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iOS 18.6.2 is now available for iPhone users, and Apple says it includes an important security fix. Here’s what you need to know, and why you should update right away.

ESPN’s long-awaited flagship streaming services launches this Thursday, August 21, and there’s good news for users of Apple’s TV app.

iPhone users have a new software update to install: iOS 18.6.2 is now available. Here’s what to expect from the latest release.

Apple is launching a brand new M5 iPad Pro this fall, alongside its biggest iPad software release ever in iPadOS 26. Here are the iPadOS 26 features that have me excited to get a new iPad.

In its short film No Frame Missed, Apple shows how an iPhone videography feature has become an unlikely source of support for users with Parkinson’s.

Apple has a major CarPlay update coming in iOS 26, and among the variety of improvements is one of Apple’s best recent iPhone features: Live Activities are coming to CarPlay.

A year after discontinuing the rather disastrous FineWoven iPhone case, Apple will reportedly take a second shot at an alternative premium to leather cases. The latest development is the alleged name, and a potentially new Apple accessory that may be sold separately.

One of the most underrated and underappreciated apps in the Apple ecosystem has to be the Wallet app. Think about it, what other app do we expect to work 100% of the time? We rely on it to make purchases, store our boarding passes, house sensitive financial data, and even unlock our cars with complete accuracy and uptime. Those are just a few of the countless examples of how powerful the Wallet app can be if you know how to use it.

So I compiled a complete walkthrough of the best ways to use your Apple Wallet in all scenarios, including some new iOS 26 enhancements and how it works with the Apple Card. Here’s what you should know:

Notion has introduced a long-awaited feature, adding offline mode to the AI-powered project hub. However, documents don’t just work offline by default.

More than 370,000 Grok AI chats have been published on the Grok website and indexed by search engines, making them public.

In addition to the interactive chats themselves, Elon Musk’s xAI company also published photos, spreadsheets and other uploaded documents …

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans.

All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels …

It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018.

While some new capabilities have been added, and there are some generational differences in usage, the vast majority of it falls into five rather basic categories …

Thunderbolt 5 is still fairly new, with the newest MacBook Pro bringing the cutting edge technology to the masses. Other World Computing just announced a new piece of hardware that takes advantage of Thunderbolt 5’s speed boost, offering external SSD performance that approaches built-in storage speeds.

CarPlay has just expanded to one of the fastest-growing EVs on the market, arriving this week through a free over-the-air update.

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A package of MLB baseball rights are currently up for grabs. As recently as last week, Apple was said to be a front runner to land expanded baseball streaming coverage. But according to Yahoo Sports reporter Kendall Baker, that is no longer the case.

According to the report, Apple has elected to exit its relationship with Major League Baseball altogether. That means it will add no new Sunday games, and it also implicates the future of Friday Night Baseball. Friday Night Baseball currently streams two weekly games for Apple TV+ subscribers.

Plex, the popular app for organizing and streaming personal media collections, is warning users running certain Plex Media Server versions to update immediately due to a “potential security issue” that was recently patched. Here are the details.