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Apple now offering free battery replacements for qualifying 2016/2017 MacBook Pro batteries that are unable to charge past one percent

If the battery on your 2016 or 2017 MacBook Pro is driving you nuts, this could be what you’re looking for. Following the release of its macOS Big Sur 11.2.1 update, which offers fixes to a bug that prevented the MacBook Pro notebook battery from charging, Apple has just announced that the company will replace […]

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Rumor: iOS 15 dropping support for iPhone 6s, iPhone SE, and more

The current word around the water cooler is that Apple’s iOS 15 operating system would lose support for older devices such as the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and the original iPhone SE. Per French web site iPhoneSoft, the update will seemingly drop support for devices with an A9 chip when it launches later in […]

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Apple extends anti-reflective coating repair program

This should come in handy. Apple has informed Authorized Service Providers that its anti-reflective repair program remains in effect. Per a leaked internal memo, users will have to mail in their computers to participate in the program. The program, which was originally launched in October 2015, began when users began discovering issues with their device’s […]

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Apple patent shows researching inductive charging between MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches

Because inductive charging is awesome. Per a new patent entitled “Inductive charging between electronic devices” over at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple is researching the integration of multiple inductive charging coils into MacBooks and iPads to use them as wireless chargers for other devices. The company has apparently been researching device-to-device inductive charging […]

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Microsoft to end cloud-based services for Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac on October 13th, 2020

If you’re contentedly using Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, you’re not going to love this. Users of all Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac apps will stop receiving security updates in October, and will increasingly face performance and reliability issues as Microsoft drops support. From October 13, 2020 on, Office 2016 users will not longer by […]