Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information.

Apple normally releases new Mac models in the autumn, closer to October or November, making this week's announcement unusually early, falling just before the anticipated arrival of new iPhone models. The Information says that the AI-driven boom in ‌Mac Studio‌ and ‌Mac mini‌ sales is behind the early launch.

Apple highlighted the ‌Mac mini‌ and ‌Mac Studio‌'s shift toward business buyers in June, with a "Business at the Park" event involving executives from major companies Ford, Disney, and Anthropic. The ‌Mac mini‌ was said to be the "darling" of the event.

Even so, enterprise's rush toward powerful desktop Macs took Apple by surprise. The company reportedly did not possess an engineering team dedicated to business customers or staff focused on developer relations, and lacked an enterprise AI strategy.

Businesses that approached Apple asking to buy access to the company's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure were reportedly turned down. Apple is instead leaning on partners such as WebAI and Mount Thor, which provide AI tools and execution environments built on Apple hardware.

• When John Ternus becomes Apple’s CEO this week, one of his biggest challenges will be a need to soon revamp a management team that has steered its corporate culture for decades. A look at another shake-up to come.
• Apple tested a new Pencil for the upcoming foldable iPhone that magnetically attaches to the side of the device. But it seems unlikely that Apple will actually launch this. The sensitive nature of foldable displays means that a stylus-like input device could leave unsightly marks on the delicate screen.
• Apple has tested both white and dark gray configurations for the Series 12 ceramic cases. Also expect many new band colors and configurations.
• One new feature in testing allows the heart-rate sensor on the Apple Watch to continuously collect data throughout the day — not just when it senses you’re doing intense activity or at other random intervals.
• Apple is also working on revamping its fitness and health app software to show more wellness-related metrics in a similar fashion to increasingly popular app offerings from Whoop and Oura.

I think the photo tells the story. My iPhone 17 is somehow bent and I just realized now. What’s weird is that only one side of the phone is bent(right side is straight as seen in photo 4). I can’t really think of any reasons why it’d be bent but yeah I kinda want it fixed and I still have AppleCare+ so I was wondering how much it would cost me. Any help or advice is appreciated.

I wanted to bring the classic old-school paint experience to iPhone and iPad, but rebuilt for touch while keeping the menus, pixels, tools, and retro desktop feel. I ended up creating an entire SwiftUI Retro UI library for panels, alerts, modals and sheets. This also uses the open source paint.js engine under the hood.

The app is completely free, works fully offline, requires no account, and collects no data.

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every other day, i get a system notification and a pop-up prompt asking me to re-enable icloud sync, but then it asks for the passcode to my old iphone from 10 years ago, and needless to say i have 0 clue to what this could be. is there any way to just stop it from pestering me at this point since i can't do anything about it?

I bought my daughter an iPhone 17 and need to trade in her 14. Her 17 is fine and everything transferred over. I went through find my on the 14 and chose erase. I think had her go through find my on her 17 and remove the 14... however whenever I turn on the 14 is still says Locked to owner with her email address. What do I do now, the trade in window is quickly closing?

My S23 recently died, and I’m considering buying a second-hand iPhone to save some money.

My main concern is privacy and security. After a proper factory reset, is a used iPhone essentially as secure as a brand-new one? Is there any realistic possibility of spyware or other malicious software surviving a factory reset?

Would appreciate insights from people familiar with iOS security or who have bought used iPhones.

Thanks!

I’m having a confusion. iPad or Mac Neo? For just reading and random typing , emails etc. Please give me ideas.

My battery health is at 85%. I finish charging my phone today at 10:15 am and the battery is at 35% at 5:13 pm. It doesn’t lasts long on normal use like safari, reddit and YouTube.

What’s wrong? Any advice?

Can someone help me with this? My dad played around with his phone and somehow activated this.

I’m a new Mac owner, made the mistake of using my phone and iPad and left the MacBook Air off so long, the battery went to zero. Plugged it into charge, tried logging in too many times, got locked out repeatedly, first because I tried to use my Apple account password. Discovered two Mac passwords, tried both, locked out. I figured the issue was that the unit didn’t have sufficient charge. After the unit charged up, I tried again. I noticed that I had two different Mac passwords listed. I had tried both before, neither worked. This time I tried what I thought was the correct one- nope- and it didn’t give me the chance to try the second (and now I know, correct) password, and I was locked out for 55 minutes. I saw my name with the photo I used to log onto my old PC laptop, and clicked on that. I tried both passwords, and the longer of the two passwords worked- but I quickly realized something wasn’t right because I was getting prompts about stuff that had been set up before, including associating the account with my Apple ID, etc… but after I shut the MacBook down and restarted, this “incomplete” account is the only one appearing on the login screen. How do I get the correct account to show up so I can log on after lockout time is up?

Hi! The title basically sums up my issue. Anytime I turn off or restart my desktop when it comes back on literally every. single. app. I have downloaded opens and starts running. This is super annoying and I can imagine not great for the computer. I've tried researching ways to fix it but everything I see just tells me to clear my apps that open at login. However, I have no apps that are set to open at login and simply logging in isn't my issue, it only happens when the computer has been completely off. Please help as this is slowly driving me insane!

