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Apple TV has a big summer ahead with the return of Ted Lasso, Dark Matter, and more, but the streamer’s current lineup is compelling too, and will get even more so later this week.

iOS 26.4 is the latest iPhone update, headlined by many new features in Apple Music. There’s also a music-related improvement to Control Center in iOS 26.4: Shazam song recognition will now work even when you’re offline.

iOS 26.5 beta 2 arrived today, and with it Apple Maps has gained a new popup regarding the forthcoming rollout of ads. Here are the details.

As part of iOS 26, Apple launched a revamped experience for airline boarding passes in Apple Wallet. As of today, this feature is now supported by all four of the biggest airlines in the United States.

United and Southwest all rolled out support for the new iOS 26 boarding pass experience last year.

Now, American Airlines has officially followed suit by supporting key new boarding pass features in Apple Wallet.

Apple has just released new betas. Developer beta 2 is now available for iPadOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and more.

Apple is rolling out the second wave of developer betas for macOS 26.5 and its counterparts. Here are the details.

Apple has released the second iOS 26.5 beta for developers. iOS 26.5 beta 2 follows two versions of the first beta. The second version became the first iOS 26.5 public beta.

A new report from Digitimes today says that production of Apple’s upcoming iPhone Fold has hit a roadblock. According to “sources within the company’s supply chain,” mass production of the device has slipped from July to August of this year.

Still, Apple is aiming to launch the iPhone Fold in 2026, as Bloomberg also reported last week … but it might be really hard to actually buy one.

Apple has just made a change to its iWork lineup on the Mac, removing the old versions of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers from the App Store and leaving just the newer builds that support Apple Creator Studio.

Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with a major update to his Apple Frames shortcut that frames your screenshots with official Apple product bezels.

Federico describes Apple Frames 4 as a “complete rethinking of the shortcut that is noticeably faster, updated to support all the latest Apple devices, and designed to support even more personalization options.”

AirPods Pro 3 (currently $199 for limited time) pack a lot of improvements over AirPods Pro 2, one of which helps prevent them from getting permanently lost.

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Last week a new report on the MacBook Neo’s success contained details on Apple’s plan for the product’s successor, and the next-gen Neo already sounds like a big upgrade.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of webpages and websites. It performs an invaluable role in preserving information that would otherwise be lost when websites go offline, as well as providing a practical tool to track updates made to a web page.

However, the organization says that it is now under severe threat thanks to media organizations blocking access to the archive’s web crawler – despite those same publishers relying on it for some of their own stories …

John Giannandrea’s time at Apple is officially coming to an end this week. Giannandrea joined Apple in 2018 after eight years at Google to head the company’s machine learning and AI strategy.

In December of last year, however, Apple announced that Giannandrea was stepping down from his position and would serve as an advisor to the company before fully departing in spring of 2026.

The MacBook Neo is already available in a fun choice of colors, but some people like to go further by giving their machine a more personalized look.

Some do this with skins, cases, or silicone key covers, but you can switch up the color combo using official Apple parts for as little as $39 …

It’s believed that Apple has waited many years to launch the first folding iPhone in large part because the company wasn’t happy with the very visible crease in early competitor models. We’re expecting that foldable iPhone to be launched later this year, likely branded as the iPhone Ultra.

The crease problem was reportedly solved last year, but a new report suggests that multiple innovations have been required in order to make the crease near invisible – and that a hi-tech glue is one of the key elements …

Bloomberg reported back in February that Apple was considering a new deep red color option for the iPhone 18 Pro, which some have described as crimson.

A leaker with a decent track record is today backing this report, though is doing this in a slightly odd way which may or may not mean anything …

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Apple is actively testing at least four different styles of frames for its upcoming smart glasses project. Apple is counting on its superior design taste to stand out from rivals like the Ray-Man Meta Glasses.

The report indicates Apple is evaluating the designs and plans to launch several, in multiple colors, somewhat similar to how it launched a range of different watches when the Apple Watch debuted in 2015 …

If you’re trying to buy a new iPhone but don’t quite want an iPhone 17, it can often be hard to find something on a tighter budget. Sure, Apple offers the iPhone 17e at $599 – but not everyone finds that to be a compelling phone. Luckily, there’s plenty of great options if you want to buy used, and I’ll be diving into five great picks for varying needs.

Belkin has just released two excellent new Qi2.2 chargers – providing 25W MagSafe charging in an ultra-compact design. Normally, these products are centered around the Apple ecosystem, but Belkin’s new 3-in-1 actually embraces modularity and gives Android users an option to bring their own watch charger. Both are very slim, and work excellently no matter which ecosystem you’re in.

Apple has included excellent display panels on iMacs for years, but for the longest time, there hasn’t really been a way to use it for anything other than macOS. There used to be a feature called Target Display Mode, but it’s long been discontinued. This has been a shame, since plenty of iMacs have excellent displays that go to waste after the compute is outdated.

I’ve found a pretty good solution though, and it involves a 4K capture card and one nifty app available on the Mac App Store. Any HDMI input, whether that be a Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, or something else – can display on your iMac (or USB-C iPad!)

In the era of Apple Silicon, MacBooks are more affordable than ever. Nowadays, you can buy a MacBook Air with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1099 directly from Apple, when such a configuration would’ve cost $1599 just a few years ago. And on top of that, we have MacBook Neo bringing the entry-point down substantially.

Even with Apple’s prices coming down though, there’s still a number of deals to be found out there if you look just a little.