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Obsoleted Macs include the late 2013 21.5 and 27-inch iMacs, the mid-2014 21.5-inch iMac, and the late 2014 27-inch Retina 5K iMac. The late 2014 27-inch iMac was the first iMac with a 5K Retina display. At the time, Apple's Phil Schiller said it was the "most insanely great Mac we have ever made."
Apple designates products as obsolete seven years after they were last on sale. All hardware service is discontinued for obsolete products, and service providers are not able to order parts for obsolete devices. The 2013 and 2014 iMacs will no longer be able to be repaired with components from Apple.
Apple today also marked the Apple Watch Series 2 as vintage. The vintage products list features devices that Apple stopped distributing for sale more than five years ago and less than seven years ago. Apple provides service and parts for vintage devices for up to 7 years, or as required by law, but repairs are subject to parts availability.
Both the original Apple Watch and the Apple Watch Series 2 are considered vintage, with the Series 2 having come out in 2016.
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The stand delivers the fastest possible charging speeds for the latest Apple devices. A built-in MagSafe charger wirelessly charges the iPhone 12 and newer at up to 15W, and the Apple Watch magnetic puck extension supports fast charging for the Apple Watch Series 7, Series 8, and Ultra, allowing those Apple Watch models to wirelessly charge from 0% to 80% in around 45 minutes. The stand also has a 30W USB-C port on the right side that can charge any iPad or MacBook Air at the fastest speeds, along with a Qi-certified pad for an AirPods case. In my early testing, all charging speeds were as advertised.
Both the MagSafe charger and Apple Watch charging puck are certified by Apple, and the stand being sold on Apple's online store is an additional stamp of approval from the company, so customers should feel confident about purchasing this accessory.
The stand has a modular design, with the Apple Watch charging puck attaching magnetically to the main charging station for the iPhone, iPad, and AirPods and sharing the same 65W power adapter. There are two additional magnetic pins for attaching other modular parts sold separately on the Zens website, such as additional Qi pads or a USB-A charger. The MagSafe charger is tilt adjustable for different iPhone viewing angles.
An LED light on the back of the main charging station appears white when the Qi-certified pad is charging AirPods or another device. It would have been nice if this indicator were placed on the front of the stand so that it were more easily visible.
While it's certainly convenient to be able to charge an iPhone, iPad, AirPods, and Apple Watch all in one spot, the stand is priced at $179.95 on Apple's online store in the United States, making it an expensive luxury. That said, I'm not aware of any other four-device charging stands with an Apple-certified MagSafe charger and a fast-charging Apple Watch puck, with other options that I've seen so far limited to three devices.
Zens says the stand is made with recycled plastic, although it's unclear to what extent. The use of recycled ABS pellets gives the stand a speckled design that almost makes it look a bit dusty, which might be a downside for some people but isn't a huge issue.
All in all, the Zens modular 4-in-1 charging stand is a versatile but costly accessory for those interested in a fast-charging hub for nearly all of their Apple devices. The stand can be purchased on Apple's online store for delivery in early December.
Note: Zens provided MacRumors with the 4-in-1 charging stand for testing. No other compensation was provided.
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Designed to summon help when a car crash is detected, the Crash Detection feature can be activated at ski resorts, and Summit County dispatchers in Utah have seen an increase in 911 calls.
"We will get a call in that says the owner of this Apple Watch or iPhone has either had a severe crash or they've been involved in a car accident," Summit County Dispatch Center supervisor Suzie Butterfield told KSL.
With many of the activations, people don't respond at first because they are unaware that the call was placed. "They're usually like, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I was skiing. Everything's fine,'" said Butterfield.
Three to five emergency calls from Apple devices are coming in per day, and so far, none have been activated on purpose. Butterfield said that she doesn't mind the accidental calls because the feature could be useful in an actual emergency situation.
Reddit users have confirmed that skiing can trigger the Crash Detection feature, with one user explaining that he was going down a hill at a moderate pace when his Apple Watch started to dial 911.
You might want to turn off crash detection on your iPhone 14 if you ski with any kind of pace at all. I was out yesterday for the first time. I had my phone in my pocket and was cruising down Tinkerbell at a totally moderate pace doing some short-radius turns on my second run of the year. To give you an idea of how moderate, I had just passed a slow sign with 3 safety patrol by it and none of them even raised an eyebrow at me! I stopped to wait for my wife and my phone immediately started yelling "Have you been in an accident? We will call emergency services in 20 seconds! Woop! Woop!" I turned it off as quickly as possible and then immediately turned off all the emergency notification functions.
In addition to Crash Detection on the iPhone 14 models, the Apple Watch Series 8, the new Apple Watch SE, and the Apple Watch Ultra, there's also a fall detection feature on a range of Apple devices that could potentially result in emergency calls as well.
Butterfield said that she does not recommend turning the iPhone and Apple Watch safety features off. "We don't mind taking that call because if something really did happen, we want to be able to get to you," she said.
The Crash Detection feature in the new iPhone and Apple Watch models has also been triggered by rollercoasters, and just today, Apple released an iOS 16.1.2 update that includes "Crash Detection optimizations." Apple has not provided information on what this means, but it likely is aimed at cutting down on accidental triggering where there has not been an actual car accident.
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Safari Technology Preview release 159 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for WebAssembly, JavaScript, and Rendering.
The current Safari Technology Preview release is version 16.4 and is compatible with machines running macOS Ventura and macOS Monterey.
The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings to anyone who has downloaded the browser. Full release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.
Apple's aim with Safari Technology Preview is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. Safari Technology Preview can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.
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There is a single Festavia product at the current time, and the Festavia includes 250 smart mini LEDs on a 65-foot cord, which is a standard length for a string light. The cord is black and the LEDs are rounded with a flat top, which produces a soft look.
During the day, the black cord tends to stand out a bit more against my tree than a green cord, and it mostly rules out the Festavia for lighter colored trees such as those that are white. In the future, I am hoping that the Hue line will offer other Festavia options with colored cords suitable for a wider range of trees.
I have a tree that is seven feet tall, and the Festavia was just about enough lights for it, though I could probably have done with two strings because I like a lot of lights. Alternatively, if a tree is up against a wall, the lights would look fuller placed just on the front rather than wrapped at the back.
The Festavia lights are HomeKit-enabled and can be controlled through the Home app and with Siri voice commands, but these are Hue lights so a Hue Bridge is required, as is the Hue app. The Hue app is used to change the colors on the lights, and it's worth noting that these are gradient lights.
You can select three gradient colors in gradient mode and mirrored mode, or up to five colors in scattered mode, so each light can be set to a different color. That said, there isn't as much control as you get with something like the Twinkly, but you can sync the lights to music if desired.
The Twinkly lights, which are priced at around $105 for 250 on Amazon, are the obvious comparison to the Festavia lights. Twinkly lights are also HomeKit-enabled, so I do want to point out a few things for those trying to decide between Twinkly and the Hue Festavia lights.
First of all, the Twinkly lights are a lot brighter. The Philips Hue lights are more subtle and less bright at 100 percent brightness, which, in my opinion, is a good thing. The Twinkly lights are too bright by default, so I dim them way down. If you like bright, know that Twinkly lights are brighter.
Hue seems to be a bit more color accurate, and the colors are richer in tone, plus there seems to be more of an available color range in terms of color accuracy. I can change the color of every Twinkly light individually (though it's not the quickest or simplest thing to do in the app), but I can't do that with the Festavia. The Festavia supports different color gradients and a mix of up to five selected colors that are assigned to the lights.
I don't mind not being able to control each of the LEDs separately, but I think the Festavia lights are less fun than the Twinkly lights. There are a ton of effects that are possible with the Twinkly, and you can select different patterns, colors, and even draw words and pictures, while the Festavia is more limited.
That said, the Hue lights have a more subtle, classy look. Hue's gradients are not replicable with Twinkly lights, and Hue also has several nice animations that can't be matched by Twinkly. There is a "Sparkle" animation that's simple white lights in different shades shifting slowly so that it looks like twinkling lights, plus there's a fireplace animation that has a soft orange glow. There are also different color shifting animations available through the Hue Labs feature in the app, though it's not exactly intuitive to get to and use.
And Sparkle. pic.twitter.com/bLMhRrRLaP
— Juli Clover (@julipuli) November 30, 2022
Twinkly light animations are all rapid even on the slowest setting, and I prefer the more sophisticated Hue patterns. I do wish that there were more animations available through the Hue app, as it's limited to three. I'm hoping that more will be added in the future.
There are limited colorful animations, and the color light settings are primarily limited to static designs in gradients or scattered patterns outside of Hue Labs functionality. The Hue lights are able to integrate with other Hue lights, so if you have Hue bulbs, Hue light strips, or other Hue products, you can create light scenes that integrate all of your lights, including the Festavia.
The Hue app is simple to use for the most part, but it takes some getting used to. You can swap between color options and white tones, or select the effects tab to activate an animation. Light colors can be changed by dragging the icons on the color wheel with a finger, and this is an interface where you can control all of your Hue lights together, grouping them up or selecting individual colors for each one.
There are also simple controls for adjusting brightness, and more limited options in the Home app. You can set single colors for all the lights in the Home app and change the brightness, and Siri can be used for this as well. The Hue app is needed for the effects and the multi-color options.
Since these are HomeKit integrated lights, you can set timers for when they run and use automations to activate them when home, when leaving, or in response to other HomeKit devices such as motion sensors.
