Apple's macOS 26 is set to debut on June 9 at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers' Conference, but owners of older MacBook Pros and iMacs won't be able to experience the next-gen operating system.


The successor to macOS Sequoia is expected to launch alongside iOS 26, formerly referred to as iOS 19. Both operating systems are said to feature user interface changes somewhat reminiscent of visionOS, and people familiar with the matter have told AppleInsider this will indeed be the case.

However, not every Mac user will be able to enjoy the visual changes and Apple Intelligence enhancements within macOS 26, codenamed "Cheer." Individuals familiar with Apple's internal operating system variants and pre-production builds of macOS 26 suggest Apple could drop support for multiple older, Intel-based Macs.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Apple could make a big change to the way it numbers its operating systems, with a year-based system renaming iOS 19 as iOS 26, and macOS in the same way.


Apple's numbering system is fairly straightforward, with the version number going up each year like clockwork. However, that may not be the case this fall, as Apple allegedly plans to overhaul its naming system.

According to sources of Bloomberg on Wednesday, Apple will be switching to a year-based naming system for its operating systems. Instead of iOS 19, it will be iOS 26, referencing the approaching year of 2026 that will arrive months after the usual fall OS updates.


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Apple's satellite messaging and location-sharing tools are now live in Mexico, keeping iPhone users connected even off the grid.


On Wednesday, Apple rolled out its iPhone satellite features to users in Mexico. This includes Satellite Messages and Find via satellite.

These features allow users to stay in touch with friends and family when there is no Wi-Fi or cellular connection. To use satellite features, a user will need an iPhone 14 or later with iOS 18.4 or later installed.


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The fact that the AI cooking assistant is half-baked shouldn't stop you from using the iPhone connectivity with the otherwise excellent Brisk It Zelos-450 outdoor grill.


As this piece goes live, May 28, it is both national brisket day, and national hamburger day. It seems only fitting that we look at an app-connected grill on this day.

Admittedly, both days are likely marketing exercises, but still.


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After a critically acclaimed third season, and a writer's strike interrupting pre-production, "The Morning Show" returns to Apple TV+ to dive even deeper into the cutthroat world of broadcast news.


The 10-episode fourth season will premiere on September 15. New episodes will be released weekly until November 19.

This season starts with a time jump, according to Apple, with events taking place two years after the events of season three.


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A new video of a dummy of the forthcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max has surfaced, backing up previous rumors that the model will be significantly thicker than the current model.


The news that the iPhone 17 Pro Max would have a thicker chassis than the current iPhone 16 Pro Max was first reported in March 2025. It was also reported that this model would get an advanced vapor chamber cooling system, which might account for the increased size.

That cooling feature is expected to be in both of the new Pro models, but as yet there hasn't been news that the iPhone 17 Pro will also be thicker. The new video being circulated by leaker Majin Bu solely shows a dummy of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but it does appear to confirm the extra thickness.


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Amazon's record-breaking price drop knocks $225 off Apple's current 15-inch MacBook Air with a bump up to 24GB of memory.


A new, low price of $1,375.85 is in effect at Amazon on Apple's latest MacBook Air 15-inch, with the M4 model now $225 off.

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Apple has launched a major update to its audio production app Logic Pro for both iPad and Mac, including improvements and a new Flashback Capture feature for recovering and organizing jams.


On the two-year anniversary of bringing Logic Pro to the iPad for the first time, and the one-year anniversary of adding stem splitting, Apple has released its new version of the pro recording app. The new version includes an improvement to that stem splitting feature, letting musicians and producers make finer adjustments as they separate out instruments and vocals from previous recordings.

As well as the existing Vocals, Drums, and Other stems that Logic Pro could separate, the updated version adds two more. The Enhanced Stem Splitter can now separate out guitar and piano parts from a track.


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The iPhone 16 topped global sales in first quarter 2025, giving Apple a strong lead even as budget Android phones gained ground.


