Orders for the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro have been slowly trickling in for the last few weeks, and soon the biggest and smallest iPhone 12 models will follow. The iPhone 12 Mini and 12 Pro Max start arriving on Friday, Nov. 13. As your delivery date gets closer, do yourself a favor and follow our checklist to prep your current …

If you’re dealing with working from home and remote learning for the foreseeable future, you may find yourself dealing with an old, and very slow, laptop or desktop. While there are steps you can take to improve performance, there’s only so much you can do. To help offset the overall cost of a new Windows 10 PC, consider selling your old one.  Though it …

Earlier this year, Instagram announced that you could send and receive direct messages from your computer while browsing your feed. It’s a welcome addition, and undoubtedly more convenient to use a full keyboard, but the social network is still missing a key feature: Officially supporting the ability to post photos from a Mac or PC. That’s all right, though, because there’s an …

The fourth-gen iPad Air ($134 at Amazon) features a completely new design in the same vein as the iPad Pro. The new Air has flat edges, ditches the home button and adds a USB-C port. Apple used the same design with the iPhone 12 lineup, save for a USB-C port. But one thing it doesn’t carry over is Apple’s facial …

It’s easy to ignore the preinstalled Shortcuts app on your iPhone, simply because at first glance it’s not all that clear what it does. Or maybe it’s that it appears to do a lot, and can be overwhelming. Either way, with the release of iOS 14, the Shortcuts app has finally hit the mainstream thanks to its ability to create custom app icons.  …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now that iOS 14 has been out for a couple weeks, you might feel confident you’ve found all of its new features. It’s entirely possible you have, but then again, there are a lot of subtle tweaks in the update that aren’t always obvious. …

Apple‘s iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates for the iPhone ($500 at Best Buy) and iPad ($170 at Amazon) are brimming with important and useful new features, from a new app library and widgets on your home screen to tighter privacy features and iMessage improvements. But before you install iOS 14 and iPad 14, there’s a bit of basic housekeeping you should do …

Apple has never been shy about beating its own drum when it comes to data protection tools and user privacy. With iOS 14, Apple is giving iPhone and iPad owners even more power over their data, ranging from better location options to tracking controls that require an app to be more transparent about the data it collects about you, and how the …

Apple’s Powerbeats Pro wireless earbuds look very different than the AirPods Pro, but that’s just because they’re designed for people who are more active and need something to wear while working out. They have sweat and water-resistance built-in, so it’s a natural fit for fitness buffs.  And yet, these colorful earbuds have a lot more in common than Apple’s AirPods …

There’s an argument to be made that the iPad is actually a computer, just not in the traditional sense. It easily switches from a flat slab of glass you can tap and sketch on with a fingertip or Apple Pencil, to a laptop-like device, complete with a keyboard and trackpad when you need to get work done.  Apple’s iPadOS 14 adds …