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The Morning After: The best deals from Prime Day 2025

Amazon’s mountain of Prime Day deals and discounts is finally live, and we’re already on it. As is tradition, if you’ve got gadgets on your wishlist, Engadget has you covered. The team is surfacing the best Prime Day deals on gadgets and gear we can find across the entire shopping event. There are the usual suspects of wireless earbuds, trackers and all things Kindle, but we’re digging deeper, finding strong discounts on our past recommendations, like Dyson vacuums, Mesh Wi-Fi systems and more.

I've used my AirPods Pro 2 since they first launched. Here's my buying advice for 2025

Jada Jones/ZDNET During Apple's September hardware event last year, the company announced the iPhone 16 lineup, new AirPods, and an upgraded Apple Watch. I was most happy to see the AirPods 4 model, which introduced noise cancellation to the lineup for the first time and upgraded software features -- but I was secretly hoping for the AirPods Pro 3. Also: Turn your AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids: Testing and tracking hearing health in iOS 18.1 Unfortunately, a new AirPods Pro model didn't app

Prime Day Starts With Apple Watch Series 10 Below Black Friday Price, Stock Running Low Already

Smartwatches are useful for a huge number of things. Not only can it make it easier to keep an eye on notifications you get from your phone, be that checking emails or texts or even calendar reminders, but it can also be amazing for tracking your overall health. In fact, a good smartwatch can offer a nice bit of accountability for those who need a little more of a push to keep training. See at Amazon While there are a large number of options out there, if you’re an Apple user, especially someo

Apple A17 Pro iPad Mini Has Never Been This Cheap Since Launch, Prime Day Drops It to Its Lowest Price Yet

If you’ve been searching for the perfect tablet that can handle just about anything you throw at it, an iPad is the best choice you can make. And an iPad is an even better choice to make when you can get it on sale. While Apple devices do typically go on sale pretty often when it comes to major sales events, they don’t always drop this low. So the fact that this one is on sale for this price is pretty surprising. It also means you won’t want to miss out. Head to Amazon now to get the A17 Pro Ap

Apple Hates It, Amazon Just Dropped the Price of the 2025 iPad to Entry-Level Tablet Levels

Amazon is targeting all the top-sellers of this new Prime Day, and Apple products are right in the middle of that target. From AirPods to MacBooks to the Apple Watch, any high-end product is being (massively) reduced in price. One of the most popular deals in the entire Electronics section right now is the 2025 Apple iPad 11-inch. This tablet is being snapped up at an incredible pace, and with only the yellow color left at this new all-time low price, you’ll need to act fast. The deal is exclus

Don't Buy a New iPhone Right Now. Here's Why You Should Wait

If you're ready to upgrade your iPhone, you might want to wait just a bit longer. Apple tends to unveil its new phones in September, as it did last year with the iPhone 16 lineup. It's expected to release the iPhone 17 series at the same time this year. So, if you can wait a couple more months, you'll either score the latest device or get a discount on previous models. Watch this: Hey, Apple: Steal These S25 Edge Features for a Skinny iPhone 04:33 Newer iPhones tend to include camera and proc

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Best Prime Day Apple Deals on iPads, AirPods, and MacBooks (2025)

If you have one Apple product, you usually have them all—whether that's AirPods, an iPhone, an iPad, the Apple Watch, or the ubiquitous MacBook. One, or all of them, probably needs updating at any given time (it's usually the MacBook), and you now have four whole days of Prime Day deals to think about which one you're going to get. Not a Prime subscriber yet? Perhaps our list of Amazon Prime perks can convince you. Shop the best Prime Day Apple deals below. Read our Absolute Best Prime Day Deal

The best Apple deals available for Amazon Prime Day 2025

You can buy the latestat Amazon and Walmart for $169, which is $20 shy of its best price to date. Apple’s entry-level wearable is great for tracking the essentials, including your heart rate and sleep quality, and offers fall/crash detection, Apple Pay, and other conveniences. While it lacks the Series 10’s temperature sensor, EKG, and depth tracking, the SE still delivers excellent value if you don’t need advanced health features. It will also support the next iteration of watchOS, watchOS 26 ,

Apple Reportedly Loses Key AI Mind

Apple has kept a low profile in the artificial intelligence arms race. But now, a major talent loss is raising fresh questions about whether the iPhone maker is falling behind. According to Bloomberg, Meta has hired Ruoming Pang, a high-level engineer who led Apple’s foundation models team. Pang, a former Google veteran and key architect behind the large language models (LLMs) powering Apple Intelligence, will now join Meta’s elite AI unit focused on building superintelligent systems. His exit

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Following hiccup, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3 is now available for Apple Silicon Macs

