Qualcomm's CEO doesn't seem to be worried about losing one of its biggest customers as Apple shifts to in-house modems like the C1 for iPhone.


For over 15 years, Qualcomm's modem chips powered Apple's iPhones, enabling wireless connectivity to cellular networks. Analysts estimated that Apple paid over $2.5 billion in 2024 alone for Qualcomm's patent licenses, while the company's annual modem revenue from Apple is said to be between $5.7 billion and $5.9 billion.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, in an appearance on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast, spotted by 9to5mac, revealed that the modem company is prepared to look well beyond the iPhone. Qualcomm's plans are based on the assumption that Apple will continue to use in-house modems going forward, meaning that the chipmaker will have to explore alternative avenues.


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Apple must continue to allow apps to link out and avoid its App Store commission during its appeal against an injunction resulting from the Epic anti-steering ruling.


Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple willfully violated an injunction against its anti-steering practices in the Epic vs Apple case. Even though Apple was compelled to remove its anti-steering rules, the new rules were too aggressive for developers to bother supporting.

According to a report from Reuters, Apple's request to pause enforcement of the judge's ruling during appeals failed. The U.S. appeals court denied Apple's request, where it shared that "we strongly disagree."


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While governments around the world made a record number of iPhone push notification data requests in 2024, Apple approved a smaller share.


According to Apple's latest transparency report, global government requests for push notification data climbed from 119 in early 2023 to 277 by mid-2024. But the company approved far fewer of them, with its approval rate dropping from 76% to just 59% over that period.

The data shows that while authorities are increasingly turning to push tokens as a source of account-level information, Apple is responding with growing restraint.


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As soon as Apple's WWDC, AirPods could get some new functionality, including some new head gestures as well as a return of a camera feature.


The WWDC keynote is days away, and the rumors about what Apple will introduce are accelerating. The latest batch involves some claims about Apple's personal audio devices, AirPods.

In a roundup of changes on the way published on June 4, 9to5Mac claims there are a collection of features set to arrive on AirPods. The features are intended to make the earphones more useful in multiple ways, beyond improving audio quality.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Apple's main focus at WWDC 25 will be on redesigns and iOS upgrades, but visionOS 26 should see a range of quality-of-life changes and new gaming features for Apple Vision Pro. Here's what the rumor mill expects to see.


There have been relatively few rumors around Apple's spatial computing platform for WWDC 2025. Instead, everything is focused on how visionOS will inspire the design of every other operating system.

That said, the 2025 keynote should prove to be an important year for visionOS 26. It's the first full year between releases since visionOS 2 was revealed just four months after visionOS 1 launched.


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The Boox Go Color 7 doesn't reinvent the e-reader — but with its perfect paperback size and crisp color screen, it might just be the best one yet.


Boox continues to roll out new takes on its e-reader lineup, and at this point, AppleInsider has had hands-on time with quite a few. I alone have reviewed at least four others — though I'm willing to bet I might be forgetting some.

So when Boox reached out about its updated 7-inch reader — the one that I'd previously said was my favorite — I was curious to see what had changed.


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Apple's eventual rollout of Apple Intelligence in China has hit delays, thanks to regulatory issues raised in response to President Trump's tariffs.


Apple has been working with Alibaba to bring its Apple Intelligence suite of generative AI features to iPhones in China. While the two tech giants have worked together on the project, it has hit a roadblock that has forced a delay in its introduction.

According to a report on Wednesday morning by the Financial Times, applications from Apple and Alibaba to release the AI features have not gained the approval of the Cyberspace Administration of China. The regulatory rubber stamp is required in China by law, which prevents Apple from adding them to iOS.


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Previously unknown details of California's deals with local firms have been released, showing that Apple has been paid millions in tax refunds by Cupertino to stay in the area.


If it weren't widely reported in detail before, it was at least public knowledge that Californian regions such as Cupertino pay back some sales tax to local companies. What hasn't been clear before is how much that payback amounts to.

