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Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves

But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out

Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 27

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?

Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 83

Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China

What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches

Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 7

Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content

It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves

AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 47

Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

Meanwhile, some iPhone users apathetic about introduction of AI features

Personal Tech17 Dec 2024 | 101

Indonesia tells Apple $100 million investment isn't enough to lift iPhone 16 sale ban

Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million

Public Sector26 Nov 2024 | 11

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Will it also plug into some common sense?

Personal Tech14 Oct 2024 | 339

Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory

Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant

Personal Tech01 Oct 2024 | 4

Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI

Better or worse than a surprise U2 album?

AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 38

iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years

A low bar, for sure, but a move in the right direction

Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 15

Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports

Personal Tech20 Sep 2024 | 94

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods

Setting the stage for pending AI feature while doubling down on health tech

Software09 Sep 2024 | 48

First-time buyers, especially in China, help Apple to quarterly revenue record

iPhone cash is a little off, but AI might just turn that around

Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 4

iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back

Chinese brands ascendant in the country’s phone market, but Apple’s exile might only be temporary

Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 18

'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos

The wild world of wrecking our tech

Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 91

Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women

Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions

Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20

As expected, Apple set to vanish Batterygate, dodgy audio lawsuits with money

Pocket-change payouts of $6M and $35M await approval in July

Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 15

Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes

Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now

OSes26 Jun 2024 | 22

Apple on track for quarter of all iPhones to be made in India by 2028

IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors

Personal Tech16 May 2024 | 21

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update

Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while

Personal Tech15 May 2024 | 53

China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook

Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8%

Personal Tech03 May 2024 | 16

Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback

Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue

Personal Tech03 May 2024 | 42

Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it

Dear _____, please excuse _____’s tardiness. Their alarm didn’t go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register

Personal Tech01 May 2024 | 48

World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising

Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound

Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14

Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware'

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased

Security12 Apr 2024 | 10

Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts

'A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges'

Personal Tech11 Apr 2024 | 15

Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused

Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus

Security05 Apr 2024 | 30

Apple's trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4

Patches06 Mar 2024 |

Duo face years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam

Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back

Personal Tech21 Feb 2024 | 19

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

Old wives revise their official advice

Personal Tech21 Feb 2024 | 73

Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket

Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024

Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 38

FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping

Demands investigation into iPhone maker for potentially breaching regulations over Beeper Mini

Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 16

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

Analysis At least web competition will finally be allowed

Software27 Jan 2024 | 80

Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time

Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China

Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 10

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

Kit sucked out of Alaska Airlines 1282 found on the side of the road

Personal Tech08 Jan 2024 | 119

Apple's year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next

Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but 'emerging markets' are getting Apple fever

Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 2

Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case

24 million more angry iPhone users get their turn to give iGiant a kicking

Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 47

iPhone 15 Pro Max users report seeing ghostly OLED apparitions

A Weekend at Burn-ins

Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 21

Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes

Updated Fixes about to flow, perhaps along with an iSearch engine

Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 43

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way

Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat

Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 32

Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions

Video High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over

Personal Tech26 Sep 2023 | 54

The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right

Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause

Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 83

Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec

Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival

Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 8

Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops

iFixit demotes iPhone 14 from 7/10 to 4 after reality of software locks hit home

Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 28

Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in

Updated Euro land stunned by French safety findings

Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 76

China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government

Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry

Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 5

iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards

Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees

Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 38

Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup

Video Thanks, Europe. Couldn't have done it without EU

Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 104

Apple opens annual applications for free hackable iPhones

Infosec in brief ALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week's critical vulns

Security04 Sep 2023 | 1

Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

Could've sworn that came out yesterday

Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 70

About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17

WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists

OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15

M2 Ultra chip lands in 'cheese grater' Mac Pro to displace Apple's last Intel holdout

WWDC Workstations boosted, MacBook Air embiggened, iOS embraces web apps, and all the rest of Cupertino's new stuff

Personal Tech06 Jun 2023 | 44

Kremlin claims Apple helped NSA spy on diplomats via iPhone backdoor

Did we just time warp back to 2013?

Security01 Jun 2023 | 13

Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS

It's 2023 so of course it involves machine learning

Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 29

Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die

iGiant now battles to kill off $2B UK class-action suit

Personal Tech03 May 2023 | 45

iPhones hook up with Windows as Microsoft’s Phone Link dials up Apple's iOS

Windows Phone did this ages ago but flopped

OSes28 Apr 2023 | 39