“Update, Nov. 27, 2024: This story, originally published Nov. 25 now includes information about a second Apple ID phishing scam and more expert advice for iPhone, iPad and MacBook users on how to best avoid falling victim to Black Friday and Cyber Monday scams.”
Apple Issues New Warning For Millions Of MacBook Users
“Apple is warning billions of Mac and MacBook users worldwide to update macOS as a matter of priority. The latest version of macOS Sequoia was released earlier this week as macOS 15.1.1. It comes less than a month after the major 15.”
Apple is finally letting green bubbles send message reactions
“Apple is showing some love to Android users by finally displaying their message reactions correctly.”
YouTube rolling out playback speed redesign on Android, iOS
“Last month, YouTube announced a host of new features. After the new miniplayer and settings revamp, YouTube is rolling out the fine-tunable redesign of playback speed controls in the Android and iOS app. “
Apple will let you share lost AirTag info with an airline
“Apple will be introducing a new feature to its Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of a lost AirTag with “an airline or a trusted person,” according to MacRumors, which is testing the second developer beta release of iOS 18.2.”
Apple Is Charging The Exact Same Price For A Single Base M4 Mac mini If Buyers Want To Double The Existing Unified RAM And Internal Storage
“The pricing of the M4 Mac mini was nailed to absolute perfection because Apple not only continues to sell the base model for $599, it has topped it out by offering 16GB RAM as standard instead of 8GB RAM that shipped with the previous-generation models, along with 256GB of internal storage.”
Apple’s new M4 Max is the fastest CPU on the market, and we haven’t even seen M4 Ultra
“Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro models this week, with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chipsets. The new M4 Pro chip in the Mac mini already showed some very promising results, making it the fastest Mac ever.”
Apple is acquiring image editing firm Pixelmator
“Pixelmator, the Lithuania-based firm that makes popular Mac-based photo editing tools, has agreed to be acquired by Apple.”
The new Mac mini will be Apple’s fastest desktop Mac, as shown by M4 Pro Geekbench scores
“The new Mac mini with M4 Pro will be Apple’s fastest desktop Mac, ever, eclipsing the M2 Ultra performance of Mac Studio and Mac Pro.”
CarPlay in iOS 18.1 gets three small Apple Intelligence enhancements
“iOS 18.1 released this week with the first Apple Intelligence features for iPhone, plus iPad and Mac. But if you’re a CarPlay user, you might have noticed that Apple Intelligence provides a few nice changes on the road too. Here are three small iOS 18.1 enhancements to CarPlay. Siri in iOS 18.”