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The Find My app is used by millions of people to find their misplaced devices in a pinch, and millions more use it to share their current location with close friends and family.

The iOS 27 software releases include a bevy of changes to enhance the Find My experience. Specifically, iPhone users who regularly go for a walk with just their Apple Watch will automatically benefit from smarter location sharing …

A Cincinnati, Ohio man is crediting his Apple Watch with saving his life. As reported by local news outlet WKRC, Mohammad Islam says his Apple Watch’s fall detection feature kicked in to contact emergency services after he collapsed outside his home several weeks ago …

Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus were interviewed by Deadline about the executive transition, Apple TV, and more. Here’s what they said.

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Apple Upgrade is a new leasing program announced today that enables you to get Apple products via a low-cost monthly subscription. Here’s what every eligible product costs with Apple Upgrade.

iPhone 18 Pro is coming soon, and there are several reasons why it could prove an especially popular upgrade choice this year.

Siri AI is a major upgrade to Apple’s assistant that’s coming in iOS 27. And there’s one standout area I’ve noticed where it differs greatly from other AI assistants—for the better.

Apple today officially announced its Apple Upgrade leasing program, and it works in the way we expected. While it does make products more affordable on a monthly basis, it leaves people at risk of being trapped into a never-ending lease cycle.

That’s because, unlike the iPhone Upgrade Program it partly replaces, you don’t own the device outright at the end of the term …

WhatsApp is rolling out one-on-one and group voice and video calls on the web today, along with support for transferring calls between devices and more. Here are the details.

Granola, the AI-powered meeting notepad best known for its Mac app, is expanding to Apple Watch today.

Apple is about to kick off its major new smart home push. A new report from Bloomberg today reveals that Apple has three new smart home devices that are “nearly ready to launch.” The first two are set to come in just a couple of months …

Apple crossed a market capitalization of $5 trillion for the first time ever during intraday trading on Tuesday. Apple is only the second publicly traded company ever to cross the threshold.

Ted Lasso’s long-awaited return is almost here, with season 4 premiering next week on Apple TV (watch here). And Apple has just unveiled the official trailer.

The Indie App Sales promotion is back, with exclusive discounts for hundreds of iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, and watchOS apps running through July 30. Here are the details.

Apple today officially launched its new Apple Upgrade leasing program, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

As part of this launch, Apple has also discontinued the iPhone Upgrade Program. Here’s what that means for current users.

Apple has officially announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program available starting today in the United States.

Apple Upgrade, which is backed by Klarna, lets users lease iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad purchases, with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term. Here’s how it works.

We’ve long cautioned against disclosing sensitive personal data in AI chatbot sessions, given that most companies use these as training data, but there’s now an even bigger reason.

Things got way worse over the weekend when Redditors discovered that you could access some Claude AI chats through a simple Google search …

The upcoming MacBook Ultra was never going to be cheap, with an all-new sleeker design, OLED, and touchscreen – even before the price increases driven by higher memory costs. A new report now suggests the manufacturing cost could be pushed yet higher

Apple typically likes to have multiple suppliers for components in order to maximize the reliability of display and allow it to negotiate the best possible prices, and it had hoped to do so for the MacBook Ultra. However, a supply chain source says Apple has decided to use just one display supplier …

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Data brokers are quietly building detailed profiles on all of us, and this week I’m joined by Miguel Fornés of Incogni to talk about where that information comes from, who’s buying it, and why this threat is getting increasingly more dangerous under AI.

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LM Studio’s agentic workflow platform now lets users run tasks with Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1-million-context window. Here are the details.

Update #3, 8:33 p.m. PT: T-Mobile says it has “fully restored service for all customers and sincerely apologize for the difficulties to those who experienced network impacts.”

Update #2, 4:15 p.m.PT: In a statement to 9to5Mac, a T-Mobile spokesperson said:

“Our teams are actively working the reports of technical challenges impacting some customers. Any service impacts are in the process of being resolved and are our highest priority. We know how critical it is to stay connected, and every available resource is focused on resolving this as quickly as possible.”

Update #1, 3 p.m. PT: Some T-Mobile users report that service is returning to their iPhones. Others, however, say the outage is ongoing.

T-Mobile is down across the United States, and many iPhone users are seeing “SOS” in their device’s status bar. Here’s everything you need to know about today’s T-Mobile outage.