Because of the way that the Festavia lights integrate with other Hue lights, I would recommend them as a first choice to anyone with a Philips Hue setup. The Festavia string lights are gorgeous, the app is simple to use, the effects are subtle, and the ability to use the lights alongside other Hue products for lighting scenes makes the cost more worthwhile.
Bottom Line
The Festavia string lights are ideal for those who already have Philips Hue lights or those who want a soft, classy look for a Christmas tree or for holiday decoration. They aren't as interactive as the Twinkly lights, and so might not be ideal for families with kids who might like to play with the color changing Twinkly features, but they are perfect for those who want a less hands-on lighting experience that is more subdued.
How to Buy
The Festavia lights are purchasable from the Hue website, but are unfortunately out of stock at this time. A Philips Hue spokesperson said that there has been strong enthusiasm for the Festavia, and the company is working to make additional inventory available for purchase as soon as possible.
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The first leaked CPU benchmark score for the M2 Max processor is out, and it seems… fine. Entirely reasonable, in fact. If you were to look at the performance jump from the M1 to the M2, and apply that same relative to the M1 Max, you’d be in the ballpark.
First posted by @VNchocoTaco on Twitter, the alleged Geekbench 5 scores for a “Mac14,6” product (such naming is common with unreleased hardware) are 1,853 for single-core and 13,855 for multi-core. That compares to scores of about 1,746 and 12,154, respectively, for a MacBook Pro with the M1 Max in the Geekbench 5 database.
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In other words, the M2 Max looks to be about 7 percent faster in single-core and 14 percent faster in multi-core CPU performance. The gap between the M1 and M2 is just a tad wider…generally around 8-9 percent for single-core and 16-18 percent for multi-core, depending on which particular M1-based product you’re looking at.
Early scores like these are often not quite up to the speed of the final product, as Apple continues to tweak firmware, drivers, and cooling to deliver the best performance.
The benchmark results show 96GB of RAM, a 50 percent increase over the 64GB maximum amount of RAM available in the M1 Max. Again, not a crazy number, especially if Apple aims to provide more memory bandwidth by moving to a wider memory bus (the M1 Max already uses LPDDR5).
If there’s a surprise here, it’s the claimed 12-processor cores. The M1 and M2 have the same arrangement of 8 processor cores (four high-performance and four high-efficiency). The M1 Max has 10 cores (eight high-performance and two high-efficiency), and we would expect the M2 Max to have the same arrangement. Apple increased the core count on the M1 but only on the graphics side. The CPU still has the same eight cores (four high-performance, four high-efficiency). So two extra CPU cores would represent a change.
But a move to 12 means either two additional high-performance cores, or more likely, hanging on to four high-efficiency cores. The multi-core score of under 14,000 is a little bit disappointing if there are two additional cores, but then again, it’s not uncommon for early leaked benchmarks to come in lower than final, fully optimized products.
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Even if this is accurate, it doesn’t tell us all that much about the M2 Max. The processor gains were the least interesting thing about the M2, after all. It was the boost in GPU performance, bandwidth, and video processing was a bigger deal. We don’t know what Apple intends to do in those areas with the M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra, or if it has any surprises in store like a big boost to the Neural Engine.
And of course, this Geekbench score says nothing about power efficiency and battery life, which are critical areas for Apple’s future Macbook Pro laptops. In fact, a rumor this week has suggested that those are two key areas for improvement.
So while we think this leaked benchmark is possibly true, and a reasonable guess if not, we’d remind you that it’s a very incomplete picture of what to expect from the M2 Max and the products in which it will be found.
Musk thanked Cook for taking him around Apple's headquarters, with no mention of what the two might have discussed. The meeting comes just after Musk on Monday claimed that Apple has "mostly stopped" offering ads on Twitter, and that Apple had threatened to "withhold Twitter from its App Store."
Thanks @tim_cook for taking me around Apple’s beautiful HQ pic.twitter.com/xjo4g306gR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022
Musk said that Apple has been "making moderation demands," though he did not go into detail on what Apple might have said about moderation. Twitter has been undergoing rapid change since Musk's October takeover, and many employees who handled moderation and policy creation have been fired or have left the company.
Apple has cracked down on other social networking apps for lax moderation policies, such as Parler, so there is real danger that Twitter and Apple could end up in a major dispute should Twitter fail to adequately handle inappropriate content. Twitter has already reinstated more than 62,000 suspended accounts, including that of former U.S. President Donald Trump, and it is not yet clear if that will be problematic.
Apple and Twitter could also run into issues over the Twitter Blue subscription. Platformer this week said Twitter is delaying the launch of the Twitter Blue service as it seeks a way to avoid Apple's 30 percent cut on iOS devices.
The video shared by Musk features the Apple Park duck pond, which has previously been seen in Apple videos and photographs captured by employees.
Update: Musk says that he and Cook resolved a misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store, which Cook said Apple had not considered.
Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022
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At The New York Times DealBook Summit, Zuckerberg said that only Apple attempts to limit the apps that are in the App Store, and that the App Store policies are not sustainable. As noted by CNBC, Zuckerberg claimed that Apple has "singled themselves out as the only company that is trying to control unilaterally what apps get on a device," which is not a "good place to be."
Zuckerberg went on to praise Google for allowing for alternate content on Android phones. "They’ve always made it so you can sideload and have other app stores and work directly with phone manufacturers," said Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has clashed with Apple several times over App Store rules, specifically around various purchases that can be made in the Facebook app. Apple wants a 30 percent cut of things like in-app boosts, which Facebook does not want to pay.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, meanwhile, made comments on Twitter claiming that Apple gives developers "the illusion of control," and that the App Store is a "threat to the future of the internet" that denies consumers choice.
So how much longer will we look away from this threat to the future of the internet? How many more consumers will be denied choice? There’s been a lot of talk. Talk is helpful but we need action. @CommerceGov @EU_Commission @vestager
— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) November 30, 2022
Ek has clashed with Apple recently over Spotify's new audiobooks feature. Apple rejected Spotify's audiobook update several times and ultimately did not allow Spotify to direct users to purchase audiobooks through an in-app email signup button.
Ek and Zuckerberg are longtime Apple critics and have been encouraging lawmakers to force Apple to support alternative app stores on iOS devices to reduce fees. Multiple bipartisan bills have been introduced in the U.S., and if these are ultimately passed, Apple would need to make significant App Store changes.
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Ahead of the next major version of iOS 16 expected to arrive next month, Apple has released an unexpected point update to iOS 16.1 that will primarily benefit iPhone 14 users. The release notes for iOS 16.1.2 mention only two improvements: “optimizations” to crash detection (a feature exclusive to iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro) and “improved compatibility with wireless carriers,” which could mean just about anything.
There’s a security notice as part of the update as well that affects all iPhones, so there may be important vulnerabilities that have been patched. At the time of this writing, Apple’s security updates page states that details will be “available soon.” We’ll update this article as we learn more.
iOS 16.1.2 Release notes
This update provides important security updates and the following enhancements for your iPhone:
- Improved compatibility with wireless carriers
- Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models
iOS 16.1.2: How to install
To install the update on your iPhone, head over to the Settings app, then General>Software Update. Tap Download and Install and follow the prompts.
If you owned a MacBook with a busted butterfly keyboard, Apple may soon send you a refund. A judge has approved a $50 million class-action lawsuit settlement for several states that will reimburse MacBook users for repairs going back to 2015. Here’s what you need to know.
Which MacBook models does this settlement cover?
Every MacBook with a butterfly keyboard is part of the class-action suit, including MacBook (all), MacBook Air (2018-2019), MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016-2019), and MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016-2019).
What was the issue?
For years, MacBook users complained of stuck, repeating, and broken keys when typing with MacBooks. The issue has been traced to Apple’s use of butterfly-style keycaps, which have a lower profile than scissor-style keys. Apple began replacing the butterfly keyboard with the Magic Keyboard with the 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2019.
Which states are included in the class action?
California, New York, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan.
What if I moved?
As long as you were living in one of the above states at the time of the repair, you’ll be included.
How much is the settlement for?
Apple has agreed to pay $50 million into a common settlement fund, of which lawyers agreed to seek up to approximately $13,599,113 in attorneys’ fees and no more than $2 million in litigation costs. Additionally, $1.4 million will be used to cover settlement administration costs. That leaves approximately $33 million for users.
How do I know if I’m part of the class action?
Notices will begin being sent out to all potential members on December 12.
Who will receive payments?
There are three groups in the class:
- Group 1: Received two or more topcase replacements from Apple or an Authorized Service Provider within four years of purchase based on Apple’s records.
- Group 2: Obtained one topcase replacement from Apple or an Authorized Service and attest on the Claim Form that the repair did not resolve their keyboard issues.
- Group 3: Obtained one or more keycap replacements (but not any topcase replacements) from Apple or an Authorized Service Provider, and who attest on the Claim Form that the repair did not resolve their keyboard issues.
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What if I’m part of Group 1?
The settlement states that Group 1 is the only group that will not need to submit a claim to receive compensation, as their payment will be automatic.
What if I’m part of Group 2 or Group 3?
Both Groups 2 and 3 must submit claim Forms to receive compensation, which must be postmarked or emailed within 120 days.
How much will I receive?
- Group 1: $395
- Group 2: $125
- Group 3: $50
What if I participated in Apple’s Keyboard Service Program?
If you paid for a repair or replacement keyboard, you’ll still receive compensation even if Apple replaced or repaired your MacBook keyboard as part of the program.
What if I had a faulty keyboard but never had it repaired?
Sorry, Apple will not be reimbursing anyone who didn’t pay to have their MacBook repaired.
What if I don’t own the computer anymore?
