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According to the report, Apple will unveil a second-generation iPhone Air next spring, adding a second rear camera and a larger battery after the original model's lukewarm sales. The piece notes the original iPhone Air shipped with a mono speaker, USB 2 connectivity, and slower charging speeds than the Pro lineup despite its near-Pro pricing.
A new explainer outlines how major streaming platforms handle offline downloads, noting that Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and YouTube support downloading content for offline viewing on desktop and laptop computers. Netflix and several other services, by contrast, now limit offline downloads mostly to mobile devices and Chromebooks. Crunchyroll offers downloads for its anime library, but only on mobile.
Independent researcher Derik Kauffman uncovered a hidden 'grey list' embedded in Apple's operating system containing over 100,000 words and phrases that iPhone's predictive text and swipe-typing will not complete or suggest. The list includes drug references, sexual terms, but also politically charged phrases like 'Trayvon Martin', 'Kashmir dispute', 'Muslim extremist' and, in Hebrew, 'the occupied territories'. Users attempting to swipe-type these phrases often get altered results, such as 'United Ireland' becoming 'United Iceland'.
Apple has replaced the red-and-white logo of its standalone Apple Music Classical app with a black-and-white version, matching the redesign it gave the main Apple Music app last month. The new Classical logo retains some translucency in its G-clef symbol rather than appearing fully flat like the main Music app's icon.
A tech guide outlines how Google Maps' built-in tools—arrival-time planning, color-coded traffic updates, turn-by-turn voice navigation, and offline map downloads—can simplify driving for older users. The app is pre-installed on most Android phones and available free on both the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store.
A troubleshooting guide details steps for diagnosing and fixing MacBook keyboard problems, including connecting an external keyboard, booting into Safe Mode, running Apple Diagnostics, and using compressed air to clear debris from under keys. It warns against removing keycaps without professional help and recommends booking an Apple Support appointment as a last resort if a hardware replacement is needed.
Tom's Hardware's November 7 Premium roundup features an interview-driven look at why Apple is reportedly adding touch to OLED (PROLED) displays in 2026, a detailed breakdown of Micron's new DRAM and NAND roadmap including 1-delta DRAM made in the US and 400-plus-layer 11th-gen NAND, and a conversation with GlobalFoundries VP Sudipto Bose about its new FDX Fusion process, which uses DUV lithography to achieve 7nm-class performance.
A new Fleet survey of over 250 enterprise Apple IT admins, each managing roughly 2,000 devices, found widespread adoption of AI tools in daily work. In the past 30 days, 68% used AI for troubleshooting or log analysis, 62% for writing scripts, and 61% for creating device management profiles or configurations, though errors from AI-written code reportedly take days to resolve.
Retailers including Amazon and B&H have launched early Black Friday discounts on Apple products, with the M5 MacBook Air cut by up to $250, Apple Watch Ultra 4 nearly $100 off and Ultra 3 clearance models $250 off, and AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2 discounted by $50-$100. Amazon has also reopened pre-orders for the new Apple TV 4K ahead of its release next week, alongside pre-order pricing on the new Apple HomeView and the 2026 Apple Polishing Cloth, while B&H is bundling a free $150 gift card with pre-orders of the touchscreen M5 Pro MacBook Pro.
Retailers are running early Black Friday discounts on headphones and earbuds, including markdowns of up to 50 percent on older Sony headphone models and a 20 percent discount on Apple's AirPods Pro 3. WIRED compiled a list of ten tested headphone and earbud deals it recommends, covering both new and older generation products.
WIRED's Reviews team has published a running list of early Black Friday 2026 deals, updated November 7 with new discounts on Google Pixel 11 phones, Google Pixel earbuds, a Rocco minifridge, a Dreo space heater, and a Petkit automatic litter box. The list includes Apple AirTags at a price WIRED says matches the lowest it has previously tracked, though it notes that price point recurs fairly often.
Security researchers examined two undocumented macOS background processes, knowledgeconstructiond and intelligenceplatformd, which have run on Macs since 2022 and build a queryable knowledge graph of a user's contacts, calendar, photos, messages, mail, location and screen-time data. Apple's only public documentation is a terse man page, and the researchers say the system can infer kinship and relationships between people, a feature not previously described publicly. They note Apple published a 2023 research paper on the underlying graph-construction techniques but has not disclosed how it operates inside macOS or exactly what data it collects and infers.