• ZDNet

    The best iPhone deals of 2024: Free iPhone 15s, free iPads, cheap accessories

    Shopping for a new iPhone can be lengthy and sometimes stressful, especially when a new line is announced. There's a lot to consider when deciding which model to get and looking for ways to save money on your purchase. Thankfully, carriers tend to launch frequent promotions on all Apple's iPhone models. That means you're not locked into getting whatever the newest (and most expensive) iPhone is. But if the latest iPhone 15 is what you're after, we've found the best deals available.If you know...

  • Teens Love iPhone and Apple Watch, But Not Apple Music and Apple TV+

    The iPhone continues to be overwhelmingly popular with teens, according to Piper Sandler's biannual teen survey. 85 percent of U.S. teens surveyed own an ‌iPhone‌, and 86 percent plan to purchase an ‌iPhone‌ as their next smartphone. While the ‌iPhone‌ is still the most popular smartphone among teens, ownership is down from the October 2023 survey where 87 percent of teens owned an ‌iPhone‌ and 88 percent planned to purchase one.Both the 85% iPhone ownership and 86% intention to purchase an...

  • Apple will soon allow iPhone repairs with used parts

    Apple told the Washington Post that initially, iPhone 15 or newer owners will be able to leverage the revised program to replace common components like displays, batteries, and cameras with used parts.Read Entire Article

  • Apple quiet about its iPhone 'spyware attack' warnings — but the mystery may be solved

    A new report appears to have explained the reason behind the spyware iPhone notification.

  • Future Apple Pencil may work on iPhone and never need charging

    Apple is looking at technology to entirely remove the need to charge a future Apple Pencil without removing features, and whether that will help it be used on an iPhone. A battery-less Apple Pencil could be made to work with an iPhone First, Apple made you stick it in an iPad to charge, then it had you magnetically attach it to the side of an iPad. Most recently it's switched to a hidden USB-C connector. Now it wants to get rid of all of that. This is the central point of the...

  • European Commission to approve Apple's opening up of iPhone tap-to-pay to third parties in May

    iOS 17.4 came out last month with monumental changes for iPhone owners in the EU, including the ability to use third party app stores, and pay for apps and services outside of Apple's App Store. This was made possible by force - namely, the European Digital Markets Act made Apple allow these things, otherwise they never would have happened. A similar case of a 'walled garden' impenetrable to third parties has so far been the ability to pay for stuff using the iPhone's NFC functionality, which...

  • Apple Pay NFC tech in iPhone will likely get opened up soon in the EU

    The European Commission is set to approve Apple's opening up of Apple's NFC platform to third-party mobile wallets as soon as May, which could help save the iPhone maker from a $40 billion fine. NFC in the iPhone is chiefly used for Apple Pay In January, Apple agreed that it would open up its NFC hardware to any developer for the purposes of performing contactless payments. Months later, it appears that European antitrust regulators are close to determining if it's enough to get Apple...

    • Neowin

    The first set of Apple's AI features on iOS 18 may run locally on your iPhone

    Reports suggest that Apple's first set of AI features, arriving with the soon-to-launch iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, will run natively on your iPhone and won't require cloud servers.

  • Apple TV: You may be using Vision Pro-like hand gestures to control it soon

    Apple TV: You may be using hand gestures to control it soon

  • Next two quarters may be tough, but iPhone 16 & AI will return Apple to growth

    Investment firm Wedbush says it is sticking to its $250 Apple price target and that issues such as declining sales in China will be short term because of pent-up demand for the iPhone 16 range. Tim Cook at a game tournament in Apple Taikoo Li, Chengdu Wedbush first raised its Apple price target to $250 in December 2023, just ahead of the peak holiday season. The company described Apple then as resilient, and in March 2024 said it was keeping its price target despite recognizing that...

  • Apple Audit Finds Nearly 100,000 Working iPhones Were Stolen, Shipped to China Instead of Scrapped

    A new report unfolds a "dirty little secret" Apple has kept. Hundreds of thousands of iPhones that should be shredded are instead shipped to China.

  • From iPhones to Apple Watch, Apple fans keep showing broad device adoption

    A considerable segment of Apple's customer base own more than one of the company's products, and their loyalty is a better indicator of the company's success than just numbers. Apple device adoption holds steady among US consumers Apple's hardware ecosystem is expansive and diverse, encapsulating a range of devices from iPhones to Mac computers, each with its dedicated user base. However, when analyzing the penetration of these devices among US consumers, the numbers reveal more than...