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In Apple's Safari browser for iPhone and iPad, every new window or tab you open automatically displays the start page, giving you convenient one-touch access to your favorite websites and any other sites you frequently visit, as well as Siri Suggestions and websites recommended to you by friends and family. Your favorite websites appear at the top under Favorites, and you can customize these...

One of the perks of Apple Card's rewards system is "Daily Cash," where Apple pays out your cash back bonuses on a daily basis rather than making you wait weeks for it to show up on a credit card statement. There's no limit to how much Daily Cash that you can earn with ‌Apple Card‌, and if you've set up Apple Cash, it's added automatically to the virtual Apple Cash card that lives in the...

The week has kicked off with a few new notable sales, including a new sale on App Store and iTunes gift cards and markdowns on Flexibits' popular apps like Fantastical 2. Amazon also has a Gold Box deal on refurbished iPad Pros from 2018, providing discounts of up to $210 off these models. iTunes Gift Card The latest sale on iTunes gift cards has hit today, with Costco offering its members a...

Netflix is testing a human curated discovery feature on iOS called "Collections" that surfaces TV shows and movies the user might be interested to watch (via TechCrunch). Collections in Netflix for iOS Netflix says the content is curated by experts on its creative teams and that the collections are organized according to similar factors, such as genre, tone, story line, and character traits. ...

Following a couple of weeks of trickling out early invitations, Apple this week launched Apple Card for all U.S. customers, offering broad access to the new digital and physical credit card issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs. This week also saw a host of rumors and leaks, including details on Apple's upcoming iPhones, word of updates for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, AirPods, and HomePod,...

While there are no fees or penalty interest rate hikes for making a late payment on your Apple Card, you still have to pay interest on any outstanding balance, and a late payment will impact your credit score. For these reasons, it's worth ensuring you make regular payments – and the best way to do that is to set up recurring scheduled payments. It's easy to arrange scheduled ‌Apple Card‌...

Apple Card aims to make your online and retail transactions simple and secure. The same goes for making timely credit card payments – the process is taken care of right on your iPhone in the Wallet app, so there's need to go searching for online statements. You can make payments on your ‌Apple Card‌ in one of two ways. You can schedule a recurring payment, or you can make a one-off payment...

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Vessel to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a Signature 2.0 Backpack. Vessel makes all kinds of backpacks, briefcases, and bags, but the Signature 2.0, as the name suggests, is one of the most popular and was even named one of the top laptop bags of the year by Forbes. Designed to be an every day backpack that can carry all of your...

Apple Music today launched a new curated playlist called "New Music Daily," which as the name suggests, is updated every day with fresh songs. Made up of "new music you simply can't miss" from a broad range of genres spanning the globe, the new playlist replaces the service's long-established "Best of the Week" playlist, which was updated every Friday. Today's U.K. mix consists of 62...

Like all credit cards, Apple Card requires that you have a bank account for making payments. As you might expect, Apple makes it easy to select a bank account for ‌Apple Card‌ payments using the Wallet app on your iPhone. The first time you add a bank account, you'll be asked if you want to add the same bank account that you use with Apple Cash (assuming you've set up Apple Cash). If so, all ...

Apple's physical titanium Apple Card is unique among credit cards, since it lacks the usual key account details like card number, expiration date, and CCV. (Thankfully, all of this information can be easily found on your iPhone.) Of course, not having a card number on the physical card helps from a security perspective because somebody can't just write it down and use it without your...

Taylor Swift revealed today on Instagram that she will be the next partner in Apple's "Music Lab" sessions, which are available in Apple retail stores. The Music Lab session will focus on learning how to remix the song "You Need to Calm Down," from Swift's upcoming album "Lover." According to Swift, these sessions will only be available in select Apple stores. Similar to previous Music...

Spotify today announced that it is extending its free-trial period for Spotify Premium to three months, up from the previous one month that users would have to try out the paid service. With this extension, Spotify and Apple Music now offer the same amount of free trial time before customers have to pay for the music streaming services. In its blog post on the announcement, Spotify confirmed ...

OtterBox today announced a new expandable wireless charging system that it calls "OtterSpot," which includes one charging base that can power up multiple batteries and a smartphone simultaneously. To start, the OtterSpot Charging Base is placed on a flat surface, and you can stack multiple OtterSpot Wireless Charging Batteries on top of it to charge them. On the very top, a compatible iPhone ...

T-Mobile appears to be experiencing a significant outage, with many T-Mobile customers unable to make calls or send text messages, reports TechCrunch. Based on reports on Twitter and other social networks, the outage started at approximately 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time. There's no word on just how many people are impacted by the service issues, but there are dozens of reports from T-Mobile...

Amid all the online chatter about Apple Card, you may have come across references to the "arbitration clause" in Apple's agreement, and how you should opt out of it if you intend to apply for the credit card. So what is arbitration, and why should you steer clear of it? Basically, arbitration is a way to resolve legal disputes between two parties (in this case, between you and Goldman Sachs, ...

Over on our YouTube channel, we have an ongoing video series that's designed to highlight new, interesting, and useful iOS apps that we think are worth downloading and checking out There are so many apps in the iOS App Store that it can be hard to find new apps and it's also easy to overlook great apps that are a bit older. Our app lists include both new and old apps that we recommend and have ...

Well-known accessory makers Anker and Aukey have introduced many new discounts this week, offering notable sales on helpful Apple accessories like wireless chargers, portable batteries, Lightning cables, and more. We've listed every deal from each company below, along with the expiration dates for each discount so you know how long you have to take advantage of the sales. Anker Soundcore Audio...