Apple has scheduled another product launch event with the tagline “Pro and tell.” Following last week’s consumer-focused launch, rumors point to high-end touchscreen MacBooks.

Apple’s new $299 HomeView combines a HomePod speaker with a small touchscreen and Siri AI, but its limited app selection and unclear purpose make it hard to recommend until real-world use cases emerge.

The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K brings hands-free Siri AI, an easier-to-find Siri Remote, and more home theater support. Pre-orders are open now, with devices arriving on 13 November 2026.

The HomePod mini 2 brings Siri AI, an S10 chip, Wi-Fi 6E, and Sound Glow lighting to Apple’s smallest smart speaker. It also enables four-speaker surround sound with the new Apple TV 4K. Pre-orders are open now at $149.

Full Disk Access is a blunt instrument with a lousy interface for users and developers alike. Here’s what Apple should fix, which apps legitimately need it, and which ones you can safely remove from your list.

Apple has announced a home-focused product launch for 13 October 2026. Expected products include a long-rumored touchscreen home hub alongside a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini. And more?

The free RetroMac app themes your Mac to look like System 6, Mac OS 9, or even Windows 98. Its companion browser Reframe wraps today’s Web in old browser chrome and can throttle your connection to modem speeds. Both are wonderfully impractical.

If you have an iPhone 18 Pro Max on AT&T, update to iOS 27.0.1 immediately and install new carrier settings to avoid a service-disrupting bug that may require hardware replacement.

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Apple has signaled forthcoming changes to Full Disk Access in macOS, seemingly in response to risks from AI agents like Meta’s Muse accessing users’ files, mail, messages, and browsing history. How important is Full Disk Access to your Mac use?