Macworld Instead of letting down the Apple lover on your gifting list this year with something like AirTags, why not surprise them with an iPad Air? No, you don’t have to splurge to get them some Apple gear, at least if you shop refurbished. Check off your holiday shopping list with this 4th Gen iPad Air….

Macworld FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, and other apps offer live captions for calls and videoconferences. You can record calls in FaceTime. Several services and some apps transcribe audio to text using machine learning. Why not combine all these into a single service? Apple did with the Phone app and FaceTime in iOS 18.1. Starting with that…

Macworld At WWDC on June 10 2024, Apple took the wraps off its ambitious project to inject generative AI features throughout its operating systems. Apple calls this Apple Intelligence, and it’s going to transform the way you use your iPhone, iPad, and Mac—but it’s also got significant limitations and caveats. Here’s everything you need to…

Macworld If you haven’t yet downloaded iOS 18.2 for your iPhone, iPadOS 18.2 for your iPad, or macOS 15.2 for your Mac, you’re missing out on a slew of improvements, most notably some excellent Apple Intelligence upgrades as well as other welcome features. But even If you don’t have a newer iPhone or just don’t…

Macworld Traditionally, the most fruitful season for Apple is the fall: this fall alone we got new iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, iPads, and Mac desktops and laptops. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the year is barren. Not by a long shot. In fact, according to 9to5Mac, we have a lot to look forward…

Macworld Troubling news from inside Apple Park, where the engineering team is reportedly struggling to deal with the increasingly dire state of iOS 18 development. The public version of iOS 18.0 launched back in September, but it did so without the inclusion of Apple Intelligence, the most highly anticipated new feature for this cycle. It’s…

Macworld Apple’s AirTag is a compact tracking device that can be attached to personal items to make it easy to find them. Unlike a GPS tracker, which requires cell service and may drain a battery quickly, an AirTag relies on the distributed Find My network of iPhones, iPads, and Macs that hundreds of millions of…

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fast frame rates at high visual quality settings 12GB memory and bandwidth for 1440p gaming Low, low $249 price Superb ray tracing for price class (beats RTX 4060) Bugs and performance oddities from 1st-gen Arc GPUs have been fixed Uses standard 8-pin power connector XeSS in over 150 games…

Time is running out for older PCs running Windows 10, with less than a year to go until the operating system gets the axe. If you’ve no interest in buying a new computer, an upgrade to Windows 11 may sound like the smartest, easiest choice… but you’d be wrong. Sure, you can install Windows 11…

Pour one out. Windows Report reports that Mozilla has removed the tracking blocker in its Firefox browser. Starting with version 135 of Firefox, the “Do Not Track” setting will no longer be present in the browser. Mozilla writes on its support page that the setting has been removed, as it simply does not work well…