According to Bloomberg, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) under a new state law, showed that Apple received $64.7 million from Cupertino since 2013. Going back to a previous 1998 deal, Bloomberg research estimates that Apple has received almost $120 million.


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With smartphone thefts on the rise, UK lawmakers are floating the theory that maybe Apple and Google are doing less to curtail thefts than claimed.


Smartphone theft is on the rise — not just in America, but globally. Both Apple and Google have claimed that they've taken exhaustive steps to make smartphone theft a less profitable endeavor, but UK MPs aren't buying it.

As The Guardian points out In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up roughly 25% from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street value of 20 million — about $27 million.


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The popular $299 iPad 11-inch promotion at Amazon is back for June 2025, making it a great option for Father's Day gift-giving.


Amazon's June Apple sale includes a return of the $299 iPad 11 — Apple's 2025 release — reflecting a $50 discount on the standard 128GB Wi-Fi configuration.

Buy for $299


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It's no surprise that the iPhone and iPad now form the backbone of Apple's ecosystem. New data confirms that the Mac, once the company's flagship, continues to play a supporting role for a smaller slice of customers.


According to the June 4, 2025 Consumer Intelligence Research Partners report titled "Rethinking the Apple Ecosystem," Apple customers in the 12 months ending in the March 2025 quarter overwhelmingly favored iPhones and iPads over Macs.

• 94% own an iPhone



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While most iPhones that currently support iOS 18 will be able to use iOS 26, the iPhone XS, XS Max, and iPhone XR are probably going to get cut from the compatibility list.


When Apple releases a new operating system, the change can sometimes leave older models of hardware out in the cold. For the upcoming introduction of what is believed to be iOS 26, this could mean the loss of three items from the roster.

A list of compatible devices posted to X by a private account that got everything right in 2024 claims that the next iOS operating system update will not be supported by the iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone XR.


Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely


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Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney complains that "Fortnite" should not have been off the App Store for so long, ignoring the fact that he willfully violated Apple's terms of service.


Back in 2020, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store, while makers Epic Games cried foul and made out that this was big brother-style interference, done with no notice or warning. It was soon revealed that Epic Games had not only knowingly violated its App Store contracts, but had also spent months planning the violation, the protest, and its accompany video.

Subsequently, Apple won every scintilla of its legal case against Epic Games, bar one concerning anti-steering. And Apple managed to mishandle that one loss that the company was ultimately forced to allow the game back onto the App Store.


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Developers using the Godot game engine will soon be able to build for the Apple Vision Pro, as visionOS support is actively being tested after Apple staff offered support.


Godot is a free and open-source game engine that, in April, caught the attention of Apple. A good-natured request from Apple to help add visionOS support to the game engine has borne fruit just over a month later, with it now being beta tested.

On Monday, Godot release coordinator Thaddeus Crews posted to the official blog about the fifth developer beta of Godot 4.5, the next release of the engine. With a content freeze on the horizon for the update, the post discusses some of the highlights of the release.


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In a world of many "samey" mechanical keyboards, the Epomaker Split65 really stands out for one key reason.In a world of many "samey" Mac mechanical keyboards, the Epomaker Split65 stands out. It features a split design that's supposedly more ergonomic, but not everyone will actually be able to type with it.


I'm a sucker for a keyboard and I have more than enough of them lying around my office — perhaps too many. But when Epomaker offered the Split65 for review, I couldn't say no, if only because it's so different.

Sure, it's a mechanical keyboard like the rest, but one look at it tells the story. This is a keyboard that splits in the middle for added, customizable ergonomics.


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The Enhanced Visual Search in the iOS Photos app sends encrypted, anonymized data from photos to Apple. Here's what that means and how to turn it off.


Apple's Enhanced Visual Search (EVS) is a new ML-based technology in iOS 18, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia. Using EVS you can search for geographical landmarks in photos, even if the images don't contain any geolocation info such as GPS or EXIF metadata.

Using EVS in the Photos app, you can type a landmark name in and the app will scan your photos for matching landmarks. You can also swipe up on any building in an image and tap Look Up Landmark. If Photos recognizes the landmark it will tell you what it is.


