Zac Hall is a Senior Editor, covering Apple, AI, and the modern technology landscape.
He joined 9to5Mac in April 2013, originally as a writer and copy editor.
He later served as Lead Editor from May 2016 through December 2020, before shifting focus to creating the Space Explored website.
In 2015, Zac began co-hosting 9to5Mac Happy Hour, establishing the format of the site’s premier podcast, which he hosted for eight years.
In 2018, he created 9to5Mac Daily, providing audio recaps of Apple and technology news each weekday. He also created and hosted multiple seasons of the 9to5Mac Watch Time podcast, a health and fitness-focused interview series.
Zac currently focuses on writing for 9to5Mac. He is based in the lovely Gulf Coast town of Ocean Springs, MS, where he lives with his brilliant kids and Nova, his adventurous Cavachon rescue pup.
Contact: zac@9to5mac.com
6/28: Public beta versions of each release are now available as well.
While all the action is happening around iOS 17 beta, Apple is continuing to prepare a more imminent iPhone software update for release. Apple has released the fourth iOS 16.6 beta for developer testing.
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Palmer Luckey hasn’t been shy about his enthusiasm for Apple Vision Pro. In a new podcast interview, the cofounder of Oculus has nothing but good things to say about Apple’s $3,500 mixed reality headset and what it means for the future of virtual reality.
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There’s already been a lot of buzz around Silo on Apple TV+, and Apple just tweeted the first episode out for free.
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Once upon a time on Wall Street, Apple stock took a nosedive worth tens of billions of dollars for the company’s valuation. A few years later, Apple is fast approaching a $3 trillion valuation that it only briefly flirted with before.
Nevertheless, a class-action lawsuit blaming Apple CEO Tim Cook for defrauding investors refuses to go away.
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Apple Vision Pro has officially been announced, and we’re still deep in the hype phase for the highly anticipated mixed reality headset. There’s a good reason for that.
For starters, we’ve been hoping that the past few years would finally be the year of the headset. It’s been in development that long. More importantly, the Apple headset launch is actually happening.
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Apple is publicly opposing the current form of the Online Safety Bill currently being considered by Parliament in the UK. According to Apple, the proposed law risks putting “UK citizens at greater risk” from data breaches and digital surveillance.
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Apple is currently in the process of readying the iPhone 15 lineup for launch this fall. Based on display supply chain analysis, Apple appears to be gearing up for especially strong demand this year.
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Apple announced last month that it plans to discontinue its My Photo Stream service this summer. Today marks the deadline for media uploads using the free iCloud feature. This effectively ends the service after more than a decade of providing a basic sync solution at no cost to Apple device users.
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Apple unveiled its mixed reality headset called Vision Pro earlier this month. As of this week, developers have been able to access the necessary tools to create apps for visionOS. Now the latest version of App Store Connect is out with support for visionOS apps.
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Speaking of lost stuff, there’s one iPad feature that I hope Apple finds a way to deliver. There’s already a patent for it, and iOS 17 is a positive sign that it could actually happen.
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There’s a reason Apple basically turned the AirPods Pro 2 charging case into an AirTag…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is among the technology company executives who will be attending a meeting with President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Modi today. According to the White House, the meeting will focus on AI, manufacturing, and innovation.
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FaceTime is coming to the Apple TV for the first time this fall. With iOS 17 and tvOS 17, you’ll be able to use your iPhone as your TV’s webcam while everyone on the video call appears on the big screen. That’s not the only camera-required experience coming to the Apple TV, either.
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When Apple set out to create an item tracker with deep iPhone integration, you just know the company aspired to make something that would change lives.
That’s exactly what happened with an AirTag recently for a recently opened taco restaurant located in San Antonia, Texas.
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Fancy the new iOS 17 default wallpaper? CarPlay has its own version, and now there are color options.
iOS 17 beta 2 adds blue, gray, and red options to the existing multicolor wallpaper version. Each color has a light and dark mode.
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If you’ve noticed something missing while sharing tweets over iMessage or Slack, you’re not alone. Twitter link previews on iMessage and Slack are just bland links for now, and who knows when they’ll return.
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Here we go. iOS 17 beta 2 is out now, and we’re digging in to find what’s new.
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It’s been two weeks since Apple previewed the next major software update for iPad. Developer beta testers have already had access to the iPadOS 17 beta version, and today iPadOS 17 beta 2 is out.
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Apple Watch developer beta testers can now update to watchOS 10 beta 2.
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What’s new in macOS Sonoma? Possibly more than we knew before now that macOS 14 beta 2 is out for developers.
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There’s a new software update awaiting Apple TV beta testers. tvOS 17 beta 2 is now available as an over-the-air update through the developer beta channel.
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Do you think Apple will ever allow third-party Apple Watch faces? For those who are still hopeful, Apple provided a rather dissatisfying answer to the question earlier this week.
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It appears that Apple may have once considered a second color option for the now-discontinued ceramic Apple Watch Edition. Meanwhile, someone has managed to turn an obsolete original Apple Watch into a fully functioning mechanical watch – and it actually looks nice!
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With the Vision Pro now revealed, The Information is out with a bit of a status update on what it previously reported about the headset before it was official. In the piece, Wayne Ma deciphers future features from canceled plans while reporting new details about Vision Pro development.
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