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Macworld Over the past several years, Apples fall launches have generally been seen as lackluster. Each September, the company tends to put out refreshed iPhone and Apple Watch models with just a couple of tweaks here and there. And thats understandable, as the classic smartphone and smartwatch formulas have matured, and theres little left to develop on an annual cycle. That wont be the case this year, however. Rather than merely rehashing last years iPhones and Apple Watches, Apple is set to an

Macworld USB-C and its Thunderbolt variant are the most up-to-date standards of the USB connector. They allow data-transfer speeds of up to 80Gbps, can fast-charge devices up to 240W, and conveniently fit in a port either way upwhich means that you can wave bye-bye to the age-old USB guessing game of Which way does it go in?. USB-C is no one-trick ponyhandling data transfer, video output and power input.Youll find faster variants of USB-C (called Thunderbolt 3, 4 or 5) on Macs. Each version of T

Macworld During Apple surprise Mac announcements last week, the company declared in its press release that the Mac Studio features a next-generation SSD architecture built on PCIe Gen 6. However, that mention has since been removed from the Mac Studio press release and site, as spotted by MacGeneration . The PCIe Gen 6 statement has been removed from the Apple U.K., Apple Germany, and Apple Japan press releases, though strangely, the PCIe Gen 6 reference still exists in the Apple France press re

Macworld Bloombergs Mark Gurman reported on Monday that Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down from his roles as leader of the App Store and manager of product events. The news comes on Tim Cooks last day as Apple CEO . Schiller became an Apple Fellow in 2020 after initially stepping down as SVP of Worldwide Marketing, a position he had held since 2000. He joined Apple as a product marketing manager in 1987, but left in 1995 for Macromedia. He rejoined Apple in 1997 when Steve Jobs retur

Macworld A large number of Macworld readers have been using the Mac for a long time. But even if you werent using the first Mac that Apple released in 1984, we all know how revolutionary those early years of the Mac were. But lets be honest. 1980s tech relied on floppy disks, and the newest promo for the Apple TV movie Mayday reminds us all how much that sucked. Mayday is set during the 1980s, and in the promo, Mayday stars Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh decide to demo the film using what loo

Macworld If youre thinking about buying an Apple Watch, youll want to know whether or not Apple is likely to launch a new model in the near future. After all, there are few things worse than spending hundreds of dollars on a tech device only to see it superseded by something better (and potentially cheaper) a couple of months later. Macworld is here to help you avoid that nightmare scenario. At the time of writing, Apple sells three smartwatches: the SE 3 , the Series 11 , and the Ultra 3 . All

Macworld Apples Surprise and Shine iPhone event is a week from Wednesday, and while all eyes will be on the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Ultra, Apple is also expected to unveil the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. Rumors suggest that the updates will be minor, but a new report sheds some light on what will be new this year. In his latest Power On newsletter , Bloombergs Mark Gurman confirms that Apples new Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches will be fairly minor upgrades, but shares some informa

Macworld Ive never had a desire to buy a Vision Pro . Even if I had $4,000 to blow at the Apple Store, Id probably pick up a loaded MacBook Pro or a Mac mini with a Studio Display XDR instead of Apples cutting-edge handset. But Friday Night Baseball in Apple Immersive changed my perspective. The first-ever broadcast of a live Major League Baseball game with 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view, watching the Red Sox-Yankees game on the Vision Pro was almost as breathtaking as b

Macworld If Apple CEO Tim Cook retired on his 60th birthday, back in 2020, this article would be considerably easier to write. Wed start with the phenomenal strides made by the company under his watch: Profit and revenue doubled, the market value lifted from $350 billion to $2 trillion (the first U.S. company to hit that milestone). We could discuss the cultural impact made by the Apple Watch and AirPods, the canny pivot to services, and the regulatory storms navigated with deft tact. Ultimately

Macworld TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan is on sale for $99.99 (MSRP $540), giving you chat, image, video, audio, and document AI tools in one app . Keeping up with AI tools usually means juggling separate subscriptions for chat, images, video, and audio, each with its own monthly bill. A lifetime subscription to the 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan cuts that down to one app for $99.99 (MSRP $540). One app, every AI model 1min.AI puts multiple leading AI models

Macworld TL;DR: New users pay $29.99 for one year of ChatOn AIs multi-model AI access , real-time web search, 100-plus prompts, document tools, and image and video creation. Keeping several AI tools open at once can make a simple task feel like managing a very opinionated digital committee. ChatOn brings GPT, Gemini, Claude, Sonar, and more into one platform , so you can choose a model for writing, research, reasoning, or creative projects without hopping between services. The app also includes

