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Wild leaks, crazy new products, turmoil over tariffs, and a wave of corporate departures — 2025 was a surprisingly busy and turbulent year for Apple.
If last January seems like a decade ago, take a stroll down memory lane in our roundup of the most important and interesting Apple stories of 2025.
Also in this edition of The Weekender:
iPhone feeling foreign to you after upgrading to iOS 26? Several of this week’s most popular how-tos explain how to roll back controversial changes, including the compact Safari toolbar, the complicated screenshot tool and the slide-to-stop alarm.
The Mac’s built-in screenshot tool gives you tons of options. Here’s every screenshotting trick you need to know.
Next year’s rumored folding iPhone might be next to impossible to get your hands on.
Did you know your Mac can extract words from PDFs and images? It can — and it’s easy once you know how.
And finally, Cult of Mac Deals rolled out some hot new items this week, including an M1 MacBook Air for just $399.99 and software that lets you download movies from your streaming apps so you can watch them offline.
Enjoy your weekend!
— Lewis Wallace, managing editor
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