Amazon has slashed prices on Apple's M4 MacBook Air further, with the Sky Blue 13-inch laptop falling to $837.


The 16% markdown at Amazon delivers a new record low price on the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 in Sky Blue, with the laptop falling to $837.19.

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The release of the specifications for Bluetooth 6.1 will result in more privacy for all users, and improved battery life in iPhone accessories for Apple users, starting sometime in 2026.


While Bluetooth 6.0 gave devices high-accuracy distance tracking not unlike the iPhone feature Ultra Wideband, the new update also focuses on better privacy. Supporting Bluetooth devices will be able to change their addresses randomly, making tracking more difficult.

The new technology is referred to as Randomized Resolvable Private Addresses, or Randomized RPA.


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Rumors claim foldable Apple products could dominate the second half of the 2020s, leveraging new screen technology to make devices such as the iPad even more portable.


Analyst Jeff Pu has been a leading advocate for a foldable tablet, expecting to see the so-called iPhone Fold debut in late 2026. This would be followed by iPads that use the same screen technology a year or so later.

Bloomberg columnist Mark Gurman, however, expects the Fold to appear in 2027, alongside folding iPads. Gurman has previously reported that Apple continues to plan for foldable devices as well as robotic devices to finally begin arriving in the latter half of the 2020s.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Apple's release list in 2027 could be massive, with major product launches that year expected to include the iPhone Fold and the first attempt at Apple Glass.


Apple is constantly working on research and development for new products to add to its roster. While some don't pan out, such as the billions plowed into the Apple Car project, others stand a much better chance of extending Apple's product catalog.

In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg, Apple's probable product roadmap for 2027 is outlined. The year is set to be packed with the usual upgrades, including its iPhone, iPad, and Mac lines, but also more experimental pushes into entirely new product categories.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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A new report claims that Apple is working on how to have its devices share Wi-Fi login details on commercial or captive networks.


Since iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra in 2017, Apple has made it so that devices can share passwords. It's also possible for two separate users to share passwords this way, with one iPhone prompting the user to send the details to the other.

However, this concept has never worked on commercial or captive networks.


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Amazon continues to unveil aggressive Apple deals, with today's iMac discount on the current M4 model delivering a new record low price.


Today's $242 weekend discount applies to the blue 24-inch iMac with an M4 chip with an 8-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of SSD storage. Normally retailing for $1,299, the $1,058 deal provides bargain hunters with the lowest online price available across popular Apple resellers, as evidenced in our 24-inch iMac M4 Price Guide.

Get M4 iMac for $1,058.73


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The supply chain leaks about Apple's foldable iPhone have been increasing in frequency, and it may be only about a year away. Here's what the rumor mill believes is in the works.


While 2025 could see the release of an ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air or iPhone 17 Slim, the year after may prove to be even more interesting. Multiple sources and reports over the years have said that Apple was working on products with foldable displays, the first of which is expected to be an entirely new iPhone model.

Though other smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung, have outright embraced the concept of foldable displays, with the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, Apple has yet to release such a device.


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With ample screen real estate in the thin-and-light chassis, Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air is great for traveling — made even better by a steeper price drop on Amazon this weekend.


Amazon has some of the top MacBook Air deals available this May, but the steeper $165 price drop on the 15-inch M4/24GB/512GB spec in Starlight is especially enticing. With the extra memory (24GB vs 16GB found in the standard model), you can enjoy enhanced performance when running multiple apps simultaneously.

Save $165 on Amazon


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Epic has resubmitted "Fortnite" to Apple for review, aiming to bring the game back to the U.S. App Store nearly four years after the developer violated its agreement, and Apple pulled the title.


In August 2020, Epic willingly violated Apple's App Store rules by allowing players the option to purchase Fortnite's in-game currency directly, rather than through Apple's payment system. This violation not only resulted in the game's removal from the App Store, it kicked off a lengthy legal battle between the two tech giants.

