Apple has pulled the iPhone 14 and the third-gen iPhone SE from its online Apple Store in a number of EU countries, all to abide by inbound charger regulations. iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus Earlier in December, it was rumored that Apple would discontinue sales of the iPhone 14 generation of devices, as well as the current iPhone SE , in the European Union by the end of 2024. Two weeks later, it has become a reality. Subscribe to AppleInsider on YouTube Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss ..

The lowest price on Apple's iPad mini 7 can be found at B and Amazon, with both retailers running a limited-time deal on the 256GB model. Save $70 on Apple's iPad mini 7 with 256GB capacity. The 256GB iPad mini 7 in Space Gray can be snapped up for $529 at B and Amazon today, with both retailers knocking $70 off Apple's MSRP on the Wi-Fi model. Get 256GB iPad mini 7 Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

Charles really loves his mostly-older Apple gear, but 2025 is going to be a year of change. Here's how he gets work done at AppleInsider. The AppleInsider weekend news hub and Zoom/podcasting studio. I only develop and write stories for AppleInsider on the weekends, hence my Weekend Editor title. As a result, I have a pretty modest setup and workflow compared to most of the full-timers. Versatility for travel is one of my key requirements, since I am on the road at various times of the year. ..

Your iPhone may have low storage because it's been consumed by System Data, which can potentially consume all available capacity. Here's how to regain space when things get too bloated to function. Other System Data issues in iOS can quickly fill up all available iPhone storage. Storage capacity is a significant issue for mobile device users. The available space on an iPhone, iPad , and even a Mac a sensitive concern for everyone. Users with expansive storage capacities have less trouble with ..

The $1,699 M4 Pro MacBook Pro special price is now available at B Photo, with free next day delivery. Snap up a 14-inch MacBook Pro at a record low price. After a price war broke out on Apple's M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch during Christmas Eve, several retailers sold out or ended the $300 discount soon thereafter. But the $1,699 price is still available at Apple Authorized Reseller B Photo, with free next business day delivery available in the contiguous U.S. on the standard M4 Pro ..

William doesn't just work at AppleInsider, he also has a bunch of other writing assignments going constantly. Here's how William juggles not just the demands here, but everywhere else too. That green keyboard toward the back is my newest and quite expensive toy, a Duolingo Piano I'm Deputy Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and also do some work for a UK charity, so I tend to have whole sets of apps and documents that I switch between. Whatever I've been doing before AppleInsider, I ..

Apple TV+ has hinted that it's planning something for early January, enticing viewers to "see for yourself." Image Credit: Apple TV+ On Wednesday, the Apple TV X account posted a cryptic message telling people to "Save the date" and to "see for yourself." The accompanying image, which featured Will Ferrell, also included a date of January 4-5. Save the date. pic.twitter.com/c60xvXY2ZF ??? Apple TV (@AppleTV) December 25, 2024 Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

If you received a gift card for the holidays or simply want to wrap up purchases for the 2024 tax year, Amazon's after-Christmas sale on Apple products delivers discounts of up to half off. Get up to half off Apple products today - Image credit: Apple The Dec. 26 deals on Apple devices and accessories provide up to $300 off a variety of Macs, AirPods, iP

Based on what we've seen, odds are good that you're not in love with the redesigned Photos app in iOS 18 . While the old version isn't returning, here's how to make it more like its beloved former self. Here's how to make the iOS 18 Photos app better With iOS 18, Apple undertook the daunting task of redesigning the Photos app. While the app was loved by many, it hadn't changed in a while and Apple wanted to prep it for the future. This modernization didn't go over well. The redesign decision ..

One of Apple's apps for Android has popped up on the Google Play's store top downloaded apps over Christmas. Here's why the "Move to iOS" app has launched itself into the top 40, and what it does. Image Credit: Apple Now that the holidays are wrapping up, first-time and returning iPhone users are unboxing their new iPhones and making the jump from Android to iOS. Every year, iPhone sales see a significant boost as customers rush to buy Apple's flagship smartphone in time to give as a gift. And, ..

