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As is often the case, Apple has leaked its own hardware. Here are the signs that the folding iPhone and MacBook Pro with touchscreen are coming, and where they are. A render of a potential iPhone Fold design - image credit: AppleInsider The release of the first developer betas of macOS 27 Golden Gate, iOS 27, and others was followed by the inevitable deep dive into the changes. All to find out wh…

It's obviously speculation, and repeated at that, but a new report argues that it's more likely that Apple will eventually charge a fee for Siri Ai now that Apple Intelligence has improved so much. For now, Siri AI is free, although iCloud+ subscribers get higher daily usage limits. Apple has long been predicted to introduce a subscription version of Apple Intelligence , and a new report chiefly …

An employee disappearing with a MacBook, a man convicted of tracking a woman with an AirTag , and a woman who used an AirTag to track her husband in ICE custody, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter. Man in cuffs - Image Credit: Pixabay The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Over two years after the Apple Car program was declared dead, Apple has offloaded its 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground to Waymo. It's a sale that recoups $220M from the $10B Apple spent on the failed project. The Apple Car no longer exists. Nor does its test track. The Apple Car project is a program believed to have been cancelled by Apple after about a decade of research and development. In wha…

With delivery by Father's Day and a 90-day low price, you'll want to grab Amazon's weekend Mac mini deal before inventory runs out. Pick up Apple's Mac mini at a discount while supplies last. With increased demand for a headless machine to run AI agents and a budget-friendly price tag, Apple's M4 Mac mini has been sold out for much of Q2 2026. But Amazon has the 16GB/512GB configuration back in s…

Dell has rebuilt the XPS 13 to directly take on Apple's MacBook Neo on price. Here's how the entry-level models compare on specs and value. MacBook Neo [left] vs Dell XPS 13 [right] Apple's MacBook Neo arrived as the company's most accessible laptop, pairing the A18 Pro chip with a $599 price. Dell has now answered directly with a new XPS 13. Dell is open about the target. Its announcement names …

Whether you rent or own, there are some chores you have to complete on a near-constant basis. The good news is, you can get some help from robots and apps in your Apple Home . Get a little help in your smart home from some robots and tech solutions I'm a firm believer in optimizing when possible. If a robot, machine, or gadget exists to speed up or even remove the need for certain tasks, I'm goin…

Apple has finally brought Visual Intelligence to the Mac with macOS Golden Gate , and it is a boon when it works. Here's how to get started. You can select a region on your Mac's screen and if it shows food, you can get nutrition details - image credit: Apple I admit I have sometimes taken a photo of my Mac 's screen and used Visual Intelligence on my iPhone to find out what I'm looking at. But a…

Just in time for America's 250th anniversary, Disney Imagineers tapped Apple Vision Pro to help give one of their most iconic flight rides a patriotic makeover. A Disney audio engineer wears the Apple Vision Pro Disney has shared a brand-new behind-the-scenes video as part of the Disney Unscripted series on YouTube. This time, the company shows off what it takes to revamp one of its existing attr…

OpenAI is forcing Mac users to update ChatGPT and other desktop apps, after a supply chain attack exposed signing certificates that Apple's security systems use to verify trusted software. OpenAI is forcing Mac users to update ChatGPT The company disclosed the incident on May 13 and confirmed malware linked to the "Mini Shai-Hulud" attack infected two employee devices through the TanStack npm eco…

Apple's forthcoming macOS 27 doesn't run on Intel Macs at all, and that's just the beginning of a timeline that will complete a years-long transition to Apple Silicon. Here's what to expect, and when. Running Intel apps on Macs will soon be a thing of the past When Apple unveiled macOS 27 during its WWDC 2026 opening keynote, it put into motion its previously announced plan for the end of Intel M…

Apple is gearing up to release new child safety tools in iOS 27 . Here's a look at what the science behind the guidelines says. The science behind keeping kids safe online | Image credit: Apple During the WWDC 2026 keynote, Apple announced that it would release expanded parental controls for Child Accounts. These tools have been designed to help parents manage how a young person interfaces with a…

Finally, we know details about iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate , and more. There is still so much more to discover, especially now that we're diving into the betas on the AppleInsider Podcast. Craig Federighi starts to introduce macOS Golden Gate - image credit: Apple As Apple's WWDC week draws to its close, we're still digesting everything that was announced in its opening keynote. Plus one…

Developers looking to see just how much design work they have to do to match the revised Liquid Glass with its new app icons, can see every detail in Apple's updated resources library. Every detail of, in this case, the look of macOS Golden Gate is now available for developers to emulate - image credit: Apple Just as it did in 2025 with the launch of Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe , Apple has now pu…

Thank goodness for Siri AI, because if the only updates with macOS Golden Gate were the other ones shown at WWDC, this would be the weakest release in history. Apple's macOS Golden Gate really only brings one new feature to the Mac, but it's the mostly superb Siri AI. As it is, the new macOS Golden Gate is a significant and even dramatic update, but solely because of how useful Siri AI is. True, …