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Target this week is offering its shoppers a chance to get a $15 Target gift card when they buy a $100 App Store and iTunes e-gift card. This sale will last through Saturday, May 9, and only one gift card can be purchased per guest. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Target. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running....

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming watchOS 6.2.5 update to developers, one week after releasing the third beta and over a month after releasing the watchOS 6.2 update that added in-app purchases to the Apple Watch App Store. watchOS 6.2.5 can be downloaded for free through the dedicated ‌‌Apple Watch‌‌ app on the iPhone by going to General > Software Update. To install the new ...

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming tvOS 13.4.5 update to developers, one week after seeding the third beta and more than a month after releasing tvOS 13.4. Designed for the fourth and fifth-generation Apple TV models, the tvOS 13.4.5 developer beta can be downloaded onto the ‌‌‌‌‌Apple TV‌‌‌‌‌ via a profile that's installed using Xcode. tvOS updates are typically...

AT&T is now joining in on Verizon's ongoing AirPods Pro offer, with a slightly better deal for the wireless headphones. On AT&T's online store, you can get the AirPods Pro at $224.00, down from $249.00. That's $0.99 cheaper than Verizon's deal. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with AT&T. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the...

Woot has a few deals on refurbished Apple products today, including the previous-generation iPhone SE and the 11-inch iPad Pro from 2018. As with all Woot products, these devices are expected to include a moderate level of wear and tear, but are tested to be in full working condition. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Woot. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a ...

Twitter has announced it is testing a new way of displaying threaded conversations for some iOS and web users that aims to make it easier to see who is responding to whom. As it stands, the way lengthy Twitter conversations display can sometimes make it difficult to know who you're replying to and how the conversation is evolving, especially if the original poster is also responding to...

Did you know that you can use the AirPlay feature on an iPhone or iPad to mirror a FaceTime call to an Apple TV or ‌AirPlay‌ 2-compatible smart TV? This article shows you how. Before following the steps below, make sure that your iOS device is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your ‌Apple TV‌ or ‌AirPlay‌ 2-compatible smart TV. Not sure if your smart TV supports ‌AirPlay‌ 2? You can...

Forza Street, designed by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios, is now available for download, Microsoft announced today. Designed as a free-to-play mobile version of Microsoft's highly popular Forza franchise, the new Forza Street game can be played on both Android and iOS devices. Microsoft says Forza Street provides quick under-a-minute races aimed at mobile gameplay, with players able to unlock ...

Apple resurrected the iPhone SE name in April 2020 with a 4.7-inch device that may look like an ‌iPhone‌ 8 from the outside, but packs some serious hardware smarts under the hood, and all for a low $399 starting price. Below, we've rounded up some of the more notable cases available for the second-generation ‌iPhone‌ SE. Given their external similarities, most ‌iPhone‌ 8 cases will actually...

In its latest update to Google Drive for iPhone and iPad, Google has added a new Privacy Screen feature that lets users enable Face ID or passcode authentication whenever the app is opened on their device, irrespective of the system's global security settings. Similar features have been added to other third-party iOS apps containing particularly sensitive content, like password managers for ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its Outlook app for iPhone and iPad that includes a new feature allowing users to remove repetitive multi-reply email threads from their inbox. In Microsoft speak, a Conversation is the complete chain of emails from the first message through all responses, and the messages of a Conversation have the same subject. The new feature, called Ignore...

Anyone who has used an iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard will know just how much better the typing experience is compared to tapping away on the virtual keyboard. Once you've tried it, you'll never want to go back to using the onscreen keyboard for any extensive document work. However, occasionally there might be times when you need to use the onscreen virtual keyboard to do things like type...

In iOS 13.5, Apple introduced a new Group FaceTime feature that's disables the option that automatically enlarges the tile of the person who is speaking. By default, ‌FaceTime‌ has a dynamic view with a tile for each person. The person who is speaking at the current time has a larger tile, while tiles for people who are not talking fade into the background. Apple refers to this as Automatic...

Amazon has returned the AirPods with Wireless Charging Case to their lowest price of $149.98 today, down from Apple's price of $199.00. This accessory is the model that launched in 2019 and includes a Wireless Charging Case that is compatible with Qi-enabled mats. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small...

Best Buy has a new Apple Shopping Event happening today, which includes a return of the HomePod's Black Friday sale price of $199.99. This remains one of the lowest prices we've ever tracked for a new HomePod, and is the best you'll find online this week. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Best Buy. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which...

Nanoleaf has been working on new hexagon-shaped lighting panels to add to its triangle and square-shaped lighting panel options, and the Hexagons are now available for limited pre-orders. Customers who signed up to be notified when the Hexagons became available were this week sent emails allowing them to place a pre-order. Pre-orders are set to open for everyone on Friday, May 15, and the...

Automatic, a company that made the Automatic Adapter that plugs into a car's OBD-II port to provide vehicle information like distance traveled, gas used, time spent in the car, and more, is shutting down. The imminent shuttering of the company was announced on the Automatic website, which says that the global health crisis has impacted its business. The Automatic connected car product,...

For this week's giveaway, we've once again teamed up with Plex to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a cord-cutting bundle that includes a lifetime Plex Pass, an antenna, and a TV tuner for creating a live TV setup that provides all kinds of content that can be watched without the need for a cable subscription. Plex is an all-in-one media hub that organizes your existing library of...