Apple reportedly was considering providing cloud services to app developers, as executives considered the creation of a rival offering to services sold by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.


Developers often rely on cloud servers for various tasks, ranging from data storage to off-device processing. While the major names in the field include the lies of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, Apple could've been another name on the list.

According to sources of The Information Apple has internally considered providing server-rentals to developers of iPhone and Mac apps. The deliberations, which have happened over the last few years, have not yet resulted in such a service existing, but there's a chance one could eventually turn up.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Apple has long been rumored to be working on the iPhone Fold and a foldable iPad. A new report claims that the iPad project is "paused," and I am convinced that it's the right decision.


The folding device rumors have been plentiful in recent years, and the general belief was that something would be released in 2026 or thereabouts. Whether that would be a phone or some sort of tablet-laptop hybrid was unclear, depending on which analyst you listened to.

It's important to remember that this latest report, courtesy of DigiTimes, doesn't say that the foldable iPad has been canceled. Rather, it says that Apple has "decided to pause progress" on the project.


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While China's smartphone sales stall overall, Apple grabbed growth with smart pricing, subsidies, and its broad iPhone 16 lineup.


Apple posted high single-digit growth in China's smartphone market during the second quarter of 2025. Sales rose on the strength of promotions and demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone Pro Max models.

Counterpoint Research reported that Apple's price cuts in May lifted performance despite modest overall market growth. China's smartphone sell-through in Q2 2025 is expected to show slight year-over-year growth.


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Early Prime Day deals are heating up, especially with the 4th of July weekend on the horizon, and shoppers can reap special savings on clearance Mac mini computers, AirTags, and accessories.


Kicking off today's fresh early Prime Day deals is a blowout $199.99 price on a refurbished Intel Mac mini at Amazon-owned Woot. Equipped with a 6-core Intel Core i5 processor, this configuration has 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD. It also has four Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports, one HDMI 2.0 port, and two USB-A ports.

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Apple Umeda opens on July 26, and Apple comes bearing gifts — a brand new Apple-themed wallpaper, available for all your devices.


Apple has announced that a brand new Apple Store, known as Apple Umeda, will be opening at Osaka's Grant Front shopping center on July 26. It marks Apple's first store in Umeda, though the company has been eyeing the district for quite some time.

To commemorate the occasion, Apple has released a new wallpaper available for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can download all three below:


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Apple Music in iOS 26 added AutoMix. auto-translation of lyrics, and more. Here's how the updates compare against what's in iOS 18.


The Apple Music app often receives new features as part of the iOS update treadmill. For iOS 26, that chiefly involves changes to the listening experience.

However, there are still other smaller changes that appear within the music streaming app.


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Upgrade your video footage with Aiarty Video Enhancer, an AI-powered video editing suite that will make even the oldest video footage look great on your 4K TV.


Everyone has old iPhone footage, low-light shots, or aging video from early digital cameras that suffers from pixelation, compression, and other issues that show up poorly on 4K screens. Whether you're looking to clean up those old videos or you're a content creator trying to repurpose footage, there's a solution.

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A leaker claims to have specifications for the battery in the forthcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max, and they fit with previous reports about the phone being thicker than before.


In March 2025, a generally reliable leaker reported that the body of the iPhone 17 Pro Max was increasing in depth to 8.725 millimeters, compared to 8.25 on the iPhone 16 Pro Max. The supposition was that this would allow for a larger battery, and AppleInsider calculated that as small as the difference was, it could potentially mean up to an additional 400 mAh.

Now another often reliable leaker, Instant Digital, has posted that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have a 5,000 mAh battery — approximately 324 mAh more than its predecessor.


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To combat the common failure at the hinge that existing folding smartphones commonly suffer from, Apple has spent years looking at how to make iPhone or iPad screens that can be rolled out when needed, and rolled back up when not.


Following at least two earlier patents about foldable displays, and also much older ones, Apple is once more also investigating screens that can be stored rolled up.