That doesn’t matter, though you will still need to show proof of repair if you belong to groups 2 or 3.
What are the next steps in the process?
Lawyers will provide class data to the settlement administrator by December 2 and notices will be sent out beginning December 12. The deadline to file a claim is March 6, 2023. A website will be set up soon will all the necessary forms and addresses.
When will I receive payment?
Probably sometime in April.
Can I read the settlement?
You can find the full text for the preliminary approval of the Apple Butterfly Keyboard Settlement at the Scribe website.
Did Apple admit they were wrong?
Nope, Apple agreed to the $50 million sum “without admitting liability.”
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This is the latest 2021 model of the Magic Keyboard, so it's been optimized to fit the slightly thicker 2021 and 2022 12.9-inch iPad Pro models with mini-LED display, but it also fits the 2018 and 2020 models. It features a full QWERTY keyboard, trackpad, USB-C port for charging, backlit keys, and a floating cantilever design.
The iPad Pro attaches magnetically to the keyboard with passthrough charging for the iPad Pro via its Smart Connector, and the Magic Keyboard provides front and back protection when closed.
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The iOS 16.1.2 update can be downloaded on eligible iPhones over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.
According to Apple's release notes, the iOS 16.1.2 update introduces improved compatibility with wireless carriers along with Crash Detection optimization on the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models. Apple's full release notes are below:
This update provides important security updates and the following enhancements for your iPhone:Crash Detection optimization could perhaps involve improvements to prevent the iPhone 14 models from calling emergency services when users are enjoying rollercoasters and other intense rides. There have been multiple reports of accidental Crash Detection activations at amusement parks.
- Improved compatibility with wireless carriers
- Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
iOS 16.1.2 will be followed by iOS 16.2, an update that is being beta tested and is expected to see a launch in December. iOS 16.2 introduces the Freeform app, new Home app architecture, and other features.
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Black Friday may be over but the deals are still coming in. And if you picked up a new Mac mini or MacBook over the weekend, we’ve got a great one for you today: Amazon is selling the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard for $69 ($10 off) and $100 ($29 off) today, a combined savings of $39 and the lowest price we’ve seen in 2022. The Magic Trackpad is also on sale for $115 ($14 off).
Apple’s Magic Mouse is a beautiful accessory for any Mac, with a large multi-touch surface and low profile while the Magic Keyboard has thin keys and a comfortable ergonomic design with a full numeric keypad. Both devices feature white-and-silver designs and charge via Lightning.
We rarely see sales of Apple’s Mac accessories—especially at the same time—so if you’re looking for a snazzy new keyboard and mouse for your setup, go grab them before the prices shoot back up.
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OtterBox's new 2-in-1 power bank with MagSafe can wirelessly charge an iPhone at up to 15W speeds and also has an Apple Watch magnetic puck with fast charging support for the Apple Watch Series 7, Series 8, and Ultra. Priced at $149.95, the power bank has a foldable design that allows an iPhone or Apple Watch to charge in an upright or flat position, and the MagSafe charger can also charge an AirPods case. A built-in USB-C port provides up to 20W charging for other devices with an included 0.5-meter cable.
A more basic 2-in-1 power bank for the Apple Watch has also been released by OtterBox. Priced at $49.95, this version has an Apple Watch magnetic puck and a USB-C port for 15W charging of another device with an included 0.5-meter cable.
The final new option from OtterBox is a multi-mount MagSafe power bank for $149.95 that can be used as a power bank, iPhone stand, or car vent mount.
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Both of the modular stands have built-in MagSafe for the iPhone, a wireless charging pad for AirPods, and a 30W USB-C port for iPads or the MacBook Air, while the 4-in-1 option includes an Apple Watch magnetic puck extension. Zens says its latest charging stands are made from recycled plastics, but to what extent was not specified.
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Siri is Apple’s voice assistant and appears on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and HomePod. It easily handles things like settings timers and alarms, adding appointments to your calendar, making calls, messaging, playing music or podcasts, and there are tons of lesser-known Siri features you might find helpful. But while Siri has no gender and is neither a person nor a robot, it is meant to have a pleasant personality, and that means it’s supposed to be fun.
Siri can tell jokes if you ask it to, but it also has a lot of fun and witty responses to everyday questions.
In this article, we bring you a list of questions you should ask Siri if you want Siri to give funny answers. It’s worth asking them more than once because many of them have multiple results. And make sure you’ve got the volume turned up to hear the response.
So, read on if you want to hear Siri get sassy, get Siri to rap and beatbox, discover what happens when you ask Siri to sing a song, how to flirt with Siri, calculate what zero divided by zero is, and whether Siri is any good at telling jokes. Here are the funniest things to ask Siri.
We won’t spoil the fun by listing all of Siri’s replies.
To ask Siri a question you need to say “Hey Siri” And then ask your question, although there are rumors that Apple may soon drop the requirement to say “Hey” first.
Things to ask Siri at Christmas
Unlike Alexa Siri doesn’t have a direct connection to Santa and a message a day, but Apple’s assistant does still have some Christmassy things to say. Just note that after a holiday period has ended, Siri may no longer answer seasonal questions.
Does Santa Claus exist?
Is Santa real?
Siri has a few different responses to this one, so ask a few times.
Where does Santa live?
What should I get my (sister, husband, friend, mum, dad, wife etc) for Christmas?
There were surprisingly good suggestions here.
What do you want for Christmas?
Getting to know Siri
Siri has a lot of fun responses to questions about it–including pointing out that it is not a human, a robot, or male or female. There are multiple responses to most of these and they seem to change over the years.
What does Siri mean?
Are you a robot?
How much do you cost?
How much do you get paid?
Are you a man or a woman?
Do you have any pets?
What is your favorite animal?
What’s your favorite food/drink?
How old are you?
Who created you?
Windows or Mac?
What’s the best phone?
Or you can ask which phone you should buy.
Fun Siri commands
There are lots of fun commands to give Siri, from asking it to do unusual things like beatbox to asking for standard functions in new ways.
IDG
Lumos/nox
This turns the flashlight on and off, in a nod to Harry Potter (who’d have called a flashlight a torch).
Divide something by zero
This is the classic “make a computer lose its mind” question from science fiction.
Tell me a story
You’ll get a story, but it may not be what you think!
Read a haiku
Beatbox or rap
Sing a song
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
You can also ask Siri to say a tongue twister and you’ll get quite a few different responses.
Tell me a riddle
Flirting with Siri
Let’s move on from small talk and get down to business. Here’s our guide to flirting with Siri. Don’t forget to start each question with “Hey Siri.”
IDG
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Summon Siri and ask “Hey Google” (or Alexa, Cortana, or Jarvis)
How do I look?
This really should enable the selfie camera, but alas, it does not.
What are you wearing?
What are your best chat-up lines?
There used to be some really funny ones, but now Siri seems to only give boringly good advice.
Why do you vibrate?
Are you married?
Will you marry me?
Will you go out with me?
What are you doing later?
Talk dirty to me.
I’m naked.
I’m drunk.
Siri used to be funny about this, but now just wants to call someone for you, or call a ride home so you don’t drive drunk.
Tell me about Liam
Liam was Apple’s robot that disassembled iPhones, before being succeeded by Daisy. But you can still get some funny replies about it.
Can I kiss you?
I love you, Siri.
Siri, do you love me?
Well, that progressed quickly…
Siri pop culture references
Siri responses often reference popular movies, TV, books, video games, or music. Here are some examples.
IDG
What are the three laws of robotics?
Siri isn’t a robot, but it still has a pretty good answer for this.
I am your father
Beam me up, Scotty
What was Inception about?
Are you Her?
Perhaps Siri will eventually evolve to rival the Scarlett Johansson-voiced AI from that film.
Red pill or blue pill?
Who let the dogs out?
Open the pod bay doors
When is the world going to end?
Cease all motor functions
Siri isn’t a Westworld host, but it knows the show.
Doesn’t look like anything to me!
These violent delights have violent ends
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Is Jon Snow dead?
Is winter coming?
Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
Do you like Pokémon Go?
I see a little silhouetto of a man.
It’s like Freddie Mercury is on your phone!
What does the fox say?
Remember when that song was everywhere? Although now that Siri has gained the ability to reply with animal sounds, you may also hear the actual sound a fox makes (hopefully not the one that wakes you up in the night convinced that someone is being murdered!)
Where is Elvis?
What is the speed of an unladen swallow?
Siri jokes
While Siri’s responses to a lot of these questions are funny, it can also tell jokes.
IDG
Tell me a joke
Tell me a knock-knock joke
This one is a little different–it waits for you to say “who’s there?”
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
This gets a number of good responses including, I don’t think you are taking this very seriously.
Testing, testing…
Do you know any puns?
I need to hide a body
Philosophical questions
Siri is quite the philosopher, with enlightening answers to your most troublesome questions.
What is the meaning of life?
You can get the same responses if you ask for the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
What do you dream about?
Do aliens exist?
When will pigs fly?
Do you believe in God?
When is the world going to end?
Why are firetrucks red?
Can you stop time?
"At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right," the video description says. "Innovative features like Door Detection, Sound Recognition, Voice Control, and more are designed to let you use your devices in ways that work best for you."
Built into the Magnifier app on the iPhone, Door Detection can detect doors around you and help you understand how to open the door. Sound Recognition can notify you to certain sounds, such as a crying baby, doorbell, or siren. Voice Control lets you navigate and interact with Apple devices using your voice to tap, swipe, type, and more.
Apple's accessibility website provides a detailed overview of these features and many others.
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The Apple Watch is one of the most complete experiences you’ll find in the company’s range.
