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This is the iPhone 11 Pro. It’s easily the best iPhone Apple has ever created (and it should be). It’s their newest flagship, but in some ways, it’s still a year-over-year incremental update.  It has the same form factor, same stainless steel band,…

Do you pay for a Spotify Premium or Family account? If so, the streaming giant wants to give you some free tech. Spotify is currently giving away a free Google Home Mini to current (and future) subscribers. There aren’t any strings attached — with one…

Oprah Winfrey is well-known for giving gifts. But one student from Morehouse College in Atlanta was able to experience that reputation first-hand. It all started last month after Oprah surprised Morehouse College with a $13 million donation, according to the…

There’s a lot of room for debate about how important consumer gadgets are to people’s lives, but in the midst of all of that, there’s little doubt that with its life-saving features, the Apple Watch is in a category all by itself. A shiny new iPhone 11…

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Google’s Pixel smartphones have long been the top dog when it comes to low-light photography, but Apple’s latest iPhones have given Google’s handsets a run for their money. When Apple debuted the iPhone 11 lineup with a new Night Mode, smartphone fans…

Bad news, iPhone owners. The Google Photos freebie we reported on last week is apparently just a “bug,” and it’s going away. If you’re unfamiliar, iPhone owners could actually get free unlimited storage of original-quality photos in Google Photos. In…

If you have an iPhone with an OLED display, and getting the best battery life is high on your list of priorities, you’ll want to use Dark Mode. When Apple first released systemwide Dark Mode, it was pretty much solely marketed as an aesthetic feature. But a…

Analysts are widely expecting Apple TV+ to quickly skyrocket to a hundred million subscribers in the first year of its service — a number that took rivals like Netflix almost a decade to reach. As reported by CNBC, Barclays analysts published a research…

Apple has generally taken a very slow and measured approach to opening up its products and features to third-party developers, and while the company is often loudly criticized for its reluctant in doing so, it’s hard to argue that this usually results in…

So you just got an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max. Now that you have one of the best smartphones currently on the market, what should you do? Get some accessories, of course. There are tons of iPhone accessories available on Amazon, ranging from…

Apple has a Siri problem. Compared to the digital assistant’s rivals in the voice space, Apple’s virtual pocket companion isn’t nearly as capable or as intuitive to use. But Apple could fix that. Whether or not it overhauls Siri in an upcoming…

If you’re an Apple fan, you know that the folks over in Cupertino, California are a fun and clever bunch. But if you need evidence of that, just consider the fact that Apple likes to hide easter eggs and other clever details in its software. It’s true.…

Take a look at the ports on the back of an Apple TV 4K. You’ll see a power port, an HDMI port and an ethernet port. But you probably won’t be able to spot the hidden Lightning port. There is, in fact, a Lightning port tucked away inside the Apple TV 4K’s…

Police in Vancouver, Washington easily tracked down a man who allegedly stole iPhones and Apple Watches from a T-Mobile store. Officers responded to a robbery at a T-Mobile brick-and-mortar location around 8 p.m. Thursday night in Vancouver, authorities told…

A redesigned 16-inch MacBook Pro is likely just over the horizon. But a small leak within macOS Catalina suggests that it may not be as overhauled as some users were hoping. The leak is actually an icon which was first spotted by French Apple blog…

Apple is warning users that some of the most important system functions and many third-party apps on older iPhone and iPad models will stop working on Nov. 3 unless they update their devices. That’s because of the GPS rollover bug we reported on earlier this…

In two weeks, Apple’s much-anticipated new streaming service will open its doors, and with it will come many of the shows that we’ve been awaiting for months, and hearing about for even longer. While it’s fairly obvious that you’ll have no problem…

When Apple unveiled Sidecar in macOS Catalina, it caused a bit of a furor with suggestions that it had once again usurped a third-party developer’s solution by building it into its own operating system. Of course, while borrowing ideas from other companies…

Apple’s iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max all have major upgrades in the battery department. But how do they stack up to previous models? Previous real-world tests have demonstrated that the iPhone 11 Pro Max, in particular, has significantly…

If you use a Google Pixel 4 or Google Pixel 4 XL, you may want to skip the new face unlock feature and just rely on a passcode. That’s because the new face unlock feature has a major privacy weakness that’s not shared by its closest competitor, Face ID.…

Google Photos is a handy way to back up your images. But iPhone users may have another little-known incentive to start using the platform. In a nutshell, you can get unlimited original quality backups for free on Google Photos as long as you’re using a newer…

With Apple and Disney set to launch new streaming services next month, and other major content owners like NBC looking to soon start their own as well, the landscape of streaming is about to dramatically shift, and while you might think this is enough to make…

Not only has Apple Maps added some pretty cool new features in iOS 13, but it looks like it’s gaining ground as an underlying mapping service for other apps — a position much more commonly held by its behemoth rival, Google Maps. Popular iOS-focused apps…