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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.

If you’re a beloved cat owner, you might often have your cat running across your Mac’s keyboard, causing loads of unnecessary keyboard input, and sometimes even unwanted communications. Cats Lock has a solution for it, and soon your cat will be able to roam your MacBook keyboard freely.

As is the case every year, this September – Apple will be unveiling its next-generation Apple Watch model. Apple Watch Series 12 will likely carry on the same design language as the Apple Watch Series 11, but with a few changes. Let’s dive in.

Data brokers make a living by selling your personal information for profit. Your phone number, email, home address, and Social Security number could be packaged and sold to spammers, scammers, and identity thieves right now. Your privacy loss is their gain.

Apple’s privacy protections can help block some but not all tracking as data harvesting efforts become increasingly sophisticated. If you want to proactively and continuously remove your personal data from broker databases, Incogni makes it easier than ever to fight back and regain control of your privacy.

Later this year, Apple is set to debut its first MacBook Pro redesign since 2021. With that redesign, we’re expecting OLED, touch displays, M6 Pro and M6 Max chips, a Dynamic Island cutout, and much more.

There’s another big detail about these new MacBook Pro models, and I’m much more excited for that change.

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For much of my IT career, cybersecurity training has looked exactly the same. Once a year, IT forces everyone to watch a few videos and take a multiple-choice quiz. This training does check a box, but it rarely changes actual user behavior or provides a ton of new insights. However, AI will begin to completely flip how training is done. A new integration announced recently by Dashlane and KnowBe4 gives us a clear view of how AI and real-time automation will change cybersecurity training for the good.

Update: Apple now lists the issue as resolved. The original story follows below.

If you’ve been unable to use Apple Cash over the last few hours, you’re not alone, as the service is currently experiencing an outage affecting some users in the U.S. Here are the details.

Anyone who has ever used a properly designed ergonomic chair will know the difference it can make to comfort, especially when working longer hours. Taller and larger-framed professionals, however, can find it challenging to enjoy the same benefits. That’s the problem the LiberNovo Maxis set out to solve — bringing the core innovations of the award-winning LiberNovo Omni, positioned as the world’s first dynamic ergonomic chair, into a design tailored for bigger and taller users. Key features including the Bionic FlexFit Backrest, Dynamic Support System, and Motorized Massage Mode have all been retained in the Maxis series, alongside the premium engineering that helped the Omni earn Red Dot: Product Design 2026 and iF Design Award 2026.

As it has done since at least 2021, Apple is discounting the iPhone in China as part of the country’s 618 shopping festival. Here are the details.

Eugene Whang, a former Apple hardware designer who spent 22 years at the company before following Jony Ive to LoveFrom, has shared new details about the development of AirPods Max in an interview with Highsnobiety. Here are the details.

After months of very limited testing, WhatsApp is finally bringing the first stage of its Liquid Glass redesign to more users. Here are the details.

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, has been added as a document custodian in xAI’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here’s what that means.

Apple TV is about to kick off its best summer lineup ever, but the streamer is already on a roll with recent premieres. Here are three recent new series in Apple TV’s hot streak, and upcoming shows that seem poised to keep it going.

Apple has a packed lineup of new products coming this fall. Here’s every new Apple product rumored to arrive later this year.

If you’re serious about wired audio, there’s now a MagSafe headphone amp and digital-to-analog convertor for iPhone.

Apple has been pushing to expand Mac gaming in recent years, and a new high-profile title was recently announced: Age of Empires II is coming to macOS this month.

Rumors about the iPhone Ultra are readily available and offer a strong consensus on what’s coming in Apple’s foldable model. But as I’ve been weighing my own upgrade decision this year, there’s one big question that likely won’t be resolved until September: will the new form factor make the trade-offs of the Ultra worth it?

OpenAI is catching up with some competitors and offering new personal finance features inside ChatGPT. The new personal finance experience is rolling out starting today for some subscribers.

All’s well that ends well in App Store review controversies. Back in March, a major agentic coding company made news when Apple reportedly pushed back on new versions of its iPhone app.

Two months later, the head of the company says they “worked things out with Apple,” and they have a big new app update to show for it.

Apple is planning a huge Apple Card sign-up bonus for new customers as soon as next week. If you sign up for a new Apple Card, you’ll basically get a new pair of AirPods Pro 3 for free. Here’s how it’ll work.

Apple TV has a slate of big-budget, star-packed movies coming later this year, including a new spy thriller called Mayday that stars Ryan Reynolds. Here are the details.

CarPlay has gotten a lot of new features in iOS 26, but Apple also now lets you customize your in-car setup more than ever with new settings. Here are five ways iOS 26 lets you customize CarPlay.

Mactracker has long been a terrific Mac app for keeping track of pretty much every Apple hardware and software release ever. Exactly how long? 25 years, in fact.

To help celebrate the big anniversary, Mactracker for iPhone and iPad has a big new release out this week that includes useful new features.