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From tracking your fitness to keeping you connected wherever you go, Apple Watch is a must-have this holiday season.

To make it easier to know what to buy, we are tracking huge savings on the entire Apple Watch lineup.

• 40mm Apple Watch SE 3: from $200 (Reg. $249)
• 44mm Apple Watch SE 3: from $230 (Reg. $279)
• 42mm Apple Watch Series 11: from $299 (Reg. $399)
• 46mm Apple Watch Series 11: from $329 (Reg. $429)
• Apple Watch Ultra 2: from $549 (Reg. $799)
• …head below for more!

Whether you’re a newcomer to the Apple Watch ecosystem or looking to upgrade your aging wearable, there’s a deal in here for you.

Apple and Google are teaming up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices. The two companies say that they’ve developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between each platform as part of a joint collaboration.

iOS 26.2 is expected to launch some time this week, but it looks like today might be ruled out. Apple has just shipped a second RC of iOS 26.2 for developers and public beta testers.

Is Apple Pay faster than alternate payment solutions? The latest video from Apple certainly aims to convince you of the iPhone’s advantage, and does so by showing a high-stakes scenario when speed is of the essence.

Welcome to Black Friday 2.0 – okay, not quit but it might as well be. The AirPods Pro 3 have returned to all-time low pricing today alongside AirPods 4 with ANC still down at $99. But perhaps today’s biggest news in deals is Apple Watch Series 11, just as we reported it would be last week. You’ll now find all configurations at $100 off the list price with deals starting from $299 to deliver the best deals we have ever tracked, undercutting the lowest Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers. All of that joins discounts on iPad 11 from $279, the M3 iPad Air lineup from $450, and the return of Black Friday pricing on M4 Mac mini down at $479. Scope it all out below. 

Johny Srouji isn’t leaving Apple, according to Johny Srouji. According to a leaked memo obtained by Bloomberg, Apple’s chip boss has recommitted to staying at the company.

iOS 26.2’s launch on iPhone appears imminent, perhaps arriving today, as a reputable leaker has just shared the apparent build numbers for the release.

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Nominations for the 2026 Golden Globes have just been announced, with Apple TV scoring 14 nominations total and looking like an early frontrunner for two of the most prized categories: Best TV Drama and Best TV Musical or Comedy.

This is the time of year when many design details are being finalized for next fall’s flagship iPhones. Now, a new leak on Weibo corroborates what we’ve heard before: under-display Face ID is planned for the iPhone 18 line.

Apple has announced that its Fitness+ digital workout service will expand to more than two dozen additional markets next week. The move more than doubles the footprint for Apple Fitness+, and generative AI is helping to make it possible.

Well folks, AirPods Pro 3 have returned to their best-ever price this morning. It’s basically Black Friday all over again if you’re in the market for the best-selling truly wireless earbuds.

You can snag AirPods Pro 3 for $219.99 shipped on Amazon, down from their usual price of $249. This matches the all-time low we saw on Black Friday last month.

Plus, we’re still tracking deals on the cheapest AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC, and AirPods Max.

It’s incredibly rare, if not unprecedented, that we have such massive savings on Apple’s newest-generation of products. It doesn’t get much better than this!

Earlier this year, Apple launched its first Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit. The academy is designed to offer free training in “smart manufacturing” for small and medium businesses from around the country, and was started in partnership with Michigan State University.

Today, Apple announced the first-ever virtual programming as part of the Apple Manufacturing Academy.

Today was the last race of the 2025 F1 championship, and that also meant the last time ESPN will broadcast a race in the United States. From next year, Apple takes over with all races streaming as part of an Apple TV subscription.

Apple released a new social media ad for the deal today, giving us our first look at how the F1 channel will look inside of the TV app.

With iPadOS 26.2, Apple is bringing two major upgrades to the iPad: Split View has returned, and Slide Over has a new gesture. Now, you can just drag and drop apps from your dock, and they’ll snap into place – there’ll no longer be a need to manually resize your windows in the manner you need them.

This was already how things worked in iPadOS 18 and prior, and now it’s finally back.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

Spotlight on the Mac has been far from perfect, especially in recent years. If you want a great, drop-in replacement that offers speedy app launches, file searches, a clipboard manager, and much, much more – you should check out Vector.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple’s hardware technologies SVP Johny Srouji is ‘seriously’ considering leaving the company. He’s most known for leading the charge on Apple Silicon. If he does end up leaving, he’ll reportedly take his talents to another company.

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In my time with managing Apple devices in the enterprise, macOS has always been known for its reliability in terms of not getting to a state where it can’t boot, but even the most stable systems have the occasional bad day due to a software update issue, etc. With macOS 26, Apple introduced Recovery Assistant, a built-in utility designed to help when that happens. Instead of forcing users to boot into recovery mode and guess at what went wrong, Recovery Assistant automatically launches when the Mac fails to start, diagnoses the problem, and tries to fix it.

Apple has once again picked up multiple nominations for its shows and films, this time at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards. Here are the details.

Following the controversy that led to Apple removing apps like ICEBlock from the App Store a few months ago, US lawmakers want to know what steps the company is taking to prevent similar tools from returning. Here are the details.

Fresh off abandoning its controversial mandate to preload a state-run “security” app on all smartphones, the Indian government may already be heading into an even bigger privacy battle. Here are the details.

A few days ago, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that OpenAI was poaching Apple hardware engineers “left and right”. Now, a new WSJ piece offers a closer look at some of these departures.

Apple debuted some great new CarPlay features in iOS 26, but the company has more coming for your vehicle soon. Here are the 13 new vehicle brands that Apple says will soon support car keys in the Apple Wallet app.