New iPads are coming. Does anyone care?
Like some capricious weather god, Apple has decreed that for a second year in a row, its followers will get no spring. Or at any rate, no spring event, with this season’s new products coughed…
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Apple will allow iPhone app downloads on the web in the EU–but there’s a catch
With Apple’s famous walled garden continuing to crumble, the company has made yet another concession to app developers. But it turns out that not everyone will benefit. For more than 15 years, Apple insisted that…
How To Tell If Someone’s iPhone Is On Do Not Disturb Mode
Do Not Disturb mode was added to iOS way back in 2012, and has been a popular feature ever since. When activated on an iPhone (or iPad, for that matter), it silences all incoming notifications,…
The clock is ticking on ad-free Apple TV+, so enjoy it while you can
After the landgrab comes the cashgrab. Having pushed for quick growth by luring in users with low prices, lax password enforcement, bingeable series dropped in one go, and a lack of adverts, the streaming services…
There may be hope for Apple Watches sold with disabled blood-oxygen sensors
Following the news in December that the two most recent models of Apple Watch were banned from sale in the U.S. over a patent dispute, Apple moved quickly to get around the ban by removing…
The M3 MacBooks are already old news as Apple gets to work on the M4 lineup
Much attention has been directed over the past few months at Apple’s latest range of Macs with M3 processors. MacBook Pro models with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max appeared in fall 2023 alongside…
Apple to finally fix 13-year-old error in the iPad’s design, report claims
There’s an important and long-desired change coming to Apple’s iPad range, and it’s been more than a decade in the making. The second-gen iPad, which came out in 2011, was the first model with cameras.…
Easy switching to Android will only help the iPhone grow stronger
Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a…
Don’t panic, but there’s a day-one macOS update for the new M3 MacBook Air
The various models of M3-equipped MacBook Air go on sale today, but there’s a small fly in the ointment for lucky fans who managed to secure a launch-day unit: there’s a day-one macOS update. According…
How To Do A Hashtag On Mac (#)
The hash symbol (also known as the pound/number sign, and which looks like this: #) was one of the more rarely used special characters until Twitter and Instagram came along. Now you can barely avoid…