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Apple on Thursday released the list of its 2025 App Store Award winners, recognising 17 apps and games of the year across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV categories, for their design, innovation, user experience and cultural impact. AI planner and to-do app Tiimo emerged as the best app on iPhone in 2025, while The Pokemon Company's Pokemon TCG Pocket has been awarded the iPhone Game of the Year title.

December is here, which means as the year comes to a close, companies carefully curate a nostalgic rewind of the past year with experiences such as Spotify Wrapped or, in Apple's case, the release of the 2025 App Store Awards honorees. The awards are designed to showcase the best apps and games available on the Apple App Store during the past year, with Apple's App Store editors carefully selecting 17 apps from the nearly 2 million apps across various devices.

Apple Arcade subscribers can look forward to an eclectic selection of new games today, as ninja action, sects education, and a trip to Bikini Bottom have all been added to the service. The main event game this month is Cult of the Lamb, a delightful blend of roguelike dungeon-crawling and base-building. If you haven't tried it out yet, Apple Arcade

The M1 chip is the real MVP here. I can hop between Slack, Google Docs, Spotify, Zoom, and an embarrassing number of Chrome tabs without a single hiccup or buffer wheel. It's also genuinely shocking how quiet this thing is. There's no fan, so it stays completely silent, even when I'm running big files or editing photos. And the battery? I'm convinced it runs on magic because this MacBook Air easily lasts me through an entire workday.

Jackson, technically "vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives," will retire in "late January 2026," Apple says. Newstead, who is currently Meta's chief legal officer, will take over Apple's general counsel role on March 1st, 2026, from Adams, who has been Apple's general counsel since 2017. With Jackson's retirement and Newstead coming on board, Apple is also making some organizational shifts and shifting some responsibilities to Williams' COO replacement, Sabih Khan.

A total of 1.25 billion smartphones will be shipped in 2025, which represents a 1.5% increase compared to the figures for 2024. The latest International Data Corporation (IDC) report reflects an updated forecast that is reportedly driven by Apple's continued success with the iPhone 17 series. Cupertino is now forecasted to push over 247 million iPhone 17 series units in 2025, driven by favourable demand factors like an accelerated push in the holiday quarter, alongside growing demand in emerging markets and in China.

Apple just lost a top design talent. Meta has hired Alan Dye, who was the head of Apple's human interface design team. The company is filling his position with Stephen Lemay, who CEO Tim Cook told Bloomberg "has played a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999." Before being poached by Meta to become its chief design officer, Dye worked at Apple since 2006, where he oversaw projects including Liquid Glass and Vision Pro.

I am a freelance writer who works from home. I like to make the most of my remote job by traveling, but I work from my desk for at least two weeks a month. Earlier this year, I realized that my laptop wasn't cutting it for me, and I purchased the , which I consider to be the best value-for-money Apple device.

On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to come up with a definitive ranking of Apple's best gadgets. ( We did this with Google's gadgets a few months ago, in case you missed it.) In this case, "best" is defined quite broadly: it includes a product's inherent quality, the quality of its competition, its cultural and economic relevance, the size of its target market, and many other things. Best is not an exact science.

Apple is not planning to comply with an order from the Indian government directing phone manufacturers to preload a state-backed cybersecurity app, according to . Industry sources tell Reuters that Apple plans to tell India's government that they don't comply with requests like this due to privacy and security concerns. However, Apple won't go to court or "take a public stand" over the order.

Should cloud industry supply constraints sustain, see management expectation for doubling AWS capacity by '27 supporting multi-quarter revenue acceleration. Estimate new capacity could add $150B in annual revenue, driving material upside potential to '27/'28 estimates,

I said, 'I don't do commercial endorsements,' and he said, 'What?'

With the new Festivitas app for iPhone and iPad, you can add and customize a string of holiday lights on your device's Home Screen using iOS widgets. The lights can frame your favorite personal photo (or perhaps a holiday image you dig up on Pinterest), and you can opt to make the widget transparent so it blends in with your background.

He has accumulated $2.5M in Apple stock that was purchased three decades ago. Now, it is almost all capital gains. He wants to draw on this income to fund his first few years of retirement, but doing so would count as Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). This would likely trigger higher taxes. So, how does he get around it? Let's look at his situation and see what others can learn from it.

Apple, which has been preparing for Tim Cook's succession for some time, doesn't seem to have planned any surprises in choosing its next leader. Ternus, with a solid and brilliant career inside the company, where he is senior vice president of hardware engineering, gives off that aura of the impeccable student who gets straight A's, wins the swimming meets, and, on top of that, is liked by everyone.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tim Cook Apple CEO oversees a record profit year and new stock price highs as iPhone17 sales propel the company past Samsung to take the largest share of the world's smartphone market for the first time since 2011. Stephen Cloobeck Beverly Hills Democrat and former timeshare company CEO sinks $13 million of his own money into a campaign for governor. Stuck below 1% in polls, he drops out and endorses Eric Swalwell.

Beats and Apple each released flagship earbuds in 2025 with one standout feature: in-ear heart rate monitoring. Since Apple owns both companies, both earbuds offer native compatibility with iOS devices and provide iOS users with Apple-exclusive features. However, also offer more compatibility with Android devices. Each pair of earbuds features a distinct form factor, which significantly impacts their use cases and the user's experience with them.

Looking for a good deal on a new tablet? Apple's latest entry-level device, the is currently on sale for just $274, over 20% off the regular price of $349 for Black Friday. The A16 chip brings several improvements to the iPad, pushing it closer to the Pro version while keeping the price accessible. You get 128GB of storage standard on the iPad now, but if you want more, you can opt for 256GB on sale for , or 512GB, on sale for .

The internet and advertising go together like strawberries and cream. These days, it can be tricky navigating online without running into at least a couple of ads, and sometimes they're so dominating that it can be difficult getting the information you want from a website. Even apps like Apple Maps might start showing ads by 2026. Fortunately, someone has come up with a rather unique solution for your iPhone.

Black Friday is the perfect time to buy an Apple device. While the is the best value right now, there are plenty of attractive discounts on iPads. My personal favorite is the iPad Mini for use cases like browsing and reading, but I've been using the M3 iPad Air more, especially since the iPadOS 26 update. I've had the 13-inch variant since launch, and it is now the best value-for-money iPad for both power and casual users.

(FYI, I've been tracking these for the past two weeks, ever since they first hit their lowest recorded price. And earlier this week, they somehow got even cheaper.) These don't have active noise cancellation (ANC)but honestly, you might not even need it. I've been using my 2nd-generation model for years (no ANC either), and they still do a solid job of dulling background noise while letting me stay just aware enough of my surroundings.