Apple's iPhone 16 was the best-selling smartphone in Q1 2025, regaining the top spot for the base model after a two-year hiatus. The company secured five of Counterpoint Research's top 10 rankings, maintaining its momentum despite market shifts.

At the same time, demand for ultra-cheap Android phones soared, especially in emerging markets. The $100-and-under segment now makes up nearly one in five smartphones sold worldwide.


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Don't get caught without an energy backup solution during hurricane season, as the Jackery HomePower 3000 solar generator can keep essential appliances powered for days.


Jackery has introduced a revamp to its Explorer series with the HomePower 3000, a 3,072Wh solar generator that can connect to two solar panels and AC input simultaneously. It's built to be smaller and more durable than the previous model and its competitors.

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Apple Savings account holders will get less for their money, after another interest rate cut brings it down to 3.65%.


The Apple Card Savings Account provides a high-yield savings facility for users of the financial service. Following a series of rate cuts over time, the Apple Card Savings Account is now at its lowest level.

On Wednesday, Apple started to advise Apple Savings users of yet another drop of the annual percentage yield (APY). Now, users have to endure a yield of 3.65%.


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T-Mobile has a ridiculous feature in its heavily promoted T-Life iPhone app which sends the firm screen recordings without permission, and by default.


T-Mobile is recording its users screens when they use its T-Life app, and has turned on this feature without notice. Importantly, the company says it solely records activity within the T-Life app, so it isn't capturing other apps and seemingly isn't recording notifications.

But even if it is solely screen-recording T-Life activity, it is recording personal information. Amongst other details, it is capturing payments information, device tracking, and smart home integration.


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Announced on May 15, Sony's WH-1000XM6 are premium over-ear headphones with ANC, which improves upon its predecessor. Here's how they compare to Apple's AirPods Max.


The premium headphone market has a few companies at the top, and Sony is one of them. Its headphone heritage is extensive, with its XM4 offering good quality at a price $200 cheaper than the AirPods Max.

The Sony WH-1000XM5 were a revision that more directly competed with the AirPods Max, and was very well received in 2022. Now, Sony has continued the line with the WH-1000XM6, this time boasting highly improved active noise cancellation.


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Apple has expanded its Self Service Repair Program, allowing hardware tinkerers to fix hardware issues with their iPad at home for the first time.


Apple launched the Self Service Repair Program in April 2022 after first announcing it in November 2021. While the service was originally meant for iPhone repair, Apple is now opening it up so that users can fix iPads too.

The expansion, launched on May 28 and officially starting on May 29, provides access to Apple parts, troubleshooting sessions, and tools to end users. Under the program, users can order components for a number of iPad issues from the Self Service Repair Store, including displays, batteries, cameras, and external charging ports.


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Trump advisor Kevin Hassett has played down the "tiny little tariff" on firms such as Apple and strangely insists consumers won't pay more for iPhones.


In announcing a 25% tariff on all imported iPhones, Trump took the unusual step of admitting it would be Apple that pays, rather than his usual false claim that foreign countries will. Now in repeating this, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett has treated tariff complaints as a joke — and also insisted that Apple will not raise prices.

"I'm kind of like the person in an airplane that's getting walloped over the head by everybody," he said in an interview with CNBC, "where everybody says, 'Oh, like, we're never going to be able to do anything if we have this tariff, it's going to be a disaster if we have this tariff.'"


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Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers.


When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't include any mass storage, a hard drive, or SSDs. Instead, it shipped with a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive designed by Sony.

Before the Internet, most personal computer software was sold and distributed this way. First on 8-inch floppies, then on 5.25-inch disks with the Apple II and IBM PC, and finally on 3.5-inch disks.


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Evidence of a new iPhone to Android eSIM wireless transfer feature has appeared in a build of the Android 16 beta, suggesting Apple could reveal such a feature for iOS 19 during WWDC 2025.


The process of switching ecosystems from iPhone to Android has been streamlined over the years thanks to work from both Apple and Google. The latest feature may overcome one of the biggest headaches in the process.