Now it seems like Epic is looking to bring Fortnite back to the iPhone and iPad. On Friday, the company posted on X that it had submitted the game for review.


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Sao Paulo media claims that reports of iPhone manufacturer Foxconn expanding in Brazil is correct, even though Apple has said it will not increase production, and isn't trying to beat US tariffs.


For years, Apple has been working to reduce its over-reliance on China as a single or major source of iPhones, and those moves have seen its suppliers establish facilities in several other countries. According to Apple, however, its production in Brazil is expressly for making iPhones to be sold locally and as of late April 2025, will continue to be so.

Apple was responding to a report in local publication Exame, which claimed Foxconn was expanding its facilities in order that it could make iPhones for export to the US. The report was unclear on details, but did say that the expansion was at Foxconn's plant in Jundiai, southeast Brazil.


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Apple's Weather app has existed for a long time, and has evolved a great deal in the last few years — here's everything you need to know to master the Weather app.


Apple's Weather app shipped with the original iPhone in 2007. And, since 2007, it's appeared on every iteration of the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

For the first seven years, Apple sourced its weather data from Yahoo! Weather. This was clunky, and awkward, as Yahoo! Weather used data from The Weather Channel to provide data to Apple.


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Apple has been quietly buying AI firms whose work suggests the company is looking to bring Apple Intelligence to chatbots, individual users' calendars, and perhaps to its own manufacturing.


News of Apple acquiring a company usually only breaks if Apple decides to announce it — as it did withPrimephonic, the basis for Apple Music Classical — or if the size of the deal requires regulatory oversight. Much more often, it acquires very many firms and absorbs their products and staff.

Now, as spotted by French site MacGeneration, Apple has had to declare several recent acquisitions to European regulators under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and four are specifically companies working in AI.


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After a nearly six-year absence, Razer has finally brought back Razer Synapse mouse and gaming peripheral configuration utility for Mac — kind of, at least.


For those not in the know, Razer Synapse is configuration software designed to help you get the most out of your Razer-branded devices. For gamers, that means changing key binds, customizing RGB lighting, tweaking mouse sensitivity, and creating custom profiles for different games.

The last time Synapse supported macOS was in 2018 on macOS Mojave. Support would be dropped when macOS Catalina debuted in October 2019, eliminating support for 32-bit Apps.


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Apple is rumored to be on the precipice of releasing a new software platform to control your entire home. Here's what's been rumored about homeOS.


Spawned from a common core, Apple has been creating branches of its operating systems for its hardware for years. There's watchOS for the Apple Watch, iOS for the iPhone, iPadOS runs on iPad, and so on.

Rumors about homeOS have been circulating for years at this point. There have been references within Apple's code that points to a new software platform, either as a wholly new addition, or as a replacement to some of its existing ones.


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It's time to look back at the legendary iMac on its 27th birthday, but also time to look ahead to rumors of a future shakeup over iPhone launches — and the present day shakeup in the App Store, on the AppleInsider podcast.


Without the iMac in 1998, there wouldn't be an Apple today — and there probably wouldn't have been an Apple even in 1999. So much depended on that little machine, and so many of us have relished it and its later versions over nearly three decades now.

But over the next decade, according to Apple's Eddy Cue, it's possible we'll move on from the iMac's eventual successor, the iPhone. And if we do, it'll be because of AI, which Apple is now turning to for search as it prepares to lose its lucrative deal that sees Google the default search option on iOS.


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Ex-Apple design head Jony Ive has spoken at the Stripe Sessions 2025 conference about his career going from the UK to Silicon Valley, and from Apple to his own firm, LoveFrom.


Jony Ive has been making more public appearances lately, certainly compared to his more private time when he was in Apple and tended to speak just on launch videos. Usually, too, he speaks about his friend Steve Jobs and the way the two of them worked together.

For his interview at the annual Stripe Sessions conference, though, Ive was pressed more on the deeper issues of design — and on his opinions of Silicon Valley.


