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Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro is a big improvement over the more fussy iPhone 16 Pro. The vapor chamber and switching to aluminum from titanium both make a noticeable difference in sustained performance and improved thermal management. However, my favorite hardware improvement in years isn’t limited to the Pro series.

Apple has hired Google VP Lilian Rincon as its new vice president of Product Marketing for AI, the company tells me.

Apple says Rincon will lead product marketing and product management for its AI platforms, including Apple Intelligence and Siri. She will report directly to Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing.

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Apple Podcasts got some exciting video improvements in iOS 26.4 this week, here are the new features included in the update.

Friday Night Baseball returns to Apple TV tonight, with the first of many doubleheaders coming this season for Apple subscribers. Here’s how to watch MLB games on Apple TV.

iPhone security has been in the news this month as Apple patches known exploits. As promised, the company has alerted customers using iPhones on older software to update this week. Meanwhile, Apple states on-the-record that its Lockdown Mode has proven effective against hack attempts so far.

iOS 26.4 is available now, and it packs five new features for the Music app. Here’s everything new for Apple Music in iOS 26.4.

Apple released iOS 26.4 to everyone this week, bringing new emojis, updates to Apple Music, and more to iPhone users everywhere.

Now, attention is shifting to iOS 26.5 among loyal 9to5Mac readers. We’ve received a lot of questions about when the first iOS 26.5 beta will be released, so here’s what we know based on history.

Apple’s TV app has long offered a ‘Channels’ feature that lets you subscribe to and watch other services right in the app. And anime destination Crunchyroll just became the first notable new channel in quite a while.

Reports have indicated for months that iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will pack several design updates. Now a new leak indicates that one of those changes—a smaller Dynamic Island—will apply to more iPhone 18 models too.

Although I appreciate Apple’s desire to keep the stock Photos app as simple as possible to use, there are a number of surprising omissions.

One of them is that there’s no way to sort or filter videos by length or file size. That’s a pretty fundamental missing feature if you’re trying to free up iPhone storage by deleting some of your largest unwanted videos. Fortunately, there’s a Shortcut available to do the job …

In a new filing, iyO alleges that former Apple designer and now io co-founder Tang Tan was given access to its confidential designs, broadening the initial scope of the lawsuit against OpenAI. Here are the details.

The fifth season of For All Mankind starts streaming today on Apple TV. The long-running space drama rolls out weekly, with new episodes dropping every Friday.

This marks the start of the penultimate season of the series, with production on the sixth and final season already underway. A spin-off show, called Star City, premieres at the end of May.

Apple Original Films’ newest project is based on the award-winning graphic novel Telepaths. Here are the details.

Starting today, some App Store apps must declare whether they are regulated medical devices in the US, UK, and Europe. Here are the details.

404 Media reports that Apple provided the FBI with the identity of a user after he sent a threatening email to the FBI director’s girlfriend. Here are the details.

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It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed.

Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.

A new report from Bloomberg details that Apple recently awarded “rare bonuses to iPhone hardware designers this week.” The bonuses are said to be worth “several hundred thousand dollars” and are viewed as a way to deter employees from departing for high-paying startups like OpenAI.

iPhone users wearing headphones can now instantly translate conversations across more than 70 languages using Google Translate. Here’s how it works.

Benjamin and Chance talk about the surprise AirPods Max 2 announcement, WWDC 2026 is official, and the company confirms that ads are coming to Apple Maps. Also, Bloomberg reports on the latest Siri chatbot designs coming as part of iOS 27.  

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