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Apple emerged as the global smartphone market leader in 2025, capturing a 20% market share with 10% year-over-year shipment growth – the highest among the top five brands, according to data released today by Counterpoint Research. Global smartphone shipments grew 2% year-over-year in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of growth. Counterpoint said the market […]

After two years of Apple and Samsung being neck and neck in the smartphone market share stakes, iPhone market share beat out the Korean company by the end of last year, according to a new market intelligence report. Apple also enjoyed by far the largest year-on-year growth in smartphone shipments, and that wasn’t just due

Over the past year or so, we’ve heard a plethora of Health app related rumors. Tim Cook has stated that one of Apple’s largest contributions to society will be in health, and this series of upgrades will be a key part of that vision. We’ll be recapping those upgrades, and you should be seeing them

Jeff and Fernando are back with a chit chat about the best tech from the last year, and what they’re most looking forward to in 2026. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva & Jeff Benjamin. Subscribe to Overtime via Apple Podcasts and our YouTube channel for

Jeff and Fernando discuss Nintendo Switch 2 thoughts, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva & Jeff Benjamin. Subscribe to Overtime via Apple Podcasts and our YouTube channel for more. more…

It’s been half a year since iOS 26 debuted in beta, so I’ve had quite a bit of time to sit with it. In a release with such a massive redesign, it’s easy for some of the smaller additional features to fly under the radar – but after giving iOS 26 my fair shot, I’ve

Last year, Apple introduced a new model at the bottom of the iPhone lineup, and it launched iPhone 16e. Now, the company is expected to follow up just a year later with a successor. Here’s what’s rumored. more…

Every January, CES takes place in Las Vegas. Given the fact that Apple themselves never partakes in CES, it’s not necessarily a super important event for me to go to. That said, it’s always fun to see what’s going on in the tech world, and also see what Apple-adjacent products are coming to market. I’ll

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. If you’ve ever found yourself looking into the sky and wondered “huh, that plane looks a little interesting’ – Zephy is a

In just a few short months, we should hopefully get our first look at an all new AI-infused Siri. After unveiling it over a year and a half ago, Apple’s vision for an all new Siri faced many engineering challenges – and is yet to hit users devices. That should be changing soon, though. more…