The Amazon Prime Early Access Sale is a great time to pick up a deal on a new SSD or hard drive to use with your Mac, as Amazon and its partners are likely to discount products even more than usual. This year’s Amazon Prime Early Access Sale is running…
iPad Pro: Buy now or wait?
The iPad Pros are for people who want the fastest and most powerful Apple tablets available. It’s been more than a year since the last update: both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch Pros received significant upgrades in April 2021, bringing the M1 chip to the …
Best Early Prime Day Mac Deals 2022
If you want to buy a new Mac desktop now is the time to get a bargain! It’s the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 11 and 12 and we expect to see Amazon drop the prices for the iMac and Mac mini even more than usual. Below…
Apple’s MagSafe Charger just received a firmware update for some reason
While we’re used to receiving regular updates to our Apple products here at Macworld, this one took us by surprise: The MagSafe Charger, which was released in 2020 alongside the iPhone 12, just received an out-of-the-blue standalone firmware update. We…
Apple will be forced to switch iPhone to USB-C by 2024
European lawmakers have voted by a margin of 602 to 13 in favor of a long-planned directive that will oblige makers of phones, tablets and cameras to use a common charging standard, USB-C, by the end of 2024. The news was announced Tuesday in a Europea…
Another MacBook killer dies without even wounding the MacBook
Once again Google has said to users of one of its services: “You screwed up. You trusted us. That’s on you.” “Google Shutting Down Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform” “Gasp!” – Nobody at all. Well, at least it had a good long run that… Google Stadia has only…
Oh well, Adaptive Transparency for first-gen AirPods Pro in iOS 16.1 is a bug
After the third iOS 16.1 beta arrived last week, 1st-gen AirPods Pro users got a big surprise: Adaptive Transparency, one of the excellent new features announced with the 2nd-gen AirPods Pro, was added for the older model as well. Now, it seems as thou…
What to expect from the M2 Pro, Max, Ultra and Extreme
In 2020 Apple began using its own desktop processors in its Macs, starting with the arrival of the M1 processor in the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and 24-inch iMac. We’ve since seen the debut of the higher-end versions in the form of th…
How to turn on Lockdown Mode and protect your iPhone from a rare cyber attack
Apple takes seriously the threat of targeted malware that hits its devices and extracts personal data from journalists, human-rights activists, opposition politicians, and others in the cross-hairs of repressive governments, criminal rings, and even sp…
Apple testing under-display Touch ID, but probably won’t implement it
The long-superseded Touch ID continues to hang on by its fingertips, and we now learn that Apple has been exploring new ways to implement the technology in its flagship iPhones. The fingerprint-scanning biometric tech, which first appeared in an iPhone…