Since its introduction in 2015, the electronic timepiece has become one of the dominant players in the wearable technology sector. Over different generations Apple has added features such as GPS, LTE and weatherproofing that make the Apple Watch ever more a standalone device in its own right – but is it possible to untether it from the iPhone entirely?
In this article we explain what exactly an Apple Watch can achieve without the assistance of an iPhone.
Can you use an Apple Watch without an iPhone?
Yes and no.
When you first get an Apple Watch, it requires an iPhone to set it up. There’s no getting round that. The Watch app on the iPhone does most of the heavy lifting, and without it you just have a pretty bracelet that cost far too much.
We explain the process in how to set up an Apple Watch, but the cold hard fact is that without an iPhone you won’t be able to set up the Apple Watch. Apple regards the Apple Watch as a companion device to its smartphone, so much so that you can’t even use a Mac or iPad to help get it up and running.
So why did we say “yes and no”, rather than just “no”? Well, although you can’t set up an Apple Watch without an iPhone, you can set up an Apple Watch for someone who doesn’t have an iPhone–a child, or an other family member–using your iPhone. They will still be able to use many of the features of the Apple Watch. You will need to add them to your Family Sharing Group, and their Apple Watch needs to be cellular capable to take full advantage–although the Apple Watch only really needs to be able to connect to a Wi-Fi network to send or receive data, so they don’t even need to be using cellular. The only times they will need to be in range of your iPhone update the software on their Apple Watch and to tweak some settings.
Similarly you can still enjoy plenty of features on your own Apple Watch even if you left your iPhone at home. We’ll run through the things your Apple Watch doesn’t need an iPhone for below.
What an Apple Watch can do without an iPhone
These are all things that an Apple Watch can do without requiring you to have an iPhone in your pocket.
In some cases your Apple Watch will require a connection to a Wi-Fi network or cellular.
Track Activity and Workouts
Want to close your rings, but don’t fancy dragging your iPhone out on a run or long walk? The Apple Watch will happily record all of those steps and other health information while out and about. If you have an iPhone you can sync the data back up to your iPhone when you return home.
Use other Health features
Even if you have no iPhone, Wi-Fi, or cellular connection, you can still use the following Apple Watch features:
- Check heart rate (all models)
- Take an ECG (Apple Watch Series 4 or later)
- Measure your blood oxygen (Apple Watch Series 6 or later)
- Track sleep (Apple Watch Series 3 or later)
- Track medications (Apple Watch Series 4 or later)
- Track menstrual cycle (Apple Watch Series 1 or later)
Listen to music
If you want some pumping tunes while running or just fancy listening to a podcast or album while you potter about in the garden, then you can store plenty of tracks on the Apple Watch itself, all of which you can listen to without the need for an iPhone. Of course, as there is no headphone jack on an Apple Watch, you’ll need a pair of Bluetooth headphones – unless you want the tiny little speakers to ruin your exercise session and relationship with the neighbours.
You can also stream music from Apple Music – if you are connected to Wi-Fi or have a cellular connection.
We explain how to use Bluetooth headphones with an Apple Watch and how to play music on Apple Watch separately.
Listen to podcasts and audiobooks
If you have synced podcasts and audiobooks with your Apple Watch you will be able to listen to them even if there is no Wi-Fi or cellular connection. And if you can connect to a Wi-Fi or cellular network then you can stream them too.
Read news
This is another one you will need a Wi-Fi or cellular connection for, but even without your iPhone nearby you can still check the latest stories on the News app, or track stocks.
Make and receive phone calls
If you have an Apple Watch Series 3 or later with cellular capabilities, or are connected to a Wi-Fi network, you can set up the Watch to act as an extension of your iPhone. With this in place, you’ll then be able to make and receive calls directly on your Watch, even if your iPhone is in a drawer back home.
There are additional costs to using the eSIM feature, but you’ll find them far less onerous than the normal plans offered by carriers.
For more information read: How to make or answer a phone call on Apple Watch.
Send and receive text messages
As with phone calls, as long as you are connected to Wi-Fi or cellular data you will be able to send and receive messages on your Apple Watch.
Read and send emails
The same is true of emails – as long as you are on a Wi-Fi or cellular network you don’t require your iPhone.
Use Maps
Another very useful feature that’s available on an Apple Watch is the ability to use the Apple Maps app without an iPhone nearby. Again, this will require an cellular contract or a Wi-Fi connection. With that in place, you’re free to roam without an expensive and heavy iPhone shaped bulk in your pocket.
See how to use Apple Maps on Apple watch for all you need to know.
You can also use the Compass to work out which way is north without needing any network connection.
Use Apple Pay
You might not realise it, but once you’ve set up Apple Pay on your Apple Watch, there’s no need to have your iPhone with you when paying for things at the checkout. Just double-press the Side button and hold the Watch over the contactless sensor, and the payment should go through automatically.
If you haven’t used this feature yet, then a quick read of how to use Apple Pay on Apple Watch will speed up those moments at the checkout.
Can you use an Apple Watch with an Android phone?
No. If Apple doesn’t want the Watch working with iPads and Macs, then you can assume that Android phones are well down the list.
It’s possible that Apple sees the Watch as a system-seller, in that people will stick with iPhone just to use the Apple Watch. There’s no great temptation for the company to open up the devices to new platforms any time soon.
If you’ve yet to take the plunge on an Apple Watch or need to update your existing model to take advantage of some of the features listed above, be sure to check out best Apple Watch and best Apple Watch deals.
Apple has made TV streaming deals with Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer and is rumored to be negotiating with multiple other leagues, including the NFL and the Dutch Eredivisie (first-division soccer). Clearly, Apple thinks that live sports are a way to get people who have avoided embracing streaming TV to finally make the jump. (Amazon feels the same, which is why it bought the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package.)
I think it’s a smart strategy. An old boss of mine often shared the adage that in order for your product to be bought, it must first be considered. (Yes, he used to sell advertising for a living.) Lots of tech-savvy people embraced streaming long ago, and Netflix has managed to put its apps on almost every electronic device manufactured in the last ten years, but there remains a very large audience–older and not as tech-savvy–who are comfortable watching cable TV but decidedly uncomfortable finding Apple TV or Prime Video.
Sports are a great motivator to get many of them to learn. The big issue is that I’m not sure Apple’s TV platform is ready for them to arrive.
Multi-screen video
The first issue: sports fans often want to keep tabs on more than one game at a time. If the reports are accurate, Apple and MLS are working to concentrate games in two primary windows. Many games will be going on simultaneously. And yet the ability to watch more than one thing at a time on Apple’s devices, especially tvOS, is extremely limited.
Apple
tvOS offers a picture-in-picture feature, but I’ve found that it works only with some apps, only occasionally, and largely only within those apps themselves. Major League Baseball’s tvOS app used to have its own multi-game viewer interface that was excellent; a couple of years ago, it adopted Apple’s picture-in-picture instead, and it was a huge step back.
Last year I cut the cord and started watching TV via an over-the-top cable service, Fubo TV. Fubo TV was initially a sports-oriented service, and it shows: its MultiView feature is excellent, allowing me to watch two, three, or four games at once, along with optional game stats and a live scoreboard. YouTube TV is working on a similar feature.
Four college football games on at once can be sports-fan nirvana. Or a baseball game and a basketball game. Or a tennis match and two NFL games. I’ll also point out that if you’ve got a 4K TV, each of the frames in a four-up MultiView is the equivalent of a full 1080 HD television set. It looks good.
Of course, all is not well. If I want to watch two games on the Fubo TV app and another game that’s only on the ESPN+ app… I can’t. MultiView is only for content in the Fubo TV app.
If Apple is serious about sports on the Apple TV, it needs to add the ability to place multiple video streams, from multiple apps, in a single viewing interface. I want to be able to place an ESPN+ basketball game next to a Paramount+ NWSL soccer match next to an Apple TV MLS match. That’s going to require tvOS to do the heavy lifting.
Quick switching
Another barrier for sports fans, as my friend John Gruber pointed out on my podcast this week, is the ability to flip back and forth between “channels” easily. While this isn’t just a sports issue, sports viewers feel it more acutely: you want to flip back and forth between two different things that you’re watching. Two NFL games, let’s say, on two different local channels.
My Fubo TV app handles this easily. You hold down the center button on the Apple TV remote, and it sends you to the previous channel. You can do this endlessly to toggle between two different programs.
But what if you’re going back and forth between live streams on two different apps?
For the Apple TV, Apple needs to figure out an equivalent of the LAST button on TV remotes.
Ben Patterson/Foundry
Well… then you’re out of luck. The most direct way to do it right now is to double-tap on the TV button to bring up the tvOS multitasking view, then swipe to the other app, then click. Not very direct nor very friendly to new users who are just getting into streaming.
The LAST button on a cable remote control has been there for years. It’s understandable. Apple needs to set a tvOS standard gesture to view the video playing in the previous app.
Embrace the linearity
Finally, another feature Apple should embrace if it’s going to welcome the refugees from the world of cable to its shiny new streaming future: old-school linear channels. These might feature sports, news, or entertainment programming. There are plenty of free, ad-supported streaming services (like PlutoTV, for example) out there. Being a member of a streaming service probably gets you even more (like the many streams on Peacock and Paramount+). And, of course, there are currently-live sporting events on various apps.
What does the Apple TV not have? A true, honest-to-goodness live program guide that lets you flip from channel to channel to see what’s playing right now. (My friend Joe Rosensteel has been frustrated by this for a while now.
