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Deals: M4 MacBook Air $849 or 24GB model $170 off, Powerbeats Pro 2 $90 off, iPhone 15/16 Pro, more
Amazon’s is now live and kicking alongside a series of new deals on Apple and Beats gear. The details on the early Amazon Memorial Day event are right here, but you’ll also find a new all-time low on Apple’s 13-inch 24GB M4 MacBook Air at $170 of...
2025-05-16 15:48
Pretend you’re Phil Schiller: would you let Fortnite back on the App Store?
If you closely follow Apple’s inner workings (and since you’re here, I’m guessing you do), you know Phil Schiller has always been known for his unrelenting and fierce protectiveness of Apple and the App Store. This is why perhaps the most surpris...
2025-05-16 15:22
macOS 16: Four new Mac features being announced next month
The countdown to WWDC is winding down, as Apple’s big software unveilings are just weeks away. macOS 16 will introduce a new California-inspired name, of course, alongside a variety of feature upgrades. Here are four new Mac features expected to be a...
2025-05-16 14:45
9to5Mac Daily: May 16, 2025 – iPhone 18 Pro rumors, more
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ...
2025-05-16 14:40
Microsoft wants you to know its best PCs top Apple’s year-old M3 MacBook Air
Microsoft has published a new video on its YouTube channel that touts the speed of its top Copilot + PCs. Curiously though, these “top PCs” are compared against Apple’s consumer-targeted MacBook Air…from over a year ago. more…
2025-05-16 13:33
iOS 19: The one small feature I hope to see at WWDC
We are less than a month away from WWDC 2025, where Apple is set to announce a redesigned and less glitchy iOS 19 alongside what it’s been cooking over the past year for its other operating systems. While rumors abound regarding what’s to come to i...
2025-05-16 12:24
Log your weight in Apple Health quickly and cheaply with this iPhone-compatible smart scale
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...
2025-05-16 11:48
Apple blocks Epic’s attempt to bring Fortnite back to the App Store
Last week, Epic Games announced that it had submitted Fortnite to the App Store in the United States. The move followed an injunction in which a federal judge said Apple couldn’t charge a 27% commission on out-of-app purchases initiated through in-ap...
2025-05-16 09:49
Apple blocks Epic’s attempt to bring Fortnite back to the App Store [Updated]
Update May 16, 2025, 8:36 a.m. PT: Apple tells Bloomberg that it did not take action to block Epic Games from releasing its Fortnite update in the European Union. Instead, the company asked it to resubmit the EU update without including the US to avoid...
2025-05-16 09:49
Murderbot is a quirky new sci-fi series streaming now on Apple TV+
The Murderbot Diaries is a by Martha Wells. Apple has now adapted the series for television, with Murderbot premiering today with the first two episodes on Apple TV+. New episodes roll out weekly. The sci-fi comedy features Alexander Skarsgard as an aw...
2025-05-16 09:14
Michael J. Fox joins ‘Shrinking’ cast as guest star in Season 3
Today, Apple announced that veteran actor Michael J. Fox will appear in a guest role in Season 3 of Apple TV+’s acclaimed comedy series Shrinking. more…
2025-05-15 23:39
Tim Sweeney says Apple has ‘neither accepted nor rejected’ second Fortnite submission to the App Store
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple is keeping Fortnite’s return to the App Store in limbo, having “neither accepted nor rejected” the latest submission for review. The ongoing silence now threatens to delay Fortnite’s next major update, plan...
2025-05-15 21:35
Apple’s new ‘HomePad’ is in the works with these five features
Apple is launching a brand new Home product in the coming year. I’ve been calling it ‘HomePad,’ and these are five of the core features it will bring with it. more…
2025-05-15 21:00
Apple still the world’s most valuable brand, per new Kantar report
Going on 20 years now, Kantar has released its BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands report, which combines financial data with consumer perception metrics to find the world’s 100 most valuable brands. In a year in which the total value of the Top 100 r...
2025-05-15 20:45
Rumor Replay: iPhone 20th anniversary model is coming
This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: iPhone 20th anniversary model, iOS 19 features, 2027 “product renaissance,” and more. Here are t...
2025-05-15 20:16
Evernote now offers fast audio, video, and image transcription with AI
After a tough period of laying staff down and hiking prices up following its acquisition by Bending Spoons, Evernote has finally been getting some cool features. Recently, the platform got multimodal AI transcription support, and it’s actually pretty...
2025-05-15 19:39
Apple TV+ has 17 new releases coming this summer, here’s the full list
Apple TV+ has had several hit shows so far this year, but there’s a lot more on the way. It’s still early, so Apple likely has more announcements planned for summer TV+ releases. But with the summer movie season in full swing and schools starting t...
2025-05-15 19:29
NFL parodies Severance in hilarious schedule reveal video
It’s the time of year when the NFL schedule for the coming season gets revealed, and one team, the Baltimore Ravens, has gone all-out making a Severance parody video as part of their schedule announcement. more…
2025-05-15 18:50
9to5Mac Daily: May 15, 2025 – CarPlay Ultra is here
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ...
2025-05-15 18:32
iOS 19 accessibility announcements and more rumored features, CarPlay Ultra finally arrives
Benjamin and Chance react to all the new accessibility features Apple previewed for iOS 19, like Magnifier and vehicle motion cues for Mac. This week also saw the surprise debut of next-gen CarPlay, now called CarPlay Ultra, arriving first in partnersh...
2025-05-15 17:48