Sept. 7 -- save the date!

August 17, 2022

New iPhones are on tap for September 7 -- just three short weeks away!

The launch event reportedly will be virtual like last year, but it's an odd day for Cupertino to choose. It's a Wednesday, which is highly unusual for an Apple event, and just two days after Labor Day.

Your guess is as good as mine about the timing. Apple usually launches its new phones in early September, so perhaps there's a conflicting event the following week?

The new iPhones will kick off a string of product intros in the fall, including three new Apple Watches, high-end and low-end iPads, and several new Macs.

Better start saving!

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple’s next big product event — the release of the iPhone 14 series — will take place on September 7, according to a new report. The event kicks off a busy release period before the end of the year, with new Macs, iPads and Apple Watches expected.

An analyst thinks he has the answer to one of the few remaining mysteries about the iPhone 14 series: price. Supposedly, the two iPhone 14 Pro models are in for a price hike. But there’s good news for those interested in the basic iPhone 14.

iPhone users can update to iOS 15.6.1 starting Wednesday, and the same is true for Mac users and macOS Monterey 12.5.1. These are simply security patches with no new features. iPadOS 15.6.1 is also out to take care of the same problems.

Who doesn't love saving money, saving space and saving your gadgets from running out of juice? Well, you can do all three at once when you buy a SwitchEasy 4-in-1 MagPower Charging Stand. The compact charger powers up four devices at once. And you can get it at 30% off in the Cult of Mac Store through 11:59 p.m. PDT Wednesday, August 17, 2022. That’s a savings of about $25 on something you’re likely to use every day.

Here’s your chance to learn how to remix hit songs by superstars on your iPhone or iPad (and you don’t need to be any sort of music pro to do it).

The best way to make Apple TV+ better is make it free. And that’s exactly the deal Best Buy is offering right now: three months of Apple’s streaming service for $0. If you want to try Severance after the psychological thriller scored 14 Emmy nominations, you probably won’t get a better chance.

Place the Adonit Neo Pro on the side of a compatible iPad, and the stylus will start charging. The Apple Pencil 2 can do the same trick, but the Neo Pro costs less than half as much (and can do most of what Apple’s stylus can).

App developer Steve Troughton-Smith raised a few eyebrows recently when he tweeted a photograph of his iPad Pro propped up on a stand and hooked up to a mechanical keyboard that dwarfed it in size. It looked like some ungainly desktop machine of yesteryear. “The perfect computer doesn’t exist,” the title read. It would be a stretch to say Troughton-Smith does all his work on that iPad setup, but he does some of it via the tablet, he told Cult of Mac.

Tweet o' the day

One more thing ...

"I don't think it's good that Apple's perceived as different. I think it's important that Apple's perceived as *much better*. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we can be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better." -- Steve Jobs.

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