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Apple now gives you four years to add AppleCare+ coverage to iPhone and more

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-01 21:00:00

Ever forget to add AppleCare to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac in time? Apple is dramatically changing the grace period for adding AppleCare+ on most products starting today. The news is part of Apple’s AppleCare One announcement. The new AppleCare One bundle offers the most flexible grace period for adding additional warranty coverage. While coverage can be added at the time of purchase, AppleCare One also allows you to add device coverage to products purchased within four years. Once added, cover

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AppleCare+ Theft and Loss coverage no longer limited to iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-01 21:00:00

In addition to introducing AppleCare One, Apple is making a significant change to how some individual AppleCare+ plans are offered. Starting today, AppleCare+ Theft and Loss coverage is no longer limited to just the iPhone. As part of AppleCare One, Apple is expanding the theft and loss coverage option beyond the iPhone for the first time. When bundled with AppleCare One, Apple Watch and iPad include AppleCare+ Theft and Loss coverage. Apple’s new bundle covers three products for $19.99/mont

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Apple announces AppleCare One multi-device bundle with simplified pricing

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-01 21:01:00

AppleCare is taking a page from the Apple One services bundle and introducing a bundle of its own. AppleCare One is a new way to pay for additional warranty status on all your Apple products, and the window to add coverage is more generous than ever. What is AppleCare One? AppleCare One is a new warranty subscription service option from Apple. In the United States, AppleCare One costs $19.99/month and covers up to three products. Additional hardware can be added for an additional $5.99/month.

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Analyst corroborates iPhone Fold dimensions, as rumor mill heats up

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-01 21:23:22

At this point, it’s getting increasingly harder to believe that Apple won’t launch a foldable iPhone, than the alternative. From Ming-Chi Kuo to Mark Gurman, from reports to leaks, the timeline and hardware details have started to align. And now, yet another analyst has joined the chorus. TrendForce doubles down on iPhone Fold screen dimensions In its latest market forecast, TrendForce echoes recent rumors and reports that claim Apple’s debut in the foldable space is likely to happen in the se

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Proton throws shade at Apple Intelligence privacy as it launches AI chatbot

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-01 21:31:58

The company behind encrypted email service Proton Mail has today launched a new freemium AI chatbot which promises that your chats will remain completely private. Proton Lumo offers five protections it says aren’t matched by any of the existing mainstream AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini, and has even thrown shade at Apple Intelligence privacy … Proton Lumo AI chatbot Proton said it launched Lumo because the benefits of AI are too great to miss, but the privacy risks are too serious to ign

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Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 20:46:09

I watched the initial presentation during WWDC 2025. My initial thought was: they're getting people used to transparent UIs for spatial computing (mixed reality environments where digital interfaces blend with the physical world). My immediate second thought was, 'wow, you can't read a thing - are they serious?'. Skeuomorphism done right (and wrong) Designers have always borrowed from the real world, though these metaphors often outlive their origins. The universal save icon? Still a floppy di

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iPhone 17 Rumors: Everything to Know, From a Slim 'Air' Model to Fresh Colors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 20:30:28

The anticipated reveal of Apple's newest iPhone is just around the corner. For months now, rumors have been swirling about what the upcoming device, likely called the iPhone 17, could look like, from a redesigned camera module to fresh colors to a slimmer "Air" version of the handset. The phones are expected to debut in early September. Perhaps the biggest looming question is whether iPhones could get pricier, especially with tariffs. President Donald Trump has said Apple will have to pay a 25%

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AppleCare One Will Protect Multiple Devices in One Plan, Just in Time for an iPhone 17

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 21:00:59

AppleCare is getting a revamp Wednesday, with Apple announcing the new AppleCare One plan and updates to AppleCare Plus. That new One plan will let you cover multiple devices with a single monthly subscription, and AppleCare is expanding its coverage eligibility to include devices that are up to four years old that remain in good condition. You'll also be able to get AppleCare with theft and loss coverage for the Apple Watch and the iPad starting Wednesday, which previously was only available fo

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Apple launches $20 subscription service to protect your gadgets

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-01 21:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is announcing a new AppleCare subscription called AppleCare One that lets you cover multiple products with a single plan. For $19.99 per month, AppleCare One covers up to three products, and tacking on a new product costs $5.99 per month each. With the products covered under AppleCare One, you get the same coverage you would under AppleCare Plus, including battery cover

