Apple Watch blowout sale: save $150 on Series 9 styles at Amazon
Amazon is clearing out remaining Apple Watch Series 9 inventory, with clearance prices available on both aluminum and stainless steel models.Image: Apple/AppleInsiderWith the launch of the Apple Watch Series 10 and new Apple Watch Ultra 2 case color, retailers are making room for fresh inventory with blowout prices on closeout models to the tune of $150 off. Continue Reading on AppleInsider

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WaterMinder, Calory, and more updated for iOS 18 with Control Center widgets, app icons
Funn Media makes some of our favorite health and fitness apps (plus one of the most addictive iPhone games ever). This year, Funn Media is rolling out updates to its full suite of apps to take advantage of iOS 18, including new Control Center widgets, support for new Home Screen features, and much more. more…

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Epic sues Google and Samsung, again under the guise of fighting for ‘all developers’
Epic today filed a new lawsuit against Google and Samsung, four years after first suing Google over its app store monopoly. This time around, as reported by our friends at 9to5Google, Epic is focused on Samsung’s “Auto Blocker” feature that limits users to installing apps from “authorized sources.” Sweeney, however, continues to falsely claim that Epic is fighting on behalf of “all developers,” not just Epic itself. more…

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The M2 iPad Air just got its best price yet
Macworld With the second Prime Day event of the year on the horizon, the Apple iPad Air with an M2 chip just got its deepest discount yet. You can get the M2 iPad Air for $549 at Amazon, a $50 discount from its MSRP. In our review of the iPad Air, we gave the tablet a 4-star rating and noted how great the processor upgrade is while also appreciating the tablet now comes with 128GB minimum storage capacity. Another feature we love about the iPad Air is the screen, even though it hasn’t really changed from the previous model with the M1 chip. The Liquid Retina display has a solid 500 nits brightness, which means you’ll have a great experience even when using it indoors or outside in bright sunshine. “The lower entry-level price, the increased basic memory capacity of 128GB, and the front camera on the long edge are all pleasing upgrades for this generation of Air. The fact that the iPad has also been given the next chip up, the M2, is also welcome,” our review noted. We know that a $50 discount isn’t necessarily fantastic for most tech, but Apple is pretty stingy about deals on its newst devices, so it’s a nice surprise to see another price drop, especially since it’s only been available for a few months. It’s also quite likely that this is the best price we’ll see this year, with no additional price drops, even for Black Friday. So go ahead and get the 11-inch iPad Air M2 for $549 at Amazon before the price jumps back up. Snatch the new iPad Air for its best price yetBuy it now at Amazon

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Apple Watch blood oxygen feature could return in America following Masimo CEO resignation
Due to the patent dispute between Apple and Masimo, Apple Watches sold in the U.S. cannot offer the blood oxygen measurement feature… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.

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What SOS on an iPhone means, and how it impacts what you can do
An iPhone showing "SOS" isn't a cry for help, but it does mean you're having connection issues. This is what the three letters really mean.SOS Only on an iPhoneSOS is well known as a Morse Code distress signal, quickly and efficiently communicating that there is a major and potentially life-threatening problem. While SOS doesn't actually mean "Save Our Souls" and is really just an agreed-upon communications sequence, the meaning is immediately understandable to almost anyone.Your iPhone or cellular-equipped iPad can also display SOS in the status bar. However, the meaning is less about the phone being in trouble and more about what it cannot do. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Here’s everything new coming to Apple TV+ in October
Apple TV+ has a strong October lineup coming up. One of Apple’s most hyped new series, Disclaimer, is debuting full of mystery and intrigue. The beloved comedy Shrinking, from Ted Lasso’s creator, gets its second season. Plus there are several other brand new series, a documentary film, and more. Here’s everything new that’s coming in October. more…

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Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims
Apple dropped out of the $6.5 billion investment round at the 11th hour.

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Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims
Apple dropped out of the $6.5 billion investment round at the 11th hour.