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Notifications for iPhone calls and FaceTime can appear on your iPad, and can be quite intrusive. Here's how to turn them off so they don't appear in iPadOS.


Cross-device alerts are a convenient feature on iOS devices. They allow you to get alerts about incoming messages and calls for one device on another that you own.

But if you're using your iPad for, say, reading a book, you might not want to be interrupted by incoming messages from your iPhone.


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The Next is an easy-to-use, protective, and efficient enclosure that will bring out the best in your external SSD.


Through NVMe SSDs, external storage is more portable and cost-effective than ever. Being able to have backups and important files with you and share them securely across devices is essential if you don't want to rely on the cloud.

Hyper's Next SSD enclosure uses USB4 for fast read/write speeds and has a convenient, toolless installation. Based in California, Hyper has been making Apple accessories and connectivity products since 2005.


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Apple and Amazon were accused of price fixing via a class action lawsuit filed in 2022, and after the plaintiff seemingly disappeared, the judge has ordered legal fees returned to the companies.


After Apple and Amazon made an agreement in 2018 that would bring more Apple products to the online store, the number of resellers took a nosedive. A class action lawsuit sprung up hoping to reimburse consumers for allegedly paying more money for Apple products thanks to this price fixing "scheme."

As always, these lawsuits take time, and led to Apple and Amazon issuing a discovery order against the plaintiff in September 2023. According to a report from Reuters, the law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro failed to disclose that the plaintiff didn't want to go through the discovery process and wanted out of the suit.


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Apple Card users are now eligible for a six-month free trial of Uber One, as part of a new promotion launched on Thursday.


The Uber One trial is available alongside the standard 3% Daily Cash back available with Uber and Uber Eats purchases made via Apple Card.

To take part in the promotion, users will need to sign up for an Uber One subscription via Apple Card and complete the purchase through Apple Pay, using the exclusive link they received via email from Apple.


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Apple has released a new video for the Apple Vision Pro Spatial Video feature, in an ad spot to celebrate Mother's Day.


Introduced to the official Apple YouTube channel on Thursday, the video "A Gift for Mom" follows the reception of a video gift between a couple. The video, edited by a man called Sam and played to partner Khulan, covers the first year of the life of their newborn son.

For the video, both Sam and Khulan filmed their son in Spatial Video on their iPhones. One year later, Sam hands Khulan an Apple Vision Pro, after secretly editing the video to share with her.


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While Apple's M5 chip is expected to debut on Mac and iPad, in late 2025, the company's M6 and M7 chips are in the works, in conjunction with a new AI server farm processor.


The current M4 chip was introduced back in May 2024, making its debut with the iPad Pro. In October of the same year, it made its wayto the iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro, while the MacBook Air received the system-on-chip in March 2025.

Much like the M4, Apple's new-and-improved M5 chip is expected to appear in the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro as early as the end of 2025. According to a Bloomberg report on Thursday, however, the iPhone maker is already working on multiple other chips, planned for future iPad and Mac products.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Apple is reportedly custom-tailoring specialized chips, with the needs of the Apple Glass in mind.


Apple's internal silicon design team is behind the creation of chips used in the Apple Silicon line. After handling processing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the team are now working towards chips for other major product categories.

People familiar with the plans told Bloomberg on Thursday that there are chips being made not only for new Macs. It's also working on chips for smart glasses.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Apple has been rumored to be working on smart glasses for a long time, and a new report has narrowed down the debut of the platform to be as soon as the end of 2026.


The "Apple Glass" project has rumors dating back to 2015, and patent work before then. Obviously, what popped out initially was the Apple Vision Pro.

What's been nebulous until fairly recently is a release timeline for glasses built by Apple. A new report by Bloomberg, discussing Apple's chip efforts for the product, amongst other things, nails the product down to a specific window.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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You can get excellent drop protection for iPhone 16 that looks great and doesn't add bulk with the Torras Ostand OAir case, which includes the signature MagSafe-compatible magnetic ring stand.


