President Trump has confirmed that the 25% tariff mentioned for iPhone earlier today will also apply to Samsung and “anybody” making smartphones outside of the United States.

Today, Apple TV+ dropped one of its strongest candidates yet for an original franchise. Fountain of Youth, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, is streaming now.

A few years ago, Apple published a series of short videos on its British YouTube channel that were very different from the company’s usual campaigns. Now, the company is at it again, with a new set of futuristic and oddly hypnotic ads.

Xiaomi has retaken the digital crown in the global wearable band market, surpassing Apple to become the top vendor in Q1 2025, according to new data from Canalys.

The research firm says Xiaomi pulled it with a more mature ecosystem strategy than the one it had back in mid-2021 (the last time it led the pack), while Apple’s wearable strategy has grown stale.

I don’t usually watch trailers, but Apple TV+ makes it nearly impossible to avoid them with how aggressively it peddles its own content.

After the umpteenth time that sharp trumpet note from The Studio’s trailer blared through my TV while I was just trying to watch something else, I gave in. My first thought? Yeah, no. Looks way too over the top. Eleven episodes later, I can confirm: it absolutely is. And it’s glorious. Give it a shot and you’ll thank Sal Saperstein later

Tim Cook is personally involved in an attempt to stop a Texas child safety bill targeting the App Store from becoming law, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The long-term promise of Apple Intelligence and next-gen Siri is that it will be able to access all our apps, and the data stored in those apps, to become massively more helpful.

ChatGPT has effectively given us a preview of this type of capability through its integration with a handful of Mac apps, and I’ve been putting it to the test …

While and Best Buy’s Memorial Day sales before we even kick off the holiday weekend, there are some additional deals to add to the list today. Amazon has now dropped a sizable $300 off the 2TB M4 iPad Pro, while more affordable models start from $809. That deals joins some notable offers on Apple’s Magic Keyboard as well as a giant price drop on the originally $1,049 iPad Air down at $699 shipped. Apple Watch Series 10 deals continue from $299 while upgraded models are up to $160 off alongside discounts on Twelve South’s TimePorter Apple Watch band organizer. All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

Just one day after Mozilla confirmed it’s shutting down Pocket, Digg co-founder and chairman Kevin Rose has stepped up with a public offer to take it over.

Apple shares are down at market open today after President Trump threatened new tariffs unless the company starts building iPhones in the United States.

Apple introduced app privacy labels to help people better understand what data an app may collect, including what data is linked to them or used to track them across the web. When released back in 2020, the labels set a precedent in the industry and were a major first step in raising awareness of privacy-invasive apps. It became easy for users to compare something like Signal, which collects virtually no user data at all, and Facebook Messenger, which gobbles up anything and everything it can. The feature set out to help users make informed downloads.

However, in recent years, I have seen a growing conversation around whether these entirely self-reported labels located further down on the application’s App Store page still impact the user’s decision before hitting “Get” to install.

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Apple has announced that it is running a limited-time promotion offering boosted trade-in values on iPhones. The promotion will run through June 18 and is available in multiple countries around the world, including the United States and China.

President Trump has just blasted Apple in a post on his account on TruthSocial. The president said that he has “long ago informed” Apple CEO Tim Cook that iPhones sold in the United States should be manufactured and built in the United States, “not India, or anyplace else”.

He continues by threatening that if this does not happen, “a tariff of least 25% must be paid by Apple”. The details of the ‘tariff’ are unclear, but the outburst has nonetheless shook investors and Apple company stock has already dropped 3% in response to the announcement.

Apple is in a tough spot. While the company is painfully behind the competition when it comes to getting a solid handle on AI development, it seems to be speeding up the timeline to release its first AI-powered smart glasses. That’s… quite a gamble.

Apple has released the first teaser for Chief of War, a historical drama starring and co-created by Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Dune: Part One). This nine-episode series follows the story of Ka‘iana, a Native Hawaiian warrior fighting to unify the islands before the arrival of Western colonizers in the late 1700s.

In a new feature story on its Newsroom today, Apple showcases how iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches are being used by doctors and nurses at one of Georgia’s largest health systems. And while the piece suffers from a chronic case of PR-speak, the project is pretty interesting nonetheless.

Apple is expediting its plans to compete with Meta’s popular Ray-Ban smart glasses. Bloomberg reports today that Apple is now aiming to release smart glasses “at the end of next year.” Simultaneously, the company has dropped its plans to release an Apple Watch with a built-in camera.

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Pour one out for an App Store classic. Mozilla has just announced it’s phasing out its read-it-later service, Pocket, as part of a broader effort to double down on its focus on Firefox. Here’s how it’s going to work.

On the heels of Microsoft Build and Google I/O, Anthropic has just announced Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus, which are immediately available on Claude’s website, as well as in the API. Here’s what’s new.

WWDC invites have gone out, and Chance will be there in person. The pair discuss the narrative of indifference that hangs over WWDC at the moment, as the tech industry is currently dominated by daily onslaught of AI news. And while the rumors about the AirPods roadmap are a little bleak, Apple is rumored to be shipping a truly all-screen bezel-less iPhone in a couple of years time — an exciting prospect indeed.