"A flexible display may be wrapped around one or more rollers," says the newly-revealed patent application called "Electronic Device With Flexible Display Structures." It continues: "optional deployment rollers may be used to help deploy the display as [it] is pulled out of the housing."


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Apple is developing many new M5 and M6 Mac configurations, and we now have exclusive details on exactly what the company is developing.


Nearly all Macs available new in 2025 feature Apple's state-of-the-art M4 chip, with the MacBook Air and Mac Studio receiving the new processing hardware in March 2025. Internally, however, Apple is already working on the two devices' respective replacements, and even the practically forgotten Mac Pro is set to get a major hardware upgrade.

Through our own data and information shared with us, AppleInsider has learned of 15 new Mac models currently in development. People familiar with the matter — and common sense — have told us that Apple plans to introduce its M5 chip within a matter of months, and that M6-equipped devices could see some significant changes in late 2026.


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For many, the best email app is the one that came on your iPhone, Apple's own Mail app. To get the most use out of the Mail app, you can set it up to have all of your email accounts and addresses in one place in it.


Whether it be on your Mac or your iPhone, the process of adding an email account to Apple Mail is quick and painless. And, most importantly, it will make sifting through your emails that much simpler.

That's because once you have added two or more email accounts to the Mail app, you have a choice of how to read them. You can go separately into each one or click on the overall inbox to see all messages from all accounts, right there in one place.


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The Nintendo Switch 2 is a massive hit, but its relatively small screen size is still limiting. Here's how to use an iPad as an external display for better gaming.


Nintendo has reportedly sold more than five million units of its new portable gaming device. The new handheld sports a new 7.9-inch display, along with updated controllers, a better design, and a much faster processor.

What's always been great about the Switch, is that unlike other consoles that are dedicated handhelds or only work with a TV connected, it does both. It can be used on the go, or it can be docked and used with a display.


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Reminders in iOS 26 has a few new smart features with Apple Intelligence, and a restrained visual upgrade over iOS 18. Here's how the two versions compare.


The Reminders app isn't really an app that people think about that can do with some improvements. What Apple has at the moment is already a pretty good tool for making lists and following through with them.

With the introduction of iOS 26 at WWDC, Apple made quite a few alterations to the app. While the general structure remains untouched, it has refreshed the appearance as well as made it much smarter.


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Apple deals are trending this holiday week, with early Prime Day deals slashing up to 35% off M4 iPad Pros and Beats headphones. Check out which models are eligible for the discounts.


You can grab the $300 markdown on the 2TB 11-inch iPad Pro in Space Black with an M4 chip and Nano-texture Glass.


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President Donald Trump's new trade deal with Vietnam dramatically hikes import costs for Apple's hardware including AirPods, almost all iPads, and the Mac mini.


Following Apple's massive global restructuring of its supply and delivery chains to mitigate against Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs, Tim Cook said in May 2025 that everything but iPhones would now be imported from Vietnam. Now according to CNBC, Trump has announced a new trade deal with Vietnam that will increase Apple's costs on a huge proportion of its devices as compared to prior to Trump's second term as president.

While Apple can and has moved manufacturing between firms and countries to suit demand and logistics, the list of devices believed to currently be made in Vietnam is:


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North Korean hackers are using sophisticated Mac malware delivered through fake Zoom invites to break into Web3 and crypto firms, stealing sensitive data while evading standard security measures.


Security researchers have identified a sophisticated campaign by North Korean-aligned hackers using novel malware to target Web3 and cryptocurrency companies on macOS systems.

The SentinelOne Labs report describes a multi-stage attack chain. This attack chain combines social engineering, deceptive AppleScripts, and binaries compiled in the Nim programming language.


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Apple's OLED upgrade for the MacBook Pro is expected to arrive in 2026, with the change likely to bring Samsung Display into the notebook display supply chain.


