July 2025

Macworld What was long considered impossible has now been a reality for almost four years: iPhone owners are allowed to pick their own default apps for core functions such as email, phone, messaging, and web browsing. While Apple was reluctant to grant users these freedoms, pressure from regulators and competitors finally forced the company to […]

Macworld Creative work doesn’t stop when you leave the studio. Whether you’re prepping a presentation in a hotel lobby or editing video on a flight, this refurbished Apple MacBook Pro M1 (2021) gives you the power of your home setup without the risk of lugging around your most expensive gear. With 32GB of unified memory, a 16-core

Macworld If you’ve ever dreamed of writing a book but felt overwhelmed by the time, effort, or writer’s block, Youbooks might be your new favorite tool. This AI-powered platform is designed to turn your ideas into polished, professional-quality non-fiction books in a fraction of the time traditional writing takes, and a lifetime subscription just went on sale

Macworld Apple upgraded its MagSafe Charger from 15W to 25W at the iPhone 16 launch last fall, giving it an edge over third-party magnetic chargers and stands. That’s no longer the case with the latest release from Ugreen. Ugreen has announced that its MagFlow Magnetic Power Bank is the world’s first to receive official Qi

Apple’s MLX machine learning framework, originally designed for Apple Silicon, is getting a CUDA backend. That means developers will be able to run MLX models directly on NVIDIA GPUs, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why. more…

A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations. Here’s what that means, and how they did it. more…

watchOS 26 adds a variety of improvements to your Apple Watch, like watch face hints, a new Notes app, and more. There’s also a new feature coming in watchOS 26 that should make noisy, disruptive notifications a thing of the past—at least, for some users. more…

Apple made several exciting car-related announcements at WWDC last month. In addition to showing off some great new CarPlay features, the company shared that car keys will soon be supported by 13 new vehicle brands inside the Apple Wallet app. Here’s what’s coming. more…

Today, Tim Cook took to X to Apple Watch Sleep Apnea notifications are now available in select new countries and territories. See the full lists below. more…

If you’re a Chrome user still running macOS Big Sur, you’ll soon have to decide which of the two you’ll want to update, as Google just confirmed it’s dropping support for macOS 11. Here is the timeline. more…