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Apple has released a new version of its Invites app, adding a smart and useful improvement to the iPhone app’s widget.

Starting with today’s version 1.7 update, Apple Invites includes the option to let the countdown widget work with any upcoming event.

Apple’s sports lineup keeps growing. Following the start of Major League Soccer and Formula 1 seasons, Apple TV is about to premiere Major League Baseball (MLB) games too. Here are the full details.

Apple Arcade’s April lineup will introduce three new titles to the subscription gaming platform. These include a couple of the most acclaimed indie games of the last few years.

Today a pair of new iPhone 18 Pro-related posts from Weibo leakers have arrived, outlining what to expect from the product’s design, dimensions, and more.

Apple has highlighted all of the new products which went on sale this morning, both online and in Apple stores around the world.

Unsurprisingly, the company positions the MacBook Neo as the headline news among the seven new products …

TikTok and Apple Music are teaming up to bring two new features to iPhone users. Play Full Song allows Apple Music subscribers to “listen to full music playback without leaving TikTok” thanks to an exclusive partnership. Listening Party, TikTok says, aims to bring artists and fans together on the platform.

It’s a big week for the Mac, with three new MacBooks available today. To celebrate, dbrand has just launched a new line of ‘1984’ skins to give your MacBook’s Apple logo a retro look.

EV maker Lucid is bringing Apple CarPlay support to its Gravity SUV starting tomorrow. While Tesla is rumored to be working on Apple CarPlay support, Lucid Gravity makes one more EV model with the iPhone feature first.

MacBook Neo launch day has arrived, and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has some interesting insights around Apple’s first $599 laptop. Kuo also puts a timeline on the arrival of Apple’s first OLED MacBook Air.

One of the compromises Apple lists for the MacBook Neo is that it doesn’t support fast charging, and the machine is supplied with just a 20W power adapter (except in Europe).

Based on Apple’s statement, there didn’t appear to be any point in using a beefier charger with the new machine, but tests reveal otherwise …

The MacBook Neo officially goes on sale today, and Apple Stores appear to be going all-in on welcoming the latest member of the Mac family.

The first owners are now taking delivery of their machines, but even if you haven’t pre-ordered yours, it looks like you have a good shot at getting one for same-day pickup from your local Apple Store …

Watch below as Stalman realizes halfway through the video that the MacBook Neo can handle more demanding photo and video production workflows than he initially thought.

During today’s earnings call, Asus co-CEO S.Y. Hsu reacted to Apple’s announcement of the “budget-friendly” MacBook Neo and its effects on the PC market. Here’s what he said

In the new study, Apple taught an AI model to recognize hand gestures that weren’t part of its original training dataset. Here are the details.

Apple has updated its support documentation to confirm the maximum battery cycle count for the new MacBook Neo. Here are the details.

Apple’s AirTag 2 comes with several improvements over the original model, one of which is that it expands AirTag’s best feature—Precision Finding—to the Apple Watch. Here’s how to set it up.