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MagSafe Monday: On-demand stand for your iPhone – Anker MagGo 610 review
if you occasionally need a stand for your iPhone but don’t want the bulk of a permanent attachment, this magnetic phone grip offers an on-demand solution that’s both convenient and stylish. This week, I am looking at the . more…

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Easily share your wireless network with Wifi Porter [Review]
Wifi Porter takes the hassle out of letting friends or guests access your wireless network. Don’t miss our hands-on review. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

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Apple Intelligence-powered smart display set to launch next year
Macworld Apple has never quite cracked the smart home market, and from time to time we hear about yet another push into the sector. According to one reliable leaker, the next such attempt will take place next year with the launch of two new products and an entirely new operating system. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman predicts that the next Apple OS will be called homeOS, based on tvOS, and that this will run on a pair of new smart displays. While targeting a broadly similar market and both running homeOS, the two devices will be markedly different in their scope and pricing. The first to land, according to Gurman, will be what he describes as a “low-end smart display for using FaceTime and controlling home appliances.” Codenamed J490, this could launch as early as next year. But the companion product, currently codenamed J595, is a far more ambitious and consequently more distant prospect. It combines an iPad-like display with a tabletop robotic limb and is intended to function as a smart home “command center.” Gurman says it may cost $1,000 or more; he doesn’t offer a timetable for its launch. It’s worth noting that both of these devices have been predicted before. Gurman himself covered J595 in mid-August, while the lower-end display, occasionally identified as a magnetic wall-mounted unit, has been talked about for years. What is new is the involvement in all this of Apple Intelligence: The two products, Gurman notes, “are considered collaborations between Apple’s artificial intelligence and home device hardware engineering groups.” As the leaker points out, Apple’s current home range–the Apple TV and HomePods–are not specced to run its AI platform, and it’s looking for a solution. Apple Intelligence is crucially important to the company’s mid- and long-term strategy, and it wants the platform to sit at the heart of customers homes, and lives. The first Apple Intelligence features are due to arrive in October with the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 updates.

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Apple mulls multiple options for future Apple Vision Pro hardware iterations
Apple Vision Pro is more of a technology showcase - really a DevKit - than a genuine consumer product and, accordingly, Apple is mulling… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.

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Indicted Eric Adams told FBI he forgot his iPhone's new passcode
All of us should use iPhone passcodes and any of us can forget them, but few of us are New York City mayors being indicted for corruption and claiming to have changed the code to help investigators.iPhone passcodeFollowing news of his indictment in September 2024, more details have emerged of how investigators seized the Apple devices owned by Mayor Adams in November 2023. The full court filing shows that while two of his cellphones were seized then, they did not include his personal iPhone."When Adams produced his personal cellphone the next day in response to a subpoena," says the filing, "it was 'locked,' such that the device required a password to open." Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Nab M4 iPad Pro models at up to $200 off
Right now deals on M4 iPad Pro at Amazon can get you up to $200 off on various models with the specs you need. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

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Nab M4 iPad Pro models at up to $200 off
Right now deals on M4 iPad Pro at Amazon can get you up to $200 off on various models with the specs you need. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

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9to5Mac Daily: September 30, 2024 – Apple and OpenAI, more
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. Sponsored by SUPCASE and I-Blason: Protect your brand new iPhone 16 in style with rugged cases. more…

