The iPadOS 18 rollout isn’t going exactly as planned. Apple has reportedly pulled iPadOS 18 for M4 iPad Pro devices, per MacRumors, over an update that is causing issues for some iPads. According to reports on Reddit and Apple’s official Community portal, iPadOS 18 is “bricking” select M4 iPad Pro …
Read More »Apple's watchOS 11 is here with sleep apnea detection
Apple’s watchOS 11 is now available for download, brining sleep apnea notifications to users for the first time. The publicly available version of watchOS 11 comes after several beta variants, with most of the new features focusing on health and fitness. Perhaps the most interesting among them is sleep apnea …
Read More »Best Buy's AirPods Max deal nearly cuts the price in half on Apple's premium headphones
Save 45%: For Sept. 16 only, you can grab refurbished AirPods Max from Best Buy for just $299.99. Compared to the headphones’ full price of $549 brand new, you’ll save $249.01. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Refurbished Apple AirPods Max $299.99 at Best Buy $549.00 Save $249.01 Get …
Read More »Replacing the battery in Apple's iPhone 16 Pro is a lot pricier than before
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have the same starting price as last year’s models, but replacing the battery on this phone is costlier than before. According to Apple’s iPhone Repair and Service page (first noticed by MacRumors), getting the battery replaced on the iPhone 16 Pro and …
Read More »Apple’s New Passwords App May Solve Your Login Nightmares
Apple’s latest iPhone software update, iOS 18, arrives today and includes a new app: Passwords. For the first time, Apple is taking your phone’s ability to save login details and putting them in a standalone app. It could help improve millions of people’s terrible passwords. After years of being told …
Read More »Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones
Synthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in political campaigns, and in chatbots where they maybe-not-so-subtly replicate celebrity voices. Soon, they’ll be all up in your audiobooks too. Audible, the …
Read More »The $129 AirPods 4 Have Features the $549 AirPods Max Don’t
If Apple wanted to bury the fact it’s leaving its most expensive headphones as the least technically capable in its lineup, it didn’t do a very good job. It all started promisingly. At Apple’s September Glowtime event, CEO Tim Cook teed up VP of hardware engineering Kate Bergeron for the …
Read More »Where to pre-order Apple's iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max
UPDATE: Sep. 13, 2024, 12:35 p.m. EDT This article has been updated with the latest info on where you can pre-order the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Where to pre-order the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Apple Store Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Starting at $999 …
Read More »How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us
On Monday, Apple held one of its splashy media events. This one was used to show off its next round of iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches. These are three of its biggest products, and all of the design tweaks feel very familiar to the current Apple universe. But Apple has …
Read More »Apple gets FDA green light on AirPods Pro hearing aid mode
Apple’s newly announced hearing aid capability is officially the first over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid software to be approved by the FDA. And it should be available on devices soon. The federal agency formally ushered in the tech giant’s new “Hearing Aid Feature” (or HAF, as the agency refers to it) …
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