Apple’s next AirPods Pro were rumored to gain built-in cameras, marking one of the biggest upgrades in the earbuds’ history — large enough that the product may be dubbed AirPods Ultra instead. However, Apple is reportedly shelving those plans for now.
A reliable leaker now claims Apple “suspended” the project. But it’s unclear whether the company canceled the feature or simply delayed it.
Apple could be telling its suppliers to build more foldable iPhones than anyone expected. The company has reportedly raised its 2026 prediction target for the much-rumored iPhone Ultra to around 10 million units. This is a significant jump from the previous 7-to-8-million estimation.
That’s a huge vote of confidence from Apple and good news for anyone hoping to get their hands on one. A bigger build target usually means fewer launch-day sellouts and a better shot at your preferred color and storage.
Apple just rewired a gesture you’ve used every day since 2011, and you probably won’t notice it until it’s too late. iOS 27 hands to the new Siri AI the exact swipe you’ve used to check notifications, and it doesn’t even ask nicely first.
Turn on Siri AI in the latest iOS 27 beta, and swiping down from the top center of your screen will no longer open the Notification Center but wake up Siri instead. Your alerts aren’t going anywhere, but you’ll need to relearn where to find them.
July 2, 2010: Apple opens up about “Antennagate,” issuing a letter that addresses iPhone 4 reception problems publicly for the first time.
In a letter addressed to iPhone 4 users, Apple admits to being “surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and … immediately began investigating them.” However, the company’s findings do little to dispel the growing Antennagate controversy.
The Voibe dictation app for Mac lets you talk instead of typing. It’s fast, efficient and works inside any Mac app. Plus, since it works offline, it’s totally private.
It’s a voice-first way to work across your Mac, without relying on cloud processing or extra apps. And right now, a lifetime subscription to Voibe costs just $49.99 (MSRP $149).
Newly leaked timing of Apple’s next iPad Pro refresh suggests that the premium tablet may jump straight to the M7 processor and skip the M6 generation altogether.
Note that this is a combination of rumor and speculation. A leak on Wednesday only says that the next iPad Pro is a year away with “faster chips.” But going with the M7 processor makes sense, given the timing annd Apple’s previous practices.
Apple reportedly wants to source memory from two Chinese suppliers — CXMT and YMTC — for its products. Previous rumors suggested Apple lobbying for CMXT’s approval from the US government.
However, a new report from Bloomberg suggests the company is also looking to secure DRAM from YMTC.
A year from today, people across the world will be using a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro powered by an unannounced M7 processor, according to an unconfirmed report on Wednesday.
This new model will supposedly launch in the first half of 2027, and it’ll apparently be out surprisingly soon after the current basic MacBook Pro gets the M6 chip.
Apple’s Hide My Email has one job — to keep your real inbox out of other people’s hands. But it isn’t doing that job, and Apple reportedly knew this for more than a year.
If you’ve ever used Hide My Email to sign up for a sketchy app or website, you’ll want to pay attention. A security researcher says he managed to unmask the real email address behind virtually every Hide My Email alias. And Apple hasn’t fixed it yet.
Apple’s years-long App Store fight with Fortnite maker Epic Games is now headed to the Supreme Court. The justices agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple’s appeal of a contempt ruling that has already forced it to change how it handles payments outside the App Store. And the stakes just got a lot higher.
If you’ve purchased anything through an iPhone app recently, this affects you more than you’d think. At stake is whether Apple can keep charging app developers a commission on payments made outside the App Store, and that fee trickles down to what you pay for subscriptions and in-app purchases.
July 1, 2012: Apple shuts down MobileMe, its subscription-based suite of online services and software offering push email, chat, data storage, a photo gallery and other features.
After letting the service limp along for four years, Apple finally decides to pull the plug, pushing users to switch to iCloud. The company gives MobileMe users until the end of July to remove their data from the service.
iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate add a handful of Notes features that will supercharge your note-taking. There are new options for formatting, working with Markdown and even drawing on a Mac for the first time.
It’s not a big year for the popular note-taking app, but the changes Apple added will please plenty of power users. Here’s what’s new.
The M5 iPad Pro is the most powerful Apple tablet ever, with the same chip in the latest MacBook Air. And you can save $300 off the cost of the 13-inch variant, or save $250 on the 11-inch version. That drops the cost for both below what they were before last week’s price hike.
UPDATE: The deal on the 11-inch variant ended, but not the sale on the 13-inch one. But don’t wait — it could end any time.
iPad Pro is a very capable computer for creatives and digital nomads, thanks to the M5 processor. And don’t overlook the gorgeous OLED display and Mac-like operation thanks to iPadOS 26.
Apple rolled out a fresh batch of updates to Apple Creator Studio Tuesday, sharpening AI features inside its flagship video and music apps while weaving Pixelmator Pro’s editing tools directly into Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Pages and Numbers.
The updates expand on the role Mac, iPad and iPhone already play for creative work. They layer in new AI capabilities across editing, photo and music workflows.
Apple plans to overhaul the standard Apple Watch’s design in 2027, breaking compatibility with the bands owners currently use, a well-known Weibo tipster claimed Tuesday.
A newly discovered AirDrop vulnerability means someone sitting in the same café as you can silently break AirDrop on your iPhone or Mac, no tap or pairing required. They just send a stream of junk data to your iPhone and AirDrop — alongside AirPlay, Handoff, Universal Clipboard, and Continuity Camera — all go dark for as long as they keep it up.
