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Even when used as a monitor for your Mac , an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior. Smart TVs can double as silent spies Smart TVs from LG and Samsung are increasingly being used as monitors for Mac and PC, given that they are generally cheaper than an OLED display. The trade-off that you get fo…

Fourth of July savings are underway this holiday weekend in the U.S. — and Apple products, along with complementary accessories, are on sale at up to $800 off. Save up to $800 on Apple during 4th of July sales - Image credit: Apple Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The Steam Summer Sale is running now, and Steam is a fantastic place to get Mac games. Even better, they're cheaper than they are on the App Store. Image Credit: Steam / Valve It's that time of year again — the Steam Summer Sale. It's the perfect time to snatch up all those games you've been eyeballing for the past year. If you're not sure where to start, let us help; we've compiled a list of our…

Give your text and emoji-based messages a bit of life, by sending special effects to others in the iMessage conversation. You can send various iMessage effects to your friends and family. Sometimes, sending a message from your iPhone to others can seem a bit pedestrian. A line of text doesn't really elicit emotion unless it's a meaningful message, unless you count the use of emojis and copious us…

Apple is celebrating 10 years of Apple Music , but ignoring 18 years of the iPhone. Plus Siri is not being replaced by ChatGPT, and Apple's cross-promotions of its services just keep on coming. Apple will surely add more AI extensions to Apple Intelligence, but it isn't buying Perplexity If you've been living under Airplane Mode for the last many weeks, you may be the only person Apple hasn't man…

Tim Cook has constantly been criticized, most recently over Apple Intelligence , but always for just not being Steve Jobs — yet the fact that he isn't Jobs is what has made Apple the technological and financial juggernaut it is today. Tim Cook (left) with Steve Jobs — image credit: Apple There was criticism right back at the start in 2011, when Tim Cook was no longer the temporary stand-in for St…

Creative work gets a major upgrade in iOS 26 , with on-device tools that let you generate custom images, tweak your tone, and organize your ideas more naturally. Image Playground in iOS 26 offers creative options for art Apple's iOS 26 brings a deeper focus on creativity by expanding the tools you already use every day. While many of these features started in earlier updates, the newest version a…

A FOIA request revealed the letters sent to Apple and big tech over the TikTok ban, and they claim the law wouldn't be enforced due to it interfering with the President's management of foreign affairs. Lack of TikTok ban enforcement due to Article II interpretation TikTok was banned originally due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that was signed into …

Apple is set to detail earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2025 on July 31 in an investor call, though all eyes will be on how unstable tariff policies have impacted the company. Apple to reveal earnings for Q3 in July. Image source: Apple Apple's Q3 tends to be quieter than the rest since holiday sales are long over and spring releases don't always drive the market, but 2025 has something t…

Apple reportedly was considering providing cloud services to app developers, as executives considered the creation of a rival offering to services sold by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. iCloud is Apple's main cloud service, but it apparently considered providing developers with more. Developers often rely on cloud servers for various tasks, ranging from data storage to off-device processing. Whil…

Apple has long been rumored to be working on the iPhone Fold and a foldable iPad. A new report claims that the iPad project is "paused," and I am convinced that it's the right decision. The 'iPhone Fold' is expected to take familiar design cues - image credit AppleInsider The folding device rumors have been plentiful in recent years, and the general belief was that something would be released in …

While China's smartphone sales stall overall, Apple grabbed growth with smart pricing, subsidies, and its broad iPhone 16 lineup. iPhone 16 lineup Apple posted high single-digit growth in China's smartphone market during the second quarter of 2025. Sales rose on the strength of promotions and demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone Pro Max models. Counterpoint Research reported that Apple's price…

Early Prime Day deals are heating up, especially with the 4th of July weekend on the horizon, and shoppers can reap special savings on clearance Mac mini computers, AirTags, and accessories. Save on AirTags, docks, speakers & more. Kicking off today's fresh early Prime Day deals is a blowout $199.99 price on a refurbished Intel Mac mini at Amazon-owned Woot. Equipped with a 6-core Intel Core i5 p…

Apple Umeda opens on July 26, and Apple comes bearing gifts — a brand new Apple-themed wallpaper, available for all your devices. New wallpapers from Apple now available for Phone, iPad, Mac Apple has announced that a brand new Apple Store, known as Apple Umeda, will be opening at Osaka's Grant Front shopping center on July 26. It marks Apple's first store in Umeda, though the company has been ey…

Apple Music in iOS 26 added AutoMix. auto-translation of lyrics, and more. Here's how the updates compare against what's in iOS 18. Music iOS 26 vs iOS 18 - Translation is the biggest functional change for iOS 26 The Apple Music app often receives new features as part of the iOS update treadmill. For iOS 26 , that chiefly involves changes to the listening experience. However, there are still othe…