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Macworld Arguably the greatest feat of the AirPods is that they gain new features with every iOS update without the need for any hardware changes: in 2024, they became (rudimentary) hearing aids , and with iOS 26 came live tra n slation . So its hardly surprising that the AirPods will also gain new features with iOS 27, for which you wont need to buy new headphones. If youd like, you can try out these features right now with the iOS 27 beta or you can wait about another month until iOS 27 is re

Macworld TL;DR: Pay $49.97 once for lifetime access to Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 on one Mac , and redeem the one-use code within seven days. Some software makes perfect sense as a subscription. The classic Microsoft Office apps dont necessarily need to be one of them. Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 is $49.97 , down from $219. This one-time purchase provides a lifetime license for one Mac, with Word for documents, Excel for spreadsheets and data, PowerPoint for presenta

Macworld TL;DR: Get a lifetime license for Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 on sale for $29.97 (reg. $499.99) through August 30. Most professional IDEs require a monthly subscription that becomes a worse deal the longer you pay for it. If you want a simpler alternative, Microsoft now allows you to get lifetime licenses for Visual Studio Pro , and this one is even on sale for $29.97 (reg. $499.99). This is the 64-bit version, so it can handle very large solutions and heavy workloads without slowi

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Macworld Apple surprised us all by announcing a new Mac mini this week with an M6 processor and a higher price tag than the comparable M4 model it replaces. But if youre one of the lucky people who had ordered one ahead of the announcement, you might be in line for a free upgrade. The M4 Mac mini had been backordered for months, so this new model will hopefully offer some relief. While its not available until September 22, Apples online ordering system still guarantees youll get it on that date,

Macworld Its one of the more persistently annoying aspects of owning an iPhone, and one of those dumb little things where Apple was overzealous in making things simple and left us with a frustration that most Android users havent had to deal with for years: Independent volume controls for various kinds of system sounds. Sure, youve been able to adjust the volume for media (videos or music) separately from system sounds for ages. But theres been one Ringtone and Alerts volume setting that control

Macworld Apple just announced the new M6 / M5 Pro Mac mini and M5 Max/Ultra Mac Studio , both of which are shipping on September 22. On the surface, these look like just the same Macs we have today with faster processors inside. But theres more to them if you dig a little deeper. Apple promotes these machines with nonspecific performance incremental values: 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster graphics, 4.8x faster LLM prompt performance, and so on. All of those claims will have to wait until w

Macworld Apple added the capability to add digital state IDs or drivers licenses to Apple Wallet years ago, with the very first supporting states announced back in 2021 . Its a standards-based approach ( ISO 18013-5 ) that is meant to be more secure and private than physical identification, as well as finally closing one of the last loopholes that make people unable to leave the house without their wallet. If your state doesnt support drivers licenses in Wallet (or you dont have a drivers licens

Macworld Its iPhone leaks season again. On September 9 , Apple is expected to unveil three new phones: the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max , and a new foldable iPhone rumored to be called the iPhone Ultra. But as always, one of the most important questions for buyers will be: What colors will Apple release this time? Like last year , Macworld has received information from a source familiar with Apples supply chain regarding the color options for the iPhone 18 lineup. We can now reveal an inside loo

Macworld Apple has officially announced the date and time of its big September iPhone event: Wednesday, September 9, at 10 am PT. Thats a day later than its usual fall events because of the Labor Day holiday on Monday. The event invitations went out with an image of an Apple logo shining brightly like a sun in the sky along with the tagline Surprise and shine. The event will be streamed on apple.com , on the Apple TV app, and on the Apple YouTube channel . We will of course have full coverage ri

Macworld Apples fall iPhone event has become one of the easiest product launches to predict. Every year since 2011, weve gotten the full lineup of new iPhones, joined in 2014 by the Apple Watch, and occasionally a related launch like AirPods or Apple Pay. We now know that the event will be held on Wednesday, September 9. However, according to strong rumors, this years keynote will be quite different from previous ones. While it will still be an Phone event , only the iPhone 18 Pro , iPhone 18 Pr

Macworld If youre planning on investing in a new M6 Mac mini or M5 Ultra Mac Studio , you might be buying a new Apple Magic Keyboard along with it. Apple has updated its keyboards, too: Certain keys have had their labels changed to symbols instead of names. Apple introduced these changes with the MacBook Neo and M5 MacBook Air, so the company is basically catching up on normalizing the keys. The Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Delete, and Return keys no longer have their respective word labels. Instead,

Macworld On a day of high-priced product announcements, Apple has offered a crumb of comfort to its more cash-strapped customers: the beloved Polishing Cloth has dropped in price by a whopping 53 percent. Relentlessly memed on for charging a faintly absurd $19 for the square cloth at launch three years ago, the company is now happy to accept just $9 for seemingly the same product. The common thread uniting Tuesdays two big Mac updates was prices going up. The M6 Mac mini starts at $899, up from

