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💰 Fiscal year 2025 first quarter results 📆 The first earnings call of 2025 is planned to hold on Thursday, January 30, according to Apple's Investor Relations website. 💼 Apple's new chief financial officer Kevan Parekh will provide insight into Apple's performance during the 2024 holiday quarter spanning from October to December. Apple's Q4 2024 earnings call was the last for former Apple CFO Luca Maestri, who has now transitioned to a new role as vice president of corporate services. 💵 Apple in Q1 2024 posted revenue of $119.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $33.9 billion. Apple said last quarter that revenue is expected to grow low to mid single digits year-over-year. 👂Here you can listen to the conference call live at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on January 30, just after the company's Q1 2025 earnings release. @iPhone #finance #AppleInc

🥽 1st-Gen Apple Vision Pro production may have just stopped for good 📰 Apple has likely discontinued production of its Vision Pro headset. According to MacRumors, citing sources involved in the production, the devices produced are enough to meet the current demand until 2025. 🔨 The main problems with the device were the high cost – $3,500 – and the number of apps available. For a year, the developers were still unable to meet user demand for unique content for the headset. 📆 What does the future hold for Vision Pro? Apple is now focusing on developing a more affordable version of the headset. However, by 2026, Apple may introduce an updated Vision Pro with a new chip and design changes. @iPhone #VisionPro

🏋‍♀️ Apple Fitness+ can help you stretch out after the holidays 🎁 Apple is offering all new customers 3 months of free Apple Fitness+ subscription!

The new content will be available starting Monday, January 6 on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.

This offer is not available if you or a family member has a previous subscription. @iPhone #apps #free

💰 Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers 🕵️‍♀️ Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. ℹ️ The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade. 😈 The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn't seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Some of the recorded conversations were then shared with advertisers in an attempt to sell their products to consumers more likely to be interested in the goods and services, the lawsuit asserted. Well, how else does it happen that magically, after your conversation with a friend about getting a new bike, pop-up ads about “the best bikes in town” appear? 🙅‍♂️ Apple denies any violation of the law and does not admit to the charges. However, to avoid additional legal fees, the company has agreed to settle the lawsuit. 👩‍⚖️ The agreement to settle the Siri spying lawsuit has received preliminary court approval. 🤑 All current or former owners of Siri devices in the U.S. whose private messages were obtained by Apple between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024, may receive compensation. 💸 A website will be set up within 45 days to determine who is eligible. Apple is required to provide contact information for customers who purchased devices with Siri. Claims can be submitted until May 15, 2025, after which compensation will begin. 🪙 Each participant will be able to file a claim for up to five Siri devices, receiving up to $20 for each. The payout amount will depend on the number of valid claims. @iPhone #AppleInc #Siri

📱 iPhone 16E might be the actual name of the new iPhone SE 📰 According to a report from India Today, a post by “Fixed Focus Digital” on the Chinese platform Weibo reveals that Apple might abandon its iPhone SE branding and rebrand it as “iPhone 16e.” 🔍 Rumor has it that the smart phone is likely to be more aligned with the iPhone 16, such as in its camera and display specifications, representing a significant upgrade from its predecessors, as noted in the report. So-called the iPhone 16E and will be based on the iPhone 14 body with a single camera, USB-C charging port, Action Button and in just two colors – black and white. @iPhone #iPhone #rumors

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ is going to be an exciting year for Apple 🔜 Apple is redesigning the iPhone, jumping into new smart home tech, and preparing to launch new Apple-designed chips. 📆 As we reported early in the year, it is expected to get iPhone SE 4, a low-cost iPad, M4 MacBook Air models, and a new iPad Air. Then later, we'll get a new smart home device, a whole new iPhone 17 lineup, new Apple Watch models, the Mac Pro and Mac Studio and more. 💬 What are you hoping to see Apple release this year? Are you looking forward to new ‌iPhone‌ features? A more cohesive smart home strategy? What do you want to see in iOS 19 and macOS 16? @iPhone #forum

📱 for free the first weekend of 2025 🎁 Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world.

