MagSafe Monday: LISEN for Qi2 MagSafe delivers a nearly perfect travel charger

Finding the perfect travel charger can be challenging, but I may have one of the best. Enter the r, a 3-in-1 charging station that can fit in your back pocket. Designed with Apple users in mind, this charger is a game-changer for powering up your iPhone, Apple Watch, and .

MagSafe Monday : Every Monday, Bradley Chambers looks at the latest and greatest in the MagSafe and wireless charging industry to help you get the most out of your Apple devices that support wireless charging.


iOS 18.2 just added a faster way to message Siri and ChatGPT

iOS 18.2 came packed with a lot of big and small changes. One smaller update that’s flown under the radar is a faster way to message Siri or ChatGPT. Here’s how it works.

Siri is undergoing a gradual transformation . It started with iOS 18.1’s new design and select other enhancements , then continued in iOS 18.2 when ChatGPT support was added.

One of the recent additions is a convenient new messaging mode: Type to Siri.

In iOS 1

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Popular Honey browser extension steals creator revenue, scams users, claims investigative video

Honey is a owned by PayPal that’s at the center of a big new controversy. As a outlines, the extension that’s meant to save users money not only misses key discounts, but also intentionally redirects affiliate funds away from creators.

PayPal Honey is a browser extension you’ve probably heard of, if not installed and used during this holiday shopping season. It’s available on Chrome, Safari , and more and has grown popular for good reason.

Honey promises to provide the best deals and coupons


2024 Apple hardware: year in review

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Benjamin and Chance reflect on Apple’s 2024 products, focused on all the product announcements from the past twelve months. From the lows of AirPods Max to the highs of M4 iPad Pro, and the mixed reception to Apple Vision Pro. We break it all


Last-minute deals: M4 Pro MacBook Pro hits best price ever, AirPods Max $169 off, AirTags, MacBook stand, more

While we are coming down to the wire now for holiday shipping, Best Buy has launched a still arriving by tomorrow. And one of them is the best deal ever on the with 24GB of RAM at the list price. That offer joins up to $169 in savings on , ongoing 2024 lows on , a 50% price drop on , Bose and Sony headphones, plus even more. Scope it all out down below.

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This one new feature might finally bring me back to the Mac in 2025

I’ve used an iPad Pro as my primary computer for years, despite occasionally testing the waters with the Mac. For various reasons, I’ve always stuck with the iPad, but one new feature Apple just shipped might finally be the thing that gets me back to the Mac in 2025.

This piece requires a little background in two areas:

  1. the new device I just bought
  2. the reason I went all-in on iPad Pro in the first place

First, the new device.

After a long

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses could get a display next year

Ray-Ban Meta have been the most successful smart glasses to date, offering an appealing mix of features in a form factor which is visually indistinguishable from normal sunglasses.

So far, all of the AI functionality, notifications, and messaging features have relied on the glasses reading things to you through integrated speakers, but a new report says a future model will get a display, and that it could launch as early as next year …

We’re fans of the existing glasses here at 9to5Mac . My colleague


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M5 Pro chip could separate CPU and GPU in ‘server grade’ chips

One of the key elements of Apple’s A-series and M-series chips is the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design which tightly integrates all the components within a single package. This includes both CPU and GPU.

But a new report suggests that the M5 Pro chip may take a different approach of having more separated CPU and GPU in order to improve performance and boost production yields …

Traditional computers and computer-like devices had completely separate CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (


Kuo reiterates variable aperture lens coming to iPhone 18, not 17

There have been consistent reports that we can expect a future iPhone to offer a variable aperture lens within a year or two, but there’s been disagreement about whether the new feature will launch in the iPhone 17 or iPhone 18 .

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously said the major camera upgrade was coming to the iPhone 18, while The Information pointed instead to the iPhone 17. Kuo has now doubled-down on his earlier prediction …

You can find a detailed explanation with examples in our earlier


An Apple smart doorbell would be a sure-fire winner – for all of us

A report over the weekend suggested an Apple smart home doorbell with support for Face ID is in development. It follows an earlier report of an Apple smart home camera next year.

While it could be argued that both are commodity products, and that Apple’s most important contribution is the HomeKit platform rather than the hardware, there seems little doubt about the opportunity here …

Many of us here have been using smart home tech for a great many years, so it can be easy for us to forget that this is still

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