Why can’t Apple’s Pro users have fun too?
Writing the column this week is proving more difficult than usual, because of a major distraction. My iPhone 16 Plus arrived a couple of hours ago, and it’s taunting me. I’m not sure how many…
David Price
David Price
The iPhone will finally kill Android in 2025
Like a soft-hearted boxer trying to give the crowd value for money, Apple has done its best for years to keep Google standing in the smartphone ring. If it truly exerted itself, we always felt,…
iPhone 16 Pro Max ‘fails’ drop test… just like all other glass phones
With each passing year, Apple tries to make its costly smartphones more and more resistant to physical damage. In many respects this mission has been a success: certainly today’s iPhones are far more water-resistant than…
iPhone 16 Pro owners complain of display ‘dead spots’
Some iPhone 16 Pro owners are complaining that their brand-new and extremely expensive handsets are failing to achieve one of their most basic functions: responding correctly to touchscreen gestures. Certain actions appear to be setting…
The new Mac mini is coming to chase away the iPhone 16 blues
All in all, Apple’s Glowtime event earlier this month was mildly disappointing. The new iPhones are yet another cautious iteration on a product with nowhere interesting left to go; the new AirPods didn’t do the…
The ‘new’ AirPods Max are another lazy Apple update no one wants
Every fall, like clockwork, Apple announces a new generation of iPhones. But other products are refreshed on a more relaxed basis: the AirPods Max, for example, came out in December 2020 and didn’t get an…
PSA: Link-sharing bug in iOS 18 Messages can cause iPhone crashes, data loss
iPhone owners who have installed Apple’s new iOS 18 software update should be warned: There’s a Messages bug that can cause crashes and may even result in the loss of valuable data. One of 9to5Mac’s…
iPadOS 18 update pulled after bricking M4 iPad Pro
Apple’s traditional fall rollout of major software updates has hit its first bump in the road for 2024, with the news that iPadOS 18 has had to be pulled after reports that it was bricking…
How to update software on Apple Watch: Get watchOS 11
Once a year Apple releases a major new version of watchOS, the operating system software that runs on all Apple Watch models; there are also smaller point upgrades from time to time in between. These…
A plastic Apple Watch SE is still coming next year
One of the few (very few) surprises at Apple’s Glowtime press event was a negative one: only one of the three Apple Watch lines got an update, with the SE and Ultra models left alone.…