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Apple CEO Tim Cook was in attendance at President Trump’s inauguration today in Washington, D.C., and has taken to social media to promise “continued innovation and jobs” for the United States.

According to Trump, Apple is planning a “massive investment” in the United States now that he has taken office.

Apple is launching a brand new Home product soon. I’ve been calling it ‘HomePad,’ and these are five of the core features it will bring with it.

Apple’s has long been a great option for tracking your vehicle’s location, and now one Colorado police department has caught on and started giving them away free to help deter auto theft.

It’s been a tumultuous several days for TikTok in the United States. The app went offline on Saturday night and was removed from the App Store by Apple. On Sunday afternoon, however, TikTok restored service in the United States thanks to “necessary clarity” provided by President Trump.

Despite TikTok being online once again in the United States, however, the app remains unavailable from the App Store. Here’s what you need to know about that ever-evolving situation.

Apple’s launching a new iPhone SE soon and with a strong array of features that could make it the best iPhone for most buyers. Now, we can add one more rumored feature to the list: the Dynamic Island.

Canon just launched a brand new iPhone and iPad app called Live Switcher Mobile, and it aims to make multi-cam livestreaming easier than ever.

Today is your last chance at the 4-day Best Buy sale and the best price ever on the USB-C AirPods Max, but we also have some fresh new deals to scope out today. Firstly, we spotted the 46mm Jet Black Apple Watch Series 10 at $113 off in open-box condition with a full Apple warranty alongside Apple’s 16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM at up to $270 off and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation at $165 for today only. Those offers also happen to sit alongside a giant price drop on the official Apple Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) Pro Cable at 50% off and a host of today’s accessory deals too. Everything awaits down below. 

Apple Music hasn’t technically received any AI upgrades yet, but there’s one recent Apple Intelligence feature that has nonetheless proven a surprisingly great addition to the Music app since iOS 18.2 launched. Here are the details.

As is usual, Apple is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day on its homepage, with quotes from the civil rights champion.

This year’s lead quote is: “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” …

Apple TV+ just debuted the long-awaited new season of Severance, but another beloved show is in the works for a big return too. Ted Lasso season 4 hasn’t officially been announced yet, but according to one star, that will change very soon.

The fun Apple-related history reveals we saw last week continue. A confidential internal presentation spotted within newly-published archives shows that at least nine people within Nokia realized the huge threat posed by the iPhone the day after it launched.

Sadly, senior execs failed to listen, and in just seven years Nokia went from owning the smartphone business to exiting it …

Bloomberg has suggested that a 2025 iPad Air will launch early this year, which would be sooner than expected. We suggested then that it will probably get an M3 chip rather than an M4, and that now appears to be corroborated by a leaker.

While today’s report says nothing on dates, a redacted document makes reference to an “iPad Air 13 (M3)” and an “iPad Air 11 (M3)” …

Simply put, Tailscale provides secure VPN access to people who hate VPN tools. I’ve said previously that their team looked at everything that was wrong, complex to configure, and challenging to use and said, “What if we just made all of that better?”. Today, the company is announcing a new integration with Jamf Pro for deploying Tailscale across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices while leveraging Jamf’s device compliance capabilities to dynamically inform user access and enforce Zero Trust principles.

Social media apps X and Bluesky are both rolling out dedicated video feeds, in apparent attempts to take advantage of the continued uncertainty around TikTok.

With X, there’s a new play button icon launching a continuous video feed looking very similar to TikTok, while Bluesky offers custom feeds for video which you can choose to pin …

This weekend was quite the roller-coaster ride for TikTok. While some headlines report that TikTok is back and imply that the matter is resolved, that’s not entirely the case.

The app was removed from Apple’s App Store, as well as the app stores run by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. None of those companies have restored it …

Today, Meta is announcing Edits: a new mobile video editing platform. This comes just hours after TikTok (and as a result, CapCut) were banned in the US – though TikTok is currently being restored, at least temporarily.

After being offline in the United States for 14 hours, TikTok now says it is in the process of restoring service. In a statement posted to social media, the company said:

In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.

It’s a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States.

According to Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, supply of the current generation iPhone SE, which debuted in 2022, is quickly shrinking. This is unsurprising, given the fact that we’re all expecting a new iPhone SE to debut in just a couple months. However, it is uniquely interesting, as it indicates that Apple likely has no plans to keep the current generation model around.