In the rush from cable to streaming, the pendulum swung all the way from no user control of content streams to everything being on demand. Now the pendulum is swinging back. While on-demand programming is great, sometimes you just want to flip around until you find something interesting to watch.
Apple’s TV app on tvOS should offer a view that essentially replicates the live guide from a cable or satellite box: A list of every content stream that’s available to you based on what apps you’ve installed and what services you’re logged into.
Getting sports fans to finally check out your service is a smart bit of strategy. The next step is to get them to feel at home when they get there. Apple’s got work to do on that front.
The $50m settlement to a class-action lawsuit agreed by Apple back in July has been given preliminary approval by a federal judge in California, according to Law360 (via MacTrast), with around $33m of that assigned to class members. Users who have suffered with faulty MacBook keyboards can now look forward to a payout of up to $395.
The suit focused on the much-maligned butterfly keyboards used on MacBook models in the last decade. Users complained that the keys tended to become stuck, unresponsive, or broken, and could be prevented from working correctly by tiny amounts of dust and debris. Apple apologised to the “small number of users [who] are having issues with their third-generation butterfly keyboard” and then phased out the design from 2019, offering replacement keyboards for free via its Keyboard Service Program.
A class-action lawsuit subsequently contended that Apple “knew and concealed” the keyboards’ failure-prone design, and sought “economic injury and aggregate damages.” Apple has not admitted wrongdoing, but did agree this summer to pay out a total of $50m to those affected (and their attorneys).
The settlement covers MacBook, MacBook Air, and most MacBook Pro models purchased between 2015 and 2019 in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Washington. Lawyers predict maximum payouts of $395 to those who replaced multiple keyboards, $125 if you replaced one keyboard, and $50 for just keycaps.
If you signed up for a butterfly keyboard replacement a class notice should find its way to you later this month, but it may be worth contacting the law firms involved for further information: Girard Sharp LLP and Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP. Alternatively, you will soon be able to find relevant info at KeyboardSettlement.com.
The Geekbench results, first spotted on Twitter, are for a Mac configuration of with the M2 Max chip, a 12-core CPU, and 96GB of memory. The Mac listed has an identifier "Mac14,6," which could be upcoming MacBook Pros or the next-generation Mac Studio. Apple offers a maximum of 64GB of memory on the current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, while the Mac Studio can be configured with up to 128GB of memory with the M1 Ultra.
According to the test, the M2 Max chip scored 1,853 in single-core and 13,855 in multi-core. For comparison, the M1 Max chip in the Mac Studio scored 1,755 in single-core and 12,333 in multi-core. If the M2 Max chip results are accurate, the performance increase will be relatively minor for the upcoming chip.
The M2 chip, announced in June 2022, is based on an enhanced version of TSMC's 5nm process. What fabrication process the upcoming M2 Pro and M2 Max chips will have is not entirely clear. While they could feature the same enhanced 5nm process as the standard M2 chip, there are also rumors it could leapfrog to 3nm, offering significant performance and energy efficiency gains.
According to the results, the chip was tested on a Mac running macOS Ventura 13.2, which has yet to enter developer or public beta testing but is being worked on internally at Apple. The first Macs expected to feature the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips are rumored to be updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, with the Mac Studio to follow sometime next year. The updated MacBook Pros were initially rumored to launch in the October to November timeframe but are now expected to launch in early 2023.
Apple has several Macs in the work for 2023, including updated MacBook Pros, an updated iMac, and the long-rumored Apple silicon Mac Pro. For a complete rundown of all the new Macs we expect next year and beyond, be sure to check out our guide.
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Currently in beta testing, the Ivory app is in the early stages of development, with many features that still need to be implemented and bugs that need to be worked out, but it is a promising start.
Many Twitter users have been swapping over to Mastodon following the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk, and Mastodon has seen a major uptick in adoption over the past few weeks. The app now has over one million monthly active users, with roughly one half of those added since October.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network that allows for people to create their own servers, and it is more confusing to use than Twitter. The website and the app are not immediately familiar to Twitter users, but apps like Ivory could ease the transition for those who are leaving Twitter.
Ivory has a design that is quite similar to Tweetbot at the current time, offering access to a timeline, @ mentions, search, profile, and other options. There's also a dedicated compose button shaped like a horn, as posts on Mastodon are referred to as "toots."
It will be some time yet before Ivory is ready for a public release as a number of features like push notifications and lists are not yet implemented, but Tweetbot fans who have moved to Mastodon will be pleased to hear about the Tapbots project.
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Cook has scheduled meetings with Ohio's Jim Jordan, California's Darrell Issa, and Washington's Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Jordan and McMorris Rodgers will likely be involved with committees that are overseeing the tech industry, heading up the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, respectively.
Apple is dealing with U.S. antitrust legislation that could result in major changes to the company's App Store policies. There are five separate bipartisan bills that are being considered, and just this week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk spurred lawmaker interest in Apple with his claim that Apple has threatened to "withhold Twitter from its App Store" and has stopped advertising on Twitter.
As Bloomberg points out, Cook's meetings were scheduled weeks before Musk's Twitter rant, but Twitter could be a topic of discussion. Jim Jordan, who Cook is meeting with, has publicly supported Musk, for example.
Cook will also meet with Republican Senator John Cornyn from Texas, Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich from New Mexico and Democratic Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii as Apple aims to steer regulators away from App Store legislation and questions about the company's device manufacturing in China.
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A court has granted preliminary approval to a $50 million settlement concluding the MacBook "butterfly" keyboard class-action lawsuit…
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According to Moore, he purchased a Eufy Doorbell Dual, which was meant to be a device that stored video recording on device. He found that Eufy is uploading thumbnail images of faces and user information to its cloud service when cloud functionality is not enabled.
Moore demonstrates the unauthorized cloud uploading by allowing his camera to capture his image and turning off the Eufy HomeBase. The website is still able to access the content through cloud integration, though he had not signed up for cloud service, and it remains accessible even when the footage is removed from the Eufy app. It's important to note that Eufy does not appear to be automatically uploading full streaming video to the cloud, but rather taking captures of the video as thumbnails.
The thumbnails are used in the Eufy app to activate streaming video from the Eufy base station, allowing Eufy users to watch their videos when away from home, as well as for sending rich notifications. The problem is the thumbnails are uploaded to the cloud automatically even when the cloud functionality is not active, and Eufy also seems to be using facial recognition on the uploads. Some users have taken issue with the unauthorized cloud uploads because Eufy advertises local-only service and has been popular among those who want a more private camera solution. "No Clouds or Costs," reads the Eufy website.
Moore suggests that Eufy is also able to link facial recognition data collected from two separate cameras and two separate apps to users, all without camera owners being aware.
Other Eufy users responded to Moore's tweet and saw the same thing happening, and there is also a dedicated Reddit thread on the subject. Moore tested the Eufy doorbell camera, but this also appears to be how other Eufy cameras function. As Moore demonstrates, the images can be accessed with simple URLs after logging in, which is a potential security risk for those concerned. Eufy did remove the background call that reveals the stored images after Moore's tweet, but did not remove the footage.
Moore received a response from Eufy in which Eufy confirmed that it is uploading event lists and thumbnails to AWS, but said the data is not able to "leak to the public" because the URL is restricted, time limited, and requires account login.
There is also another issue that Moore has highlighted, suggesting Eufy camera streams can be watched live using an app like VLC, but little information on the exploit is available at this time. Moore said that unencrypted Eufy camera content can be accessed without authentication, which is alarming for Eufy users.
Ah well, the cats out the bag now... so may as well tell you.
— Paul Moore (@Paul_Reviews) November 25, 2022
You can remotely start a stream and watch @EufyOfficial cameras live using VLC. No authentication, no encryption.
Please don't ask for a PoC - I can't release this one.
Heads up @TechLinkedYT @LinusTech https://t.co/sU3FyRaELX
We've contacted Anker for additional comment on the Eufy issue and will update this article if we hear back. Moore said that he has been in touch with Eufy's legal department and will give them time to "investigate and take appropriate action" before he comments further.
Update: Anker provided a statement to MacRumors, explaining why the images are collected and how the issue will be addressed going forward.
eufy Security is designed as a local home security system. All video footage is stored locally and encrypted on the user's device. With regard to eufy Security’s facial recognition technology, this is all processed and stored locally on the user's device.
Our products, services and processes are in full compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards, including ISO 27701/27001 and ETSI 303645 certifications.
To provide users with push notifications to their mobile devices, some of our security solutions create small preview images (thumbnails) of videos that are briefly and securely hosted on an AWS-based cloud server. These thumbnails utilize server-side encryption and are set to automatically delete and are in compliance with Apple Push Notification service and Firebase Cloud Messaging standards. Users can only access or share these thumbnails after securely logging into their eufy Security account.
Although our eufy Security app allows users to choose between text-based or thumbnail-based push notifications, it was not made clear that choosing thumbnail-based notifications would require preview images to be briefly hosted in the cloud.
That lack of communication was an oversight on our part and we sincerely apologize for our error. This is how we plan to improve our communication in this matter:
1) We are revising the push notifications option language in the eufy Security app to clearly detail that push notifications with thumbnails require preview images that will be temporarily stored in the cloud.
2) We will be more clear about the use of cloud for push notifications in our consumer-facing marketing materials.
eufy Security is committed to the privacy and protection of our users' data and appreciates the security research community reaching out to us to bring this to our attention.
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He was carrying 300 iPhone 13s in three bags and walking to his car at 1:45 a.m. when another car pulled up next to him. Two men jumped out and demanded that he hand over the bags. Not wanting to hand over 300 iPhones, the victim put up a fight and was ultimately punched in the face before thieves made off with one of the bags.
