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• Hands-on: Flexbar brings back the Touch Bar to your Mac – but is it worth it?

  30-12-2024 23:48 via 9to5mac.com
  
  We recently reported on Flexbar, a project developed by ENIAC Technology that brings back the Touch Bar – the controversial (and now discontinued) small touch screen implemented by Apple on the MacBook Pro keyboard. Although Apple certainly had its reasons for discontinuing the Touch Bar, some users do miss it. I got my hands on a Flexbar unit to see what it’s like to use something like the Touch Bar again.more…
  
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• Apple’s next-gen CarPlay MIA in 2024

  30-12-2024 23:29 via macdailynews.com
  
  The next generation of CarPlay deeply integrates with a car’s hardware, providing content for multiple screens within the vehicle.
  The “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and, as MacRumors points out, that the company continues to say on its CarPlay webpage will arrive in 2024 is MIA.
  Wes Davis for The Verge:‎So far, we’ve only seen changes like CarPlay mapping directions appearing in the instrument cluster in cars from manufacturers like P
  
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• Apple’s new Home products will challenge a long-standing Apple rule, here’s why

  30-12-2024 23:03 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple is finally getting serious about the smart home, with three new Home products launching in 2025 and several more after that. Excited as I am for this new Home momentum, it also reminds me of a long-standing Apple rule that could be challenged by this lineup of new products.more…
  
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• iOS 19 concept imagines Lock Screen stickers, clever ‘Flick’ feature, more [Video]

  30-12-2024 21:53 via 9to5mac.com
  
  It sounds impossible, but we’re just over six months away from the first unveiling of iOS 19. While rumors about what to expect from the update have been sparse, a new concept created by designer Oofus offers some clever ideas about what iOS 19 could offer…more…
  
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• Gurman: Voice Control for Next Magic Mouse 'Makes Sense'

  30-12-2024 21:49 via macrumors.com
  
  An upcoming version of the Magic Mouse with voice control for AI would "make sense," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said today, though he claimed that he has heard no rumors about the feature so far.
  A report from Korean leaker "yeux1222" this morning suggested that Apple has created a prototype Magic Mouse that includes a mix of touch, voice controls, and hand gestures. Gurman said on social media that the functionality is logical in light of AI, but he also claimed that the rumor is "just an incorrec
  
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• Enjoy award-winning Apple TV+ series and movies free the first weekend of 2025


  30-12-2024 21:17 via macdailynews.com
  
  Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world. Enjoy Apple TV+ for free the first weekend of 2025 (January 3 through January 5), Apple TV+ will be free on any device where Apple TV+ is available. All you need is an Apple ID to see what all the buzz is about.
  Kick off 2025 by streaming Apple’s acclaimed originals, including buzzy new seasons of “Silo,” “Shrinking” and “Bad Sisters,” the twisty, rive
  
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• What to Expect From Apple in 2025

  30-12-2024 21:08 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple is going to have a busy year in 2025, based on the rumors that we're hearing right now. All of the rest of the Mac lineup will be updated with M4 chips, plus there's a new iPhone SE coming, and a whole new iPhone 17 "Air" that's slimmer than any iPhone to date.Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.
  The ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro models might also get a major design update with a new look for the camera and the chassis, plus Apple is going to debut a whole new "Command C
  
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• These new iOS features are coming to your iPhone in early 2025

  30-12-2024 20:13 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple has shipped an astounding number of new iPhone features in the past few months, with major updates coming in iOS 18, iOS 18.1, and the recent iOS 18.2. But there’s more on the way soon. Here are all the new iOS features that we know are coming in the first four months of 2025.more…
  
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• MagSafe Money: LISEN delivers the strongest MagSafe magnet I’ve found for the car

  30-12-2024 20:06 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Since it was released with the iPhone 12, MagSafe has completely changed how I charge my iPhone. I want to look at today’s product, the , a great option for drivers seeking stability, convenience, and cutting-edge tech. With support for Qi2 charging and a remarkably strong mount, it’s an impressive addition to any car setup—though it comes with a small trade-off.more…
  
