After introducing parent-managed accounts for pre-teens earlier this year, WhatsApp today expanded its parental controls to teen accounts, adding group activity alerts and additional restrictions for Meta AI. Here are the details.

Update, September 30, 7:37 p.m. ET: Apple says all of the outages have now been resolved, with the exception of Apple TV.

Update, October 1, 8:00 p.m. ET: Apple says the Apple TV issue has finally been resolved.

Apple is currently reporting issues affecting Apple TV and subscription purchases, while some users are also running into problems elsewhere across the company’s services. Here are the details.

Elder fraud – where seniors are deliberately targeted due to this demographic having lower rates of tech literacy – is becoming a growing problem in the US.

According to Incogni’s analysis of FBI data, 72% of elder fraud cases in 2024 were enabled by victims’ personal data being exposed online, accounting for $4.2 billion in losses.

Apple today expanded Apple Music to four additional countries, bringing the service to a total of 172 countries and regions. Here are the details.

Update 9/30: This post has now been updated with some additional accessories we have in our carts, and with the early fall Amazon Prime Day deals now flying, there are loads of tech accessories now seeing price drops right here and in our master roundup right here.

We are taking look at some of the iPhone 18 Pro accessories we are picking up for ourselves. If you ask me Apple’s AirTag 2 and a fresh set of AirPods Pro 3 (or AirPods 5) are the best accessories you can buy for your new iPhone 18 Pro, but we are digging in a bit deeper here – chargers, MagSafe mounts, cases, wallets, and more. Check it all out below. 

Meta’s streak at the top of the App Store continues in the US and Canada, as its AI assistant Muse is now past 5 million downloads, according to Sensor Tower. Here are the details.

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iOS 27.2 is coming soon with several new features for iPhone users, including a Messages addition that was previously in the iOS 27 beta but later got pulled: Suggestions.

Apple is rolling out a new version of its Apple Invites app for iPhone today. The update taps into new iOS 27 features, including improved photo sharing and Image Playground capabilities.

Apple unleashed a collection of next-generation products this month, from the new AirPods 5 and Beats 360 ANC headphones (last day for the launch discount), the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, right through to the latest M6-powered Mac mini and Mac Studio. All of which are accompanied by a series of new accessories.

Amazon is also carrying over a number of launch discounts on some of them courtesy of its early fall Prime Day sale for folks looking to jump in now, and we have collected all of them for you below. 

Apple next-generation M6 chip arrived last week in the new Mac mini. But several more products will get M6 upgrades soon. Here’s the rumored release schedule for M6 Macs—plus the M6 iPad Pro.

Apple is less than two weeks away from launching its new smart display, according to a new Bloomberg report. The report also adds details about the design of Apple’s long-awaited smart home hub.

Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 have arrived, and later this year they’ll get even more powerful with two new features: Siri Recap and Live Rewind. Here are the details.

In May, Lux Optics launched the all-new Halide Mark III pro camera app for iPhone. Today, Halide is back with its first update for iPhone 18 Pro, plus new features for all iPhone photographers.

Apple TV currently has a packed lineup of new shows airing, and it’s about to add another. Small Prophets is a British comedy premiering next week that has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. Here’s the trailer.

New Apple products are reportedly launching October 13, including the rumored ‘HomePad’ device. But according to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, there’s one rumored product not coming next month: a new full-size HomePod with Siri AI.

DoorDash today launched a new way to order your next meal: via text in Apple’s Messages app, powered by AI. Here are the details.

iPhone Duo pre-orders start on Friday, October 16, but scammers are trying to trick people into visiting a fake website to place their order now.

The website with the malware convincingly replicates the look of the real thing and claims to offer a $500 discount voucher as an “Authorized Partner Exclusive” …

In the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple has taken one of the next steps toward its long-term vision of the iPhone as a single slab of glass: embedding the Face ID module beneath the display.

Achieving this without having the Face ID array be visible through the display and without compromising the quality of this section of the screen required some clever engineering …

Apple’s long-awaited smart home hub, which we’ve been referring to as the HomePad, is set to launch on October 13, according to Bloomberg.

The device is said to feature a 6-inch display and a design inspired by the iMac G4, and will launch alongside a HomePod mini update with new colors and a new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI support …