Following the iPhone and iPad lineups switching display technologies to OLED, the MacBook lineup is also anticipated to eventually make the switch. If a report from analysts is accurate, then it will occur from 2026.

In a report from Omdia, discussing Apple's MacBook panel supply chain for 2025, analysts touch upon changes that will be happening in future years. The last paragraph actually discusses Apple shifting the MacBook line from LCD TFT to OLED.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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While the new glass-like design may be the most visible change within iOS 26, the operating system also has five features that might be particularly appealing for business users.


iOS 26 made its debut on June 9 at WWDC 2025, in a relatively subdued keynote event. While Apple put a strong emphasis on its cross-platform "Liquid Glass" design language, there's more to iOS 26 than meets the eye.

Some of the upgrades and improvements in iOS 26 allow you to express your creativity more easily, like the new ChatGPT-powered styles for Image Playground. Other features, meanwhile, will help you get work done, and they might be especially useful for those in the business world.


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Following a claim that the iPhone 17 range will see the regular Apple logo moved lower down the chassis, the same leaker says MagSafe charging will get a similar repositioning and for more than just aesthetic reasons.


Apple is known for sweating the details, and the claim that it is moving its logo because of a redesigned camera system on the iPhone 17 Pro does at least have some precedent.

Apple last changed its logo on the iPhone, the last time it changed the camera system — with the iPhone 11 range.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Changes to Messages in iOS 26 let you jazz up your group chats more than ever before. Here's how it compares to the iOS 18 version.


With each update to iOS, Apple introduces some alterations that makes Messages even more useful for iPhone users. As expected, this is the case for iOS 26 as well.

During WWDC, Apple talked about various elements, including backgrounds, polls, and automatic translation. However, with the introduction of Liquid Glass, there was also the expectation that other things will be changed too.


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After seven years of rolling rumors saying that it was for sure coming next year, the iPhone Fold is now in its production prototyping phrase, ahead of an expected launch in 2026.


Unsurprisingly after so many years of designing and manufacturing iPhones, Apple has a very specific process of prototyping that it follows, as exclusively revealed by AppleInsider. Now according to DigiTimes, the iPhone fold prototype is in its first round of testing.

DigiTimes says that this testing is earlier than expected, but it appears to fit with recent claims that Apple expected mass production to begin in summer 2026. While this fits with those most recent other reports, it's still the case that the iPhone fold has been reportedly about to launch for many years.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Millions of Qantas customers are at risk after hackers exploited a third-party system to steal personal information. Here's what got stolen.


Qantas Airways confirmed on July 2, 2025, that a cybercriminal accessed customer service records stored in an external system used by one of its contact centers. The company says it has contained the breach but is now working to reassure and inform affected customers.

The airline acknowledged that about 6 million customer service records are stored in the compromised platform. An initial review found that stolen information likely includes:


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Announced on Wednesday, the DJI Power 2000 is a solid power station option made by the folks best known for lightweight drones, but it's not really one that you would consider easily portable or inexpensive.


In 2025, the portable power station market is thriving. Consumers are spoiled for choice with the wide selection of options for their personal power needs.

All ranging from large power stations and semi-permanent power backups designed for home use. On the other end are portable units tailored to camping, worksites, and for temporary use in emergencies


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July 2 is the last day to claim your part of a $95 million settlement, if you owned a device with Siri that could've recorded a private conversation.


Emails are being sent out to consumers about a "Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement," explaining that the recipient could be owed some money. Following after the agreement by Apple to settle a class-action lawsuit, the time has now come for payments to be made.

The email, seen by AppleInsider, advises that the recipient is identified as potentially being a member of the settlement class, based on Apple's records, and could be entitled to receive the patent.


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Apple's expansion in India has hit an unexpected issue as hundreds of Chinese workers have been required to leave its iPhone manufacturer Foxconn's facilities in the country.