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• MagSafe Monday: LISEN delivers the strongest MagSafe magnet I’ve found for the car

  30-12-2024 20:06 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Since it was released with the iPhone 12, MagSafe has completely changed how I charge my iPhone. I want to look at today’s product, the , a great option for drivers seeking stability, convenience, and cutting-edge tech. With support for Qi2 charging and a remarkably strong mount, it’s an impressive addition to any car setup—though it comes with a small trade-off.more…
  
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• Apple Watch Series 10 sale starts at just $329

  30-12-2024 19:59 via macdailynews.com
  
  Apple Watch Series 10 features the biggest and most advanced display of any Apple Watch, improving readability and usability in apps like Messages, Mail, or News.
  Amazon has further reduced prices on Apple Watches this weekend, bringing the Series 10 down to $329 — a $70 discount from its MSRP and the lowest price in the last month.
  For those prioritizing affordability, the Apple Watch SE 2 is now available for $199, making it the most budget-friendly option in the current Apple Watch line
  
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• 9to5Mac Product of the Year: Apple Vision Pro

  30-12-2024 19:19 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple fired on all cylinders throughout 2024 with big revamps to the iPad and Mac lineups, the iPhone 16, and the Apple Watch Series 10.
  None of those products, however, have had and will continue to have the impact of Apple Vision Pro. For that reason, we are crowning the Apple Vision Pro as the 9to5Mac Product of the Year for 2024.more…
  
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• All iPhone 17 models said to sport ProMotion displays

  30-12-2024 18:14 via macdailynews.com
  
  iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus
  A recent leak reinforces earlier rumors that the standard iPhone 17 will feature a ProMotion display, enhancing its responsiveness and perceived speed. ProMotion, first introduced on the iPad Pro in 2017, significantly improved the screen’s performance, particularly with Apple Pencil. This technology dynamically adjusts the display’s refresh rate up to 120Hz for smoother motion and down for static images to conserve battery life.
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• Apple’s redesigned Magic Mouse 3 coming in late 2026, per rumor

  30-12-2024 17:56 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple recently updated its trio of Mac accessories—, Magic Trackpad, and —to USB-C versions. Now, a new rumor points to the planned timing for Apple’s big Magic Mouse 3 redesign.more…
  
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• Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 from $329, M4 iPad Pro $200 off, 25W Apple MagSafe Charger 29% off, more

  30-12-2024 17:52 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Amazon has brought back some of its most notable Black Friday deals on Apple gear for one last run in 2024. This includes the $70 price drops across the Apple Watch Series 10 lineup, including both 42mm and 46mm models in various colorways, as well as the straight up $200 price drops on Apple’s most affordable 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models – although we do have deals on the 11-inchers as well. Those join up to 29% off the next-gen 25W Apple MagSafe Charger, loads of accessories, MagSafe
  
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• 9to5Mac Daily: December 30, 2024 – iOS 19 rumors, Apple smart doorbell

  30-12-2024 17:39 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.Last Chance!: Save 20% on all 9to5Mac Daily Plus, 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus, and 9to5Mac Pro annual subscriptions with promo code HOLIDAY! Visit 9to5mac.com/join to sign up.more…
  
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• Apple honors Jimmy Carter

  30-12-2024 17:21 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Sunday at 100. Apple has now updated its homepage to pay tribute to President Carter, the longest-living president in American history.more…
  
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• These Apple deals are the perfect way to spend your Amazon holiday gift cards

  30-12-2024 17:12 via macworld.com
  
  Macworld
  The gift-giving season may be over but that doesn’t mean we’re not still looking for deals. And we have three today that are perfect for those gift cards you got, with some of the best prices we’ve ever seen.First up is the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple’s latest smartwatch with a slew of excellent health features and sensors to get your new year off on the right foot. It has a bigger display than the Series 9, a thinner design, and faster charging, as well as incr
  
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• Apple Honors Jimmy Carter With Homepage Tribute

