Last night, Apple lowered the interest rate of the Apple Card Savings Account to a new 3.75% APY. While this is down from its highest point at 4.5% APY, Apple’s rate still holds quite strong to the rest of the banking industry.

Apple begun offering the Apple Card Savings Account in April 2023, in partnership with Goldman Sachs. It offered an industry-leading 4.15% APY at the time, and has received a number

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Waze on iOS is about to lose a feature that should have been integral to the app, but has in fact spent more than a year in various states of being broken. Google Assistant support is officially being removed from .

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We’d like to share an update with you regarding Google Assistant on Waze iOS.

As many of you have likely experienced, this feature has not been working as intended for over a year, and we sincerely apologize for the prolonged inconvenience.

Rather than simply patching a feature that has faced

Apple is about to launch its next big software updates, including iPadOS 18.4 with a variety of new features. Here are four features coming to your iPad very soon.

I have been a Moft customer for years. They have perfected an origami-inspired style of making ultra-functional, lightweight, and portable products. All of their products are made to solve multiple problems in one. Their stand and for iPhone 16 were among my favorites of 2024. They are starting 2025 with an iPad accessory that I have never seen before, the , let me tell you about it

At first glance, the Dynamic Folio looks like any other magnetic iPad folio case

Apple has donated 30 million yuan ($4.1 million) to Zhejiang University to help fund app development training in China .

CEO Tim Cook has also visited Hangzhou, China’s artificial intelligence hub and home to the developers of the controversial chatbot DeepSeek …

Despite moves to diversify production in India, Thailand, and elsewhere, Apple remains highly dependent on China, with the vast majority of the world’s iPhones made in a single plant there. The relationship between the US and China has often been a strained

The iPhone 16 ban last year imposed by the Indonesian government will finally be lifted, says a new report, the latest models going back on sale on April 11.

An end to the long-running battle between Indonesia and Apple has reportedly cost the Cupertino company at least $300M, and possibly up to $1B over ten years …

This has been a long a difficult negotiation.

Apple initially invested in Indonesia by putting $109M into a developer academy there , with a

We noted ahead of the iPhone 16 launch that the device could technically support 8K video recording, but it was possible Apple would hold this back for the iPhone 17 .

Apple did indeed withhold it from the iPhone 16 – arguably with good reason – and a leaker with a decent track record backs our expectation that 8K video capability will be offered in the iPhone 17 line-up …

All iPhone 16 models support 4K video recording. This includes slo-mo footage of 60fps

Yesterday saw the latest episode in a Prosser versus Gurman battle over just how big a change we’ll see in the look and feel of the user interface in iOS 19 .

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says he’s seen evidence of a change almost as notable as that of iOS 7 back in 2013. Jon Prosser, on the other hand, says we should expect something far less dramatic …

Gurman reported earlier this month that this year will see a completely new look to each of Apple’