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Apple has released a bunch of critical security updates, so whether you’re reading this on a Mac, iPhone, iPad or even an Apple Watch, it probably needs an update. iOS 15.6.1: Apple released a small update to iPhones that includes two important security patches affecting Kernel and WebKit. Both updates could lead to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges and may have been actively exploited. Head over to the Settings on your iPhone and tap General then Software Update to install it. iPadOS 15.6.1: The same security updates that are on iOS are included in the iPadOS 15.6.1 update. To update, go to the Settings app on your iPad, then General and Software Update. macOS Monterey 12.5.1: macOS Monterey 12.5.1 also includes two important security updates for the Kernel (CVE-2022-32894)…

Apple has always maintained that the best approach for most customers is to get their products repaired by the company itself or by an authorized partner. But following years of pressure, it recently softened its stance on DIY repairs, announcing an iPhone self‑repair programme in November and last month expanding it to cover MacBooks. But has Apple genuinely been converted to a belief in the right to repair, or is it selling ice cream in winter for an easy PR win? Is it just pretending to be okay with customers doing their own repairs because it’s worried about antitrust regulators? We’ve written before about the high costs and significant stress of the Self Service Repair programme, and it looks like at least one of the new MacBook options follows a…

Apple’s events are fun, but they can be a little overwhelming. Not everyone has over an hour to watch the world’s most valuable company pitch its latest gadgets, software, and services. If you’re in a rush, or if you just want a quick overview of everything coming your way from Apple in the next few weeks, look no further. This is your concise guide to everything Apple announced at its September ‘Far Out’ event. APPLE, THE INTEGRATION COMPANY CEO Tim Cook started the event standing in a field in the centre of Apple Park, and immediately told us we were going to hear about the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch. Three products that work together seamlessly to provide functionality beyond what they could do alone. Cook said it was “something…

As someone who has been writing about the Apple Watch for eight years, my first impression of the Apple Watch Ultra is that it’s the biggest change to the Apple Watch in its history – yet is recognizably an Apple Watch. The Ultra, with its big 49mm face, is the biggest Apple Watch ever. It’s got the rounded corners that make it clear that it’s an Apple Watch, but the display’s glass is completely flat and runs right into its titanium frame. It’s a very different, striking look. But more than that, this is a chunky Apple Watch. The digital crown, an elegant design touch on all other Apple Watch models, looks more like something from out of a toolbox. The side button, which was designed to be subtle on…

Price: £1,249 from fave.co/3CRcZhy So you’re ready to buy a new laptop. What do you need it for? What do you really need it for? It’s tempting to look at something top-of-the-line, but most of us aren’t doing complex professional video edits on 4K video, heavy-duty scientific work, or really big coding projects every day. Most of us spend our time with some browser tabs open, a handful of apps for email and messaging, editing photos or maybe some simple videos, watching streaming video, that sort of thing. If you’re a gamer that wants to play the latest games, then you’ll be better off looking at a Windows laptop, but for everyone else – everyone who doesn’t use their laptop for very intensive tasks all day long, the MacBook Air…

The redesigned MacBook Pro has everything to make a Mac user happy. I called the 14-inch MacBook Pro, “a truly satisfying laptop” and said, “it can now wear the crown of the professional’s choice without hesitation”. It’s perhaps one of the best laptops Apple has made in the past 15 years. But it’s been nearly ten months since I wrote that review, and the sheen has figuratively worn off. While I still have no qualms about recommending the MacBook Pro to users who demand the most from their Macs, I can’t help but think about what I’d like Apple to update on the MacBook Pro to make it even better than it is now. Here’s a list of features I want to see come to the next MacBook Pro. 1.…

Price: £999 from fave.co/3vQDpvr Mark Levinson is to audio what Lamborghini, Porsche and Ferrari are to automobiles. The high‑end brand, named after its legendary founder, has left an indelible mark with audio products priced in the four and five figures. The Mark Levinson team is looking to add a new – and admittedly atypical – product to that legacy: The £999 No. 5909 wireless noise-cancelling headphone. This is the first headphone model Mark Levinson has ever produced, and it’s designed for the busy professional or passionate listener. What makes this headphone special isn’t necessarily its pedigree, premium materials, onboard tech, or noise-cancelling performance (though it has all of those, too). Rather, what’s notable is the No. 5909’s voicing to the so-called Harman target curve for headphones. The result? A gorgeous…