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Macworld While all eyes are on the upcoming iPhone event, Apple threw us a curveball Tuesday morning with a rare August launch of an updated Mac Studio with the all-new M5 Ultra processor. The new Mac Studio is visually identical to the previous model but has major upgrades inside. Instead of the M4 Max and M3 Ultra, you can now buy a Mac Studio with an M5 Max or M5 Ultra processor, with up to a whopping 512GB of RAM. Here are the specs Apple is offering for the two chips: Mac Studio (M5 Max) Ma

Macworld As predicted on this site earlier today, Apple has announced the launch of a new Mac mini model with M5 and M6 chip options. It doesnt feature any design changes or external upgrades, but it does offer a two-generation bump in processors compared to the previous model. Slightly confusingly, the version of the Mac mini with a chip from the M5 generation is the more powerful of the two, because its the M5 Pro . This spec starts at $1,699 for a 15-core CPU and 16-core GPU, but customers ha

Macworld Apple has launched the new Mac Studio for 2026. It features either an M5 Max chip or an M5 Ultra chip. It will be available from 22 September and is available for pre-order now. We are updating this story with the latest news. The Mac Studio, originally released in 2022 , has become Apples premier desktop for professional users, effectively replacing the now- discontinued Mac Pro for the vast majority of workflows. Designed for high-end workloads, the Mac Studio has emerged as a popular

Macworld Apple may yet spring one final surprise of the Tim Cook era, with a new report raising hopes that the company plans to launch an updated version of the Mac mini as soon as the coming days. Writing for Bloomberg , well-connected leaker Mark Gurman says Apple is gearing up to unveil the first new Mac mini in almost two years. He bases this on the testimony of unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The last Mac mini model, announced on October 29, 2024, featured a major redesign (it was

Macworld The Mac mini remains one of Apples most compelling Macs, combining strong performance, a compact design, and an attractive starting price. Following its major redesign in late 2024, the desktop became smaller, faster, and more versatile than ever, featuring a dramatically reduced 5-by-5-inch footprint alongside Apples M4 and M4 Pro chips. If youre considering buying a Mac mini , you may be wondering whether a new model is on the horizon, what upgrades it could bring, and whether Apple w

Macworld The original iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. So next year, it will turn 20 years old, and rumors point to Apple commemorating the event with a special 20th-anniversary model. Its not expected to launch on June 29 (it will probably be in September, as usual), and it may not be a special one-off product, but rather the next major evolution of the iPhone, much like the iPhone X in 2017. But either way, the big two-oh is supposed to bring something really special. Heres what weve glea

Macworld TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus is on sale for $54.99 (reg. $249.99), a one-time payment for a lifetime license on one Windows PC. Subscriptions add up fast, and if you are tired of Microsoft 365 quietly charging your card every month, this deal is worth a look. Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus gives you a full, perpetual license to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access for a single Windows PC, no recurring fees involved. You can get Microsoft Offi

Macworld On the first day of the WWDC developer conference, Apple released the first developer beta of its new operating system. This year, that means that the first release of iOS 27 outside Cupertino came on June 8, 2026. The pattern goes like this: Apple releases developer-only betas for the first month or so, and then starts releasing the same build for both developers and public beta testers. With only a month or less before the general release, most of the beta updates now are minor in sco

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Macworld The ongoing memory crunch hit Apple customers much later than most tech fans, but when the price hikes arrived, they hit hard . Apple increased prices across its iPad and Mac ranges by anywhere from $100 to an eye-watering $1,300 in the case of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio. There was only one consolation: iPhone prices didnt increase at all. That latter state of affairs is not going to last for long, were sad to report. At the start of this month we covered a report by Mark Gurman in which t

Macworld It feels like forever since we started hearing rumors about Apples plans to make a more concerted effort in the smart home market. But now that the major component needed for such devices Siri AI is finally here, it appears that Apple has its new and updated smart home products on the release schedule. Bloombergs Mark Gurman reports that Apple is taking a major step towards releasing those products. The company is reconfiguring its Apple Stores to accommodate the updates to Apple TV and

Macworld Its happened to the best of us. The glass of water or a cup of coffee sitting beside our laptop is knocked over and the contents goes everywhere. If you are really unlucky that may be the end of the road for your Mac. But if you are prepared and know what to do to minimise the damage, you might manage to avoid the death of your Mac. If you spill water, coffee or another liquid into your MacBook or desktop Mac there are a few things you should do immediately to save your Apple tech from

Macworld A few weeks back, this site (and indeed this reporter) excitedly covered the news that Severance was back, baby . A cryptic tweet from showrunner Ben Stiller indicated that third-season shooting had begun, in the first bit of good news for fans since the brilliant second season ended on March 20 last year. But is the show really back? The problem is that shooting and post-production take a lot of time. Even if everything goes perfectly to plan, were looking at a third-season launch in f