That’s the core finding from new security research into Apple’s AirDrop protocol. The exploit does not steal any data, but instead lets an attacker shut down AirDrop and Continuity features. For Apple users who use AirDrop regularly, that could be a real annoyance hiding in a real-life vulnerability.
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The TP-Link Roam 7 is small enough to be easily portable, but nevertheless provides speedy and reliable wireless connections to all your gear, no matter where you go.
I tested the travel router with Wi-Fi 7 on a recent beach trip. Here’s how it stands up to real-world use.
Because it’s connected to a wireless carrier, your iPhone can be used to locate you. Until this week, police could access this data on little more than a hunch — no Supreme Court location data ruling stood in their way. That changed on Monday.
The Supreme Court ruled that pulling your phone’s location history now counts as a Fourth Amendment search — no matter how short the window or whose server it sits on. Cops now need a real, individualized warrant before being able to dig through where your iPhone has been.
June 30, 2015: Apple launches 24/7 radio station Apple Music 1 (launched originally as Beats 1). Part of Apple Music, the new global radio station features top DJs ranging from former BBC presenter Zane Lowe to top musical artists like Lil Wayne.
Apple calls Apple Music 1 “the biggest radio station in the world” and says it beats (no pun intended) all other music stations when it comes to concurrent listeners. However, without hard figures to back that up, some call out Cupertino on this claim.
The new Photos app in iOS 27 clearly did not get the memo that this was a small year of bug fixes and performance improvements. While it is faster and more stable, there are tons of excellent new features top to bottom. Sorting through the largest photo libraries will be easier than ever in iOS 27.
Here are all the new features you can look forward to — or, if you’re daring, try out now.
WhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames. While the feature will only go live later this year, Meta is allowing you to reserve your username now.
This gives you a chance to claim your preferred handle before usernames become available to everyone.
Apple released iOS 26.5.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2 on Monday with no additional features but lots of security fixes. There are no fewer than 29 of them listed in Apple’s documentation.
Clearly, even though they lack fun new features, you should install these updates ASAP.
Apple just acquired assets from Rabbit 3 Times, the New York-based company behind Play, an iOS and macOS app that let developers design, prototype and generate SwiftUI code in real time. The deal surfaced this week when the European Commission published the filing on its Digital Markets Act acquisitions page. Play won an Apple Design Award for innovation in 2025.
Apple doesn’t often lose vice presidents, but something unexpected happened this week: Paul Meade, who spent about seven years building the Vision Pro and shaping Apple’s smart glasses plan, is reportedly leaving for OpenAI.
If you own a Vision Pro or are waiting for Apple’s smart glasses, this is the executive exit that should concern you. Meade doesn’t just hold a title — he shipped the headset and was also planning what comes next.
Meade’s resume reads like a hardware lifer. He joined Apple in 2010, working on the iPad before eventually moving into the iPhone team in 2012. Fast forward to 2017, and he crossed over to the Vision Products Group.
Two years later, he was handling all of Vision Pro’s hardware engineering and kept that job for almost a decade. Now, Meade is heading over to OpenAI’s hardware division, where he’ll work on the company’s upcoming AI devices.
Apple is yet to publicly confirm any of this. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman broke the story, but neither Apple nor OpenAI has commented yet.
With Meade leaving Apple, his longtime deputy — Fletcher Rothkopf — who already leads the design team for the Vision Pro and the much-rumored smart glasses, is taking his place. That’s a serious step for someone who’s never run the show solo and a sign of how much pressure Apple is under.
If this were the first Apple exec to leave the company for OpenAI, it wouldn’t be that big a deal. Apple has seen its watch designers drift towards Jony Ive’s orbit for a while, as well as some execs join the likes of Meta.
But losing a VP from its engineering department to a rival company is new. At OpenAI, Meade will rejoin Apple’s former hardware and design lead Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey. This is the same team OpenAI bought for $6.5 billion last year.
Sam Altman has previously hinted that OpenAI’s first device would be something less intrusive than an iPhone. But rumors have it that the project has struggled to get past the concept stage.
This is exactly where Meade comes in. His entire career has revolved around shipping products, not just sketching them.
The timing isn’t as random as you may think. Meade’s exit follows the hardware reorganization Apple did, with John Ternus stepping up as the CEO. This was followed by Apple’s chip chief, Johny Srouji, being put in charge of Apple’s hardware engineering team.
It pushed several VPs, including Meade, answerable to a new layer under Ternus. That’s a demotion in spirit for some, even if no one called it that. For an executive who spent years effectively owning a product, that’s exactly the type of change that makes often someone look for a new job.
More than the drama at Apple, here’s the thing that should sting more: the Vision Pro didn’t sell in volume. Unsurprisingly, Apple has reportedly toned down its headset efforts, with a redesign not expected before 2028 or 2029.
Instead, Apple could be focusing on a pair of lighter, display-free smart glasses intended to compete against Ray-Ban Meta. That program was Meade’s, and so were the long-range AR glasses planned for later this decade. Meade’s departure is more than a job change — he could be taking a map of where Apple’s wearables could go next.
It isn’t all bad news on Apple’s side. The company is still reportedly working on camera-equipped AirPods and a tabletop robot. A wearable pendant is also somewhere in the pipeline. Despite modest sales figures, Rothkopf has a team that’s already shipped a headset. But OpenAI has just hired the person who knows what it takes to get the next one out the door.
Apple will now most likely need to prove with its much-rumored smart glasses that losing Meade didn’t cost it anything.
For basic PDF viewing, annotations, and document signing, Apple’s Preview remains one of the most convenient tools available on macOS.
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