Enjoy Apple TV+ for free the first weekend of 2025 (January 3 through January 5), Apple TV+ will be free on any device where Apple TV+ is available. All you need is an Apple ID to see what all the buzz is about.

@iPhone #AppleTV #free

🍎 Apple is a perfectionist's paradise 😁 Absolutely all corners in Apple gadgets have the same rounding. @iPhone #humor

What devices will be compatible with 📱 19 📱 According to a report from French website iPhoneSoft, all iPhone models that are compatible with iOS 18 will also support iOS 19, meaning that devices all the way back to the iPhone XS/XR and second-generation iPhone SE will be able to run the next major update of iOS coming next year, BUT certain features will undoubtedly be limited to more recent models. 📱 The report also claims the vast majority of iPad models compatible with iPadOS 18 will similarly be able to run iPadOS 19, with the exception of the seventh-generation iPad that was released in September 2019 and discontinued a year later. @iPhone #iOS #iPadOS #rumors

🎁 If you accidentally forgot to buy a New Year's gift for your loved ones, Apple Intelligence will help you out 🎬 In yesterday's post, it was mentioned that Memory Movies feature will be coming to macOS, but a few people know that you can create movies right now on iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence. 📺 So, the promo video shows how to prepare a gift for your loved ones “in five seconds” if you forgot about an important date.

Just enter a description in the Photos app, and Apple Intelligence will find the best photos and videos to create a custom memory movie, whenever you need one.

ℹ️ In addition, you can send feedback about the movie to Apple, whether you're pleased or disappointed with the result. You can also “teach” Apple Intelligence – choose whether the slideshow looks good, and if there are problems, you can flag anything that doesn't fit. For example, wrong music, images that don't match your request, etc. @iPhone #AppleIntelligence #ApplePromo #features

5️⃣ Apple Intelligence features coming in 2025 Even though iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2 added multiple Apple Intelligence features like Image Playground, Genmoji, Writing Tools, and more, there are still new ‌Apple Intelligence‌ capabilities that users are waiting on. 🔔 Priority Notifications

Notification summaries are already available on devices that support ‌Apple Intelligence‌, but in a future version of iOS 18, ‌Apple Intelligence‌ will have Priority Notifications so you can see what's important first while filtering out things that don't matter as much. When Priority Notifications launch, incoming notifications that are marked as priority will show up on the top of the notification stack.

🗺 New Siri Features

In the future, ‌Siri‌ is getting support for personal context, onscreen awareness, and deeper app integration. Personal context will allow ‌Siri‌ to keep track of everything on your device, like text messages, emails, files, and photos, so ‌Siri‌ can help you find anything you're looking for. With onscreen awareness, ‌Siri‌ will know what you're looking at on your device, and will be able to complete actions. If you're viewing a photo, for example, you'll be able to ask ‌Siri‌ to send it to someone just by saying "Hey ‌Siri‌, send this" and the person's name. ‌Siri‌ will understand what "this" is. ‌Siri‌ is also going to be able to do a lot more in apps and between apps, which is likely going to make the biggest change in ‌Siri‌'s ability to get things done. You'll be able to edit a photo and send it to someone all with a single command, or move files from one app to another using ‌Siri‌. The way Apple describes it, it's going to be similar to Shortcuts, but activated all via ‌Siri‌ with no need to set anything up. 😉 These all sound like fairly invasive ‌Siri‌ features with ‌Siri‌ able to track everything... EVERY thing!

🖥️ Genmoji on macOS

Genmoji‌ is in the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update that Apple is beta testing and that update is expected in January 2025.

🖼 Memory Movies for macOS

Macs are also missing the memory movies feature that is designed to let you create a slideshow from your photos and videos using just a text description. Right now, making a memory movie is limited to the ‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌, but Apple does plan to add it to the Mac too.

