Following last week’s release of iOS 26.2.1, Apple has now stopped signing iOS 26.2. Here’s what that means.

To help promote the second season of Apple TV’s Drops of God, the company has released an Apple Maps guide with some of actor Tomohisa Yamashita’s favorite wineries in Europe and the US. Here are the details.

A group of Apple and Tel-Aviv University researchers figured out a way to speed up AI-based text-to-speech generation without sacrificing intelligibility. Here’s how they did it.

One of the most significant limitations of MagSafe charging is heat management. As induction coils transfer energy, they generate waste heat, which causes your iPhone to throttle its charging speeds if it gets too hot to protect the battery. You especially see this in the outdoors during the summer. LISEN is attempting to fix the normal thermal bottleneck with its new 3-in-1 MagSafe station. By adding an active cooling fan and the Qi2.2, LISEN claims it can sustain 25-watt charging speeds that really does wired charging. This is my current daily driver on my desk, and I really like it thus far.

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The Indian government approved a measure on Sunday that allows Apple to directly finance iPhone manufacturing equipment in India without risking additional taxes. Here are the details.

The RetroVa Vintage Image Kit features a slide-on camera grip with real buttons, modular telephoto optics, film filter presets, and support for external storage. Here are the details.

iTunes is an ancient relic of an old music era, right? Not so fast, says a new report highlighting iTunes’ resilience despite stiff streaming competition, as evidenced by new statistics from Apple.

Apple TV walked away with one win out of four Grammy nominations at last night’s ceremony. Here are the details.

Apple has just released a variety of new software updates for its devices, but they’re all for older versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS. Here are the details.

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In this episode, I sit down with Kseniia (@osint_barbie) and Mykhailo (@xor3r) from Moonlock Lab, the cybersecurity research arm of MacPaw.

We dive into the meteoric rise of infostealers, which have secured their spot as one of the most prolific threats facing Mac users in 2026. We break down why the tide has turned for macOS, how these threats actually land on your machine, and how they have evolved into something far more concerning than just a simple smash-and-grab.

The second part of this conversation will release on February 15th.

At CES 2026 last month, Anker unveiled a few interesting new accessories for Apple users, including its Nano Desktop dock and new 45W Nano charger with smart display. It also unveiled a new 25W MagSafe 3-in-1 with a couple of highly appealing features, and it’s now available for purchase.

OpenAI has just launched a brand new Mac app: Codex, which it says is “the best way to build with agents.” Here are the details.

Your first 9to5Toys Lunch Break of the month is jam packed with new Apple deals. Alongside up to 33% off AirPods 4, we are also now tracking $100 price drops across the Apple Watch Series 11 lineup with prices starting from $299 Amazon lows. Those offers join the best price yet on Apple’s Light Blue Alpine Loop as well as a host of iPad discounts – iPad mini is nearly $100 off and M3 iPad Air models are $120 off. Just be sure to scope out his M5 MacBook Pro deal as the most affordable 24GB model is $300 off the list price. Everything awaits below. 

Last November, Bloomberg broke the news that Tesla was working on CarPlay support, a dramatic shift in policy for Elon Musk’s company.

Here’s the latest on what we know about Tesla’s plans to support CarPlay.

Your Friends & Neighbors season 2 is coming soon, and Apple TV has just released the first trailer for the returning series—plus confirmed that season 3 is in the works.

It’s been a busy day for iPhone Fold leaks. After one reputable leaker reported that Apple’s foldable will have the biggest battery yet in an iPhone, new details have been shared by another leaker on several aspects of the iPhone Fold’s design, cameras, and more.

This fall’s most popular new iPhones will likely be the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, but if you want the absolute biggest battery, it sounds like the iPhone Fold will easily be the winner there.

The list of Apple subscription services keeps growing. iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, MLS Season Pass, Apple One … The company of course also takes a cut of subscriptions sold through the App Store, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts. Then there are the hardware-related subscriptions, AppleCare+ and the iPhone Upgrade Program.

Most recently, we’ve had the launch of Apple Creator Studio, and a new report says that we can expect to see even more subscriptions to come …

The early theme of Apple TV’s 2026 is new seasons of existing shows. January was packed with five such series, and now a couple more are coming in February—including a big-budget sci-fi epic. Here’s everything new coming to Apple TV in February.

Adobe is removing generation limits from Firefly, giving subscribers unlimited image and video generations across both its own models and supported third-party AI models, but you have to act quick. Here are the details.

Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below.

Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, and MrBeast. Here are the details.

A Steve Jobs memorabilia auction included the first check the two Steves ever signed, and it sold for a mind-boggling $2,409,886.

The auction also included Steve’s desk and a set of bow ties he wore at school, as well as a wide range of general Apple memorabilia …

Apple CEO Tim Cook declined to comment on repeated questions during Thursday’s earnings call about how the company would respond to rising memory costs.

The decision on whether to absorb rising costs or pass them on to customers in the form of higher prices is not going to be an easy one, and a look at the numbers makes it clear why Cook was unwilling to rule out the latter possibility …