Apple’s 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are powerful laptops with great battery life. But the next generation could get even better processing speed and battery life, thanks to M2 Pro chips that could be the first in Apple’s line-up built with the 3nm process. According to the Commercial Times in Taiwan, the company that manufactures Apple’s chips, TSMC, will start making 3nm chips for Apple by the end of this year. (Previously, the Commercial Times reported that production would start by the end of September.) The first 3nm Apple chip may be the M2 Pro (and presumably the M2 Max as well), followed by the A17 later in 2023. Eventually, the M3 and subsequent Apple chips will used the 3nm process. In July, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple…

Buying a new Mac is usually pretty straightforward. It’s always best to wait when the current model has been around for a couple of years, but if you can’t, you probably won’t have any buyer’s remorse. Most of the time, the update is just a processor upgrade that a majority of users will be fine with missing out on. And even in the case of a redesign like the recent M2 MacBook Air, you’ll probably save a few pounds buying the current model. It’s a little different with the Mac mini. The current M1 model is getting close to two years since it was released, and based on the recent arrival of the M2 chip, it’s clearly due for an update. But the update could be a major one that…

Perhaps the biggest advances in the iPhone 14 Pro aren’t things you can see from the outside. The main camera has four times the megapixels as any previous iPhone camera, enabling all sorts of functionality. There are other camera upgrades, too, and they’re all boosted by the new A16 Bionic chip and its associated subprocessors. But all people will notice are the things they can see. At the Far Out event to introduce the new iPhones, I was able to see the biggest visual difference: the Dynamic Island – a feature that merges hardware and software while answering the question, ‘Do you think Apple regrets not giving the notch a brand name?’ The Dynamic Island is the replacement for the notch, a combination of two small sensor cut-outs that Apple…

At Apple’s Far Out event, the company announced its new line-up for the Apple Watch. The big news is the new Apple Watch Ultra, but Apple also unveiled the new Series 8 and second-generation SE watches that replace the Series 7 and SE, respectively. Here are the key features for each model. APPLE WATCH SERIES 8 The new Apple Watch Series 8 has the same design as the Series 7. Available in 41- or 45mm sizes, it has the same rounded corners, the Digital Crown and Side button on the right side, and a choice between aluminium (Midnight, Starlight, Silver, or Product Red) and stainless steel (Space Black, Gold, Silver or Graphite). The health and fitness features are headlined by a new body temperature tracker for tracking a woman’s ovulation…

The MacBook Air has always been one of Apple’s most popular Macs, while the iMac is probably the most famous. The two have much in common, but a lot sets them apart. On one side we have two MacBook Air with M2 chips that join the line-up in July 2022 and slot in alongside an M1 MacBook Air from 2020. On the other side are three iMacs all of which feature the M1 chip. If you are deciding between a new MacBook Air or iMac, or if you are considering switching from iMac to MacBook Air or MacBook Air to iMac and want to know whether it would be a good move, read on. In this article we’ll look into what is the same and what is different so you…

Price: Free from fave.co/3wMdGF9 If you like emoji, it’s easy to find and insert them in apps like Discord, Messages, and Slack, and on many websites, particularly social media ones like Facebook and Twitter, which commissioned emoji drawings unique to their products. But outside of apps and sites that embrace emoji, macOS offers a convoluted process to access them otherwise. Rocket blasts its way into that gap. This simple utility provides the same simplicity as in Slack in typing a colon, part of an emoji name, and pressing a completion key (like Return) to insert it. For instance, type :rocket and press Return, and there’s a 🚀. You can change the trigger key from a colon or require typing the trigger twice to invoke the emoji picker. The free flavour…

Price: £129 from fave.co/3A7Rt6i 1More might not have the same recognition as Sony, Bose, or Apple, but the company’s headphones have earned consistently good reviews and more than a few ‘best of’ recommendations over the past few years. The Evo true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds are their new top-of-the line model, and they seem destined to continue the company’s string of successes. You get excellent audio quality and a metal charging case that gives the Evo headphones a premium feel. The active noise cancellation is a bit more relaxed than what you’ll find in many of the other top-rated brands, but that lower intensity makes for a better listening experience when ANC is engaged. BUILD QUALITY The Evo are available in either black or white. The charging case is made of…