🌐 More Languages and Additional Countries

Apple is going to add support for languages beyond English in 2025, including Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

📱 18.3 will likely see a launch in late January. @iPhone #AppleIntelligence #iOS

🧑‍💻 Apple announces Japanese New Year promo with exclusive AirTag 🇯🇵 Apple announced the upcoming launch of its annual New Year promotion in Japan, providing customers with a free Apple gift card worth up to ¥30,000 with the purchase of eligible Apple devices. 🐍 Customers in Japan can get an Apple gift card when shopping at Apple from January 2 to January 5, and as a bonus, the first 50,000 people to purchase an iPhone 15, iPhone 14, or iPhone SE will get an exclusive Year of the Snake AirTag.

Apple is offering up to ¥11,000 for an iPhone purchase, up to ¥30,000 when buying a MacBook Air, up to ¥15,000 for a current-generation iPad, iPad Air, or iPad Pro, ¥11,000 for an Apple Watch, and up to ¥12,000 for AirPods Max, AirPods 4, or AirPods Pro 2. Apple is also offering gift cards alongside the purchase of the Apple TV, select Beats headphones, and select Apple accessories, with full details available on Apple's Japan website. According to Apple's Terms and Conditions for the promotion, it is only available to customers who make a purchase in a retail store or through the website, and not through the Apple Store app.

@iPhone #AppleStore #AirTag #ApplePromo

📱 If you still haven't started jogging in 2024 ⌚️ New promo by Apple promises some motivation on your wrist with Apple Watch series 10.

Most people quit their New Year’s resolutions by the second Friday in January. It’s actually called “Quitter’s Day.” But Apple Watch gives you the motivation to run right past Quitter’s Day, and stick to your New Year’s fitness goals.

@iPhone #ApplePromo #AppleWatch

Apple does not plan to create a search engine like 📱 Here is why: 📰 Reuters reports that in a declarationc filed with a U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C. last week, Eddy Cue (Apple's senior vice president of services ) said that Apple is against the idea for the following reasons: ・The development of a search engine would cost Apple "billions of dollars" and "take many years," and this would divert investment money and employees away from "other growth areas" that the company is focused on. ・The search business is "rapidly evolving" due to artificial intelligence, so it would be "economically risky" for Apple to create a search engine. 🤔 In order to create a "viable" search engine business, Apple would be required to "sell targeted advertising," which is "not a core business" for the company and would go against its "longstanding privacy commitments." Apple does not have enough "specialized professionals" and "operational infrastructure" needed to build and run a successful search engine business.

ℹ️ Earlier this year, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust trial against Google, the court declared that the deal that sees Google set as the default search engine in Apple's web browser Safari is illegal. In his declaration, Cue asked the court to allow Apple to defend the deal by having its own witnesses testify during the trial. 💰 As part of the deal, Cue revealed that Google paid Apple roughly $20 billion in 2022 alone. 😰 If the agreement can no longer continue, Cue said "it would hamstring Apple's ability to continue delivering products that best serve its users' needs."

💬 So, which of the search engines would be right for Apple's users instead of Google? @iPhone #AppleInc

🔔 New MacBook Air models with M4 chip expected to launch 'earlier' than iPhone SE 4 and iPad 11 Apple is rumored to have many product announcements planned for the first half of next 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ year, including: ・updated MacBook Air models, ・iPad 11, ・iPhone SE 4, ・AirTag 2, ・updated iPad Air models and potentially more. 📆 Mark Gurman in his post on 𝕏 confirms that the iPad 11, iPhone SE 4, and updated iPad Air models will be coming in the "spring" next year. Notably, he said the updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models with the M4 chip will be announced "earlier" than those other devices, but he did not provide a specific timeframe. 💻 This likely means that the updated MacBook Air models will be announced in a press release on Apple Newsroom at some point from January through March, whereas the other devices might be announced at Apple's usual spring event in March or April. Apple would be getting the minor MacBook Air update out of the way early. @iPhone #MacBook #rumors

