Apple has been told it is allowed to keep the TikTok app in the App Store, following a US government assurance that no action should be taken for another 75 days.


US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday, April 4, requesting that the company follow the new executive order from President Trump. That executive order further extended a previous reprieve from a threatened US ban of TikTok.

President Trump initially gave the Chinese-owned ByteDance until April 5 to sell the service to an American company, or be banned from use in the US. The new extension sets a new deadline for compliance to June 18.


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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has blamed his iPhone for accidentally inviting a journalist into a secret discussion of a strategic military strike.


Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine, accepted a March 13 invitation from Waltz that was intended for National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes. Goldberg then reported on the chat, revealing that the administration used the Signal app for what should be considered classified information.

A report published in the UK by The Guardian explained exactly how the error in inviting Goldberg occurred. The journalist was accidentally included because Waltz accepted an iPhone-suggested updated contact number in Hughes' original missive, thinking it was an updated number for Hughes — when in fact it was the number for Goldberg.


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In the face of crippling tariffs, Apple will have to raise prices of popular items like the iPhone in the US and elsewhere — but is trying to delay increases until the next set of hardware upgrades.


A new report suggests that Apple is pursuing several different initiatives in an effort to mitigate the cost increases of tariffs imposed by the United States and other countries on its flagship products. That said, US consumers should expect to see the price go up in the near future on iPhones, Macs, and other hardware products.

While Apple has spent years diversifying its production facilities away from China, almost all of the countries it has set up shop in — such as Brazil, India, and Vietnam — also face withering import tariffs. According to Bloomberg, the company is said to be pursuing a diverse range of strategies to soften the blow as much as possible.


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The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google's news services, such as Apple News, diminish its branding by downplaying where it gets its new stories.


The new accusations come in the midst of an ongoing investigation by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the two tech giants' dominance in web browser engines and smartphone operating systems. The new complaint from the BBC suggests that aggregate news services minimize credit for the providers of the news those programs feature.

Because the BBC gets its budget from a unique "licence fee" model, it depends on worldwide brand recognition and respect for its efforts to justify its funding. Its income derives in large part from a fee paid by everyone in the UK who watches TV on any device.


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Apple CEO Tim Cook took to X.com to announce that the company would be making donations to relief efforts following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake affecting Myanmar and Thailand.


"Our hearts go out to all those in Myanmar and Thailand affected by the devastating earthquake," Cook wrote on his personal account. "Apple is donating to support relief efforts on the ground."

The death toll from the Myanmar earthquake has surpassed 1,700 people, with more than 3,400 people injured. Survivors and bodies are still being pulled out from collapsed buildings, according to BBC News.


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Apple is already looking beyond its next generation of M-class chip, designing the future M6 processor that will include an in-house cellular modem for its anticipated 2027 Mac lineup.




The company is currently planning to update its MacBook Pro lineup to an M5 processorlater this year. Other Mac models will get the M5 upgrade as well, after the reveal and details of the M5 chip emerge during the June WWDC conference.


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A new MacBook Pro sporting an M5 chip is expected to arrive in the fall of 2025, but a case redesign will have to wait.


As has been the case for the past two years, the MacBook Pro will get another chip upgrade later this year, but will likely look the same overall as the M3 and M4 versions. A case revision is now expected to happen in late 2026, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

Apple is now anticipated to delay the release of an M5-based iPad Pro to around the same time frame. With the M4, the iPad model received the chip six months before it arrived on any Mac models.


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Apple's iOS 18 brings a new and more convenient way to shut down your iPhone — but it's no more obvious than the existing options. Whether you're packing the iPhone away or taking it to be repaired, here's everything you can do.


There's a significant difference between just putting an iPhone to sleep versus turning it off completely. The former is simple to do — you just tap the side or sleep/wake button on the right-hand side of the iPhone to put it to sleep.

Powering down the iPhone, by contrast, involves a short procedure to confirm that you want to switch off the device down completely. Beyond the different ways you can first initiate the shutdown, you must then always confirm it by swiping an on-screen slider from left to right.


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