It's natural to be suspicious of a company offering to erase your data online, especially if most other companies exist to profit from your data. Learn why Incogni is trustworthy. Is Incogni legit? Learn why you can trust it with fighting data brokers. Image source: Incogni Chances are you've realized that all of your data is available and for sale online. Data brokers buy and sell user data as a commodity ??? and whether it's used for ad targeting, stalking, or identity theft isn't a ..

Unless you've gone looking in System Settings, you may not be aware that the Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 models can be set to do other functions besides set up and take a picture. Here's how to change it. The Camera Control button is currently unique to the iPhone 16 lineup. By default, pressing the Camera Control button launches the Camera app on the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. Once open, pressing the button again will take a picture, or pressing ..

Malcolm's workspace has handled his work, gaming, and photography lives for years. Here's how he spends his days working and most of his time off. Malcolm Owen's home working setup After working from home for a decade, and spending spare time on computers for far longer, you'd expect a person in that situation to have perfected their computing setup. In my case, it's not perfect, but it's more than capable of handling whatever I want to do. This is a setup primarily for working from home, ..

A fresh price drop has hit Apple's newly released M4 Mac mini, with the 512GB model falling to $699. Get the lowest price ever on this 512GB Mac mini M4. The $100 price cut can be found at Amazon and B Photo , with the M4 Mac mini featuring an upgrade to 512GB of storage dipping to $699. This is within $10 of the lowest price we've seen on the Late 2024 model that was released in November 2024. Buy for $699 at Amazon Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

All of us at AppleInsider wish you a happy and peaceful holiday season, and thank you for reading us throughout a roller-coaster 2024. Jony Ive helped design the decorations for this tree, displayed in London's Claridge's store in 2018 Every year for the last 25 has been a big one for Apple, and you'd expect it for a company of its size. It launched the Apple Vision Pro , it joined the AI arms race with Apple Intelligence , and even found some time to release new products like the iPhone 16 . ..

In a declaration filed on Monday, Apple's senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue , asserted that Apple has no interest in creating its own search engine and would prefer to continue to use Google. In 2022, Google paid Apple $20 billion to be the default search engine on its devices. The result was a boon for both Google and Apple, with Apple receiving about 36% of the ad revenue generated from Safari search result advertising. The declaration, spotted by Reuters , is Apple's attempt at ..

Apple is ramping up research and development of its own AI chip to reduce its reliance on third-party developers, potentially finally completely ending its decades-long unhappy relationship with Nvidia. Siri icon in a datacenter In November 2020, Apple announced the M1 chip, its first foray into in-house designed processors for its Mac lineup. The move effectively severed ties between Apple and Intel, the latter responsible for previous processors in Apple's computers. Now, it seems like Apple ..

Foxconn is moving into the AR glasses market, and that will also help Apple use microLED displays in future products. Here's how. MiniLED, as used in the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro could be superseded by microLED Apple has gradually changed the display technologies it uses in its products over the years. After using TFT, OLED, and mini LED, the next shift to microLED could end up being helped by an investment by a supply chain partner. In a Tuesday announcement , Foxconn revealed a partnership ..

The M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch has hit a new record low price of $1,699, with units in stock with free store pickup as early as today. But don't delay, as the deal ends on Christmas Eve. Grab the best price on Apple's M4 MacBook Pro. The $300 price cut at Best Buy on the standard M4 Pro MacBook Pro 14-inch knocks the price down to a new all-time low of $1,699. Equipped with a 12-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB unified memory and 512GB of storage, the standard model in your choice of Space Black or ..

The iPhone 18 may become the first model to be bezel-free, but development of the all-glass iPhone is hitting some snags. Current iPhones have a bezel around the display The iPhone, like many other smartphones, offer users a large display but with a small border around the outside. While the bezel has been minimized over the years, it may become a thing of the past by the iPhone 18. According to sources of TheElec , Samsung Display and LG Display are working on OLED screens that don't have ..