💰 Apple is investing $1 billion in Indonesia ℹ️ The story began last month, when Indonesian authorities banned the sale of iPhone 16 smartphones in the country. ↗️ The official reason is violation of Indonesian legislation on content regulation. The unofficial one is insufficient investment in the country by the company that wants to sell its product here. 🏭 According to the local current policy of the authorities, in order to sell products in Indonesia, it is necessary to place its own production in the country. Otherwise, the business faces high import duties or even a complete ban, as in the case of the iPhone 16. 📰 Now, according to Bloomberg, the parties are close to lifting the ban, as Apple has offered to invest $1 billion to set up production facilities inside the country. 📍 Part of these funds will be used to build a factory for the production of AirTags on the island of Batam, near Singapore. According to the publication, here it is planned to produce up to 20% of the global volume of these devices. 📍 Another part of the investment will go to the opening of production of Apple accessories in the city of Bandung, near Jakarta, as well as to expand the Apple Academy program in Bali, responsible for the training of programmers. @iPhone #AppleInc #finance

🔒 Apple is developing a smart doorbell with Face ID 📰 Apple is working on a “smart” doorbell that will be able to recognize occupants via Face ID, reports Mark Gurman for Bloomberg. The lock will work much like an iPhone, automatically opening the door when you look at it. 🔓 The bell's camera will be equipped with a special Secure Enclave chip that processes and stores information from Face ID. In this case, most likely the bell will be able to interact not only with Apple locks, but also with third-party devices. This will allow to release the development to the market faster. ℹ️ After refusing to create its own car, Apple has decided to develop a system of “smart” home. Previously, insiders have already announced a smart display for home and a TV. 📆 The new doorbell is not expected to be released until late 2025 at the earliest. @iPhone #AppleSmartHome #projects

Apple is now offering 🆓 two-hour delivery On eligible in-stock products ordered through December 24 in select countries. 🎁 The offer is available for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, and Beats only. 📍 Free two-hour delivery is available in most U.S. and Canadian metro areas for orders placed through Apple's online store, until December 24. The items will be delivered from a local Apple retail store by a courier service such as Uber Eats at a time selected during checkout. Apple normally charges $9 for two-hour delivery. 🇦🇺 Apple is also offering free three-hour delivery in Australia until December 24. @iPhone #AppleStore

🧊 If you feel hot you can cool down with a new 'Ice Dive' immersive 🥽 Now Apple Vision Pro users can watch a new episode of the "Adventure" series, delving into a freezing underwater dive in the Arctic with athlete Ant Williams. ℹ️ Ice Dive is the third episode in the Adventure series on the Vision Pro headset. The first Adventure episode, Highlining, was one of the first immersive videos that Apple made available when the Vision Pro launched. Parkour, another episode, launched earlier this year. 🦖 Apple has been working to bring more 3D videos to the Vision Pro over the last few months. There have been new dinosaur-focused Prehistoric Planet episodes, a new Boundless series exploring extraordinary places, a short film called Submerged, and more music-related content. 👍 Immersive videos are currently one of the main features of the Apple Vision Pro, if you haven't tried it, be sure to test it out, it's pretty fun. @iPhone #VisionPro

📰 Apple faces criticism over AI-generated news headline summaries 💬 Apple is facing calls to remove its AI-powered notification summaries feature after it generated false headlines about a high-profile murder case, drawing criticism from a major journalism organization. 📱 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Apple to disable the Apple Intelligence notification feature, which rolled out globally last week as part of its iOS 18.2 software update. 🔫 The request comes after the feature created a misleading headline suggesting that murder suspect Luigi Mangione had shot himself, incorrectly attributing the false information to BBC News. 👮 Mangione in fact remains under maximum security at Huntingdon State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, after having been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York. 🤔 The BBC has confirmed that it filed a complaint with Apple regarding the headline incident. The RSF has since argued that summaries of the type prove that "generative AI services are still too immature to produce reliable information for the public." @iPhone #AppleIntelligence