Earlier today, Apple released its new set of developer betas, but a distribution issue affected the Apple Silicon version of macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3. Now, the issue seems to have been resolved, and the update is now available for all compatible Macs. What happened? Users on X claimed that the hiccup involved Rosetta 26 beta 3, a required component for running Intel apps on Apple Silicon. Apple didn’t confirm the issue, but whatever the problem might have been, it seems to have been sol

Deals: AirPods Pro $149 all-time low, black Apple Watch Ultra 2 best price ever at $150 off, Magic Mouse, AirTag, more

Amazon’s massive 4-day Prime Day sale might not officially start until early tomorrow morning, but the deals are definitely already flying. First up is AirPods – the AirPods Pro 2 just dropped to the best price of the year and one of the lowest totals we have ever tracked at $160 shipped, down from the regular $249 list price. We also have AirPods Max (USB-C) at $99 off the going rate as well as an amazing price on the black Apple Watch Ultra 2 that is now down at the lowest Amazon price ever wi

Meta reportedly recruits Apple’s head of AI models

In Brief Apple’s head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the latest high-ranking AI executive Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped up to lead his new AI superintelligence unit. Pang previously ran Apple’s in-house team that trained the AI foundation models that underpin Apple Intelligence and other on-device AI features, according to the report. Apple’s AI models haven’t exactly been a huge success — they’re far less cap

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Liquid Glass in iOS 26 beta 3 less dramatic as Apple optimizes redesign for usability

Sorry or you’re welcome? Apple’s new Liquid Glass visual element is getting any icy design change in some places before it reaches customers. iOS 26 developer beta 3, which will likely be iOS 26 public beta 1 later this month, reduces the transparency effect in a number of places like navigation bars in certain apps. In the example above, the top shows beta 2 while the bottom shows the current look in beta 3. Here are just a few more examples of iOS 26 beta 2 and iOS 26 beta 3 visual changes:

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Meta just hired Apple’s head of foundation models

Apple’s top executive overseeing its in-house AI models is leaving the company, and heading to Meta. As reported by Bloomberg, Ruoming Pang is bound to Menlo Park, and joining Mark Zuckerberg’s all-star Meta Superintelligence Labs group, announced last week. Apple’s AI setbacks just keep on coming Pang joined Apple from Google in 2021, and had been managing the roughly 100-person team behind the models that power Apple Intelligence features like Genmoji, Priority Notifications, and on-device t

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Apple just added more frost to its Liquid Glass design

Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language just got a little more… frosted. In the third iOS 26 developer beta, Apple dialed back the transparency of navigation bars, buttons, and tabs that once allowed you to clearly see the content beneath them. Apple already toned down the glassiness of Liquid Glass after many users complained that it was too transparent and made it more difficult to see certain options, like the icons inside the Control Center. This most recent beta makes Liquid Glass element

Apple and Masimo back in court over Apple Watch import ban appeal

Today, Apple appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an effort to overturn a ruling that blocked U.S. sales of Apple Watches with blood-oxygen sensors back in late 2023. Here’s how it went. A quick refresher The legal dispute between Apple and Masimo began in 2021, when the medical technology company accused Apple of infringing several of its patents related to blood-oxygen sensing. In 2023, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) sided with Masimo, finding

Apple back in the White House’s crosshairs as Trump aide slams Tim Cook over China

On today’s “Squawk on the Street” on CNBC, White House Senior Counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro reignited criticism of Apple’s dependence on China, calling out CEO Tim Cook for what he described as years of delayed efforts to move iPhone production elsewhere. Here’s the full quote. ‘The longest running soap opera in Silicon Valley’ During a wide-ranging exchange on tariffs, the FED and Apple, CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Navarro discussed Tim Cook’s recent challenges in pleasing the

Apple is still trying to overturn the ban on the Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor

The company is attempting to unwind the decision with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Apple is making another attempt to appeal the trade ban that forced it to remove the blood oxygen sensor from its smartwatches, Reuters reports. The company was forced to remove the feature in 2024, following a decision from the International Trade Commission (ITC) in 2023 that banned sales of the Apple Watch for violating health tech startup Masimo's patents. The US Court of Appeals for the

What would a cheap, Apple A18-powered MacBook actually be good at?

