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With data brokers making big money by selling your personal details, it’s never been easier for spammers and scanners to get access to your phone number, email address, physical address, and even sensitive data like your social security number.

Apple’s privacy protections help, of course, but if you want to get proactive about removing your existing personal data from the internet, it’s never been easier to do so …

Even as CarPlay 2 work keeps chugging along, Apple has been slowly adding new features to the existing CarPlay too. Last fall CarPlay got some Apple Intelligence enhancements, and recently Ford EV owners gained NACS routing. Now, with iOS 18.4, there are three more new CarPlay features that just arrived.

While the world awaits next-gen CarPlay, Land Rover has made a retrofit CarPlay solution for Range Rovers from a previous decade.

With the exception of wireless support, the CarPlay hardware appears to be pretty basic, and that’s the point.

Apple Notes used to be a fairly barebones tool, best known for being used by celebrities to apologize. But a few years back, Apple started investing heavily in making Notes a worthy competitor with third-party alternatives. And in iOS 18, Apple Notes gained a power user feature that’s especially hard to find elsewhere: collapsible sections.

Apple TV+ is over five years old, and besides its viral Ted Lasso moment, the streamer has struggled to gain mainstream traction until just recently. One producer who made a show for Apple thinks he knows why.

The fifth episode of Apple Immersive Video series, Adventure, is now available on Apple Vision Pro. The latest entry transports you to the passenger seat of a rally car during a record-breaking Pikes Peak International Hill Climb attempt.

When it comes to building out a HomeKit environment, I always look for products that do more than one thing. The Aqara G2H Pro checks a lot of boxes. It’s a HomeKit Secure Video camera, but it also doubles as a hub for other Aqara sensors and accessories, so they can to work with HomeKit. I’ve had it set up in my house for a few weeks now, and it’s proven to be a solid addition that fits right into the Home app without any extra hoops to jump through.

iPhone colors may not matter much to some, but for plenty of users, they have the power to sway an upgrade decision. And with this year’s iPhone 17 lineup, we could see bigger color changes than usual. Here’s why.

I thought my days of wearing a smartwatch were over, after making the switch to dumb watches and relying instead on a smart ring, but the chance to try out a $65 Apple Watch clone proved too intriguing to refuse!

I fully expected it to be pretty terrible. But while I wouldn’t recommend buying the WithIt Giga instead of an Apple Watch, I was actually quite pleasantly surprised …

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One of the first movies ever on Apple TV+ was also among the service’s earliest high profile debuts. Greyhound stars and was written by Tom Hanks, earned an Academy Award nomination, and now it’s getting a sequel on Apple TV+. Here are the first details.

Apple Watch isn’t the only product turning 10 this month. A decade ago, Apple released the 12-inch Retina MacBook, the company’s most futuristic and misunderstood machine.

iOS 18.5 has been in beta testing for nearly a month, with a public launch expected in May. So far though, its new features are limited to a pair of Apple Mail enhancements. Per a couple sources, however, iOS 18.5 may ultimately include two additional new features that haven’t yet been revealed.

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 for short. Since its inception in 2000, the organization has released an annual report detailing trends based on the thousands of cybercrime complaints it receives daily from victims. This week, the FBI released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, revealing a record $16.6 billion in reported losses—a 33% increase and “a new record for losses reported to IC3.”

If there’s one thing this report highlights best, it’s that humans are more vulnerable than machines.

iPadOS 19 will be unveiled right about six weeks from now, not too far off at all. And one rumored addition, a Mac-style menu bar, is set to upgrade iPad productivity in several ways—including one that I’m especially excited about.

In the wake of the recent tariffs debacle, both Bloomberg and The Financial Times are reporting that Apple aims to manufacture import almost all of its iPhones sold in the United States from India, rather than China, by the end of next year.

This means Apple would need India to make more than 60 million phones a year, in order to satisfy its domestic sales. Overall India iPhone assembly would have to approximately double to meet this target, to about 80 million per year.

Apple is preparing another leadership shakeup, this time for its secretive robotics team. Bloomberg reports that Apple is shifting its robotics team from AI chief John Giannandrea to John Ternus, its Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering.

This move comes just a month after Apple removed Siri from Giannandrea’s oversight after Tim Cook “lost confidence in the ability” of the former Google executive to “execute on product development.” Siri is now led by Mike Rockwell, the creator of Apple Vision Pro, who reports to software boss Craig Federighi.

Apple is reportedly preparing to give the iPhone a “Stage Manager-like interface” when connected to an external display via USB-C. But this niche iOS 19 addition is likely just setting the groundwork for a bigger update next year: true multitasking on the iPhone Fold.

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: iPhone 17 Pro in Sky Blue, iOS and iPadOS 19 productivity upgrades, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors.

Fountain of Youth is the next big Apple TV+ movie that will debut directly on streaming. Apple just released a new trailer for the Indiana Jones-inspired film, and it looks great.

Benjamin and Chance reflect on the history of the Apple Watch on its ten year anniversary. Also, the EU slaps Apple with its first ever fines under the DMA. Rockwell is said to already be making waves with big Siri leadership changes, and Chance appreciates the flexibility of modern Photographic Styles.

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