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New features for Messages, Music, Notes, and CarPlay have possibly leaked ahead of their reveal for iOS 26 during WWDC 25.


Almost every rumor surrounding iOS 26 has focused on the possible redesign that'll bring it closer to visionOS. Few feature updates leak out, if ever, but a last-minute rumor reveals five possible changes coming in iOS 26.

According to reliable, anonymous sources speaking to 9to5Mac, there are a few app-specific features we can expect on June 9. These features could offer some nice quality-of-life upgrades that users will immediately notice.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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A new report claims that the Apple Vision Pro could gain support for spatial controllers in a future visionOS update, amplifying a previous leak suggesting support was coming soon.


The Apple Vision Pro currently supports game controllers used with the Xbox and PlayStation, but only for Apple Arcade games. That could soon change, however, as a new report claims that Apple has plans to add support for spatial controllers with a future visionOS update.

Back in December 2024, a different rumor suggested that Apple had approached Sony in an attempt to implement support for the PlayStation VR2 controller. At the time, it was also said that the iPhone maker had reached out to third-party developers to bring more games to the Apple Vision Pro, with support for controllers as an inducement.


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Designer Sebastiaan de With imagines what Apple's upcoming OS redesign might look like ahead of WWDC 2025.


With WWDC less than a week away and Apple dropping hints that changes are coming, everyone is curious about what the Cupertino-based tech giant has up its sleeve. We're nearly positive that there's a big change coming to Apple's operating system's designs, and we're quite certain that it'll take cues from visionOS.

But, even knowing that, we still don't know entirely answer what it will look like.


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The A20 chip widely expected to debut in the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone will take advantage of a new packaging technique, on TSMC's 2nm chip fabrication technology.


Rumors about the iPhone 18 generation are already spreading, even though we have yet to see the iPhone 17 range. However, the future model could be packing some design changes involving packaging.

According to GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu, Apple should be using the A20 chip for the release of the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Fold. This makes sense, as the A20 is two generations away from the iPhone 16 range's A18 chip family.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Less than a week before WWDC, Apple has revealed the winners of the 2025 Apple Design Awards, honoring the best apps in the App Store.


The Apple Design Awards are Apple's way of celebrating the best apps and games that have been submitted to the App Store. Announced as usual just before WWDC, the list includes 36 finalists and 12 winners, with one app and one game winning across six categories.

All six categories carry over from the 2024 awards. However, a seventh category for "Spatial Computing" introduced in 2024 has not been brought back for 2025.


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Top MacBook Pro price cuts for 2025 are in effect now at Amazon, with deals delivering up to $558 off M4 Max models.


We're following several steeper price drops on Apple's current MacBook Pro line today, with this $558 discount especially enticing on a high-end M4 Max 16-inch model with a 40-core GPU. Now priced at $3,440.48 in Silver (the lowest on record), this spec has 48GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage.

Save $558 on 16" M4 Max


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A message about WWDC sent to retailers outside of Apple has been taken to mean there will new device launches, but it's most likely wishful thinking.


Every year, it's been rumored that Apple will update almost everything it sells at the annual World Wide Developer Conference. While there have been some releases, they are the exception rather than the rule.

Maybe there will be hardware unveiled at WWDC, since even as it's a software conference, Apple has announced new Macs there before, such as the iMac Pro.


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Apple could expand its worldwide network of brick and mortar Apple Store into Egypt, as the country's foreign trade minister has given the company an explicit invite to do so.


The introduction of an Apple Store in a country is a strong sign of interest by Apple to expand sales in the territory. If talks result in action, the first retail Apple Store could eventually open up in Egypt.

Apple Director of Government Affairs for the Middle East and Pakistan Omar El-Rifai met with the Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Hassan El-Khatib, on June 2, according to Egyptian Streets. The meeting was about Apple's presence and potential growth in the country.


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Apple is researching how AirPods could use sensors like the ones used in Face ID to read the user's lips and process what the user wants, even if there isn't a spoken request.