  30-12-2024 17:07 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today updated its homepage to honor former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100.
  The longest-lived president in U.S. history, Carter served in the position from 1977 to 1981 and was known for redefining the post-presidency with his focus on human rights and diplomacy through the Carter Center, for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Carter was also a prominent advocate for and participant in the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity.Today, we honor Presid
  
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• These six Apple products are getting rare updates in 2025

  30-12-2024 16:59 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple’s new year is about to begin, and 2025 will be an especially big one for rarely-updated products. Here are six new products coming that will have waited about three years (or more) between hardware updates.more…
  
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• Redesigned Magic Mouse With Touch and Voice Controls Reportedly Coming in 2026

  30-12-2024 16:45 via macrumors.com
  
  A completely redesigned version of the Magic Mouse featuring touch and voice controls is coming in 2026, a Korean leaker claims.Expanding on a recent report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the Korean Apple news aggregator known as "yeux1122" says that Apple's next-generation Magic Mouse will feature a new, more ergonomic design that addresses long-standing complaints, including the location of the charging port.While the Magic Mouse switched from Lightning to USB-C a few months ago, the charging p
  
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• Here’s the care Apple takes to test iPhone video recording

  30-12-2024 16:24 via 9to5mac.com
  
  CNET’s headline reference to “a rare look inside Apple’s secret iPhone 16 camera labs” is somewhat hyperbolic, since there’s nothing secret about them: we’ve seen one of them a couple of times before.But the piece does, all the same, provide an interesting look at some of the testing processes used during the development of a new iPhone …
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• iPhone SE 4 Could Be More Expensive

  30-12-2024 16:22 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple's fourth-generation iPhone SE could see a slight price increase over the current model, according to a new report originating in Asia.
  Citing a Japanese source, the aggregator known as "yeux1122" on Korean social media site Naver claims that the fourth-generation ‌iPhone SE‌ will be priced below 78,000 yen–about $500. However, the price of the device is likely to exceed 800,000 won in Korea—around $540. This international pricing may indicate that the new ‌iPhone
  
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• Apple TV+ offers free weekend of streaming, January 4-5

  30-12-2024 16:19 via macdailynews.com
  
  Apple TV+ is offering a free weekend of streaming, granting access to its entire catalog of Apple Originals without requiring a subscription. This promotional period will run from January 4th to January 5th, providing a window of opportunity for new viewers to explore the platform’s diverse content library. The move comes as Apple looks to capitalize on the start of the new year and generate excitement for upcoming releases, including the highly anticipated second season of the critically
  
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• Meta makes U-turn on bricked Meta Quest headsets after backlash

  30-12-2024 15:32 via 9to5mac.com
  
  A recent software update resulted in a significant number of bricked Meta Quest headsets, with Meta initially shrugging and saying that for out-of-warranty Quest 2/3/3S models it wouldn’t be fixing the problem …
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• Apple TV+ Announces Free Weekend [Updated]

  30-12-2024 15:21 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple TV+ is set to be available to stream for free from Friday, January 3 to Sunday, January 5, providing its full catalog with no subscription fee.Following a series of teasers, Apple confirmed the free weekend on social media, building anticipation for new releases early in 2025 such as the second season of "Severance." Simply open the ‌Apple TV‌ app to watch for free.Apple has never done a free all-you-can-watch ‌‌Apple TV‌‌+ event before, but it does offer free
  
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• Apple TV+ announces free streaming weekend for its catalog of originals

  30-12-2024 15:10 via 9to5mac.com
  
  After several days of teasers, Apple TV+ today confirmed that the streaming service will be free for all this weekend. Between January 4 and January 5, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required.This free weekend promotion will help garner awareness for the service as we embark on the new year, with major launches like Severance season two starting later this month.more…
  
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• Apple Intelligence needs to finally make Siri substantially better in 2025

  30-12-2024 15:06 via macdailynews.com
  
  In iOS 18, Siri received a new design that includes a glowing light that wraps around the edge of the screen when active.
  Inc’s Jason Aten makes the argument that in 2025, there is a more important product it has to get right: Apple Intelligence. Or, more specifically, the part of Apple Intelligence that makes Siri substantially better.
  Jason Aten for Inc:‎In fact, I’d argue that if Apple does not ship a new iPhone, that would be less detrimental than if it fails to release a goo
  