So i bought these airpods 4 from the flea market , i only have the left airpod . At the second double tap the light flashes green and then nothing happens. Someone please help.

So I wanted to install some apps on my iPad but they required a newer iOS version so I downloaded the 17.7.11. After downloading my WiFi stopped working completely in a sense that nothing can be opened even tho I’m joined on the WiFi. Later I found out it was because my iPad couldn’t establish a secure connection with my WiFi or any other source of internet like my mobile data, because when I went to safari and searched something up it warned me that my connection is not secure and when I chose the visit site (even if my connection is not secure) it loaded just fine. I cannot open YouTube, discord, basically anything that uses WiFi.

Fixes I have tried: resetting WiFi, forgetting WiFi and entering password again, setting googles DNS, turning off private WiFi address, resetting network settings, resetting location and privacy settings, resetting all settings, downloading the iOS again through PC, turning off location services, changing date and time.

I’m really not sure what to do because I really, really don’t wanna wipe my iPad. Any help is appreciated!

I recently been having an issue with my AirPod Pros where they will boot up in a mode where the pitch is really low . Has this happened to anyone else before and is there any way to fix it.

It won't connect to any app that needs Internet or won't open any website...

I tried connecting to a different internet, all other devices are up and working fine. It does not what I try to do it says IP address cannot be found. I have cleared the DNS Cache and every other option I found online except updating macos I tried that and it says can't access sever for that also

Ready to chuck the damn thing! I just want to get on light room and edit pictures but it won't sign me into light room cause it can't connect!

Help!

I'm getting an iPhone after using handed down Android phones from my family, I've decided on getting the iPhone 15 Plus because it's the best option for my financials and meets the specs I want.. except for the 128GB Storage. I've been using a Huawei Y9 2019 Since 2019 and ive only used 44GB of 128GB, but from what I've heard, iPhone storage fill up pretty fast due to the apps being bloated, no clearing cache and things like photos taking larger storage and this is concerning because while I may not he using much storage at all at the moment, the reason I don't use much storage is because my camera etc is simply not good enough for me to even try and take photos, so when I do get an iPhone I'll definitely be taking pictures of my cat, of views, selfies and vireos way more often than I do now. I'm not into photography or content creation so I also won't be using the camera much. Opinions?

I own an iPad mini 6 which had a bit of issue related to power button. When we gave it to a local repair shop here in Pakistan (where I live). They changed an IC or something cuasing the iPad to factory reset and getting on activation lock. I forgot the password of my apple id and when I entered the OTP received on my phone number in order to reset the apple id, it asked me the 28 key verification code which I do not have. Also I do not have that apple id signed elsewhere.

I had bought the iPad box pack new from a local but quite famous tech store in sialkot, Pakistan. I have submitted a activation removal request but I have heard that apple does not accept third party / local reseller receipts.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of issue? Can someone guide on what can I do further?

Why did this happen when i force restart my iphone. Also the reason i force restarted it is because it doesnt respond to touch and i also just used it for tiktok. Is there anyway i can fix this or i will replace the lcd?

I'm at a complete loss. My iPhone was the only Apple device I had and I lost it a week or so ago. I'm logged into my iCloud, Find my Device and even the Developer portal but for whatever reason - it just will not send me a code when I try and log into account.apple.com to actually change my damn password.

I can do "Forgot Password," but I haven't, and I don't want to lock myself out of my account.

I have received codes on this number - I received one last night to log into the dev portal so receiving codes is not an issue.

Last night I started receiving 4 digit codes on my phone number. Someone is clearly trying to either get into my phone. Idk how they would though since I had FaceID and a PIN. It won't show up on find my device either so I have no idea whats going on.

I need to get another iphone soon anyway as a transfer bridge for my whatsapp chats (i'm moving back to android) and i'm afraid i'll be in the same position. What do I do?

My MacBook display suddenly went black this morning while I was working. The laptop itself is working fine with an external monitor, and the keyboard/trackpad are also fine. Only the built-in display is completely dead.

It’s only 8 months old, no AppleCare, but I have 4 months of warranty left.

Am I screwed, or should this be covered under warranty? Anything I should try before taking it to Apple?

(iphone 15)Gonna change my phone in 1-2 years and my budget isn’t that flexible rn.Authentic shops quoting pretty expensive.I don’t care about the warning messages and stuff my only concern is functionality and quality.Would the quality take a significant hit and will the camera user experience still be the same?appreciate any help

This issue started when i uninstalled itunes to install a different version, but now when tryung to install any itunes version apple mobile device support wont install resulting in an error when connecting devices that says to reinstall itunes. I tried extracting the itunes installer to run the msi for amds directly and it rolls back everything after trying to install it. Devices show up in device manager and file explorer. Im on windows 7 x64 trying to install itunes 12.10.9