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WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN lucky enough to get a new Mac, iPhone or iPad or not, there’s never been a better time to kit out your device with new software — and that’s what you’ll discover in our lead feature this month. On p12, we’ve lined up over 50 of ou

EVERY YEAR, APPLE honors the apps and games that are judged the best of the year, recognizing exceptional user experience, design, and innovation from developers. These are the 2024 winners and finalists. > MAC APP OF THE YEAR: Adobe Lightroom, for t

Should Apple ever release a crystal ball, we wouldn’t need to speculate about what the company is set to do over the coming months and years. We could simply gaze into the iBall, ask Siri to foresee the future, and tap and swipe on the 5K Retina sphe

2025, WOW. Can you believe it? It feels like yesterday that we were waiting for the launch of Apple Vision Pro, excited at the prospect of Apple’s impact in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) headset space. While it’s fair to say that th

SOFTWARE CAN BE expensive. The Mac’s 3D modelling tool ViaCAD Pro 12, for example, sets you back $700 on the Mac App Store, and on the iPhone and iPad, professional piano–tuning app Verituner costs $600. But you don’t have to break the bank to bag an

FOR YEARS, WE’VE Become accustomed to using iCloud Drive. Aside from being a great way of backing up your files and making them available across all of your devices, it provides more storage space for you to play around with and, since it’s baked int

WITHOUT APPLE’S CALENDAR, Our lives would be chaos — but for all its cleverness, Calendar has long had one incredibly frustrating drawback: if you want to add to–do items to your days, it isn’t interested. Until Sequoia, Calendar was solely focused o

MENU BAR ITEMS Are really handy things, but over time you can end up with far too many of them. And while macOS 14 (Sonoma) and macOS 15 (Sequoia) make good use of Control Center to reduce the number of items living in the top of your Mac’s display,

IT’S PARTY SEASON So whether you’re holding a Christmas bash, a New Year’s super–celebration, or a birthday gathering, why not use Apple Pages to create invites for all your pals? Easy–to–use and capable of producing professional results, it puts a h

THERE’S A SAYING That “the best camera is the one you have with you”. This certainly applies to iPhone! Thanks to the addition of a handy new Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 range, your ever–present camera just got even better! The new Camera

THE NEW AUDIO Mix feature on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro brings an effective new way to boost sound quality in your home movies, and in this tutorial we’re going to show you how to use it. By using Audio Mix, you can easily switch between four differ

SINCE iOS 7, The Control Center has been a useful way to quickly access important settings and system controls. It’s where you’ll head to reduce screen brightness, switch into Airplane Mode or activate Wi–Fi, but this key function is now even more us

SOME OF OUR readers will be lucky enough to have one of those swanky new Macs with Thunderbolt 5, while some may still be wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, it’s just a hardware interface that lets you connect devices to your computer,

SEQUOIA’S SYSTEM SETTINGS aren’t always as helpful and encouraging as they should be. Take a look in Desktop & Dock and there’s a seemingly endless list of window management controls that can be overwhelming, so many that even on a Studio Display you

APPLE MUSIC WAS launched in 2015, but the company’s music efforts go as far back as 2001 with the debut of the iPod. Back in 2001, Apple was known only as a computer company, a far cry from the behemoth that it’s recognized as today. But the iPod cha

BACK IN MARCH 2015, Apple made Mac history all over again. It launched the MacBook, the thinnest and lightest Mac that Apple had ever made. The new Retina display was thinner. The new keyboard was thinner. It was so incredibly thin that it made the M

$579 (optional Marker Plus stylus $50, Book Folio case $89, Type Folio keyboard case $229) From https://remarkable.com Features 11.8-inch screen, 2,160 x 1,620 resolution, 229ppi, 1.8GHz quad- core ARM Cortex–A53, 2GB memory, 64GB storage, up to 14 d

$149.99 From www.marshall.com Features Bluetooth 5.3, USB–C charging port, 3.5mm audio input/output, SBC, AAC and LC3 support ALONGSIDE THE EMBERTON III wireless speaker, Marshall has released the Major V, its latest on–ear headphones. Sharing the sa

$599.99 From www.benq.com Features 32–inch screen, 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160), P3 color gamut, HDMI, USB–C, 15W and 90W power delivery, 3W stereo speaker, height–adjustable stand BENQ’S MA SERIES monitors are built with MacBook integration in mind

$249.99 From www.ultimateears.com Features Bluetooth, USB–C, up to 20 hours battery life, dust– and water–resistant to IP67 ULTIMATE EARS’ BOOM family of wireless speakers now runs the gamut from ultra compact to seriously hefty, –and its newest mode

$1.99 From crescentmoongames.com Needs macOS 11.0 or later VIDEO GAMES WERE meant to have killed arcade games like pinball, but From Eva with Green gives the cabinet classic a new lease of life with a tale of loss and remembrance. But while it’s a mi

Spring–clean your machine the easy way — and back up all your data, too! + ALSO INSIDE… Part 2: Import and manage your own music • Use the new Writing Tools in macOS Sequoia • Tidy up photos with Apple Intelligence • What’s new in Siri on iPhone …and