In May 2025, it was revealed that Foxconn had made a $1.5 billion investment in India, and separately the Indian government had approved a new semiconductor factory. Yet according to Bloomberg, even as all of this was happening, Foxconn India began sending Chinese workers back to China.

Citing unspecified sources said to be familiar with the matter, the report claims that Foxconn has been telling Chinese workers to return, for about the last two months. So far over 300 Chinese workers have left, and one source claimed that most people remaining are support staff from Taiwan.


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The release of iOS 18 brought a number of new features to Apple's Journal app, including the new ability to search and sort entries.


Apple's Journal app was originally introduced in December 2023 alongside iOS 17. In October 2024, it received its first major update, as part of the iOS 18 upgrade.

There's new support for noting one's state of mind, if desired, along with the ability to print individual entries, and more. The biggest new addition to Journal in iOS 18, though, is the arrival of search and sort functionality.


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Jennifer Aniston will star and produce a 10-episode Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling "I'm Glad My Mom Died," where she plays the narcissistic mother of "iCarly" actress Jennette McCurdy.


Apple TV+ is packed with star-studded dramas and comedies, and it continues to roll out new projects at a regular pace. The latest dramedy will likely fit in well with fans of Bad Sisters.

I'm Glad My Mom Died will star Jennifer Aniston, who is also the executive producer for the series via Echo Films. She's playing the titular mother that relishes her identity as "a starlet's mother."


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Apple has failed to convince a jury that it didn't infringe on 3G wireless patents with cellular chips in its iPhone, with it now having to pay TOT Power Control over $110 million.


The jury decision, made on June 30 and made public by a Delaware federal court on Tuesday, didn't go Apple's way. In a long-running patent lawsuit against TOT Power Control, it has been decided that Apple's wireless chips violated the company's patents.

This includes cellular chips used in the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.


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An injured climber stranded above 10,000 feet on Snowmass Mountain in Colorado was rescued after using Apple's satellite texting feature on his iPhone to call for help.


According to the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, the 53-year-old man reached the summit on Sunday. During his descent, he injured his wrist and was unable to continue alone, according to KDVR.

Without cell service or Wi-Fi in the remote area, he used Apple's satellite texting capability to contact a family member. That relative alerted the sheriff's office and Mountain Rescue Aspen.


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Photos in iOS 26 has reworked the iOS 18 version for the better. Here's how the new version of Photos expected in the fall compares to the old one.


One of the most-used first-party apps on an iPhone, Photos is the home for all of the photographs and videos you take with the onboard cameras. With built-in editing tools and search capabilities, you can quickly find memories of yesteryear and make them look good too.

It is an essential app, and therefore any changes made to it will be significant. Even if they don't seem that way from the outset.


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New shipment estimates by supply chain analysts suggest that Apple may have gained computing marketshare in the first quarter of 2025, but the report ignores that shipments aren't sales, and Apple stuffed the channel with hardware ahead of tariff impacts.


Apple entered 2025 with faster shipment growth than rivals, with Mac shipments jumping 28.7%. Rivals HP, Dell and Lenovo managed only single-digit growth, according to Canalys data released on July 1.

Apple shipped roughly 2.7 million desktops and notebooks, raising its share of the U.S. PC shipment market to about 16%, up from just over 14% a year earlier in 2024. These figures measure what Apple sent into retail channels, not how many Macs were actually bought by end users.


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Amazon's $849 MacBook Air deal is back, with the M4-equipped laptop available at a $150 discount ahead of Prime Day.


The $150 markdown at Amazon marks a return of the popular $849 price on the standard M4 MacBook Air 13-inch model, and every colorway is eligible for the savings.

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Following its recall of one US-only Power Bank, Anker has now issued a worldwide recall and replace notice for five more similar batteries. Here's what's impacted and how to get a refund.


In June 2025, Anker issued its recall of the PowerCore 10000 batteries because of a potential fire risk, although solely to devices sold in the US. As of July 1, 2025, though, the company is recalling five more Power Banks:

• Anker Power Bank (10K, 22.5W) Model A1257



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Apple is researching how to make software for the Apple Vision Pro to help prevent motion sickness from perceived motion, as well as caused by the motion of a vehicle.


