Under-screen Face ID always seems to be a year away, and the latest rumor now pins it to the 2026 iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models. iPhone 15 always-on display Writing on X/Twitter in April, Young's original roadmap claimed that an under-screen Face ID iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, would replace the existing camera notch with only pinhole front-facing cameras. However, Young has tweaked that a bit. He says he has heard that under-screen Face ID is being pushed back a year to 2026. Rumor Score: ? Possible Discuss on our Forums ..read more

Famed investor Warren Buffett cut his firm's Apple holdings by 13% in the first quarter of 2023, as analyst consensus was that the iPhone was seeing declining demand. Warren Buffett [Berkshire Hathaway] Buffett is not a long-term investor in Apple — his Berkshire Hathaway firm only started buying Apple stock in 2016 — but it became a particularly significant shareholder. Warren Buffett also taught both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook about the value of a company buying back its own shares, which it did again after its latest earnings report. As first spotted by CNBC, however, Berkshire Hathaway's ..read more

Both M2 and M3 MacBook Air models are heavily discounted heading into the weekend, resulting in deals as low as $849. Save up to $400 on MacBook Air models. Apple resellers, including Amazon, Best Buy and B&H, have dropped the M2 MacBook Air 13-inch to $849, matching the previous record low price seen in March for the standard model that features an 8-core GPU, 8GB of memory, and 256GB of storage. Buy for $849 ..read more

Whisky allows you to install Apple's Game Porting Toolkit on your Mac. Here's how to use it to run Steam games. The Whisky app We previously covered how to use the Whisky app to install the Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK) and WINE to run older Microsoft Windows Win32-based games on your Mac. Win32 is an older 32-bit API from the 1990s based on the C++ and C programming languages. It is no longer officially supported by Microsoft because most computer architectures transitioned to 64-bit computing long ago. Discuss on our Forums ..read more

After years of promises and nothing to show for it, a new leak suggests that Spotify may actually be close to launching lossless audio on its service. Maybe. Spotify logo Lossless audio is a music streaming feature that purportedly offers extremely high fidelity audio via sky-high bitrates. It's a big draw for audiophiles, but not every major streaming service offers it. Following two weeks after a leak that Spotify HiFi may finally be on the way, another collection of leaks offer more details. According to another Reddit leak spotted by The Verge, one change is a rebranding away from "HiF ..read more

MagSafe could use a thinner ring of magnets in the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, if alleged case-making molds are to be believed. iPhone 16 molds [ShopSystem] MagSafe uses a ring of magnets and an alignment magnet to make sure the charger lines up perfectly to its inner charging coil. While the design hasn't really changed since its introduction, it may get a tweak in the iPhone 16 lineup. The new rumor stems from molds used in the production of cases for the iPhone 16 seen by ShopSystem. Pictures of the molds offer a few hints about the physical attributes of the next wave of iPhones. Di ..read more

Apple has marked "Star Wars" Day with a new ad, featuring Boba Fett finding his fellow Mandalorians with an iPhone 15. A Boba Fett cosplayer in Apple's video May the Fourth is known as "Star Wars Day," and Apple has decided to celebrate it in a video. Published to YouTube on Friday, the ad spot offers a look at how the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro could help cosplayers meet up. The video takes viewers through a meet-up of Star Wars fans, following one dressed as Boba Fett. After leaving home, he is seen visiting a Boba tea shop, before boarding a bus and walking past a family of Jawas on hi ..read more

A new report claims that a supplier may develop new technology or new processes, only for Apple to — perfectly legally — take that work to a cheaper company, sometimes leaving the original one to go bankrupt. Apple has suppliers all over the world There have already been examples in 2024 of how being an Apple supplier may not be a great idea. While no parties involved will directly confirm it, it appears that Apple abruptly cancelled two micro LED suppliers — one of whom had spent $1.4 billion building a factory for it. Reportedly, those firms have no recourse with Apple, and presumably it ..read more

Apple had a pretty good quarter despite China weakness, defying analysts' doom-and-gloom predictions. Here's what some of them think on the morning after. Apple's iPhone results may indicate China's buying higher-priced models Thursday saw Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri speak to investors and analysts in the post-results conference call for Q2 2024. For the quarter, Apple's revenue was down 4% from $94.8 billion one year ago to $90.7 billion, with an increased earnings per share of $1.53. For Q2 2024, iPhone brought in $45.96 billion, down from $51.3 billion for Q2 2023. Mac saw a ..read more

Several of Apple's standard system components are on the verge of receiving significant AI-related enhancements, with Safari, Spotlight Search, and Siri being first in line for the treatment. Apple AI will make Siri, Safari, Spotlight, and Messages better Over the past several months, there's been various chatter regarding AI-related features bound for iOS 18, and AppleInsider has since learned some specifics on the functionality of Apple's Ajax large language model (LLM), as well as information on features the company has been testing alongside it. This report focuses only on information ..read more