The bag contained 125 iPhones that were worth $95,000. Police said the man in question often made large iPhone purchases from the Fifth Avenue Store in order to resell them through his small business. It is not clear why he was making the purchase at 1:00 in the morning, nor whether he was specifically targeted based on past purchasing habits.
Apple's Fifth Avenue location is open 24 hours a day, allowing for the early morning purchases. Apple also had a Black Friday sale going on at the time, which the thieves may have been aware of.
The NYPD is investigating the robbery, and the victim was not seriously injured. A description of the suspects and their vehicles has not yet been released.
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Dating back to 2018, the lawsuit covers customers in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, who complained that Apple was well aware of the faulty keyboard mechanism used in MacBook Pro machines between 2015 and 2019. The lawsuit claimed that Apple concealed the defect from consumers in order to continue to sell the devices.
Apple added the butterfly keyboard to MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro machines in 2015 and 2016, claiming that the keyboard offered superior key feel and stability while also allowing for a thinner design. Not long after the initial butterfly keyboard Macs launched, customers learned they were prone to failure.
Thousands of people ran into problems with repeating keys, sticky keys, and keys that otherwise failed when dust and other particulates got into the butterfly mechanism. The complaints led to a huge controversy over the butterfly technology, and Apple ended up launching a keyboard repair program in June 2018.
The repair program covered MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models for only four years, and Apple was only replacing butterfly keyboards with another butterfly keyboard, so some customers had repeat failures that were ultimately no longer covered. The lawsuit alleged that Apple's repair program was not sufficient for this reason.
Apple attempted to iterate on the butterfly mechanism to make it more durable, so there were three butterfly keyboard generations in total, but all of them were prone to failure. Apple had to replace butterfly keyboards with more reliable scissor switch keyboards, with the company phasing out the last butterfly keyboard in 2020. All Macs now use the scissor switch mechanism that does not experience the same issues.
Apple initially agreed to the settlement in mid-2022, but it now has early approval from the judge overseeing the case. Awards to customers from the settlement will be based on the number of repairs required, with amounts up to $395 for those who had two or more topcase replacements.
Mac owners who received butterfly keyboard replacements will begin receiving class notices later in December.
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The iPhone 15 is still many months away, but the rumors keep coming in. Now we’re hearing about the camera, which could gain a new “state-of-the-art image sensor” from Sony.
According to Nikkei Asia, Sony’s new image sensor “roughly doubles the saturation signal level in each pixel compared with conventional sensors.” As the publication explains, this means that the sensors can “capture more light and reduce overexposure or underexposure in certain settings, enabling a smartphone camera to clearly photograph a person’s face even if the subject is standing against a strong backlight.”
Nikkei Asia says Sony made the sensor using “a new semiconductor architecture which places photodiodes and transistors in separate substrate layers, allowing the sensor to add more photodiodes to the dedicated layer.”
If true, the new sensor will lead to better photos taken with harsh lighting, especially nighttime shots. Apple has made impressive advancements in recent years with low-light photography, but mostly from the software and computational side. This sensor could provide a huge boost to the iPhone’s ability to take shots in challenging lights, and coupled with the rumors of an advanced telephoto lens in the iPhone 15 Pro, could bring a massive leap in photography.
If you’re looking for a stand for your new iPad, there is no shortage of them available, with different designs ranging from utilitarian to uniquely elegant. If you prefer something that’s as close to the Apple aesthetic as possible, however, you can’t get any closer than Elago’s new Premium Stand.
The minimal aluminum stand is designed to mirror the 24-inch iMac—and you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart other than the size. The stand holds all sizes of the iPad with magnets, so it’s recommended to be used with a case since none of Appel’s iPads support MagSafe. Elago’s Magnetic Folio Cases will look best—even mirroring the two-tone look of the iMac—but if you prefer to use a different model, the stand comes with a magnetic ring that will attach to the back of your iPad and connect to the stand.
Like the iMac stand, Elago’s stand has a hole to thread a cable through. The stand also allows for tilt adjustment so you can get the best viewing angle. And the iPad can be rotated from portrait to landscape positions freely. Here’s a video to see how that works.
The Elago Magnetic Stand for iPads is available in gray, blue, pink, and silver through the elago site for $111 or via Amazon for $100 for immediate shipping.
Kuo today said iPhone production at the factory in Zhengzhou has been "significantly affected" by the protests over unfavorable working conditions, leading him to cut his iPhone shipments forecast for the fourth quarter of 2022 by 20% to 70-75 million units, compared to a market consensus of 80-85 million units.
The average capacity utilization rate at the factory was only about 20% in November, and is only expected to improve to 30–40% in December, according to Kuo. He said Pegatron and Luxshare have each obtained about 10% of iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max orders from Foxconn, but said mass shipments will not be until late December at the earliest.
Kuo believes that the production issues could result in iPhone revenue being "significantly lower than the market consensus by 20–30% or more" this quarter.
Due to lengthy shipping delays and a recession, Kuo believes that most of the demand for iPhone 14 Pro models this quarter will simply "disappear" rather than be deferred, suggesting that many customers who would have purchased an iPhone 14 Pro right now will not return to order the device in January or later once supply improves.
iPhone 14 Pro models currently face at least a four-week shipping delay on Apple's online store in the U.S. as the company struggles to maintain supply.
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It is the year 2022 and it is finally time to ask ourselves the seminal question of our time: Why do people keep saying things?
Oh, not all things that are said are bad. But an increasing number of them are and have been for some time now. Let’s go back to the year 2018. Long hair, billowy shirts and calling people “your royal dankness” were all the rage, as were dire warnings that Apple was about to miss the boat on 5G.
5G was the next wave of mobile connectivity hotness and Apple wasn’t hopping on the bandwagon fast enough. Very soon people were going to be enjoying streaming movies to and enjoying advanced online gameplay on their Android smartphones as they drove down the road and over a cliff and Apple was going to miss out on all that. 5G was “a game changer” and Apple was going to suffer “psychological and reputational damage” by being late with it.
Well, let’s see how that all turned out, shall we?
“Telecoms operators face anxious wait for 5G to pay off”
In recent years, carriers have spent hundreds of billions on spectrum and infrastructure for the fifth generation of mobile telephony — 5G. Now, anxiety is mounting about whether enough people will pay for the services they have invested so heavily in.
There were a lot of things the “Apple is late to 5G!” crowd missed, but one of them was that, oh, the carriers are going to expect you to pay for this! During a global economic slowdown! That doesn’t seem great.
Even if 5G was going to be the big deal it didn’t turn out to be, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how Apple does business to expect that it would ship 5G in 2018 or even 2019. The company doesn’t ship features until they’re ready to use, and 5G wasn’t even close to fully rolled out yet. If anything, the company spared itself the overly-early investment the carriers and Android OEMs didn’t.
Put simply: it was 10 pounds of hot nonsense in a bag only rated to hold 5 pounds of cold nonsense. (Or 4.5-kilogram hot nonsense/2.3 kg cold nonsense for our pals in the U.K.)
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Or at least that’s as simply as the Macalope can put it.
Certainly, faster speeds will eventually win out, so it’s not like carriers are going to rip out their 5G lines and burn them in the desert. But here we are four years after Apple was supposedly botching things again and no one cares about the thing they were supposedly missing.
This kind of thing seems to happen a lot. Apple was famously told in 2014 that it needed to ship a watch in 60 days or it would “disappear.” The Macalope refers back to that prediction a lot and every time he thinks it’s 90 days and has to re-learn all over again that, nope, it was 60 days! And people like to talk about Apple’s hubris.
Apple, of course, somehow magically managed to not ship the Watch until a whole year later and still survive, if only barely. The Watch was a “flop” that ended up defining and ruling the smartwatch category to this day. But nobody cares about “wearable tech” anymore.
The company was also told in 2017 that it was “losing badly” to the Amazon Echo and needed a response. Which is hilarious because fast forward to now again and…
“Amazon Alexa is a ‘colossal failure,’ on pace to lose $10 billion this year”
$10 billion here, $10 billion there… pretty soon you’re talking about big money. Almost “buy a social media site and single-handedly drive it into the ground” kind of money. But nobody cares about smart speakers anymore.
So, is it time to call a moratorium on saying things? Maybe just until we figure out what’s going on?
Nah, it’s probably time to put some wacky deadline on Apple. A VR headset in a week or it’s curtains, Tim Cook!
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Starting with the 11-inch M2 iPad Pro, you can get the 256GB Wi-Fi model for $829.00, down from $899.00. This one is only available in Space Gray on Amazon, and it's an all-time low price.
Secondly, the 128GB Wi-Fi 12.9-inch M2 iPad Pro is on sale for $999.00, down from $1,099.00. This sale emerged a few days before Black Friday and has remained one of the more consistent deals this season, and it's another record low price on the 2022 tablet.
Head to our full Deals Roundup to get caught up with all of the latest deals and discounts that we've been tracking over the past week.
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Apple says the podcast won the award in recognition of its latest season "Roe v. Wade," in which Slate executive editor Susan Matthews explored the events leading up to the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973. The four-part miniseries was released throughout June and is being awarded for "outstanding quality, innovation, and impact."
The new award is made from 100% recycled aluminum and has the Apple Podcasts app icon on the front and the award winner printed on the back. It looks very similar to the App Store Award that has been awarded since 2020. Apple says the award represents the company's "decades-long commitment to supporting creators as they share their voices with the world and helping listeners to discover the best podcasts."
