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• Apple’s Emergency SOS Live Video is now available in Brazil

  24-08-2026 22:28 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Thanks to a new partnership with RapidSOS, emergency services in Brazil can now request live video from iPhone users. Here are the details.
  
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• BenQ's New iScreenBar is a Monitor Light Bar Made for the iMac

  26-08-2026 02:32 via macrumors.com
  
  BenQ today announced the launch of the iScreenBar, which it says is the first monitor light bar built for the iMac.
  The iScreenBar is meant to look like an extension of the ‌iMac‌, offering desk lighting that does not clash with the ‌iMac‌'s design or block the camera or microphone. It's made from aluminum and lights an area of 33.5 by 19.7 inches at 500 lux. A glass touch panel is available for adjustments, and there's also a macOS app for tweaking brightness, color temperat
  
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• Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off

  25-08-2026 23:13 via macrumors.com
  
  Ads in Apple Maps are live in the United States and Canada, which means iPhone and iPad users will see them when searching for locations and when viewing Suggested Places.
  Apple announced plans to bring ads to the Maps app in March, and said the feature would roll out starting in late summer. Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that ads began showing up for users over the last few days, with ad placement to ramp up in the coming weeks.Ads are shown in Suggested Places when initiating a search and after s
  
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• New Mac Mini and Mac Studio: 13 Things You Might Have Missed

  25-08-2026 20:41 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini models and M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio models. We've covered all of the announcements in-depth, but wanted to highlight some interesting tidbits about the new machines. Price Increases - The Mac mini now starts at $899, $300 over the original starting price of the M4 Mac mini when it launched in October 2024. Mac Studio pricing starts at $2,499, $500 more than the original price of the M4 Max model when it came out in March 2025.Connectivity -
  
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• Apple to Release 13 More New Products Later This Year

  25-08-2026 20:03 via macrumors.com
  
  Looking past the new Mac mini and Mac Studio models unveiled today, Apple still has plenty of other new products on its roadmap for this year.
  It is nearly September, and that means the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the first-ever foldable iPhone are just around the corner. Other products expected later this year include the Apple Watch Series 12 with a ceramic case option, AirPods 5, an all-new Apple home hub, new Apple TV and HomePod mini models, and more.Apple is expected to release a
  
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• Apple's 40W Dynamic Power Adapter Expands to More Countries

  25-08-2026 19:45 via macrumors.com
  
  Alongside the launch of new Mac Studio and Mac mini models, Apple today expanded its 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max to Vietnam and countries in Europe that use the type C two-pin Europlug.
  The updated variant of the power adapter has a retractable two-prong design. The prongs pop back into the power adapter's enclosure, making it easier to tuck into a bag or a pocket. Apple previously debuted a standard U.S. variant in September 2025 alongside the iPhone 17 models, and a type G plug vers
  
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• Mac Studio With M5 Ultra Chip and 512GB of RAM Launching in October

  25-08-2026 18:55 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today unveiled new Mac Studio models with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. Pre-orders began today ahead of a September 22 launch, but one configuration will not be available until later.Apple says the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip and 512GB of RAM will be coming in "late October," with U.S. pricing expected to start well above the $10,000 mark. Apple stopped offering the previous-generation Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM in March due to the ongoing memory chip shortage, but it appears that the
  
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• New Macs and More: Here's Everything Apple Announced Today

  25-08-2026 18:10 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today unveiled a new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chip options, a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chip options, a new version of the Polishing Cloth with a lower price, and updated Magic Keyboards for Macs.Subscribe to MacRumors on YouTube
  Here are all of the new products that Apple announced today:
  Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips and More
  Apple Unveils New Mac Studio With M5 Max and M5 Ultra Chips
  Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
  Apple Quietly Refreshes Magi
  
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• Apple Smart Home Display Still Coming This Year

  25-08-2026 17:19 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple remains on track to launch its first smart home device with a screen before the end of the year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
  Gurman reiterated that the device will use facial recognition to determine who is standing in front of it and serve up personalized content for that individual user. The description lines up with code found in macOS Tahoe 26.7 earlier this week, which revealed that the smart home hub will support multiple user profiles and use "ambient sensing" to verify id
  