Probably all Apple Vision Pro users say that wearing your headset during a flight is more embarrassing — or at least prone to getting knocked in the overhead storage compartment. But some say that depending on what you're watching, they can get motion sickness because of how the headset's sensors are sometimes thrown by the movement of the aircraft.

It's like an exaggerated version of the motion sickness that some users feel when, say, reading their iPhone in a moving bus. Apple addressed that specific issue with its Vehicle Motion Cues in iOS 18.


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Google just pulled its note-taking app Keep from Apple Watch, extending a long and storied history of Google killing off products.


Alphabet Inc.'s Google pulled its Keep note-taking app from Apple Watch with an update on June 30, 2025. The move leaves users without a Google-backed way to take notes on the wrist.

Keep launched for watchOS in 2019 but never got much attention. It lacked watch face complications and other core features. Over time, it fell behind.


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Brazil has tried fining Apple over the App Store before and backed down, but its technology council is now urging it since other nations are.


In late 2022, early 2023, Brazil's Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (CADE) regulator opened an investigation following complaints from firms including MercadoLibre, a Latin American ecommerce platform. Now that regulator's technology advisors have concluded that Apple is guilty of the accusations.

The General Superintendence of the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (SG/CADE) said in announcement (in translation), that "Apple's conduct constitutes an infringement of the economic order." The specific accusation concerns restrictive practices over third-party marketing, the same anti-steering issue that Apple has been fined over by the EU.


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Apple is suing a design engineer who allegedly copied Apple Vision Pro research and is using it in his new role at Snap, maker of Snapchat and smart glasses.


There's probably now a standard pro forma lawsuit that Apple gets out every year, as this latest example of alleged trade secret theft is far from the first. In 2022, an employee leaked confidential information to the press, while in 2023, three ex-Apple engineers were accused of stealing Apple Car.

And in 2024, Apple finally settled with Rivos, a startup firm accused of taking both trade secrets and poaching engineers from Apple.


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The Stream Deck is great for running macros on your Mac, but there are ways to do it significantly cheaper. Sometimes, all it takes is a spare keyboard or a secondary numpad.


In the pursuit of productivity, users can turn to macros as a way to get things done on their Mac. By hitting specific keys or key combinations on their keyboard, using configuration software supplied by the manufacturer, tasks can be sped up.

These are different from keyboard shortcuts, in that you often just have one action performed with keyboard shortcuts. Macros, however, can be complex enough to trigger multiple functions.


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Apple's motion to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit has been rejected, which means a trial that could result in upending more of Apple's businesses will soon begin.


An antitrust investigation brought on by a case with Spotify in 2019 opened Apple up to a lot of scrutiny. In 2024, after years of vague threats, the Department of Justice finally filed a wide-sweeping and vague antitrust lawsuit against Apple.

The lawsuit got off to a messy start with the judge recusing himself and being replaced by US District Judge Julien Neals. Apple wrote a letter to the judge and requested an immediate dismissal, and now, more than a year later, Apple's request has finally been addressed.


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Cybercriminals and fraudsters are using fake texts, this time from UPS, to gain access to iPhone users' personal information. Here's how to stay safe and keep your data from falling into the wrong hands.


Text messages claiming to be from the package delivery service UPS have been popping up as part of a new phishing scam. Much like the fake DMV texts our staffers receiver earlier in June 2025, which scared people with claims of unpaid traffic tickets and threats of legal action, the fraudulent UPS texts inform users of a supposed failed package delivery.

The message even instructions about how to reschedule delivery, and claims that failing to do so will cause the unspecified package to be returned to its sender. The scammers behind the message put in a considerable amount of effort, and it may appear legitimate at first glance, given the lack of any obvious grammatical errors.


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