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is a recipe manager for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It offers a number of unique features, including the ability to easily import recipes from anywhere, meal planning features, and more. It makes every recipe easily achievable.

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With iOS 18.2, Apple introduced an all new Mail app . It introduced mail categorization, a fresh coat of paint, contact photos/business logos for conversations, a new system for grouping emails, and more. All of that sounded nice when it was unveiled back at WWDC, but now that I’ve actually spent some time using it, I’m having some doubts.

One of the biggest features in the new Mail app is categorization, breaking down your emails into varying categories of Primary,

I have an on my keychain to keep track of my keys, but obviously an AirTag is too big and bulky to fit inside a wallet. That’s what the is for. (Wallet Finder is , so it’s an even better deal than normal right now.)

Disguised inside a thin, credit-card form factor, the SwitchBot Wallet Finder connects to the Find My app on your iPhone, so you can follow its location, and it even houses a speaker so you can make it beep to

In a move to improve repairability across its product lineup, Apple will soon be selling speakers as an individual component, something that the company hasn’t done since the 2015 MacBook Pro model.

According to , Apple shared a memo with Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers this week, notifying them that individual speakers will be offered as a standalone repair for the new 14-inch and 16-inch with M4 chips.

Additionally, another MacRumors source indicates that Apple will be expanding this repair

Every year, there seems to be an infinite number of cases available for your iPhone. There are thin cases, bulky cases, cases made of leather, others made of pure metal, cases with stands, and cases with a camera control cover; if you can think of it, there is a case for you. All this variability makes it tough to crown just one case as the ‘best’ case because it is so subjective. So, I wanted to create a few categories of cases and pick my favorite

While the new got a number of sweet quality of life upgrades, the new MacBooks looked about the same externally, except for the gaining an additional Thunderbolt port over the M3 model, something that the M3 Pro/M3 Max models already had.

The same also holds true for the internals – with no noteworthy changes over the M3 models.

iFixit shared their M4 Pro teardown on YouTube yesterday, stating that the “insides of the device look very familiar.”

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Earlier this week, Apple announced some additional 3% cash back partners for the Apple Card, Booking.com and Chargepoint. Those were welcome additions, but one of the existing partners will also be going away in a couple months: that being Panera Bread.

While scrolling through the “Merchant Benefits” list in the Apple Card section of the Wallet app, there’s now a new message under the Panera Bread section, stating the following:

Starting February 1, 2025, using Apple Pay at Panera

Following a recent expansion of Tap to Pay on iPhone to more countries in Europe , Apple this week announced that it is bringing the feature to yet another country this year. As of today, users in New Zealand can count on the feature that turns the iPhone into a payment terminal.

The news was (via ). In New Zealand, Adyen, ANZ Bank, Stripe, Windcave and Worldline are the first platforms to support Tap to Pay on iPhone.

For those unfamiliar, Tap to Pay enables merchants to accept contactless