AppleInsider

Early Black Friday MacBook Air deals are in full swing, with prices as low as $599 and discounts of up to $600 off. Save up to $600 on MacBook Air ahead of Black Friday - Image credit: Apple Apple's MacBook Air is a popular gift idea this holiday season thanks to the 2025 M4 chip release and its travel-friendly, ultraportable chassis. With these early Black Friday deals, you can also snag discoun…

The legal woes of the Apple Watch are continuing, as Apple has been hit with a $634 million verdict in a trial over alleged infringement of Masimo's blood oxygen monitoring patents. The rear sensor of the Apple Watch Series 9 Masimo has repeatedly gone after Apple, believing that the iPhone maker has used its patents in the Apple Watch to detect a user's blood oxygen levels. On Friday, a federal …

Apple's board and leadership are increasing their search for the right candidate to replace Tim Cook as CEO, just in case the eventual succession of the company's leadership happens in 2026. Apple CEO Tim Cook A lot of Apple's senior figures are facing retirement, with most of the top executives now over the age of 60. For a company of Apple's size, it is an inevitability it has to plan for , and…

On Friday, Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams clocked out for the last time at Apple Park, and is now officially retired. Apple COO transition between Jeff Williams and Sabih Khan. Image source: Apple Williams stepped down and transitioned his role to Sabih Khan in July. He remained with the company, and reported directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook while overseeing the design team. "Jeff and …

A revised agreement shortens the Apple TV partnership with Major League Soccer by years, and clears the way for the league to reenter the media rights market after the 2026 World Cup. Apple and Major League Soccer Apple and MLS announced changes to their agreement in mid-November 2025. League owners were informed of the change in the terms during meetings held in Florida. The revisions reduce the…

After dropping Apple's new M5 MacBook Pro with a 1TB SSD down to the lowest price ever , Amazon is discounting the standard model to $1,478 for the weekend. Get the lowest price to date on Apple's new M5 MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple Shoppers looking to pick up Apple's brand-new M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch can do so at a discount when you shop at Amazon today. Buy M5 MacBook Pro for $1,478 Continu…

Fans of Apple TV "Pluribus" can now read a mid-story excerpt from "Bloodsong of Wycaro," the romance novel featured in the show's first episodes. Apple TV show "Pluribus" Apple is rolling out a playful tie-in for its new Apple TV series Pluribus , giving viewers a short in-universe book excerpt that expands the world of the show. Fans can download the fictional chapter today in Apple Books. The c…

The USITC has started a new investigation looking at the Apple Watch , to see if the blood oxygenation sensing changes implemented earlier in 2025 still infringe patents held by medical tech company Masimo. Apple Watch Series 9 versus Apple Watch Ultra 2 On Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) issued an order to restart an investigation about Apple Watch, and the potential violatio…

Celebrate friends and family alike with the holiday classic "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — here's how you can watch it for free on Apple TV. Image Credit: Apple Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends are back on Apple TV for the holiday season, with a free streaming window for non-subscribers. "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" will be available to watch at no cost from Saturday, November 15, through S…

The spiritual successor to the iPod Sock, Apple's new iPhone Pocket, is sold out across the US, in both sizes, and all colors despite its high cost. Take a good look — unless you already got in early, you may never get to see an iPhone Pocket — image credit: Apple Longtime Apple users immediately saw the resemblance with the old iPod socks, and everyone saw the price. Apple and Japan's Issey Miya…

If you're a fan of burgundy accessories, you're in luck — Apple just started selling some. A range of "Dark Cherry" accessories for the iPhone and more is now available at the Apple Store. Dark Cherry accessories for everyone None of these accessories is made by Apple, but they do come from some of the most popular accessory brands around. Accessories from PopSockers and Herschel are included, am…

On this week's AppleInsider Podcast, your hosts discuss the privacy implications of smart glasses, the spiritual successor to the iPod Sock, the misreported death of iPhone Air 2, watching jets take off in Apple Vision Pro, and more! Apple's latest Immersive Video takes us to the USS Nimitz Apple has launched its new digital passport feature for Apple Wallet, so the hosts discuss what else they'd…

Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, and how to use a graphical interface with the service to make it even easier. Homebrew on Mac Before Homebrew came along, the Mac was polished on the outside and messy underneath. Installing software meant dragging icons or unpacking files by hand, and the command line was…

It's not enough to just let your iPhone back up to iCloud, not when you need to be sure you won't lose anything important. Here are your options for backing up iOS devices. Steve Jobs once made a point of telling an audience that he hadn't backed up in all the years he had been at NeXT. However, that wasn't because backing up is unimportant. It was because it was so important that every NeXT empl…

Elon Musk wasn't happy with how xAI was performing in Apple's App Store compared to ChatGPT, so he filed a lawsuit, which Apple and OpenAI must now face after failing to get it dismissed. Elon Musk wants Apple's help to make Grok more popular There are a lot of odd details surrounding a case that pits Elon Musk and former business partner Sam Altman against each other — with Apple trapped in the …