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Apple just dropped the first trailer for the return of The Buccaneers, its drama series based on Edith Wharton’s of the same name.

Set to Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe,” it reveals a new character played by a Gossip Girl alum.

Right after yesterday’s bombshell announcement that OpenAI had acquired Jony Ive’s AI startup to form a new company called io, the entire tech world immediately began asking, “OK, but what is it?”

Now, supply chain analyst and frequent Apple leaker Ming-Chi shared what he was able to gather about the mysterious io device.

Alongside the now live wider sales at Amazon and Best Buy, the Memorial Day weekend offers are starting flood in. But first, we have up to $400 off iPhone 16 Pro units in Amazon Premium Renewed condition alongside one of the best deals we have tracked to date on the M4 iPad Pro Magic Keyboard. Then it’s on to the accessories – Twelve South’s 15W 3-in-1 HiRise 3 Deluxe MagSafe stand is now at a new Amazon all-time low with 47% in savings and the Burton Goods Memorial Weekend sale is knocking up to 30% off everything sitewide (leather MacBook, iPhone, and iPad cases as well as Apple Watch bands). All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

If you love Apple and you love crypto, good news: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is preparing to let users trade tokenized versions of popular stocks like Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia. Except if you’re in the U.S., that is.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman yesterday released a strong candidate for most frustrating video of the year: promising a completely new concept in AI hardware, but giving very little clue as to what it might be.

I transcribed the video to see whether I could spot any clues, in conjunction with other things the two have said. I think we can draw some pretty safe conclusions about what it’s not – and there are one or two clues about what it is …

There’s just over two weeks left before WWDC 2025. While insiders like Mark Gurman tend to save a few leaks as last-minute tidbits before the big event, it might be safe to say that there has been enough smoke to give us a good idea of what to expect. Here’s what’s coming.

One of the best things that has happened to HomeKit in the past few years is the Matter standard. It is far from perfect, but it has opened the door (pun intended) for a new crop of accessories that would have never supported Apple’s smart home platform before. SwitchBot is a great example. The company started out with clever smart home products like the , but has leaned hard into Matter recently, and it is paying off. It’s new Lock Ultra and combo brings serious upgrades and, more importantly, native HomeKit compatibility thanks to Matter support.

At CES 2025, MacPaw unveiled Eney, an all new AI-powered companion that’ll complete tasks for you. It taps into the plethora of apps available on Setapp, and serves as an assistant of sorts. Eney is available in public beta starting today. I’ve had the opportunity to test it out early, and it’s certainly a strong offering.

Apple login credentials were among a massive database of 184 million records found sitting unprotected on a web server. Other logins included Facebook, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and PayPal.

The owner of the database is unclear, but the security researcher who discovered it says that it amounts to “a cybercriminal’s dream working list” …

A lost dog has been reunited with its owner thanks to an AirTag attached to its collar – but the story also serves as a reminder to monitor the battery levels of our tags.

The AirTag was out of power, but thankfully the dog chose to wander into the home of a tech writer who had some spare batteries to hand, ensuring that the owner could quickly locate the errant pet …

After my last WiFi-enabled smart scale broke and refused to connect to the Internet anymore, I sought something simpler and cheaper to replace it. The old scale had all sorts of fancy service integrations that I never used. I just wanted something that would track my weight and report the measurements to the Health app on my iPhone.

The is what I landed on and I’m very happy with it — and it’s pretty cheap too. Here’s how it works …

Today, Apple updated its vintage products list with two new iPhone models, and also moved two other iPad models to its obsolete products list. This means that certain Apple devices might not be able to be repaired as easily.

YouTube teased a “little refresh” of the mobile app’s miniplayer earlier this week, and this update is now rolling out on Android and iOS. This follows the “feedback” people sent in after the October launch.

Apple, Warner Bros, and IMAX are doubling down on the hype around Brad Pitt’s ‘F1: The Movie’, and have expanded the worldwide release. Tickets are on sale now. Here’s how to get them.

In their comprehensive report about the bombshell acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI startup by OpenAI, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Shirin Ghaffary said OpenAI’s CEO believed Apple’s co-founder would have been “‘damn proud’ of Ive’s latest move”.

He may be right.

Among all of the Apple Intelligence features announced at WWDC24 last summer, notification summaries are likely one of the more controversial ones. Users have noticed a number of inaccurate summaries, which has resulted in Apple tweaking the design of notification summaries, as well as disabling it for news stories.

While these summaries will never be absolutely perfect, there is one way Apple could improve the quality and accuracy of them, and I’d like to see them take this idea into consideration for iOS 19.

Spotify was one of the first companies to take advantage of recent changes to the App Store Guidelines. The company swiftly submitted a new version of its app with links that make it easier for users to subscribe to Spotify Premium using external payment methods.

In an amicus brief filed in support of Epic Games this week, Spotify touts that it has already seen a measurable increase in Premium subscription conversions thanks to these changes.

In a new paper called “Humanoid Policy ∼ Human Policy,” Apple researchers propose an interesting way to train humanoid robots. And it involves wearing an Apple Vision Pro.

The Overtime crew talk about Jeff’s recent foray into upgrading his base model M4 Mac mini SSD, including the benefits, challenges, and a discussion about the idea of such an upgrade voiding the product warranty.

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