Torras has set out once again to prove that edge-to-edge device protection doesn't have to mean a giant, ugly rubber iPhone case. The Ostand OAir for iPhone 16 comes in vibrant colors and has a rugged design that'll pop this summer.

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Mother's Day deals are available at Amazon, with AirPods, Apple Watches, and iPads up to 32% off leading up to the big day.


Pick up a gift for Mom or treat yourself to updated Apple gear at heavily discounted prices on Amazon today.


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From preserving tradition to improving disaster response, four 2025 Swift Student Challenge Distinguished Winners used Apple's tools to build app playgrounds that educate, empower, and connect people worldwide.


In March, Apple has wrapped its Student Swift Student Challenge. Now, Apple is highlighting four young developers who ranked among Apple's Distinguished Winners.

Taiki Hamamoto was inspired by Hanafuda, a centuries-old Japanese card game. He'd grown up playing the game with his family, but when he tried to rally friends to play, he found that very few knew how to.


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Mac gamers can soon reclaim the empire in "Total War: Rome II", which relaunches May 29 as a native Apple Silicon title with a free upgrade for existing owners.


The game originally launched for Windows on September 3, 2013, followed by a macOS version a year later from Feral Interactive. "Total War: Rome II" combined turn-based grand strategy with large-scale real-time battles and focused on the rise of the Roman Empire.

At launch, it faced criticism for AI bugs and performance issues, but patches and rebalancing gradually improved its reputation. The Emperor Edition, released in 2014, bundled fixes and new content, including the Imperator Augustus campaign, and forms the foundation of the upcoming release.


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He does those Apple keynotes, he starred in a "Severance" promo, and oh, yeah, he controls Apple TV+. But none of that was enough for Seth Rogen, who reportedly turned down Apple when they wanted Tim Cook to get a cameo on "The Studio."


It's unlikely that Cook filmed an audition tape for "The Studio," but then you never know because it's also been reported that Apple doesn't interfere with productions on Apple TV+. AppleInsider contacts in television say that last is true, unless your show is in trouble, in which case Apple is all over you.

"The Studio" is not in trouble. Already commissioned for a second run, Seth Rogen's comedy drama about Hollywood is a critical hit, and attracting buzz around Apple TV+.


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Google Maps is making more use of Gemini, with the AI service now identifying locations in iPhone screenshots.


Like other navigation tools, Google Maps lets users create lists of locations, making it helpful for long trips and vacations. However, with a new update, the app will make it easier to add locations automatically, rather than doing so manually.

Initially announced in March, Google Maps for iOS will now include a new "Screenshots" list under the "You" tab. That list will be an automatically-populated collection of locations, sourced from screenshots.


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In an appeal of a $570 million fine for violation of antitrust law, Apple says it had no idea how to comply, because the EU repeatedly ignored calls for feedback.


Despite the White House saying it won't tolerate the EU fining Apple, and the EU saying it won't be bullied, Apple has been fined $570 million for alleged non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Now Apple is appealing against the fine, and according to Politico, the company is pushing back against the EU's entire process.

Throughout the whole time that the DMA has been first mooted, then implemented, and finally made into law, Apple has repeatedly said that it is constantly working with the EU to ensure compliance. Now it's saying it was more that it was like it tried to, but the EU wasn't interested in talking about what would solve the issues to regulatory satisfaction.


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The iPhone Fold is rumored use a new thinner display panel in its construction, that supplier Samsung hasn't used in its own devices.


The display of the iPhone Fold is its most important component, and requires more care than usual for manufacturing a smartphone. However, it seems that this display could be very different from the usual ones seen in foldable devices.