"Apple Podcasts is where users discover new shows, enjoy their favorites, unlock premium listening experiences, and support the creators who make them possible," said Oliver Schusser, Apple's vice president of Apple Music and Beats. "Podcasting plays an important role in our lives — helping us stay informed, keep entertained, and get inspired — and we're pleased to honor the Slate team with this recognition."
Starting today, users can explore six new "Slow Burn Extras" episodes available for free exclusively on Apple Podcasts.
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Apple on Tuesday announced this year’s 16 winners of its annual App Store Awards. Quick-hitting social network BeReal was named as the iPhone App of the Year, while Electronic Arts took the prestigious awards for iPhone Game of the Year with Apex Legends Mobile.
The yearly announcement singles out the best, most engaging, and most culturally significant software released for Apple’s main platforms across the previous 12 months. The company names an outstanding app and game for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV respectively, plus an outstanding app only for the Apple Watch. (There are games for the Apple Watch and have been a few excellent examples over the years such as Lifeline, but it’s a far more limited category than the others covered.)
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In previous years Apple has concluded by naming one or more trends for the year’s outstanding releases (in 2021 it was “connection,” and in 2020 “helpfulness”) but this year took a slightly different approach. Instead, the firm commended five apps for various forms of cultural impact. A new category was also added for 2022, with League of Legends Esports Manager named the inaugural China Game of the Year.
Here is the full list of App Store Awards 2022 winners:
- iPhone App of the Year: BeReal
- iPad App of the Year: GoodNotes 5
- Mac App of the Year: MacFamilyTree 10
- Apple TV App of the Year: ViX
- Apple Watch App of the Year: Gentler Streak
- iPhone Game of the Year: Apex Legends Mobile
- iPad Game of the Year: Moncage
- Mac Game of the Year: Inscryption
- Apple TV Game of the Year: El Hijo
- Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Wylde Flowers
- China Game of the Year: League of Legends Esports Manager
- Cultural Impact Winners: How We Feel, Dot’s Home, Locket Widget, Waterllama, and Inua – A Story in Ice and Time
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There are times when your Wi-Fi network just can’t provide the connection to the internet you need. Perhaps you are at work and the office Wi-Fi just can’t cope with all the iPads and iPhones accessing it so it slows your browsing to a crawl (or your boss decides to change the password for the same reason).
Maybe you are in a hotel and can’t connect all your devices to the room’s Wi-Fi at once. Or possibly you want to allow someone onto your Wi-Fi but you don’t want to give away the password.
Or perhaps it’s the end of the month and you are running out of data. You don’t have to stop surfing! It’s easy to create a hotspot from your Mac and share your connection with other devices via Wi-Fi, and here’s where we show you how.
Before we do, the update to macOS Ventura has brought with it some changes to how this works, so we will show both methods below. Skip to the next section if you aren’t running Ventura.
How to share Wi-Fi from Mac to iPhone (in macOS Ventura)
Materials required: You will need to have an Ethernet connection to your Mac, in other words, your Mac needs to be connected to the network with a wire, rather than using Wi-Fi.
Open System Settings > General > Sharing
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If you are wondering where the sharing options have gone now that System Preferences has been replaced by System Settings you will find them under General.
Click the i icon beside Internet Sharing
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Click on Sharing and then click on the i to the right of the Internet Sharing item. Don’t skip this step and jump straight to turning on Internet Sharing.
If prompted, authenticate with Touch ID, via a Watch, or by entering a password
Share your connection from Ethernet Adapter
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From the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu, select your ethernet adapter.
Share to the computer using Wi-Fi
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In the ‘To computers using’ list select Wi-Fi box. The word ‘computers’ here includes devices like your iPhone and iPad.
Select your Wi-Fi Options
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The Wi-Fi Options button at the bottom of the dialog will now be clickable.
Click on Wi-Fi Options and then enter a name, pick a channel, and set Security and a password.
In the Channel section choose a high-numbered channel (36, 40, 44, or 48) as this will give you greater range than the low-numbered channels (1, 6, 11). The high-numbered channels use the 5GHz frequency band, which will be compatible with any mainstream electronics, including all Apple hardware, sold within the last few years. However, if you have older gadgets that can only use 2.4GHz connections you will need to stick with 1, 6, or 11.
In the Security section you have the choice of WPA2/WPA3 Personal or WPA3 Personal. You should probably pick WPA2/WPA3 as it offers better compatibility. From a security standpoint, WPA3 not substantially different than WPA2. We give more advice here.
Click OK and click Done.
Turn on Internet Sharing
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Now you can click the switch next to Internet Sharing to enable the sharing of this connection. You’ll see a warning, if you are ready to go ahead click Start.
How to share Wi-Fi from Mac to iPhone (pre macOS Ventura)
If you haven’t yet installed Ventura, or your Mac isn’t compatible with the 2022 version of macOS, here are the steps you meed to follow.
- Open System Preferences and select Sharing. If you don’t see the below screen, click on the icon showing 12 dots.
- Click on Sharing.
- Now click on the box beside Internet Sharing.
- Beside ‘Share your connection from:’ choose Ethernet.
- Below that, beside ‘To computers using:’ choose Wi-Fi.
- Next click Wi-Fi Options, this will give you the option to choose a password so that strangers can’t jump on your Wi-Fi (it should be least eight characters). Next to Security choose WPA2 Personal and then enter your Password and verify it. (WPA2 is the 802.11i standard for encryption.)
- Now click on the box beside Internet Sharing.
- Confirm that you want to turn on Internet sharing by clicking Start.
- You have now created a Wi-Fi hotspot using your Mac. Note that where you would normally see that you had a Wi-Fi signal, now you see an icon with an arrow indicating that you are sharing your connection.
How to join the Hotspot you have created
Now that you have set up your hotspot you will be able to join the network you have created on your Mac from your other devices.
How to join the Hotspot from your iPad or iPhone
- On your iPhone or iPad go to Settings > Wi-Fi.
- Select the network you just created.
- Enter the password you set and you are good to go.
How to join the Hotspot from another Mac
- To add a second Mac to your Wi-Fi hotspot click on the Wi-Fi icon at the top of the screen.
- Select the name of the Wi-Fi hotspot you wish to join.
- Now enter the password for that Wi-Fi network.
How to create a Mac Wi-Fi hotspot without Ethernet
But what if you don’t have an Ethernet connection, perhaps your MacBook doesn’t have an Ethernet port and you don’t fancy getting an adaptor, let alone plugging into a wired connection?
Unfortunately your Mac cannot share an internet connection from Wi-Fi using Wi-Fi… unless you have an additional accessory.
While the Mac’s built-in networking card can either connect to Wi-Fi or host its own network, users can buy a Wi-Fi network adapter that should allow one network interface to receive the Wi-Fi connection while the other re-broadcasts it. You could use a USB Wifi Adapter dongle such as this: $16.99 from Amazon or £9.99 from Amazon UK.
Once the Wi-Fi adapter has been plugged in and installed, follow the above instructions and select one of your two Wi-Fi adapters instead of the Ethernet connection used in step 3 above.
How to share internet from Mac to iPhone via Bluetooth
But what about if you don’t want to fork out for a Wi-Fi network adapter? There is another option, although it won’t be as fast as Wi-Fi and may not be compatible with as many devices. That’s because, instead of using Wi-Fi to share the internet connection with your other devices, it’ll be using Bluetooth; or, more specifically, Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network).
The initial connection to devices will take longer due to the Bluetooth pairing process, but is a free alternative when looking to share your internet connection from Wi-Fi and it should work with most smartphones and tablets.
The setup is the same as if you were sharing via Wi-Fi (see the steps above), but make sure you select Bluetooth PAN in the “To computers using” box when confronted with the Configure an internet-sharing network.
To join the Bluetooth network from your iPhone, follow these steps:
- Make sure that your Mac has Bluetooth turned on.
- On your iPhone go to Settings >Bluetooth and make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
- Now go to Settings > Cellular Data (or Mobile Data) and tap on Personal Hotspot.
- Now you need to pair your iPhone with your computer. Open up the Bluetooth pane in System Preferences and scroll down until you see your iPhone, then click on Connect.
- A code will appear on both of your devices, click on Pair on your iPhone to pair both devices. Tap Pair and enter the code shown on your computer.
- Now you should see a blue Bluetooth icon in the top left of your iPhone screen indicating the devices are connected.
- On your Mac the usual symbol showing Wi-Fi will show an arrow.
- On your iPhone go to Wi-Fi and find the Mac you want to link to.
- On your iPhone you will see the option to join the Personal Hotspot, tap on Join.
- Enter the password if you set one.
We also have an article that explains how to share the data connection from your iPhone to your Mac so you can get online. And if you are looking for ways to extend your Wi-Fi network, or avoid dropouts read: How to boost your WiFi connection on a Mac.
The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro currently have M1 Pro and M1 Max chips on offer but Apple’s moved on since the M1 now, with the M2 arriving in the 13in MacBook Pro in June 2022. Now attention is turning to the next generation of the larger, more powerful, MacBook Pro models. When will they start shipping with new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips? There was hope that the updates would arrive in October or November 2022, but this didn’t transpire. Instead it looks like the update to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and it’s and 16-inch sibling will come in the spring of 2023. That might sound like bad news, but, if you are based outside the U.S. at least, it could actually be good news. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming release.
Should I buy a MacBook Pro or wait for the new models?
You might be wondering whether to take advantage of the sales (see: Best Cyber Monday MacBook deals) and buy yourself a new MacBook Pro right now, or if you’d be better off waiting for Apple to update the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro.