Code discovered by Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman in the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 indicates that the Google SIM Manager app has language around helping users transfer their eSIM from iPhone to Android. Specifically, it mentions a new "Transfer to Android" section in the iOS Settings app under General, Transfer or Reset iPhone.


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Apple has long been the butt of the joke for gamers, but that won't stop the company from trying, yet again, to be more serious about the industry with a rumored dedicated gaming app.


Apple's WWDC 2025 is already going to be packed with potential ecosystem-wide UI redesigns and AI tools, but a new rumor suggests Apple could also begin a different significant push. There have been moves by the company in and around the gaming space for years, but a dedicated gaming app could help promote Apple Silicon'sgaming abilities.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple wants to sell gamers and developers on the idea that it is a leader in the market with an app. The Apple gaming app would debut during WWDC 2025 alongside iOS 19, macOS 16, and the rest.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Apple's event planning app just got more useful with a new way to share links for registries, trip planners, and more.


On Tuesday, Apple released version 1.2 of its Apple Invites app — the first feature update since the app launched in February. The latest version introduces a new Link tile, part of a new Tile section, which allows hosts to share URLs with event guests directly within the invitation.



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Texas will now require age verification for use of the iOS App Store, thanks to the state's App Store Accountability Act, which was passed against Apple's wishes.


On Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law an act that requires Apple and Google to verify the ages of App Store users. If a user is under the age of 18, their account must be linked to a parent or guardian, who would then have to approve each app download.

Apple's attempts to argue against the bill, which included a phone call from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Governor Abbott, have seemingly failed. As noted by Reuters, Texas' App Store Accountability will take effect on January 1, 2026. A similar bill in Utah has already passed and took effect on May 7, 2025.


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A new Qualcomm-funded study claims Android phones with Snapdragon modems outperform the iPhone 16e C1 modem, and the comparison favors Qualcomm by design.


A new report commissioned by Qualcomm finds that Android phones equipped with the company's latest modems outperform Apple's iPhone 16e in 5G speed tests. The results, however, come with important context about pricing, test conditions and how these numbers translate to daily use.

According to Cellular Insights, Qualcomm-powered Android phones using Snapdragon X75 and X80 modems delivered up to 35% faster download speeds than the iPhone 16e. Upload speeds were up to 91% faster.


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Apple's latest acquisition is RAC7, the two-person deveopment team behind Apple Arcade topping game "Sneaky Sasquatch."


RAC7 is a very small game studio that has worked on multiple well-known games, including Sneaky Sasquatch, Dark Echo, and Splitter Critters. Now, that studio belongs to Apple.

The two-person team has been bought by Apple for an undisclosed amount, reports Digital Trends. The acquisition brings the duo under the umbrella of Apple.


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A future rear camera for the iPhone could get a giant upgrade, with a prolific leaker claiming Apple is testing a 200-megapixel sensor.


Apple has periodically improved the physical hardware of its camera sensor, alongside computational photography changes. While Apple's current cameras include 48MP sensors, it is also looking to add even higher resolutions in the future.

According to "Digital Chat Station" on Weibo on Tuesday, Apple is testing a 200-megapixel camera sensor. The post doesn't go into detail, such as which camera it will be used in or when it will arrive, but that it will be a stratospheric resolution.


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Apple is now exporting more iPhones to the U.S. from India than China for the second month running, a clear sign of shifting production priorities.


Apple hit a major supply chain milestone in April 2025. For the second consecutive month, more iPhones bound for the U.S. were shipped from India than from China. According to new data from Canalys, shipments from India surged 76% year over year to an estimated three million units.

Shipments from China, by contrast, fell 76% to about 900,000. While the export milestone is a clear shift in Apple's manufacturing strategy, it comes outside the peak season for Pro iPhone models.


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WhatsApp has finally arrived on iPad — 16 years after it landed on iPhone. Here's how to get it, and what you need to use it.