Apple has been looking into the idea of AirPods detecting gestures for more than five years, including how such detectors could learn a user's unique movements. In 2024, the first significant result of this research came with how AirPods Pro could detect when a user nods or shakes their head.

Now in a newly granted patent, Apple has revealed that it is aiming to go further. The "Wearable skin vibration or silent skin gesture detector" patent proposes using what it calls self-mixing interferometry to recognize more nuanced gestures.


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Apple's biggest software event of the year kicks off June 9. Here's how you can watch the WWDC 2025 keynote live on just about any device.


Apple is preparing to introduce the most significant overhaul of its software interfaces in over a decade. The WWDC 2025 keynote will take place Monday, June 9, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, and will be streamed live on Apple's website, the Apple TV app, and YouTube.

The company is expected to roll out a new system-wide design called "Solarium," which will bring consistent visual changes across iOS 26, macOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.


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The expected fifth season of Apple TV+ espionage drama "Slow Horses" has been announced, with Gary Oldman returning in the lead role.


Some 15 months after Apple ordered a fifth season of the thriller, it has now been revealed to begin streaming from September 24, 2025. It's based on "London Rules," Mick Herron's sixth novel in the "Slough House" series, which was published in 2018.

The six-episode season continues the story of Jackson Lamb (award-winning Gary Oldman) and his team of spies, all rejects from the UK's MI5. In "London Rules," Apple says that a "series of increasingly bizarre events" occur across the city — and somehow Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) has a girlfriend.


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A new report from a leaker with a mixed track record says that the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air may get a high-refresh rate display, but it won't be ProMotion.


ProMotion is the display technology that allows for the screen to refresh at different rates, to accommodate different needs. So for games or video, the screen or portions of it, can be faster and more responsive, while at other times it saves battery power with slower refreshing.

The feature was introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, and has remained a Pro model feature. But since February 2024, persistent rumors have said that ProMotion will come to every model in the iPhone 17 range.


Rumor Score: 🙄 Unlikely


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ChatGPT is OpenAI's extremely useful chatbot for answering questions. Here's how to use the generative AI tool in Apple's Notes app in macOS.


Apple Intelligence is now integrated with OpenAi's ChatGPT in macOS, ad well as iOS and iPadOS. Many features of ChatGPT are integrated with Apple apps starting in macOS Sequoia 15.1, and iOS and iPadOS 18.2.

While Apple has stated support for Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT are evolving and still in progress, some features are working and included in Apple's operating systems. Expect a further phased rollout of Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT in the near future.


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Sunday night baseball games may soon be available via Apple TV+, as the company is reportedly seeking to land additional MLB streaming rights.


Apple has reportedly emerged as the company most likely to acquire Major League Baseball streaming rights previously held by ESPN. The iPhone maker currently offers Friday Night Baseball via Apple TV+, which consists of two baseball games every Friday without interruptions or restrictions, but that could soon change.

According to a Sports Business Journal report on Monday, Apple is looking to land streaming rights for MLB content beyond the scope of its current arrangement. Legacy media outlets such as NBC are also said to be in talks with MLB over the same streaming rights, but Apple's offer is said to be noticeably higher.


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Fresh deals are plentiful for the start of June, with Apple's M4 MacBook Air dipping to $837, while the Samsung M8 monitor is back on sale for $399.99.


Amazon has issued June discounts on the 13-inch MacBook Air M4, with prices falling to as low as $837.19. Here's a rundown of the sale:

Today's MacBook Air sale


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Starting with whether it will be called macOS 26 or macOS 16, there are so many rumors about what the next update to the Mac operating system will bring. Here's what's expected, and most likely to happen.


The only certainty is that the next major update to macOS will be announced on June 9, 2025, during the WWDC keynote. Beyond that, it is now looking highly likely that this successor to macOS 15 Sequoia will be called macOS 26 — and it's strongly rumored that it will be announced as macOS Tahoe.

If Apple does name macOS after a region in California, it will be continuing the now 12-year-long tradition. Previously, the then-called OS X was named after cats for around 11 years.