Some Apple rumors just don't go away, hanging around in perpetuity either because they reflect things that Apple is actually testing in its labs or because hope springs eternal. A HomePod-like device with a screen? A replacement for the dear, departed 27-inch iMac? Touchscreen MacBooks? The return of TouchID fingerprint scanning via a sensor located beneath a screen? Maybe these things are coming, but they ain't here yet. However, few rumors have had the longevity or staying power of "Apple is

New iPhone 17 Pro renders highlight aluminum design, repositioned Apple logo

A new image from Apple leaker Majin Bu provides a new look at the repositioned Apple logo on the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. Last week we got our first look at what the new Apple logo placement would look like, though this new image provides a much clearer picture. One of the less talked about design elements of the new iPhone 17 Pro design is the fact that Apple will be shifting to a two-tone design of sorts, with an all aluminum frame and camera bump. However, for wireless charging, MagSafe, and

Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features [U]

Apple Maps continues to get better each year, with the variety of new iOS 26 features keeping that trend going. And according to new discoveries in iOS beta code, it seems Apple may have a couple additional Maps features on the way. [Update: See note at the bottom of the article on feature availability.] iOS 26 code reveals Apple Maps may get upgraded search and thermal management features Today in a post on X, Steve Moser shared about two new Apple Maps features that were discovered in iOS 26

Everyone Is Yelling at Apple

Apple just cannot make anyone happy right now—and that’s not even taking into account the tepid response to its new “liquid glass” design principles. Its stores have become the latest target of climate activists looking to hold corporations for their role in the ongoing climate crisis, while it’s also getting hammered by the Trump administration for its failure to quit China cold turkey. The first hit of the recent barrage of blows that Apple has taken came over the weekend when protesters with

Leak reveals Apple Maps in iOS 26 could get two unannounced new features

Apple Maps continues to get better each year, with the variety of new iOS 26 features keeping that trend going. And according to new discoveries in iOS beta code, it seems Apple may have a couple additional Maps features on the way. iOS 26 code reveals Apple Maps may get upgraded search and thermal management features Today in a post on X, Steve Moser shared about two new Apple Maps features that were discovered in iOS 26 beta code. Neither feature has been previously announced by Apple. Firs

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iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass

The iPhone’s new glassy look has been toned down with Monday’s release of the third developer beta of iOS 26. This follows user complaints that the update made parts of the user interface more difficult to read. At WWDC 2025 in June, the tech giant introduced its new design language, known as Liquid Glass, which is inspired by the optical qualities of glass in the real world, including how it refracts light and its translucent nature. But the early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26

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Liquid Glass in iOS 26 beta 3 is much less dramatic as Apple optimizes redesign for usability

Sorry or you’re welcome? Apple’s new Liquid Glass visual element is getting any icy design change in some places before it reaches customers. iOS 26 developer beta 3, which will likely be iOS 26 public beta 1 later this month, reduces the transparency effect in a number of places like navigation bars in certain apps. In the example above, the top shows beta 2 while the bottom shows the current look in beta 3. Here are just a few more examples of iOS 26 beta 2 and iOS 26 beta 3 visual changes:

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iPadOS 26 beta 3 now available ahead of public beta launch

Apple has just released iPadOS 26 beta 3 for developers. Today’s release brings the latest changes to the iPad’s big new OS update ahead of the expected public beta soon. iPadOS 26 beta 3 has greater potential for changes following user feedback Liquid Glass is the big theme of Apple’s new OS versions launching this fall. Every update includes a fresh design that brings greater uniformity across platforms. But aside from that redesign, Apple clearly spent a lot of time preparing iPadOS 26’s m

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Apple releases iOS 26 beta 3 for iPhone

Four weeks have passed since Apple unveiled iOS 26 and the major software redesign coming for iPhone. Now it’s time to start testing the third developer beta preview and see how performance and polish have improved. iOS 26 also includes loads of new features and functionality in addition to the new Liquid Glass-inspired look and feel. iOS 26 developer beta 3 is here Apple summarizes the upcoming iPhone software update by saying that iOS 26 “delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intell

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macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 3 now available, here’s what to expect [U]

Update: It looks like Apple ran into a distribution issue affecting the Apple Silicon version of today’s macOS Tahoe beta. For now, the update appears to be available only to Intel Macs. Two weeks after releasing the second wave of developer betas, Apple has just dropped macOS Tahoe 26 beta 3, alongside updates to its other operating systems. The build number for today’s macOS Tahoe 26 beta 3 release is 25A5306g. As announced at WWDC25, macOS Tahoe 26 introduces the Liquid Glass UI overhaul

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Apple releases watchOS 26 beta 3, here’s what to expect

Apple Watch users have new beta software to install. watchOS 26 beta 3 is now available for developers, here’s what to expect. watchOS 26 beta 3 now available with latest fixes and changes The next major Apple Watch update will be watchOS 26. Apple plans to widely release the new software this fall, but for now it’s available in developer beta. Beta testing offers Apple the opportunity to implement developer feedback and eliminate as many bugs as possible. Today’s beta 3 version of watchOS 2

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Apple’s latest AirPods are already on sale for $99 before Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, July 8th, but you don’t have to wait until then to pick up Apple’s latest pair of AirPods at a discount. Right now, the AirPods 4 are available for around $99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, while the AirPods 4 with noise cancellation are going for around $149 ($30 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. That’s within $10 of the lowest price we’ve seen on the ANC model and matches the lowest price to date on the base pair. Both versions of Apple’s