Samsung is giving iOS users new ways to control their smart homes with AI-powered routines and improved Apple Watch integration.


Samsung's SmartThings platform is getting a major upgrade for Apple users. It adds new iOS features that aim to simplify smart home control and broaden integration across devices.

The company announced an AI-powered Routine Creation Assistant that lets iOS users type simple phrases to build custom automations. For example, you can write "Turn off all the lights when I leave the house" to generate a full automation without manual setup.


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The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue was the target of a small protest by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, with slogans spray painted on the famous glass box.


On Sunday, the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, New York, was the scene of a small protest. A man used a can of green spray paint to write slogans on the glass, attacking Apple and President Donald Trump.

In a video posted by Extinction Rebellion NYC on Sunday, the unnamed man took a minute to spray "Boycott" and "Tim + Trump = Toxic" on two panes of glass, before being stopped. The video continues with the man being arrested, addressing viewers with more protest talking points.


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Two more companies have been quietly acquired by Apple, giving it technology and staff that appear to be working on Apple Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence.


While Apple has always bought firms, typically making at least several Acquisitions every year, most recently it appears to have been buying AI firms in particular. Now, as first spotted by MacGeneration, it's been revealed that Apple has bought at least two more such companies.


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New renders of what the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max could look like have been shared by a serial leaker, complete with a slightly repositioned Apple logo.


As the introduction of Apple's next generation of iPhone models draws closer, renders and physical models surface at a faster rate. On Sunday, a new render showed off what to expect from the iPhone 17's Pro models.

The image, shared by Majin Bu, depicts the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max in transparent cases. The design follows the currently expected refresh for the rear, including a camera bump spanning almost the entire width of the smartphone.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Apple has formally filed an appeal against the European Union's $570 million fine, arguing that the EU is making demands that go beyond the law, and is continually changing the rules to micro-manage the App Store.


Early in June 2025, Apple filed an appeal against the EU's mandate that it freely share its technology with rivals, even though no other firm is required to do so. Now it has also entered its appeal specifically against the $570 million fine the EU imposed against the company for alleged non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

In a statement to AppleInsider, Apple says that its appeal concerns what it believes is the EU exceeding its legal authority in dictating the company's operations. The statement reads:


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With mere hours to go before Prime Day kicks off, Amazon has quietly launched new Apple Watch deals, delivering the year's best price on the Ultra 2.


Save up to $150: A variety of Apple Watch styles are discounted as Prime Day is about to kick off.

Prime Day 2025 officially starts at 12:01 a.m. PDT on July 8, but Apple Watch deals are already rolling in, with a $150 discount that's especially enticing on the premium Ultra 2 with a Black Titanium Milanese Loop Band.


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Social media giant TikTok will launch a new version of its popular app to Apple's and Google's app stores on September 5, as part of an agreement to sell its US business looms.


Users of TikTok in the US will eventually need to migrate to the new version of the app, though the company reports that the present version is expected to work until March 2026. The unusual update will enable the new app to address US security concerns, and allow the new owners of the US version to take control.

A consortium of non-Chinese tech firms are expected to buy TikTok's US operations. Among those involved in the deal is US-based firm Oracle, though original owner Bytedance will retain a minority interest, according to The Information.


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Amazon's $99 AirPods 4 deal is back leading up to Prime Day, with AirPods Pro 2 dropping to a respectable $169.


Amazon's best AirPods 4 price is back, with the earbuds dipping to $99.99 after a 23% price drop. You can also pick up AirPods Pro 2 for $169.99, a discount of $80 off MSRP. Both deals are available to the general public and do not require an Amazon Prime membership.

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Apple's latest theatrical release, F1, has been a roaring success with audiences — but will likely only just break even in its cinema run.


The company is enjoying its first summer blockbuster movie, with F1 surpassing $200M in box-office receipts since it opened on June 27. It could top $300 million by mid-July, meaning the film would only now start turning a profit.

Star Brad Pitt has seen the film give him his biggest opening weekend box office of his career. Warner Bros. Distribution Chief Jeff Goldstein believes the film will stay in theatres for a few more weeks, saying "there's a lot of gas left in the tank" for it.


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Apple continues to open up its product durability testing to outsiders in an effort to let customers know how the company continues to balance design, durability, and repairability for the iPhone and other products.


In an effort to counter some video producers who deliberately damage and destroy iPhones and other Apple devices for clicks, the company invited some popular YouTubers who don't engage in that practice, along with some industry research firms, to tour one of its testing facilities.

