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Juli is the Managing Editor at MacRumors, and has been covering Apple news and rumors since 2010. She oversees MacRumors' guides, roundups, how tos, reviews, and giveaways in addition to covering daily news. Her work is regularly highlighted on Techmeme and cited by tech publications and news sites.

She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.

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Epic Games Offers Apple 'Peace Proposal' to Return Fortnite to the App Store Worldwide

Wednesday April 30, 2025 5:12 pm PDT by
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney today said that Fortnite will return to the U.S. App Store next week, and he offered a "peace proposal" with a pledge to bring Fortnite back to iOS worldwide if Apple follows certain steps. "Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the ‌App Store‌ worldwide and drop...
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Epic Games Wins Major Victory as Apple is Ordered to Comply With App Store Anti-Steering Injunction [Updated]

Wednesday April 30, 2025 4:01 pm PDT by
In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-app links. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who has been handling the Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ dispute for the last five years, said that Apple is in "willful violation" of the injunction she issued to ...
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 218 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Wednesday April 30, 2025 3:14 pm PDT by
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 218 includes fixes and updates for CSS, JavaScript, Lockdown Mode, Rendering, SVG, Web API, Web...
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Meta Now Collects More Data From Ray-Bans to Bolster AI

Wednesday April 30, 2025 2:26 pm PDT by
Meta this week sent out an email (via The Verge) to Meta Ray-Ban customers informing them about upcoming privacy changes to the smart glasses, which will increase the amount of data that Meta is collecting by default. Meta says that voice recordings are stored by default when using Meta AI, and used to improve Meta products. Meta has eliminated the option to disable voice recording storage,...
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Apple Warns More Users About Mercenary Spyware Attacks

Wednesday April 30, 2025 12:09 pm PDT by
Apple this week sent out notices to people who may have been targeted with government-sponsored spyware attacks, reports TechCrunch. An Italian journalist and a Dutch activist said that they received notifications from Apple via iMessage and email. Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your...
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Google CEO Says Antitrust Remedies Would Cripple Google Search

Wednesday April 30, 2025 10:54 am PDT by
Google and the United States Justice Department are back in court to fight over the remedies that will be implemented to address Google's search monopoly, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai today took the stand to defend Google. The DoJ wants Google to divest its Chrome browser, refrain from making search engine agreements like the one Google has with Apple, and share "critical portions" of its...
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AirPlay Security Flaws Impact Third-Party Devices and Unpatched Apple Products

Tuesday April 29, 2025 4:53 pm PDT by
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Oligo today outlined a series of AirPlay vulnerabilities that impact millions of Apple devices (via Wired) and accessories that connect to Apple devices. While Apple has addressed the flaws in security updates that have come out over the last several months, some third-party devices that support ‌AirPlay‌ remain vulnerable. Dubbed "Airborne," the ‌AirPlay‌...
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Meta Launches New AI App

Tuesday April 29, 2025 3:52 pm PDT by
Facebook parent company Meta today announced the launch of Meta AI, its first standalone AI app. Meta AI has already been integrated into Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, but now it is also available in a dedicated app. The Meta AI app is built with Llama 4, and Meta says the app is its first step toward building a more personal AI that's designed around voice conversations....
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Bird Buddy Debuts New 'Wonder Blocks' and 'Petal' Products for Getting Up Close to Pollinators

Tuesday April 29, 2025 2:05 pm PDT by
Bird Buddy, known for its line of camera-equipped bird feeders and accessories, today launched new nature tech products, Wonder Blocks and Petal. The devices are designed to let users attract and view all manner of insects, from butterflies to bees. Wonder Blocks is a modular system that create an ecosystem for pollinators, and there are several different components that are part of the...
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Apple Watch SE 3 Could Get New Display Sizes