According to Naver leaker "Yeux1122" on Thursday, Apple will be using a display that requires a new process. Display partner Samsung has apparently not yet employed it in its own folding hardware.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Following Apple mentioning that it was looking to add AI search to the iPhone and perhaps replace Google, shares in the search engine giant dropped over 7% — and Google didn't like it.


Apple's comments were made by its senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, in his testimony during the latest stage of the Department of Justice versus Google case. That case could see Google being forced to stop paying Apple for being the iPhone's default search engine, and Cue suggested that Apple was looking for alternatives anyway.

According to Reuters, the comments hit Google parent company Alphabet hard. Its shares closed down 7.3%, representing a drop in its market value of approximately $150 billion.


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The iPhone Control Center is a feature that hadn't changed all that much in recent years, but iOS 18 brings with it some big improvements. Here's how to get the most out of it.


Control Center has long offered iPhone owners a quick and easy way to access and toggle features like Wi-Fi, cellular data, and more. But the number of options available to iPhone owners was previously limited and the layout was cramped with just a single page of buttons available.

That's all changed with the launch of iOS 18, with Apple adding multiple groups to separate buttons as well as support for more types of buttons — including support for third-party buttons from many of the apps that you use the most.


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Even though Apple has already allowed apps to start linking out to external purchase options, the company has asked the U.S. District Court in Northern California to stay enforcement during the appeal.


Apple has found itself in hot water after a judge ruled that the company was willfully violating an injunction over anti-steering rules. Apple followed the judge's demands and filed an appeal, but now it is asking for one more thing.

According to a report from 9to5Mac, which discovered the filing, Apple is asking the U.S. District Court for a stay on enforcement of the new requirements set by the judge. Apple was told it must immediately allow apps to link out to websites and enable external purchase options, which it has, but Apple hopes to stop having to do this while it appeals.


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The Vtoman FlashSpeed 1000 Power Station is a portable battery that can keep off-grid campers happy for a weekend — and works great as a UPS for your Mac Studio too.


We get asked to review three main categories of products. Two of them make sense for an Apple-related publication: Thunderbolt docks and SSDs.

The third is giant batteries in portable power stations.


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The upgraded M4 Mac mini configuration, which is down to the best price seen in May, is equipped with 24GB of RAM.


With units in stock and ready to ship, the M4 Mac mini with a bump up to 24GB of unified memory is discounted to $894.83 at Amazon today. This retail spec also has 512GB of storage, double that of the standard 256GB found in the standard model.

Get M4 24GB for $894.83


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During court testimony over Apple's search deal with Google, Apple executive Eddy Cue threw in a curveball, basically saying we shouldn't assume there will be an iPhone 30 someday.


One strongly possible outcome of the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google is that it may be forced to stop paying Apple to be the default search engine on iOS. That would mean Apple losing out on around $20 billion a year, so naturally the firm's senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, is keen to keep the deal.

But in testimony that intended to reveal Apple is anyway looking into offering search via AI services, Cue also gave Apple's first-ever mention of a day when iPhones could be no more.


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Apple is thinking about making changes to Safari to work with AI-based search engines, as it considers what it can do if courts end the $20 billion default search deal with Google.


Google is facing the prospect of making changes to its business, as a court tries to work out the best remedies it can take to conclude an antitrust lawsuit. For Apple, one of these options is for the court to end its deal worth $20 billion per year to keep Google as the default search on iPhone and in Safari.

With the very real possibility of missing out in billions of dollars in revenue from Google, Apple is seemingly thinking about the next steps it can take with Safari and search. It apparently involves AI, the current popular concept in the tech industry.


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Relive the early 2000s and chat using a new Nintendo DS Pictochat-inspired iMessage app.


At some point in the last month, a new iMessage app has popped up, promising to recreate the feeling of "sitting on the bus and messaging your friends via your favorite two-screened handheld." The app, aptly called Picochat for iMessage, does just that.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I installed Picochat for iMessage. I mean, yes, I was a fervent user of Picochat in the early aughts, but I still was curious how well it would work on an iPhone.


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