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Apple launches $19.99 monthly AppleCare One subscription with coverage for three devices

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-01 21:00:00

Apple announced on Wednesday that it’s launching AppleCare One, a new $19.99 monthly subscription plan that includes coverage for up to three products. Customers can choose to add protection for more devices for $5.99 per month each. Until now, people have had to enroll their Apple devices into separate AppleCare+ plans if they wanted additional coverage for their products beyond the standard warranty. Now, the company is offering bundled coverage. AppleCare One includes all of the benefits of

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Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-02 06:11:23

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator 50 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK's competition regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the tech giants over their app stores, browsers and operating systems. "Around 90-100% of UK mobi

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UK pushes Apple and Google for mobile changes to curb market power

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-02 06:25:42

In this article AAPL GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A series of iPhone 16s on display inside the Apple store at Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sept. 20, 2024. Annice Lyn | Getty Images News | Getty Images Britain's competition regulators on Wednesday took aim at the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google, pushing the two companies to make changes to areas like their app stores. On Wednesday, the Competition and Markets Authority proposed designati

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Apple Watch could get this feature that Galaxy and Pixel Watches have offered for ages

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 05:05:34

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The Apple Watch may soon display a comprehensive score based on your sleep. The purported feature, which could be a basic sleep score or a readiness score, is already available on a host of Wear OS watches, including the Galaxy Watch and Pixel Watch. The sleep-related score could fill the gap created by the removal of SpO2 monitoring from the Apple Watch. Smartwatches across the board bill sleep tracking as one of the vital features, and the number of

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iOS 26 code hints at a sleep score feature for Apple Watch

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-02 05:57:37

If you use a third-party sleep tracker with your Apple Watch, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a sleep score: an index that combines signals like heart rate variation and sleep stages, to tell you how efficient your sleep really was. And while the Apple Watch gained native sleep tracking with watchOS 7, it’s been missing that kind of score. Not for long, as it may turn out. A third-party favorite may come to the Apple Watch As spotted by MacRumors, the iOS 26 Health app has an unu

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I Played ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ on Mac and It Feels Perilously Close to PC Gaming

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-08-02 06:30:24

Cyberpunk 2077 strode like a solo cyberninja onto MacBooks with the kind of swaggering bravado you’d expect from a chromed-up Night City merc. Knowing you can run CD Projekt Red’s graphically intense game, even if not at the peak ultra settings, is a mark of how well the device plays AAA titles. In case you missed it, Cyberpunk is now on Mac, and I’ve tested it on a plethora of Apple’s M-series laptops from the last few years. The good news is it’s playable, but for many Apple fans, this will be

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13 underrated iOS 26 updates that improve your iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-02 13:43:31

Apple’s headline iOS 26 features like Apple Intelligence and redesigned apps tend to get all the attention. But some of the most useful changes are easy to miss. These underrated iOS 26 updates quietly improve the iPhone experience in ways that don’t make the keynote but still matter in everyday use. From smarter AirPods behavior to new journaling tools and better battery estimates, here are 13 updates you might have missed. 9to5Mac is brought to by iMazing: iMazing 3 is a comprehensive platfo

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iOS 26 beta leak hints at unexpected name for Apple’s ‘HomePad’

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-02 21:06:35

Apple has a new Home product in the works that’s been reported on widely, and which I’ve been calling ‘HomePad.’ But a leak in iOS 26 beta 4 reveals Apple may have a different product name planned for the forthcoming HomePod with a touch screen. New leak refers to ‘HomePod’ product with a screen; possibly the first ‘HomePod Touch’? Today iOS 26 beta 4 arrived, bringing a refined Liquid Glass design, new CarPlay wallpapers, and a lot more. The new software also, it seems, brought a fresh leak

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Infuse video player updated with iCloud Drive streaming support, more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-02 21:33:08

Infuse, an excellent video player for Apple platforms, has gotten a nice update today. Infuse 8.2 is now available with support for user profiles on Apple TV, the ability to stream content directly from iCloud Drive, and more. First off, Infuse 8.2 adds the ability to use separate user profiles on Apple TV: The ability to use separate profiles is now available on Apple TV! With Infuse, each family member can enjoy a personalized setup—complete with custom home screen layouts, network shares, w

