Indie App Spotlight: ‘Weather mini’ packs trip forecasts and more in a beautiful design

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight . This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact .

is a nicely designed weather app for the entire Apple ecosystem that adds a couple key features that Apple Weather misses. You can plan out trips, chat with the on-device Apple Intelligence model for forecasts, and it even includes a fully featured Apple Watch app.

First things first, uses

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Apple still has over a dozen products in the pipeline for 2026, here’s what’s coming

Apple just wrapped up a very exciting week of announcements – starting off with iPhone 17e , and ending with . While we did get 7 new products this week, theres still a fair bit in the pipeline for the near future. We’ll be delving into those.

For the most part, Apple cleared the deck when it comes to the Mac lineup. Seeing Apple announce both the and last week was certainly a bit of a surprise – on top of the and .

That said, there’s still

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9to5Mac Overtime 062: MacBook Neo lets the iPad be an iPad

Episode 062: First thoughts on MacBook Neo, including advantages, compromises, and how it fits into the Apple ecosystem. Fernando and Jeff argue that the MacBook Neo could be the best budget laptop of all time.

9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva & Jeff Benjamin. and for more.

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Hands-on: This Magsafe battery has one feature I’ve been looking for [Video]

I have been on the search for a thin MagSafe battery for years. I’ve tested dozens of these battery packs, and some have been fantastic, but they all share the same compromise, which is bulk. This year’s iPhone Air made me want a thin MagSafe battery solution even more. So when I saw that BMX released their , with a 5,000 mAh capacity and a thickness of less than 6.8mm, I knew I needed to give this one a shot. After

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Apple @ Work: ABMate gives Apple Business Manager the native Mac app it deserves

, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage, and protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple .

Apple Business Manager (and Apple School Manager) is the source of truth for Apple device management

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This week’s top stories: MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and much more

Welcome to 9to5Mac’s top stories of the week, where we recap the biggest news in the Apple world every Saturday. This week, we have all of Apple’s announcements, including the MacBook Neo , iPhone 17e, and more. Plus, our usual slate of new podcast episodes, opinion pieces, and much more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories.

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Early Geekbench results hint at the performance of the A19-powered iPhone 17e

Following early tests of the M4 iPad Air , the M5 Max chip , and the MacBook Neo, the first purported tests of the iPhone 17e ’s A19 chip are now up on Geekbench. Here’s how it did.

As 9to5Mac readers probably know, Geekbench results for unreleased products should always be taken with a grain of salt .

Over the past few days, we’ve seen purported results for many of the products Apple announced earlier this week, which will become


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Apple ran a test on the App Store to see if AI could improve search result rankings

Apple researchers ran an A/B test to measure how AI-generated relevance labels would affect App Store search rankings and app downloads. Here’s what they found.

In a new study titled , a group of Apple researchers explored whether LLMs could help improve App Store search results by generating the relevance labels used to train the ranking system.

As the study explains, relevance is obviously key to helping users find the apps they’re looking for. And while there are many signals that can contribute to search ranking,


9to5Rewards: MacBook Pro and 4K Nano Gloss Monitor Giveaway from BenQ

We’re giving away Apple’s latest MacBook Pro to one lucky reader this month courtesy of our friends at BenQ to celebrate the company’s MA series of monitors for Mac. The winner will also receive the new for MacBook! Head below to enter the giveaway and learn more about the new monitors.

When monitors, it wanted to make them look as close as possible to your MacBook display. The company’s Mac Color-Tuning Technology does exactly that. As a bonus, BenQ’s supplied Mac


Apple adds Steve Lemay and Molly Anderson to its leadership page

Apple has updated its leadership page to reflect several recent changes to its executive team. Here’s what changed.

Towards the end of last year, Apple announced that Lisa Jackson, the company’s Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, would soon retire. As a result, her organization would transition to then-Senior Vice President and General Counsel Katherine Adams, ahead of her own retirement towards the end of 2026.

On the same announcement, Apple said that Jennifer Newstead, an ex

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