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• TSMC Arizona chip plant still has 50% Taiwanese workers in the run-up to production

  30-12-2024 14:46 via 9to5mac.com
  
  A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from Taiwan, despite the company receiving up to $11.6B worth of grants intended in large part to generate US jobs.The original headline news of Apple chips being made in the US by American workers has seemed less and less impressive over time …more…
  
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• Enhanced Visual Search shares your photos with Apple by default, to identify landmarks

  30-12-2024 13:59 via 9to5mac.com
  
  A developer has noted that Apple’s Photos app shares your iPhone photos with Apple by default, for an iOS 18 feature known as Enhanced Visual Search.This is an expansion of the older Visual Look Up feature, which can recognize objects within your photos, but a privacy note in the Settings app implies that it sends more data to Apple …more…
  
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• Entire iPhone 17 line-up getting ProMotion displays, say supply-chain reports

  30-12-2024 13:09 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Display analyst Ross Young said back in September that the entire iPhone 17 line-up would be getting ProMotion displays, a feature currently exclusive to the two Pro models. This is now backed by a new supply-chain report over the weekend.The latest report is a little less specific, referring only to “a high refresh rate,” but it does imply that non-Pro models will get both ProMotion benefits for the first time …
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• If you got a new iPhone for Christmas, you might want to return it

  30-12-2024 12:15 via macworld.com
  
  Macworld
  When Apple launched the iPhone 16 in September, it continued to sell the 14, 15, and SE 3 models at lower prices. As usual, this gave customers on more limited budgets the flexibility to pick between five main iterations (counting the Plus variants) with three different sizes and a mixed assortment of technical specifications.However, while none of these iPhones are bad phones, it couldn’t be a worse possible time to get one of them—even as a gift. And, if you got one, you m
  
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• Standard iPhone 17 Display Again Said to Feature Higher Refresh Rate

  30-12-2024 12:02 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple's standard iPhone 17 next year will feature a display with a higher refresh rate, potentially bringing "ProMotion" technology to the base model in Apple's flagship iPhone lineup for the first time.
  Weibo-based Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station claimed over the weekend that supply chain materials corroborate rumors about a higher refresh rate display coming to the standard iPhone 17. The leaker did not mention a specific hertz (Hz) rating, but previous rumors have suggested Apple plans to
  
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• In 2024, Apple’s hits were misses and its misses were hits

  30-12-2024 11:30 via macworld.com
  
  Macworld
  Where I grew up, you’d often hear the phrase, “Don’t get your hopes up!” Not in any kind of discouraging, Dickensian sense, I hasten to add. Merely a friendly warning that high expectations often lead to disappointment. We’re a cynical bunch in the British midlands.But Apple’s upper management come from more sunnily optimistic parts of the world. The company started 2024 with sky-high expectations, anticipating the imminent launch of two vitally impor
  
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• The best SDXC and CFexpress memory cards

  30-12-2024 09:30 via macworld.com
  
  Macworld
  CFexpress, SDHC, SDXC, UHS, SD4.0–those terms may sound like mumbo-jumbo but they all refer to the memory cards used mostly in cameras, but in other devices. In this article, we have put a range of SDXC, microSDXC and CFexpress memory cards through their paces on the Mac and in the camera, and selected our top picks.Most of today’s cameras have a slot for the Secure Digital Memory Card (also known as an SD card). The larger CFexpress card, the successor to the Compact Flash
  
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• AI can make sure you always have fresh herbs

  30-12-2024 09:00 via macworld.com
  
  Macworld
  How are your houseplants doing? Taking care of a plant might seem easy when you first take one home. Pop the pot in the sun, add water, and watch it grow. Right? The brown tips and wilting leaves seem to say differently. All plants have different needs, and they can even get sick. It’s a lot to keep track of, but there’s an app that can make it a lot easier. Plantum takes the guesswork out of gardening. This iOS-compatible app can identify over 33,000 plant species from
  
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