on the brand new Powerbeats Fit alongside up to $110 off M4 Mac mini models, up to $600 off iPhone 16 Pro with new Amazon Renewed Premium all-time lows, and nearly $400 off the most affordable M4 Pro MacBook Pro. All of the details on these offers and more await below. 

iOS 26.1 is just days away, with a launch expected early next week. Here are my three favorite new features after more than a month using the iOS 26.1 beta.

Apple just launched new AirPods Pro 3, but yet another AirPods model is rumored to arrive next year, expanding the lineup to be bigger than ever.

Channels is a powerful and fan-favorite cord-cutting app that makes it easy to watch, record, and organize TV shows and movies.

Channels 7.0 is rolling out now for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, and it’s full of new features and changes to celebrate the app’s 10th anniversary.

Agentic AI is a term that every IT team should become familiar with, as it will impact every aspect of their work. As SaaS apps continue to dominate, the browser has become more than just a window to the web. A new generation of browsers is emerging that brings the agentic AI era directly into how people work every day.

Agentic browsers can summarize information, reason over data, and even take action on a user’s behalf. OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Atlas, and Mosyle, a popular vendor in the Apple IT space, is helping teams prepare for the future of agentic AI by adding its app to its app catalog.

During Apple’s earnings call with investors yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook provided a (vague) update on Apple’s work on the next-generation version of Siri.

The Apple CEO assured investors that the company is “making good progress” on the more personalized version of Siri ahead of a launch “next year.”

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Around this time two years ago, OpenAI’s incredibly popular GPT-4 API was spreading like wildfire all over the App Store. It wasn’t long before AI-powered productivity apps, chatbot companions, nutritional trackers, and basically anything else you could think of dominated the charts, garnering millions of downloads. Fast forward to today, many of those vibe-coded, opportunistic apps have disappeared, partly due to cooling hype but also Apple’s tougher stance against knockoffs and misleading apps.

However, this week, security researcher Alex Kleber noticed that one misleading AI chatbot, impersonating OpenAI’s branding, managed to achieve top marks in the Business category. Albeit on the less popular Mac App Store, this is still significant and warrants a brief PSA to be cautious when sharing personal information with these apps.

On today’s post-earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh shared a few interesting tidbits about who drove sales across the company’s major product categories. Here are the details.

Today was a busy day for WhatsApp users. After confirming passkey support on Android and iOS, the company released a TestFlight build with a long-awaited feature for Apple Watch users. Here are the details.

Today, Apple informed developers that prices for apps and In-App Purchases will be adjusted in Poland, Switzerland, and Türkiye starting next month. Here are the details.

Alongside today’s Q4 earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook also spoke with CNBC, where he addressed Apple’s predicament in the AI field. Here’s what he said.