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Next month, Apple should be refreshing its entire Apple Watch lineup. It also recently reintroduced the Blood Oxygen feature that was previously missing from the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2 – so if you were someone who depended on that feature, there’s no longer a need to hold out. That begs the question, what’s around the corner for Apple Watch?

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Since rising to prominence in 2023, AMOS (Atomic macOS Stealer) has become the most notorious infostealer targeting the Apple ecosystem. The malware, designed to quietly pull all sorts of sensitive information from macOS systems, is a household name among security researchers, journalists, and maybe even victims.

But now, Moonlock, the cybersecurity division of MacPaw, says it’s been tracking a new threat actor with an infostealer gaining popularity in the veiled corners of darknet forums. In this week’s Security Bite, I discuss this interesting new emerging threat and how it’s shaking up the broader macOS landscape.

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.

Notify is a simple app for monitoring websites for changes. It’s completely free, private, and local – running fully on your iPhone. The app is a bit niche, but it does its job really well.

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Time Machine still works great. It’s one of those Apple features that quietly does its job, but it also feels like something from another era in terms of technology. It was built for a time when people backed up to a local drive under their desk or a shared volume down the hall at the office. That’s not how modern businesses work anymore. If Apple wanted to support the enterprise, Managed Apple Accounts would come with built-in cloud backup. That doesn’t exist. Apple hasn’t built it. So, companies like Backblaze are stepping in to solve the problem that Apple won’t.

Despite a recent 15% bump, following positive Q3 2025 results and a stunt that brought it tariff relief, Apple’s stock is still 5% in the red for the year. But in a recently published investor note, Morgan Stanley says it believes momentum will keep shifting.

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DigiTimes Asia is out today with a new report saying Apple Watch sales in the first half of 2025 came in about 10% above expectations. Still, the more interesting part of the report touches on what to expect from a very promising 2026 lineup. Here are the details.

A new report from Appfigures shows ChatGPT firmly leading the pack in revenue per download among the top AI assistant apps. Here’s the breakdown.

A recent Amazon rollout brought support for adding Amazon return codes to Apple’s Wallet app—and another Amazon-Wallet improvement is coming soon in iOS 26.

iOS 18.4 finally brought robot vacuum support to HomeKit, opening the door for a new wave of Matter-enabled vacuums that work with your existing smart home environment. I’ve been testing the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni for the past few months (even before iOS 18.4) to see how well it fits into a smart home, but more importantly, whether it’s worth the money as a way to keep your floors cleaned.

A new wave of Apple Watch models is launching soon. Apple Watch Ultra 3 will rightfully get a lot of attention, but there’s a new Apple Watch Series 11 coming too—here are the rumored new features.

Apple’s big iPhone unveiling is just weeks away, and a new post from a Weibo leaker hints that there’s a surprise advantage coming to iPhone 17 Pro Max’s camera that may not be available on iPhone 17 Pro.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has again scaled back its stake in Apple. In a regulatory filing this week, Berkshire disclosed that it sold 20 million shares of Apple during the June quarter. Nonetheless, Apple remains the conglomerate’s largest holding at 280 million shares, valued at over $64 billion.

Apple’s Reminders app is one of many system apps getting new features in iOS 26. Among the handful of improvements coming to Reminders, there’s a powerful new tool for organizing your tasks.

I’m a big fan of dictation and voice commands. The latter are the most common way for me to control my smart home, and I dictate a lot of my messages and other short pieces of text.

Apple’s built-in dictation features have certainly improved over the years, but trying out the third-party app Aqua Voice shows just how much better it could be if Apple really tried. Indeed, I actually wrote the entirety of this piece using Aqua Voice dictation …

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup will be unveiled in just a few weeks. And one question on many shoppers’ minds each year involves the Pro models: what’s different between the two? Here’s how Apple plans to differentiate the iPhone 17 Pro Max vs iPhone 17 Pro this year.

As part of its exclusive deal with Peanuts, Apple TV+ today premieres Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. This is the latest original Snoopy special to air on the platform, and this one stands out as it is a song-filled musical. The last time Peanuts premiered a new musical episode was more than 37 years ago.

The new special celebrates summer camp. Charlie Brown is trying to make his last year at camp as special as possible. Meanwhile, Snoopy and Woodstock find a treasure map that leads them on an adventure.

In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it.

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Apple TV+ currently offers baseball fans Friday night games, but it sounds like Apple may soon be able to up its MLB offerings for subscribers.