WhatsApp, a wildly popular messaging app, has been available for iOS since 2009 and has even been on Mac since 2016. It was, however, conspicuously absent from iPad — until now.

Now, nearly sixteen years after its debut on iPhone, those who prefer to use their iPad as their primary device can use WhatsApp, too. You can head to the App Store to download it.


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Every iPhone buyer in the world may get hit with the side-effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs, as Apple may choose to hike prices everywhere to keep profit margins up.


The new 25% tariff may only have been imposed on Apple as retribution for Tim Cook declining a Trump invitation, but it's going to come into effect well ahead of the iPhone 17 launch. Just as AppleInsider did when the tariff was announced, Morgan Stanley has concluded that it's in Apple's best interests to pay the tariff rather than try to move manufacturing back to the US.

In a note to investors seen by AppleInsider, the investment firm does suggest that there could come a level of tariffs where Apple is forced to reshore to the US. That level, its analysts say, may be the 145% that Trump previously imposed on China.


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The evolution of Face ID will see it finally move under the display with the iPhone 18, with new rumor claiming all front cameras will be under-display by 2027.


Apple has repeatedly been rumored to be pushing for changes away from the existing pill-shaped hole in the display of the iPhone to something smaller and eventually invisible. If a leaker is correct, this could occur within a few iPhone generations.

Serial Apple leaker "Digital Chat Station" posted to Weibo on Monday about Apple's camera changes. Supposedly sourced from the supply chain, Face ID will undergo some major changes within just three years.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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As impressive as Apple's free Emergency SOS via Satellite service is, it was meant to be so much more. Before cancellation, a project started in 2015 aimed to provide full satellite Wi-Fi to iPhone users.


Apple ultimately launched its Emergency SOS via Satellite with the iPhone 14 back in 2022, and it immediately began saving lives. But as far back as 2015, Apple was planning a satellite service that would be vastly more comprehensive — and effectively a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink.

According to The Information, the satellite venture was called "Project Eagle," and it began with discussions between Apple and Boeing. Five people involved in the project report that Apple and Boeing considered launching thousands of satellites into orbit, specifically to provide internet service everywhere.


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Apple's current M4 Mac mini is back down to Black Friday pricing, with the standard model marked down to $499 during Amazon's month-end sale. Plus, save on every upgraded model too.


The M4 Mac mini with its updated design and 16GB of RAM is $100 off at Amazon as the retailer looks to clear out inventory at the end of the month. Some accounts may see the discount as an on-page coupon stacked with an instant rebate, while other accounts may see the full triple-digit markdown reflected in the price without the coupon.

Buy for $499.99


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Elon Musk continues to try to stymie Apple's satellite ambitions three years after Tim Cook turned down an offer to use Starlink on the iPhone.


After starting work on the project in 2019, in 2022, Elon Musk made Apple a connectivity offer for the iPhone he thought that they couldn't refuse.

Musk's Starlink would provide satellite connectivity to the then unreleased iPhone 14 for 18 months. All it would cost Apple is $5 billion up front, and $1 billion a year after the exclusivity period expired.


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The App Store has stopped more than $9 billion in fraud in a five-year period, Apple declares, flexing its security muscles at a time when App Store transactions themselves are under attack.


As a so-called walled garden, the App Store has proven itself to be quite a secure marketplace for apps and for handling in-app transactions. However, it is certainly aware that there are still attempts to rip off consumers via the digital storefront.

In a press release on May 27, Apple has boasted about how secure the App Store is, by declaring that it has prevented billions of dollars of fraud.


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In a diatribe against modern Apple, Nothing CEO Carl Pei has a vision for the entire smartphone industry that ignores the economic reality of smartphone apps, and claims that a soon-to-come smartphone won't have any at all.


Nothing is a British smartphone company founded in 2021, which includes "father of the iPod" Tony Fadell. It's phones have yet to make a splash, although its astoundingly insecure attempt to get Apple Messages onto them did back in 2023.