Apple has released an update to Boot Camp, which allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows. Version 6.1.19 of Boot Camp includes security updates and an update to the Precision Touchpad driver. With the Precision Touchpad, Windows users can use multitouch gestures on a Mac’s trackpad. To install the update, launch Windows in Boot Camp, and run the Apple Software Update app. The new drivers will then be installed. The 6.1.19 update comes after Apple released Boot Camp 6.1.16 a little over a week ago. Apple included Wi-Fi WPA3 support and a Bluetooth fix for a sleep/hibernation problem in that update. Boot Camp is a major feature but it does not work with Macs that use Apple’s M-series processors, which may make some users hesitate when it comes to buying a…

Apple’s release of the new MacBook Air was highly anticipated, mostly for two reasons: its highly anticipated redesign and the introduction of the M2 processor, the next generation of Apple’s M-series of chips. As expected, the reviews for the M2 MacBook Air have been favourable, with Macworld’s Jason Cross calling it “a success” and “delightful everyday computer for most users”. But the praise for the MacBook Air has been overshadowed by reports of throttled performance. Article after article warns of a performance ‘shortcoming’, ‘severe’ throttling and how it ‘can’t handle the heat’, and video after video demonstrates what’s supposedly wrong with the new laptop. It might lead some people to question whether it’s worth their money and wonder what Apple was thinking. Here’s the thing: we’ve been here before, people.…

At its recent Far Out event, Apple unveiled its biggest iPhone line-up in history, with the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 and 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Plus. Other than the new size, which replaces the iPhone 13 mini, there are few new features in the iPhone 14. The design is essentially the same as the previous model and the chip is only slightly improved – it still uses an A15 Bionic but has an extra GPU core like the iPhone 13 Pro from last year. The iPhone 14 Plus also allows for a bigger battery rated for up to 19 hours, which Apple said is the best battery life ever offered in an iPhone. The most significant changes are with the camera. While the set-up is the same – a dual-camera array with…

At its Far Out event, Apple announced the second-generation version of the AirPods Pro, almost three years after the launch of the original AirPods Pro. In this article, we take a detailed look at Apple’s evolution of the AirPods Pro line-up for 2022, and reveal the release date, price, tech specs, design changes and new features of the new model. RELEASE DATE The AirPods (2nd generation) are available to preorder now and goes on sale on 23 September. PRICE The new headphones cost £249 (including free engraving). That’s the same as the previous model. Here’s how that fits in with the current range of AirPods on the Apple Store: AirPods (2nd generation): £139AirPods (3rd generation): £189 (£179 with wired charging case)AirPods Pro: £249AirPods Max: £549 DESIGN With the AirPods receiving…

We’ve gone over the benefits of the M2 over the M1 processor in our reviews of the new MacBook Air (page 44) and 13-inch MacBook Pro (August issue), but there’s one benchmark we didn’t perform that everyone can relate to and demonstrates the M2’s prowess. David Heinemeier Hanson (@ dhh on Twitter) recently tweeted his results from Speedometer 2.0, a test that gauges browser speed. He found that the M2 is 33 percent faster than the M1, and it’s also 2.5 times faster than the iMac running a 4.2GHz Core i7 CPU. Apple’s chip team continues to embarrass everyone else in the business. Just clocked a clean 400 on the Speedometer 2.0 test for the M2 Air. That’s 33% faster than the M1 (and A15) can do. 2.5x faster than…

Price: £19.20 from fave.co/2Vy1qsh Apple includes many hidden thermometers in its Macs and a tachometer for models with one or more fans. In normal usage, you may never give a thought to how hot your performance cores are or how fast a fan is running. But we live in times of extreme temperatures, and some Macs – particularly Intel models – run hot already. TG Pro exposes low-level information Apple tracks and lets you set alerts in case values exceed what’s considered safe for long-term operation. You may want to have a fan or fans kick in sooner or faster than Apple’s default behaviour or run your Mac cooler to preserve its longevity. You can view current information via a lengthy drop-down system menu that you can customize to reduce…

HOW TO RETURN THE FLAGS TO THE MAC’S KEYBOARD MENU For decades, Apple relied on a country flag as the primary indicator of which keyboard layout you’d selected in macOS for languages associated with a single country. In the last several versions of macOS, you select keyboards in System Preferences > Keyboards > Input Sources by clicking the + (plus) sign and browsing or searching for the layout you need. The flags helped some of us recognize and confirm the layout we wanted when multiple choices for a language were available, such as a French layout used in France versus a French layout used in Canada. Many entries used letters or logograms as their symbol, such as Arabic, when no single country association made sense. In macOS 12.4 Monterey, Apple…