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Apple Intelligence news summaries are back, with a big red disclaimer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 21:24:41

Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and its other next-generation software updates today. And along with their other changes and fixes, the new builds are bringing back Apple Intelligence notification summaries for news apps. Apple disabled news notification summaries as part of the iOS 18.3 update in January. Incorrect summaries circulating on social media prompted news organizations to complain to Apple, particularly after one summary said that Luigi M

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Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-08-02 21:57:48

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers. Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications. Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of

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Apple TV+ teases new show coming soon from Breaking Bad creator

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-03 01:36:16

Three years ago, Apple struck a deal with Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for a new show at Apple TV+. Now, the company is teasing its unveiling with a live countdown timer. New Apple TV+ series reunites Better Call Saul creator and star Today Apple TV’s X account posted a cryptic teaser that read: “Happiness is Contagious.” The new show in question is Vince Gilligan’s next project, starring Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Very little is known about the new

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Netflix and Apple are backing away from great games

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-03 00:29:56

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once

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Mobile subscriptions are shedding unique indie games in search of a bigger audience

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-03 05:29:56

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once

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Apple Intelligence tries summarizing news again after botching BBC stories

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-03 05:32:56

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple’s fourth iOS 26 developer beta has reintroduced Apple Intelligence-powered notification summaries for news and entertainment apps, MacRumors reports. The company temporarily switched off the feature earlier this year after botching some headlines and promised they would be available again in a future update. After installing the new beta, your iPhone will show a splash

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Apple brings its online retail store to Saudi Arabia

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-03 05:45:48

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has launched its online store in Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The move, set to be followed by physical retail locations, will let users in the country browse through and purchase Apple products on its site for the first time. As part of its expansion into Saudi Arabia, Apple will offer support and engraving in Arabic

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iOS 26 beta 4 arrives, with Liquid Glass tweaks and AI news summaries

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-03 05:47:14

Apple on Tuesday released the fourth developer beta of its next big software update, iOS 26, which brings with it slight changes to its Liquid Glass redesign and the re-introduction of AI-powered notification summaries for news, among other updates. The rollout arrived just ahead of the iOS 26 public beta, which is expected to launch later this week. The developer betas are meant to give mobile app makers time to test their apps with Apple’s new software so they’re ready for the public launch

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$16.5B Apple tax windfall will pay for new electricity and water infrastructure in Ireland

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-03 09:00:00

With the last remaining part of the Apple tax windfall paid to the Irish government recently, we are today learning what the country plans to do with the €14.25B ($16.5B). The country’s prime minister has promised “unprecedented” investment in the country’s ailing infrastructure, with Apple’s money to be spent mostly on electricity and water projects … Irish government receives €14.25B ($16.5B) You can read a summary of the nine-year saga over whether or not Apple owed the Irish government bi

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iPadOS 26 beta 4 now available with latest iPad changes

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-03 09:02:22

Apple has just released iPadOS 26 beta 4 to developers. Today’s release will likely also be the build that gets shipped as the public beta soon. Here’s what to expect. Beta 4 arrives ahead of expected iPadOS 26 public beta Just over two weeks ago, Apple shipped iPadOS 26 beta 3 with a variety of changes and improvements. Following its current biweekly release pattern, iPadOS 26 beta 4 is now here at about the time we expected. This release should provide the most stable version of the iPad’s

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Apple releases iOS 26 beta 4 for iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-03 09:02:27

Apple changed a few Liquid Glass elements in iOS 26 developer beta 3 and got a lot of online feedback. Now we’re on to iOS 26 beta 4, which will surely be compared under the microscope in as much detail in this season of change. iOS 26 developer beta 4 has arrived Apple describes the upcoming iPhone software update by saying that iOS 26 “delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, new ways to stay connected in the Phone and Messages apps, and exciting updates to C

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tvOS 26 beta 4 available now for Apple TV users

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-03 09:05:18

tvOS 26 beta 4 is now available for developers on both Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. Here’s what to expect from the latest beta. tvOS 26 beta 4 rolling out to developers Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD users running the developer beta have a new update to install today. tvOS 26 beta 4 is rolling out now, two weeks after its predecessor. Highlights of tvOS 26 include: Today we’ll likely see further refinements to Liquid Glass and tvOS 26’s other new features. There’s still plenty of time at this

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