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The classic first-person-shooter game "Doom" has been ported to an unexpected Apple product, with the three decade old Apple Network Server the latest hardware to be added to the compatibility list.


The Apple Network Server is a piece of hardware that, until May 2025, was not able to run ID Software's Doom. Thanks to an enterprising blogger, the game can be played on it.

Sold from 1996 until 1997, Apple Network Server was separate from the Macintosh lineup, as machines designed instead to run IBM's AIX operating system, not Apple's operating systems. Sold for over $10,000 at the time, they were the last non-Macintosh desktop computers that Apple made.


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While the higher-profile DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google continues, the company has reached a provisional settlement over similar accusations from its shareholders.


The Department of Justice continues to want Google to be broken up, and that case may be ruled on by August. But separately, shareholders led by two pension funds, took Google to court over antitrust violations, and according to Reuters, that case may now have been settled.

Google and the shareholders have reported agreed a settlement that will see the company commit half a billion dollars into overhauling its compliance structure. That investment is said to be spent over the next 10 years, though the settlement mandates that such compliance changes must stay in place for at least 4 years.


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Apple has launched a WWDC placeholder video on YouTube where users can choose to be notified ahead of the live stream.


Just as it has before, Apple has begun its WWDC promotion on YouTube with an upload one week before the keynote, which streams on June 9, 2025. It's a regular YouTube Premiere, which means a holding image is available at the link, and there's also the option to turn on notifications.

The placeholder "a sleek peek at what's to come this WWDC," but the punning title is the event's strapline, rather than a promise of anything actually being shown before the keynote. "Set a reminder, turn on your notifications, and we'll send you an update before the keynote begins," it continues.


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The revival of a prompt interrupt for Apple Intelligence is already close to being a chatbot. Here's how to turn Apple Writing Tools into a chatbot.


The tech industry already has a lot of chatbots, but so far Apple has yet to do the same. Rumors have proposed that Apple is working on its own entry into the market, but it has so far not publicly revealed such a service, outside its Siri integration with ChatGPT.

Despite the rumors of it being on the way, it appears that some of the chatbot experience already exists on iPhones. Albeit accessible by exploiting one of the current Apple Intelligence features.


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Apple appears to be preparing a unified design update across its platforms, with hints pointing to a visionOS-inspired redesign at WWDC 2025.


In early March, it was first rumored that Apple would overhaul its operating systems in hopes of making its platforms more cohesive. The reasoning is that the change should make the platforms feel familiar to people coming from one device to another.

Since then, we've had a slew of potential leaks and prognostications suggesting that Apple would, indeed, be bringing the glassy visionOS-inspired elements to everything from the next iteration of iOS and macOS, all the way down to the humble Apple Watch.


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On the latest episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, your host goes hands on with two recent product launches, and discusses more of best home automation news.


In our hands-on portion, we have both the ThorBolt X1 deadbolt and the Brilliant second-generation smart wall panel to check out.

The ThorBolt X1 is affordable and supports Apple Home Key, making it immediately of interest. It seems to have solid construction, is fast to respond, and is easy to install.


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The MelGeek O2 is a low-profile mechanical keyboard that manages to stick the landing when it comes to user experience for Mac users — at least from a hardware perspective.


Throughout 2024 and into 2025, I've been on a quest to find a low-profile mechanical keyboard. One to replace my Mac Magic Keyboard for day-to-day use in my workspace.

The world of third-party keyboards is a wild and wonderful place for consumers. But often, Mac users are considered an afterthought.


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The iPad has been credited with helping a concert pianist get over her stage fright, with the presence of the tablet making her feel more confident during a performance.


Artists of all kinds often suffer from stage fright, an anxiety that occurs when a person is about to perform to an audience. People deal with stage fright in various ways, but for one musician, it was simply having an iPad nearby.

In a Monday interview with NPR to promote her new album, concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein explained that she had to deal with decades of performance anxiety. Being onstage caused her to have panic attacks, which affected her confidence and ability to play.


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