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• Labor Day Accessory Deals on Anker, Sony, Samsung, and More Live Now

  25-08-2026 16:39 via macrumors.com
  
  There's a big accessory sale happening on Amazon this week, with the year's best prices on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products, and much more.Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.Highlights this time around include a collection of audio devices on sale, including the Sonos Ace Headphones for $299.00, down from $399.00, and Sony's WH-100
  
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• Apple Quietly Refreshes Magic Keyboards

  25-08-2026 16:22 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today quietly introduced updated Magic Keyboard models with revised U.S. English key labeling.
  On the new keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps are labeled with glyphs rather than edge text. On the full-size models with a numeric keypad, the change goes further, with the home, page up, page down, end, clear, and enter keys also swapping their text labels for symbols.Four models have been updated: the Magic Keyboard, the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and the Magic
  
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• Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

  25-08-2026 15:50 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today released a new version of its Polishing Cloth on its online store. In the U.S., pricing is now set at $9, down from $19 for the previous version of the cloth.We have yet to determine if the new Polishing Cloth is smaller than the original or has any other notable changes beyond lower pricing. Apple says the cloth continues to be made with soft, nonabrasive material that can be used to clean any Apple display, including those with a nano-texture coating.Tag: Polishing Cloth
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• Apple's New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are Now Available to Pre-Order

  25-08-2026 15:45 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced a new Mac mini and Mac Studio, and pre-orders for both are already live on Apple's online store and in the Apple Store app in the United States and 30 other countries and regions.
  Most configurations ship Tuesday, September 22, which is also when the new models will be available to buy in Apple Store locations and at Apple Authorized Resellers.Both Mac mini models cost more than the machines they replace for reasons that should be familiar by now. The rapid buildout of AI d
  
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• Apple Unveils New Mac Studio With M5 Max and M5 Ultra Chips

  25-08-2026 15:13 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced new Mac Studio models with the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, the latter of which is the company's most powerful chip ever.
  The new ‌Mac Studio‌ features a next-generation SSD architecture built on PCIe Gen 6 that Apple says is up to twice as fast as before. The machine also gains Thunderbolt 5 ports with up to 120Gb/s of bandwidth, along with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 for the first time via Apple's N1 chip. The new ‌Mac Studio‌ also supports genlock over USB-
  
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• Apple Debuts M5 Ultra as Most Powerful Chip Ever

  25-08-2026 15:12 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced the M5 Ultra, which the company says is its most powerful chip ever.
  The M5 Ultra is built by connecting two dual-die M5 Max chips using Apple's next-generation UltraFusion technology, which is the first time Apple has used a quad-die architecture in an M-series chip. UltraFusion increases inter-die bandwidth to over 4.4TB/s and connection density by more than 6x, allowing the four dies to function as a single processor.The chip includes an CPU with up to 36 cores, containi
  
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• Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips and More

  25-08-2026 15:11 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced the next-generation Mac mini, which can be configured with an all-new M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip released earlier this year.
  The M6 chip is equipped with a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, up from a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU in the M5 chip. In addition, the M6 chip features the first-ever dual Neural Engine with two 16-core engines, up from one in previous chips. The M6 chip has up to 170GB/s memory bandwidth, up from 153GB/s for the M5 chip.Apple said the Mac mini with the
  
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• Apple Reveals M6 as First-Ever 2nm Chip

  25-08-2026 15:05 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple today announced the M6 chip, its first built using a 2-nanometer process and featuring a Dual 16-core Neural Engine.
  Apple says the 2nm process packs greater transistor density into a smaller die, contributing to the chip's overall gains in performance and power efficiency.The M6 chip features a larger, more powerful 12-core CPU, two more cores than the M5, made up of two super cores, four performance cores, and six efficiency cores. Apple says the chip delivers the world's fastest single-
  
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• Apple Watch Series 12 to Get Fitness Tracking Upgrades

  25-08-2026 13:55 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple's new Apple Watch models will feature upgrades to fitness tracking, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who otherwise characterized this year's changes to the lineup as "minor."Gurman said much the same in July, pointing to faster performance and better health and fitness tracking in the absence of any design overhaul.Related Roundup: Apple Watch 11Tags: Bloomberg, Mark GurmanBuyer's Guide: Apple Watch (Don't Buy)
  This article, "Apple Watch Series 12 to Get Fitness Tracking Upgrades" fir
  