The UNIX ping command lets you test network servers and latency. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. Terminal for macOS The UNIX ping command is a tiny UNIX network tool that allows you to test your network, that of your ISP or organization, remote servers, and network latency. ping is one of the oldest and simplest UNIX commands and is available in virtually all UNIX distributions, including macOS. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

As part of an ongoing antitrust case related to its search engine, Google has submitted proposed remedies responding to the court decision, including how Apple may be affected. Google has issued its remedies proposal in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. Google has been the subject of multiple antitrust lawsuits since 2023 , when it was accused of knowingly breaking antitrust laws. The DOJ said that the company was an illegal monopoly in the search market, and courts eventually agreed with this ..

Apple is set to have a busy spring with new iPads, iPhone SE 4, and M4 in MacBook Air , but those new MacBooks could come earlier according to a new rumor. M4 MacBook Air could arrive earlier in 2025 than initially expected Mountains of rumors indicate that Apple is set to announce a handful of products in early 2025. It seemed they would all release in close proximity, perhaps like the week of releases in October, but a new rumor indicates otherwise. According to an X post from Bloomberg 's ..

A MacBook Air price war continues as retailers vie for your year-end shopping dollars, with Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air with 16GB RAM marked down to $1,099 at Amazon and Best Buy through Christmas Eve. Save $200 on a MacBook Air 15-inch. You can snag the discounted $1,099 price at both Best Buy and Amazon , as both retailers duke it out for the lowest price on the standard 15-inch MacBook Air configuration. This M3 model features a 10-core GPU along with 16GB of unified memory and 256GB of ..

Apple appears to be working on a minor update for its iPhone operating system, with different claims hinting towards the release of iOS 18.2.1 in the near future. Apple could release an iOS 18.2.1 update in the near future. Although iOS 18.3 was made available for developer testing on December 16, iOS 18.2 remains the latest release version of the operating system intended for the general public. Evidence of an upcoming iOS 18.2.1 update has appeared online since mid-December. iOS 18.2.1, ..

The annual Apple Pay donation campaign, which serves to help vulnerable communities affected by AIDS, has raised a total of $3 million in 2024. Apple has donated $3 million to fight AIDS worldwide. Apple has a long-standing partnership with the Global Fund, an organization that provides healthcare and distributes funding to people affected by HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis in developing nations. On December 1st of every year, Apple commemorates World AIDS Day with (PRODUCT)RED window displays ..

Apple's age rating system in the App Store is not doing enough to protect children, a report claims, after a day's worth of research found a high proportion of apps deemed acceptable to children actually posed a risk. App Store icon Apple has various systems and mechanisms in place to make the use of an iPhone , iPad , or Mac relatively safe for children. Parental controls can limit what age ranges of apps are usable on a child's device, among other features. However, for those restrictions to ..

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will move away from its current processor designs that keep the CPU and GPU cores on the same chip ??? and see a performance gain. TSMC has just announced an all-new chip production process called "A16" One of the reasons for Apple Silicon 's speed over the previous Intel processors has been that each M-series chip has been a single unit. This System-on-a-Chip (SoC) idea cuts bottlenecks by having all the processor's elements together on one chip package. ..

Apple's rumored iPhone 18 Pro camera update has surfaced again, with the use of a variable aperture wide-angle lens expected to offer improved depth of field effects in photography. The rear cameras of a Pro-tier iPhone The iPhone 17 was rumored in July to gain a variable aperture system, which can change the way photographers use an iPhone for shooting images. Now, an analyst has doubled down on his own claim that it is a feature expected for the iPhone 18 Pro. In a Monday post by TF ..

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, your hosts talk through even more smart home rumors from Apple, talk about the new 18.3 releases, and review the xBloom smart coffee maker. HomeKit Insider Podcast This week on AppleInsider we rounded up all of the most recent Apple rumors for the smart home and tried to put them into a timeline and strategy that makes sense. We revisited that here on the podcast. We then walked through the newly-released beta updates for developers, including iOS ..

