With just four months to go until 2021 comes to a close, you might say the year has been a quiet one for Apple. So far, we’ve gotten a new 24-inch iMac, iPad Pro, AirTag trackers, Siri Remote, and a MagSafe battery pack, which isn’t a whole lot of n…
Lees meerIt’s been six years since the first Apple Watch hit the market, and the device has seen some important changes in its time with cellular, larger displays, and more powerful sensors. Lately, however, it seems as if we’ve hit the part in a product’s l…
Lees meerApple’s AirTag is a classic Apple product: it has exactly the features Apple wants and no others, even if that would make it more versatile. The AirTag provides months of tracking with a single lithium-ion battery using Apple’s Find My network. But …
Lees meerIf you’re a command line aficionado and you want to play an audio file, there’s no need to leave the Terminal. There are Terminal commands you can use to not just play audio, but to convert files as well. We’ll go over the afplay, afinfo, and afconv…
Lees meerNumerous reports—some from very reliable sources—say that Apple will introduce a new MacBook Pro in just a few short weeks. This isn’t any ordinary speed bump release, however. The new MacBook Pro promises to put Apple’s flagship laptop in a new lig…
Lees meerWe love the M1 MacBook Air, so we get excited when we see a good deal on it. And Amazon is offering such a deal. You can get a M1 MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD and a 7-core GPU for $849, which is a $150 savings off the MRSP. If you want a bigger SSD …
Lees meerApple on Friday announced that the three features it revealed to stop the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) will not be available at the fall release of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS 12 Monterey. The company will make the CSAM f…
Lees meerLive Text is one of our favorite new features in iOS 15. It allows you to select and copy text found in almost any image in your Photos app, or directly in the Camera app. Signs, documents, labels…as long as the font is not too crazy, you can probab…
Lees meerThe next version of the Mac operating system is called macOS Monterey. It’s version 12, was introduced at WWDC21, and will become available to the general public this fall. Betas are available to developers, and a public beta is available to general…
Lees meerWe don’t always know why a drive connected to a Mac starts to fail or the system becomes sluggish and nothing helps. If you’ve gone through routine troubleshooting and nothing fixes the problem—including reinstalling macOS as a last resort—you may w…
Lees meerThe upcoming Apple Watch Series 7 will have bigger displays, according to several reports that have landed in the past week. But in a Bloomberg report on Thursday, Mark Gurman provided additional details on the display and how Apple will take advant…
Lees meerIt’s been six years since the first Apple Watch hit the market, and the device has seen some important changes in its time with cellular, larger displays, and more powerful sensors. Lately, however, it seems as if we’ve hit the part in a product’s l…
Lees meerApple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all of…
Lees meerWith the continuation of the Apple silicon rollout, the MacBook Pro is in line for some major changes. The company will likely take the opportunity of the new models based on Apple silicon to introduce new designs, features, and refinements. This ar…
Lees meerApple has long allowed what it calls “reader” apps (like Netflix, Kindle, Spotify, Audible, or Dropbox) to bill users outside of Apple’s usual in-app purchase method (in which Apple takes 15 to 30 percent of subscription or purchase revenue). Howeve…
Lees meerIt happens every year. Apple shows off a bunch of awesome new iOS features at WWDC, only to have a handful of them miss the initial release. We shouldn’t be surprised that the same is happening with iOS 15. Some of the delayed features are big, some…
Lees meerApple reached a settlement in a lawsuit with developers—and it looks like the developers got a raw deal. And who could be Apple’s next CEO? That‘s all in this episode of the Macworld Podcast. This is episode 758 with Jason Cross and Roman Loyola. Po…
Lees meerApple has long allowed what it calls “reader” apps (like Netflix, Kindle, Spotify, Audible, or Dropbox) to bill users outside of Apple’s usual in-app purchase method (in which Apple takes 15-30% of subscription or purchase revenue). However, such ap…
Lees meerApple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. The service launched on Novembe…
Lees meerAs we enter another surge of COVID-19 infections here in the U.S., it’s becoming increasingly likely that you may need to show proof of vaccination. Restaurants, large event venues, some airlines, even some workplaces are requiring proof of vaccinat…
Lees meerApple on Wednesday announced that several states will soon allow its residents to put their driver’s license or state ID in Apple Wallet on the iPhone and Apple Watch. Arizona and Georgia will be the first to implement Apple Wallet support, while Co…
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