Counterpoint Research was one of the organizations invited to attend the most recent tour. While there are many factors behind the popularity of products like the iPhone, buyers who take care of their devices are often able to hand them down to other users when they upgrade.


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Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.


Smart TVs from LG and Samsung are increasingly being used as monitors for Mac and PC, given that they are generally cheaper than an OLED display. The trade-off that you get for an inexpensive TV is adware. To accomplish this goal, they can capture screenshots of everything on screen, and sell it to just about anybody who asks, or they use that data themselves for targeted home screen advertising.

This isn't a giant problem when you're watching television. But when you're working on your Mac on a television, that capture can include sensitive documents, emails, private work, and everything else that happens on your computer.


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Fourth of July savings are underway this holiday weekend in the U.S. — and Apple products, along with complementary accessories, are on sale at up to $800 off.

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The Steam Summer Sale is running now, and Steam is a fantastic place to get Mac games. Even better, they're cheaper than they are on the App Store.


It's that time of year again — the Steam Summer Sale. It's the perfect time to snatch up all those games you've been eyeballing for the past year. If you're not sure where to start, let us help; we've compiled a list of our personal favorites that are all Mac compatible.


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Apple is celebrating 10 years of Apple Music, but ignoring 18 years of the iPhone. Plus Siri is not being replaced by ChatGPT, and Apple's cross-promotions of its services just keep on coming.


If you've been living under Airplane Mode for the last many weeks, you may be the only person Apple hasn't managed to tell about its "F1: The Movie." One of your hosts has now seen the film — and not had pushed any of the incessant promotions Apple is accused of sending to iPhone users.

As Apple's latest effort goes into theaters, though, this week is also time look back at a remarkable ten years of Apple Music. And a slightly confusing new playlist of everyone's top 100 songs. Or 98. Or 67.


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Tim Cook has constantly been criticized, most recently over Apple Intelligence, but always for just not being Steve Jobs — yet the fact that he isn't Jobs is what has made Apple the technological and financial juggernaut it is today.


There was criticism right back at the start in 2011, when Tim Cook was no longer the temporary stand-in for Steve Jobs, but was getting the CEO job permanently. Today there's criticism of Cook over how Apple Intelligence has seemingly stumbled.

And in between, say around 2018, there was criticism for the now forgotten weak sales of the HomePod. Plus before even then, the Apple Watch was branded a failure, it was called a device without a point.


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Creative work gets a major upgrade in iOS 26, with on-device tools that let you generate custom images, tweak your tone, and organize your ideas more naturally.


Apple's iOS 26 brings a deeper focus on creativity by expanding the tools you already use every day. While many of these features started in earlier updates, the newest version adds more power, flexibility, and relevance to creative work on iPhone.

Whether you're sketching a character, rewriting a story, or organizing your thoughts, these features help you move ideas forward without getting in the way.


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Give your text and emoji-based messages a bit of life, by sending special effects to others in the iMessage conversation.


Sometimes, sending a message from your iPhone to others can seem a bit pedestrian. A line of text doesn't really elicit emotion unless it's a meaningful message, unless you count the use of emojis and copious use of capitalized letters and punctuation.

If you're eager to show that you're excited or that you love someone tremendously, you can do a lot better than sending plain old text. A FaceTime call certainly allows you to be more expressive, but you may not be in a situation where you can actually place it.


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A FOIA request revealed the letters sent to Apple and big tech over the TikTok ban, and they claim the law wouldn't be enforced due to it interfering with the President's management of foreign affairs.


TikTok was banned originally due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that was signed into law under the Biden administration, though it was brought about by President Trump's desire to ban the app. However, he changed his tune when he discovered his supporters used the platform, so he signed an executive order immediately after being sworn in that would delay the ban in the hopes a deal would be made.

Fast forward 75 days, then 75 days again, and the ban has been delayed three times total as no deal has been made. In that time, Apple restored TikTok to the App Store, not because it was legal, but because the Attorney General said the DOJ wouldn't enforce the law.


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Apple is set to detail earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2025 on July 31 in an investor call, though all eyes will be on how unstable tariff policies have impacted the company.


Apple's Q3 tends to be quieter than the rest since holiday sales are long over and spring releases don't always drive the market, but 2025 has something the others didn't — Trump tariffs. Apple shared that it expected to take at least a $900 million hit to its bottom line if nothing changed from March.

Things did change, however, as the Trump administration agreed to back off its seemingly random "reciprocal" tariffs for 90 days as deals were worked out. However, the tariffs left in place were still magnitudes higher than what was in place before Trump took office in January.


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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.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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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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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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