In a new interview with Wired, Nothing CEO Carl Pei admits that the company's phones are not selling brilliantly. "The business is growing rapidly... last year, we grew about 150 percent," he said, "[although] we still only reached about 0.1% share of the global market."


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Apple has a month left to make its App Store rules compliant with EU Digital Markets Act antisteering provisions, or the fines will keep coming.


On April 23, following multiple reports that the EU was delaying the issuing of fines against Apple and Meta, Europe finally pulled the trigger. It announced that it would fine Apple and Meta millions of euros for failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act.

Over a month later, on May 27, the European Commission published its full ruling on the matter. The 67-page document also outlines exactly what the punishment is to Apple, for failing to follow the regulation.


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A law firm claims that Apple's delay of Apple Intelligence and Siri may have violated federal security laws, and is investigating whether to file a class-action suit.


The law firm is Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman LLC, which previously had a go at suing Apple over federal security laws in 2019. That was following Tim Cook's revising of Apple's earnings estimate for the then forthcoming holiday quarter, and as yet there has been no trial or settlement.

Now Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman has announced that it is investigating whether to pursue a similar violation, based on Apple's announcement that certain Apple Intelligence features have been delayed.


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I've been using the iPhone 16e as my everyday phone since it launched three months ago, and it remains an excellent compromise between price and features.


Apple unveiled iPhone 16e in February 2025, surprising everyone who thought we'd get an "iPhone SE 4." It's Apple's price-sensitive iPhone and people certainly had feelings about it.

As a diehard pro user, I put my iPhone 16 Pro into a drawer to put Apple's budget phone to the test. To be clear, I still had to use my iPhone 16 Pro at times, though it was more related to my job than any shortcomings of the phone.


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The slow rolling out of Tap to Pay on iPhone continues with Apple announcing its availability in eight more countries across Europe.


Tap to Pay on iPhone is the feature that lets one iPhone user pay another just using their phones, instead of needing separate card readers like Zettle. It's chiefly meant to help small business users, and was launched in the US in May 2022.

Since then it has come to the UK and France in 2023, Japan in May 2024, and then five further countries in October 2024. Now Apple has announced that the feature is available from today in these eight countries:


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Amazon's deals on Apple continue, with today's price drop hitting the M4 Mac mini with 512GB of storage.


The $100 price cut at Amazon applies to Apple's M4 Mac mini featuring an upgrade to 512GB of storage. Now on sale for $699.99, some accounts may see an on-page coupon that stacks with a smaller discount, while others may see the full savings as an instant rebate.

Buy for $699 at Amazon


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Apple CEO Tim Cook has marked Memorial Day with a social media post remembering and thanking fallen heroes.


Tim Cook habitually posts to X to mark major holidays and occasions. On May 26, Cook made a post to observe Memorial Day, an annual occasion in the U.S. to honor and mourn fallen U.S. military personnel.



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The extra tariff added to all iPhones imported in the US may not have been about bringing manufacturing back to the US, but specifically to reprimand Tim Cook for skipping a Trump event.


On May 23, 2025, Trump announced that Apple would have to pay a 25% tariff on every iPhone imported into the US. AppleInsider noted at the time that it was unusual for Trump to acknowledge that US business would have to pay the fee, instead of inaccurately claiming that foreign countries would.

Now according to the New York Times, there appears to have been a reason for Apple being singled out. From May 13 to May 16, Trump was visiting the Middle East and bringing with him representatives of many US companies.


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On the latest episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, Dan Turk joins to talk about the OpenAI acquisition of Jony Ive's company, more new deadbolts, and solar-powered garden lights.


Dan Turk, PR professional with Max Borges agency, joins once more this week. As an industry insider, he helps provide useful insight into the world of smart homes.

Starting out in the news, SwitchBot has two new products to officially announce after we'd previously leaked them on the show. They are the new facial recognition deadbolt and its third-generation Matter hub.


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