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DaisyDisk review: An elegant and fun way to free up storage space
Macworld At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Interesting, fun UI and approach to removing unwanted files from your Mac. Excellent performance and range of supported local, network, and Web-based volumes. Great value for money. Cons Unable to easily access Google Drive and iCloud Drive’s online content given sandboxing between the developers. Minimal communication from the parent company since 2021 has left users wondering about the future of the product. Our Verdict DaisyDisk succeeds in making it pretty simple (and actually somewhat fun) to track down and eliminate space-hogging files on your Mac. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Retailer Price Software Ambience (One time purchase) $9.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Price When Reviewed$9.99 Best Prices Today: Daisy Disk Retailer Price Software Ambience (One time purchase) $9.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket There’s something to be said for discipline and writing a utility that focuses on one set of tasks, does this very well, and doesn’t try to function as every utility under the sun for your Mac. Case in point, DaisyDisk (version 4.30 at the time this review was written) from Software Ambience Corp and developers Teras Brizitsky (who came up with the original idea) and Oleg Krupnov (who currently handles the code and technical support). DaisyDisk sets out to help you visualize the data on your Mac and its local, network, and cloud-based volumes, map it out, see which files are taking up the most space, and help you readily delete them to free up gigabytes of drive space. This isn’t a new idea, and there have been several utilities in recent years that help you seek out large files and delete them, but with DaisyDisk it’s entirely up to your own discretion as to which files and folders to quickly delete with nothing more than an animated five-second countdown clock and time period in which to cancel the decision. Like its previous versions, DaisyDisk incorporates a clean, fun, interesting user interface that almost seems to have spawned out of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Simply download the software, install it, assign it full access to your hard drive, and you’re ready to go. See how DaisyDisk compares to the competition in our roundup of the Best Mac Cleaners. DaisyDisk currently supports Apple’s HFS, HFS+, and APFS file formats as well as Microsoft’s FAT, exFAT, and NTFS file systems as well as network volumes via NAS, AFS, Samba, NFS, WebDAV, Novell, Windows, FTP via FUSE, and virtual elements via FUSE and disk images, and can mount and scan just about anything as long as the volume itself is operational. Like its previous versions, DaisyDisk can also mount various cloud-based services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box. See our round-up of the best cloud backups for Mac. Running a quick check of the Desktop folder and the items therein in DaisyDisk 4.30. Running a quick check of the Desktop folder and the items therein in DaisyDisk 4.30.Foundry Running a quick check of the Desktop folder and the items therein in DaisyDisk 4.30.Foundry Foundry In addition to being able to scan entire volumes at once, it’s easy to hit the “Select Folder…” button to navigate to a custom folder, and Apple’s Disk Utility app can be readily accessed from the Manu bar to perform disk repairs on the fly. The app itself retails for $9.99/£9.99 and requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later to install and run. DaisyDisk offers a genuinely fun, interesting approach to mapping out, visualizing, and deleting large files from your Mac. The application is easy to navigate through, right click or control click on an item to bring up a handy preview as to what you’re considering deleting, and drag the item to the lower left hand corner to get ready to remove it from your system. The app also offers a gamification element in that you’re still able to tweet that you’ve deleted files and freed up hard drive space, and it’s easy enough to turn this option off if you find it annoying. DaisyDisk’s cloud-based functions continue to prove useful, and it was simple to add my Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box accounts, and then connect and sift through them to see which ancient files could be readily put out to pasture to clear up space as needed. The files you think you’ll need forever are rarely ever critical in the long run, and I was able to clear up dozens of gigabytes of space in the process. Still, there are some bugs to iron out, and it’s not all DaisyDisk’s fault. While it was easy to set up access for the majority of the cloud-based accounts, Google Drive refused to allow DaisyDisk access, stating that the app was blocked and “This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To keep your account safe, Google blocked this access.” This appears to be a conflict between DaisyDisk’s developers and Google that has yet to be sorted out, and while some workarounds have been proposed online, there seems to be no quick solution to the conflict. Developer Oleg Krupnov replied to an inquiry and stated that this issue is being addressed, and that Google has recently changed their Google Drive API access policy for third-party apps, and now they require a formal certification by a third-party security authority. As a result, they have temporarily revoked DaisyDisk’s previous ‘verified’ status, and the ‘unverified’ status only allows up to 100 users, which limit has been of course already exceeded. Consequently, new users are currently unable to connect their Google Drive account to DaisyDisk (existing users still can).” Krupnov stated that he is working with Google’s recommended certification partner to pass the required procedure, but it’s hard to give an estimate as to when this will be completed. DaisyDisk’s Home Screen, complete with cloud-based accounts added for analysis. DaisyDisk’s Home Screen, complete with cloud-based accounts added for analysis.Foundry DaisyDisk’s Home Screen, complete with cloud-based accounts added for analysis.Foundry Foundry DaisyDisk users are also currently unable to add and sort through Apple’s iCloud Drive accounts given Apple’s sandboxing of the environment. Yes, you can scan a local copy of your iCloud Drive contents using the “Scan Folder…” button but not the Web-based data, which is frustrating, and comes down to contention between developers and their needs. DaisyDisk’s developers have posted a guide to the issue, but until certain concessions are reached between the two sides, the issue will remain for the foreseeable future. Should you buy Daisy Disk? In spite of the cloud-based bug, DaisyDisk still offers an excellent value for its $9.99 price point, runs well under macOS 15 Sequoia, and is a fun approach to clearing out files that are chewing up space and have overstayed their welcome. The only other downside is that there hasn’t been a significant amount of development with the app this year, the version number only jumped from version 4.20.3 to version 4.30 between 2021 and 2024, although Krupnov did state that version 5.0 is in development. “DaisyDisk is going through a major overhaul of its codebase in order to accommodate new features, this is why it’s taking longer than usual, but we’re heading to our goal.” There’s an excellent app to be had here, it knows its focus, it doesn’t try to package a dozen different tools in at once (including one that’ll paint your house as you sleep this weekend), and it’s worth looking into. 

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Apple to donate to Hurricane Helene relief efforts
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the company will donate to relief efforts in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene… The post appeared first on MacDailyNews.

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iPhone 16 Pro charges faster than ever, here’s how much
Apple’s iPhone 16 line packs a variety of improvements related to batteries and thermals. One change is the greatly improved charging speed both with USB-C wired charging and MagSafe. A new report from ChargerLAB details just how much better the charging speed is. more…

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