Tuesday April 29, 2025 1:18 pm PDT by
Apple is working on an updated version of the low-cost Apple Watch SE, and the displays for the new model have entered production, according to display analyst Ross Young. Young says that the new Apple Watch SE 3 will be available with 1.6-inch and 1.8-inch display sizes, which suggests little in the way of an upgrade over the current Apple Watch SE models. The Apple Watch SE 2 comes in 40mm ...
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Firefox Browser Gets Tab Groups

Tuesday April 29, 2025 11:01 am PDT by
Mozilla recently updated the Firefox browser to add support for tab groups, a feature that Firefox users have been wanting for years. According to Mozilla, tab groups have been the most requested idea on the Mozilla Connect community platform, and it was actually the first request that Mozilla received when launching Connect in 2022. With the Firefox tab group implementation, users are able...
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It's Been 22 Years Since Apple Launched the iTunes Store

Monday April 28, 2025 3:53 pm PDT by
On April 28, 2003, Apple introduced the iTunes Store, its iconic digital marketplace for downloading music. 22 years later, most of us don't purchase songs and albums individually anymore, and the iTunes Store doesn't exist as it once did, but played a major role in Apple history. Early Years When it launched, the iTunes Store was only for the Mac, but it expanded to Windows PCs before the...
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iPhone 17's Scratch Resistant Anti-Reflective Display Coating Canceled

Monday April 28, 2025 12:48 pm PDT by
Apple may have canceled the super scratch resistant anti-reflective display coating that it planned to use for the iPhone 17 Pro models, according to a source with reliable information that spoke to MacRumors. Last spring, Weibo leaker Instant Digital suggested Apple was working on a new anti-reflective display layer that was more scratch resistant than the Ceramic Shield. We haven't heard...
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Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5

Monday April 28, 2025 10:10 am PDT by
Apple today provided developers with the fourth betas of upcoming visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5 updates for testing purposes. The software is available a week after Apple seeded the third betas. The betas are available to registered developers, and can be downloaded from the Settings app on each device. No notable new features have been found in any of the software updates so...
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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.5 [Update: Public Beta Available]

Monday April 28, 2025 10:06 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third macOS Sequoia 15.5 beta. Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to...
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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of iOS 18.5 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

Monday April 28, 2025 10:04 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the fourth betas of upcoming iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third betas. iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 can be downloaded from the Settings app on a compatible device by going to General > Software Update. So far, iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 are relatively minor updates, introducing...
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What's Next for the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Apple Watch SE 3

Friday April 25, 2025 2:44 pm PDT by
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, which launched on April 24, 2015. Yesterday, we recapped features rumored for the Apple Watch Series 11, but since 2015, the Apple Watch has also branched out into the Apple Watch Ultra and the Apple Watch SE, so we thought we'd take a look at what's next for those product lines, too. 2025 Apple Watch Ultra 3 Apple didn't update the...
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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a 13-Inch iPad Air and Mount From Lululook

Friday April 25, 2025 10:50 am PDT by
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a 13-inch iPad Air and a Lululook Foldable Magnetic Charging Mount to go along with it. Lululook makes all kinds of stands and accessories for the iPad and other Apple products, and its $100 Foldable Magnetic Charging Mount is not quite like other stands you've seen. It's a desk stand that...
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Everything Rumored for the 2025 Apple Watch Series 11

Thursday April 24, 2025 4:52 pm PDT by
Apple is working on an all-new version of the Apple Watch, which is set to launch in September alongside new iPhone 17 models. There doesn't appear to be anything groundbreaking in terms of design, but we could see some new health-related features. New Modem Technology Right now, the Apple Watch uses Intel cellular modems that are limited to LTE connectivity, but Apple is planning to...
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YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results

Thursday April 24, 2025 4:23 pm PDT by
Google-owned YouTube this week said it is "experimenting" with a new video search results carousel that appears after searches for select keywords. According to YouTube, the video results carousel will use AI to highlight clips from videos that "will be most helpful for your search query," which essentially means that it will take clips from videos and play them right in results, so people...