Macworld Theres good news and bad news for customers waiting on Apples next update to the iMac range. Its happening soon, but its probably not going to be a big deal. In the Q&A section of his latest Power On newsletter , Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman responded to a reader asking when they would be able to buy the new iMac. If youve been holding out for a new iMac, your wait shouldnt be much longer, he reassured the reader. All signs point to the M6 models being close to launch, and you should

Macworld There was muted excitement in the Macworld offices late last month when Ben Stiller revealed that filming was about to begin on Severance season 3. Excitement, because the show is brilliant and it already feels like years (its actually a little less than one and a half) since season 2 finished. And muted, because theres still filming and post-production to get through and season 3 probably wont arrive until fall 2027 at the earliest. Fans of melancholy sci-fi are of course spoiled by Ap

Macworld TL;DR: This compact refurbished iPhone SE brings back the Home button and costs $104.99 instead of $359. Some people moved on from the iPhone Home button. Others were dragged away from it by the relentless march of technology. This refurbished 2nd Gen iPhone SE brings Touch ID back in a compact package for $104.99. Its 4.7-inch Retina HD display is smaller than those on many recent iPhones, making the device easier to hold and fit into a pocket. True Tone and wide color keep the display

Macworld TL;DR : Get these Warm White (Open Box) Beats Solo 4 On-Ear Headphones for just $89.99 (reg. $199.99). What is modern life without a good set of headphones? Theyre a lifesaver for long commutes, working out at the gym, doing chores around the house, and even when you want to make a quick call without everyone around you getting involved. With these Beats Solo 4, you can do it all. Were talking 50-hour battery life, spatial audio, and Bluetooth 5.3 connection for just $89.99 (reg. $199.9

Macworld Apple has officially unveiled macOS 27 Golden Gate, the next major update for the Mac, bringing Apples next-generation Apple Intelligence platform to compatible devices. The update introduces an all-new Siri AI assistant, major upgrades to apps including Safari, Photos, Messages, Mail and Calendar, as well as expanded child safety features, design refinements and performance improvements throughout the operating system. Golden Gate continues Apples tradition of naming macOS releases aft

Macworld Thanks to a video accidentally included in the macOS 26.7 beta , we got our first real confirmation that Apple is, as rumored, working on AirPods with cameras in them. Despite the video and references being found in such a recent beta, were assured that this product isnt actually shipping until next year. Now, thanks to an eagle-eyed member of the MacRumors forums , we have some idea of the capabilities of the in-development AirPods with cameras. The user found a framework called Access

Macworld According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is laying off and realigning several employees in multiple departments in order to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence. About 200 employees are affected. The Vision Pro team has eliminated 100 jobs, with most of the cuts happening in teams focused on gaming and immersive video, according to the report. Bloomberg says employees were told that the changes are being made to better address how the Vision Pro is being used by its custome

Macworld For those who need a premium small-screen tablet, the iPad mini is a popular choice. But should you buy one now, or should you wait to see what Apple has in store for the next model? Most buyers should wait the next model is expected to bring meaningful upgrades. However, Apple isnt expected to update the iPad mini until late 2026, and that launch date could slip further due to chip demand and wider supply constraints. Heres what the latest rumors say about the release date, key upgrad

Macworld With all eyes on the imminent iPhone and Apple Watch launches, Apple-watching pundits were surprised this week when the company itself accidentally leaked a video of some new camera-equipped AirPods in action. But if you think the existence of an instructional video means the product must be ready for launch, youre in for some bad news. According to the well-connected Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman , the leak changes nothing, and the devices still wont launch until 2027. The video appar

Macworld One thing that never ceases to amaze me about macOS is the amount you can do with just a few keyboard shortcuts. In fact, Apple seems to have coded so many functions into various combinations of key presses that it feels like Im finding new ones every day. And whether youre a newbie with a Neo or a veteran from the PowerBook days, there are always new ones to learn. Here, well show you all of the best macOS keyboard shortcuts that you need to know. Memorize a few of them and youll be we

Macworld At a glance Expert's Rating Pros Space-saving vertical design 3x Thunderbolt 5 ports 2.5Gb Ethernet 140W PD 3.1 laptop charging Wireless iPhone charging Cons MacBooks own screen unavailable Wireless iPhone charging is slow Premium price Our Verdict The sleek Brydge ProDock Trio saves desk space while adding Thunderbolt 5, 2.5GbE, faster USB-C and 140W charging to your MacBook. These meaningful upgrades make it worth the extra $40 over the cheaper Duo while the Trio is discounted to $399