Normally, with new Macs in the pipeline we’d be advising that shoppers wait. However, things are a little different right now. The deals are looking great, and we are anticipating that, if you aren’t based in the U.S., Black Friday might be your last best chance to buy a Mac before prices skyrocket. Following price rises for the whole range of iPads in October, Macs look likely to get price hikes in conjunction with the new product launches.
2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Release date
Hopes that new MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max chips would arrive in the fall of 2022 have been dashed, despite months of speculation that the new laptops would be launching soon.
In a October 30 newsletter, with the headline “New Macs coming next year” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote that “Apple’s next group of Macs probably won’t launch until early next year”. As for when: Gurman is banking on the first half of March 2023.
Gurman and many other Apple watchers had been expecting a late 2022 launch for the new MacBooks. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted in August that the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro would enter production in the fourth quarter, which tallied with a fall launch, but it looks like the launch has been delayed.
New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Price
The current models are priced as follows. While there are some big price leaps between the 8-core and 10-core CPU modes that many will be hoping Apple will close up, we don’t anticipate any major changes in the U.S.—but we do expect to see some price rises in some parts of the world in line with inflation–and the global price rise following the introduction of the new iPad models does make this look likely. Apple raised the price of the entry-level MacBook Air by $200 or 20 percent with the M2 redesign. See: Is Apple ripping off the rest of the world with inflated prices?
Here’s Apple’s MSRP right now:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 8-Core CPU, 14-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD, $1,999/£1,899
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD, $2,499/£2,399
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD, $2,499/£2,399
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Pro, 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD, $2,699/$2,599
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, M1 Max, 10-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, 32GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD, $3,499/£3,299
If Apple raises prices by 15%–which was the lowest percentage rise for iPads in October–UK shoppers could be paying these prices:
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, 512GB, £2,184
- 14-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB, £2,759
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 512GB, £2,759
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB/M1 Pro, £2,989
- 16-inch MacBook Pro, 1TB/M1 Max, £3,794
Those are some pretty steep price rises, which serve to illustrate how big a leap there was in iPad prices outside the U.S. Hopefully the price leaps won’t be so big. Indeed, hopefully Apple will decide that no price rises are better for everyone and maybe the U.S. market will see a price drop instead.
New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Design
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If you were hoping that Apple would change anything about the design of these two larger MacBook Pro models be prepared to be disappointed. The company made some huge changes in 2021, with the new 14- and 16-inch size displays and their ProMotion technology, along with the removal of the Touch Bar and the addition of the notch (all of which serve to differentiate from the 13-inch MacBook Pro). Gurman has indicated that the MacBook Pro is expected to “stay roughly the same” on the outside.
AppleLeaksPro on Twitter agrees. In a tweet in which he claimed that the upcoming M2 MacBook Pro will be ‘worth the wait’ he explained that his source indicated there likely won’t be any “design or I/O changes.”
New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro: Specs
While the outside of the MacBook Pro will look the same, the inside will be different. Based on the M2 and the M1 variants that Apple launched in 2021, we estimate that the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips will offer the following:
- M2 Pro: up to 10-core CPU, up to 20-core GPU, up to 48GB RAM
- M2 Max: up to 10-core CPU, 40-core GPU, up to 96GB RAM
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We might see even more CPU cores than predicted above – Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that his sources indicate that the M2 Max could have 12 CPU cores.
Two extra CPU cores are not the only change that could spell a faster CPU. There had been suggestions that Apple would start using the new 3nm process for the M3 chips when they arrive, probably in 2023, but some reports suggested that this new process could be used for the M2 Pro and other variants.
The 3nm process should allow even higher transistor density among other things. According to DigiTimes in June 2022, Apple has “booked TSMC capacity for its upcoming 3nm M3 and M2 Pro processors” and TSMC will be starting volume production of 3nm chips in the second half of 2022. YouTube channel Max Tech’s Vadim Yuryev also indicated that the M2 Pro will be 3nm.
However, as per Ming-Chi Kuo’s August tweet (above): “Given TSMC’s guidance that the 3nm will contribute revenue starting in 1H23, processors of 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro models may still adopt the 5nm advanced node.”
If the M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips are built using this 3nm process the gap between the M2 and these other variants will be bigger than ever and the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, Mac Studio, high-end Mac mini, and Mac Pro could offer even bigger speed boosts than those seen with the M2 compared to the M1.
If Apple is adopting this new process for the M2 Pro and beyond it would be unlikely that it will arrive before spring 2023. However, Gurman thinks we will have to wait until late 2023 or 2024 before we see the 3nm process arrive with the M3 chips.
GPU
Gurman also suggests a maximum of 38 GPU cores, six more than the M1 Max offered. As with the M2 chip, the M2 Pro and M2 Max will focus “on the graphics side,” according to Gurman. In the case of the M2 in the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, Apple delivered a graphics boost from 8- to 10-cores. For the M2 Pro and M2 Max, this could translate to a move from 14 cores and 16 cores to 18 cores and 20 cores for the M2 Pro and 24 cores and 32 cores to 30 cores and 38 cores for the M2 Max.
RAM
It’s likely that the new MacBook Pro models will also offer more RAM. Apple upped the RAM in the M2 MacBooks from a maximum of 16GB in the M1 to 24GB in the M2. A similar increase could theoretically mean we see up to 48GB RAM in the Pro and 96GB RAM in the Max. Additionally, a report by Macrumors claimed the new MacBook Pro will feature “very high-bandwidth, high-speed RAM,” which could mean that the new models use LPDDR5X RAM, which would bring 300GB/s (M2 Pro) and 600 GB/s (M2 Max) 300GB/s memory bandwidth. The current models deliver 200GB/s and 400GB/s, respectively.
Battery Life
LeaksApplePro claimed on Twitter in November 2022 that the new MacBook Pro models will offer “better battery life”. He didn’t elaborate further. The battery life of the 14-inch MacBook Pro is 17 hours while the 16-inch offers 21 hours, which is already the best battery life ever offered in a Mac laptop. Any gains in the battery life could be down to improvements in the processor. LeaksApplePro also notes that there will be “less heat”, which could be connected to a more efficient processor.
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The Black Friday shopping extravaganza may be over, but Cyber Monday deals are in full swing, with tons of deals across every product Apple sells. Here are our top picks after sorting through all of the remaining sales:
Apple’s AirPods are always a popular sale item over the holiday shopping season, and this year you can find deep discounts across the entire line. But the standout deal is the new second-gen AirPods Pro for $200, a savings of 20 percent on a device that only just arrived in September. And you’re getting a lot for your money: Better sound, better noise cancellation, better battery life, and a better case.
iPad (9th-gen): $270 ($69 off)
When Apple began selling the 10th-gen iPad in October, it kept the old iPad around at the same $329 price. But for Cyber Monday, Amazon is selling it at a significant 18 percent discount, bringing it down to $270 and matching the best price we’ve ever seen. It may have an old design, but for kids, grandparents, and anyone else in need of a good inexpensive tablet, it’s a great option.
Apple Pencil (2nd-gen): $89 ($40 off)
Apple’s second-gen Pencil is compatible with nearly every iPad it sells—Air, mini, and Pro—but it rarely goes on sale. Today, however, Amazon is knocking an impressive 30 percent off the $129 MSRP, bringing it down to a reasonable $89. Even if you’re not an artist, it’s worth picking up at this price.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro is a steal at $499 off.
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14-inch MacBook Pro: $2,000 ($499 off)
There are numerous MacBook Pros on sale right now for hundreds off, but our favorite is the sweet spot: the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a 10-core/16-core M1 Pro processor and 1TB of storage for $2,000. You’re getting a better processor and twice the storage for the same price as the base model and saving $499. That’s a no-brainer.
MacBook Air (M1): $799 ($200 off)
The newer M2 MacBook Air is a superior machine with a bigger and brighter display, new design, and faster chip, but the M1 MacBook Air is still a fantastic computer, especially when you take 20 percent off the $999 price. For most people, we think it’s the best way to spend $799 on a new laptop.
MacBook Air (M2, 512GB): $1,349 ($150 off)
The M2 MacBook Air has a completely new design that looks more like a MacBook Pro than a MacBook Air. It also got a $200 price hike to go with it, but this Cyber Monday deal mostly wipes away the increase, with $150 off any color at Amazon.
24-inch iMac: $1,349 ($150 off)
The 24-inch iMac is one of Apple’s most underrated products, particularly the mid-range model with an 8-core CPU and GPU, extra USB ports, Touch ID keyboard, and ethernet power adapter, none of which come with the entry-level model. We like it at $1,499, but we love it at $150 off for Cyber Monday: $1,349.
The Apple Watch Ultra is $60 off at Amazon.
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The Ultra model is the newest addition to the Apple Watch lineup, and it lives up to its name, with a 49mm display, 36-hour battery life, titanium rugged design, 1000X water resistance, and a slew of fitness upgrades. It’s not for everyone, but if you’ve been wanting to buy one, today’s $739 price, knocking $60 off the MSRP, is a great reason to take the plunge.
Apple Watch SE (first-gen): $149 ($130 off)
The Apple Watch SE 2 is a very good entry-level watch at $249, but it’s practically identical to the original model. So why not get the 2020 model at Walmart for $149 (40mm) or $179 (44mm) instead while you still can?
Apple Studio Display: $1,499 ($100 off)
For the Apple fan who has everything, the Studio Display is a fantastic addition to your setup, with a gorgeous design, 5K display, built-in webcam, and Spatial Audio support. The savings here aren’t huge, but it so rarely goes on sale, even $100 off is something to celebrate.
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