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• 'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With Touchscreen and 5 Other Changes

  25-08-2026 13:43 via macrumors.com
  
  Reports and rumors suggest the next high-end MacBook Pro that Apple will release might not be a ‌MacBook Pro‌ at all. It could actually be something altogether new and more exciting – a "MacBook Ultra" – marketed as the company's top-tier laptop offering. The device is likely to sit above the current M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, rather than replace them, suggesting that they will remain on sale.
  One thing to state up front is that Apple is expected to stick with the exis
  
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• iPhone Trade-In Values Slide Ahead of New Model Launch

  25-08-2026 13:27 via macrumors.com
  
  Ahead of the announcement of the iPhone 18 Pro, ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, and first foldable iPhone next month, a new study from trade-in comparison site SellCell finds that most iPhones lose a considerable amount of trade-in value in the 10-day window between Apple's announcement and the actual product launch.
  Looking at the launch of the iPhone 15, iPhone 16, and iPhone 17 lineups, SellCell found that trade-in values dropped for 117 of 156 models tracked, or 75% of the total, between anno
  
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• New iPad Mini With Four Upgrades Expected to Launch by Late October

  25-08-2026 05:33 via macrumors.com
  
  Apple is planning to release a new iPad mini model with an OLED display "by the end of October" this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
  Apple already updated the iPad Pro with an OLED display in May 2024, but the iPad mini, iPad Air, and entry-level iPad are all still equipped with LCD screens. The move to OLED technology would result in the next iPad mini offering improved image quality, thanks to richer colors and higher contrast ratio with true blacks.Given that OLED displays are gen
  
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• Apple could debut two AirPods 5 models next month, per report

  25-08-2026 04:56 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Although AirPods with cameras aren’t expected until next year, Bloomberg reports that Apple could announce the AirPods 5 as early as next month’s expected iPhone event. Here are the details.
  
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• Report: New Mac mini could launch before Apple’s September event

  25-08-2026 04:26 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Bloomberg reports that Apple could release a new Mac mini “as soon as the coming days, potentially” ahead of next month’s expected iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra event. Here are the details.
  
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• OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

  25-08-2026 03:47 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Following several weeks during which ChatGPT users were subject only to a weekly usage cap, OpenAI announced today that it is restoring a five-hour limit on Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers. Here are the details.
  
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• Tom Selleck confirmed as guest star in upcoming Apple TV comedy series

  25-08-2026 03:05 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Deadline reports that Tom Selleck (Friends, Blue Bloods) has been confirmed as a guest star on an upcoming Apple TV comedy starring Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, Love & Mercy). Here are the details.
  
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• New public betas now available for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, more

  25-08-2026 00:45 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Following the release of the seventh developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and Apple’s other upcoming software updates, the company is now rolling out the corresponding public betas. Here are the details.
  
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• ChatGPT now lets users create custom iMessage and WhatsApp stickers

  25-08-2026 00:15 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Users can turn any photo into an iMessage or WhatsApp sticker, or use images as inspiration to create custom packs. Here are the details.
  
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• Apple reverses planned Hide My Email domain change after user pushback

  24-08-2026 23:05 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Apple today announced that it will no longer move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to a new domain, reversing course on a change announced just two months ago. Here are the details.
  
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• Apple official refurb store: This week’s top picks at up to $500 off

  24-08-2026 22:04 via 9to5mac.com
  
  It’s official Apple Certified Refurbished Store time again, and we are back again with a closer look at the gear we have our eyes on. This is not a bunch of Macs covered in scratches that fell off a truck somewhere and shilled on eBay at a discount, we are talking about Apple’s “rigorous refurbishment process” and the same 1-year Apple warranty you get on brand new units, just at a lower price.You’re not going to get a better price on AirPods Pro 3 or the all-t
  
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• Epic fights Apple’s bid to seal key data behind proposed fees on linked-out purchases

  24-08-2026 21:49 via 9to5mac.com
  
  Epic says Apple is making overly broad requests to seal information it says is central to determining what the company can charge developers for linked-out purchases. Here are the details.
  
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