VideoProc Converter lets you convert videos to MP4, MOV and other universally supported formats that work seamlessly across Apple and Windows devices. Easily convert videos, audio files and DVDs with Video Proc Converter - Image credit: Digiarty For Mac users, dealing with unsupported video formats or oversized files can be frustrating. File types like WMV, AVI, or MKV may not play natively on macOS, while large 4K or 8K ProRes videos often cause stuttering playback or make sharing and ..

While Apple appears to have no plans to revive its former AirPort routers, the networking know-how that powered them may be returning ??? via a new chip that will add similar functionality to the company's home devices like the HomePod mini . New HomePod mini (right) and Apple's old AirPort Express (left) Apple first introduced the AirPort line of residential internet gateways in 1999, and continued to iterate the product line until the final AirPort Extreme router was discontinued in 2018 . ..

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Apple's push into smart home tech could see it take on Ring with a smart doorbell equipped with Face ID , one which could unlock the door by recognizing the visitor's face. Logitech Circle View HomeKit smart doorbell Reports about Apple's smart home plans have involved displays on robotic arms and the alleged development of a camera . That latter part may not just be for typical video-based security, as it could end up offering more functionality. In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter , Bloomberg ..

A new report says that Apple's aim to add a camera to the AirPods is to power Apple Intelligence features, and that the device is due to gain many more health features. AirPods Pro 2 The idea of AirPods with cameras has been reported before . Specifically, it's been expected that IR cameras could be fitted and that these would aid spatial audio by being better able to assess the user's environment. Now according to Bloomberg , the idea was shelved some years ago ??? but is now back as a ..

"Ice Dive" takes viewers under the ice in the Arctic as a diver attempts to break a world record, filmed for Apple Vision Pro . 'Ice Dive' arrives on Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro has seen a slow rollout of content built for its unique 180-degree 8K format called immersive video. Series like "Wild Life" and " Prehistoric Planet " have released a few episodes, but at an unpredictable cadence. The latest episode is for the series "Adventure," titled "Ice Dive," takes viewers underwater. But, ..

Owners of Embodied's doomed Moxie robot may get a reprieve from the shutdown, thanks to an eleventh-hour open-source attempt to keep the robot running. Moxie the robot - Image credit: Embodied Early in December, it was reported that Embodied, the company behind the child-centric Moxie robot, was shutting down , and would be taking the robot with it. Owners of the $800 robot were informed that it would stop working after the cloud servers get shut down in the future. With Moxie used by parents ..

Despite low sales, the Apple Vision Pro is reportedly shaking up the VR/MR industry and moving the trend of headsets from entertainment to productivity and innovation. Apple Vision Pro The global VR and MR headset market is expected to grow steadily in 2024, with shipments projected to reach 9.6 million units, an 8.8% increase year-over-year, according to a new report by TrendForce. Apple Vision Pro, despite moderate growth , is setting new standards. Launched in 2024, Apple Vision Pro has ..

Maybe we'll see more movies made for Apple Vision Pro now there's a Blackmagic Camera, and maybe we'll see different cameras on the iPhone 17 Slim, but we'll never see the end of Apple nonsense on TikTok. The new Blackmagic Camera for spatial video There's also the never-ending and sometimes ever-increasing set of rumors about Apple making folding devices. This time the claim is that we'll see a foldable iPad Pro , but it's definitely not coming soon and co-host Wesley Hilliard has reasons to ..

Spam calls are a seemingly endless nuisance with no solution, but there are several ways to get relief built into your iPhone and through services like those provided by Incogni . Stop spam calls with Incogni's robust service. Image credit - Incogni It's not just you ??? robo calls, spam calls, telemarketing calls, and scam calls can inundate your call logs, email inbox, voicemail, and Messages app incessantly. Though, there is no need to give up and waste countless hours sifting through the ..