Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which incorporates the entire Apple information you missed this week in a helpful bite-sized roundup. We name it Apple Breakfast as a result of we expect it goes nice with a morning cup of espresso or tea, nevertheless it’s cool if you wish to give it a learn throughout lunch or dinner hours too.

The yr and not using a spring

Human beings are creatures of behavior, and we love the comforting predictability of routine. For Apple followers, which means the seasonal procession of press occasions. The yr’s main launches often start with a spring occasion in March or April, adopted by software program information at WWDC in June, earlier than the bulletins are delivered to a detailed with iPhone and Apple Watch releases within the fall. Thus it has been, and thus ever extra it shall stay.

In actual fact, Apple’s cycle of occasions has by no means been fairly as predictable as all that. The September iPhone launch feels so properly established that the primary spec sheets would possibly as properly have been carved into stone tablets, however that custom didn’t start till the launch of the iPhone 4s. The primary 4 generations had been unveiled at WWDC in the summertime, or on the Macworld Convention (do not forget that?) in January. The autumn bulletins, for that matter, have typically occupied only one occasion, typically two, and on one memorable event three. WWDC used to commonly happen in Could, and as soon as was scandalously held in August. And there have been loads of years with no spring occasion in any respect. Together with, most definitely, 2023.

Second-guessing Apple’s plans is a idiot’s errand, and the corporate could but shock us. However my suspicion is that we gained’t get to see any Apple execs cavorting round a stage, digital or in any other case, till WWDC.

The issue is that Apple’s mixed-reality headset reportedly gained’t be prepared in time for an occasion in March or April. This thrilling however faintly cursed venture retains getting pushed again; at one stage it was anticipated in January, then spring, then WWDC, and one pundit now thinks it should accompany the iPhone 15 within the fall. Setbacks are comprehensible whenever you’re launching a whole new ecosystem of merchandise, and as I wrote final week, it’s higher to be late than garbage. However this leaves Apple and not using a headliner for its spring bonanza.

That’s to not say there aren’t merchandise, their hour come spherical ultimately, slouching in direction of Cupertino to be born. A brand new bigger MacBook Air, for instance, seems to be very imminent certainly, and Apple can also be believed to be engaged on a sooner Apple TV as a part of its smart-home push. There’s additionally the Mac Professional, which may arrive at any second. However the query stays: Are any of those large enough to be the flagpole announcement of a press occasion watched by tens of millions around the globe? Apple is aware of it may seize our consideration every time it needs, however doesn’t prefer to squander that focus on something minor. That’s why the brand new M2 Macs and second-gen HomePod had been launched by way of press launch final month and never with fanfare on a digital stage.

So no, I don’t assume Apple will hassle with a spring occasion this yr, barring last-minute miracles that imply the AR headset is prepared in spite of everything. After all, I could possibly be incorrect. As a result of the very last thing you’ll be able to name Apple is predictable.

Foundry

Trending: High tales of the week

In our newest Completely different Suppose column, Michael Simon says the unsayable: Intel stands out as the solely solution to save the Mac Professional.

If Apple is making a larger MacBook Air, why not a smaller one too?

Nonetheless questioning why Apple waits so lengthy to introduce its subsequent large factor?

When you saved your unique iPhone, it could possibly be value greater than $60,000.

The iPhone is as a lot of a productiveness instrument because the iPad. Listed below are 7 iPad options we would like Apple to convey to the iPhone 15.

If you wish to enhance your iPhone battery life, begin with these 4 easy ideas and methods.

TIL you’ll be able to ask Siri to expel water out of your iPhone.

The rumor mill

Apple could have simply outed its personal large spring MacBook shock.

Apple is reportedly snatching the total early 3nm provide for iPhones and Macs.

These ‘unique’ iPhone 15 leaks could as properly be an iPhone 14 with a USB-C port.

The iPhone 15 Professional could have as a lot RAM as a MacBook.

A new report sheds gentle on one in all Apple’s most secretive tasks: prick-less glucose monitoring for the Apple Watch.

Podcast of the week

Simply whenever you thought it was useless, the HomePod is again! And now we have HomePod 2.0 in the home! We’re speaking HomePod on this episode of the Macworld Podcast! Keep tuned!

You possibly can catch each episode of the Macworld Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, the Podcasts app, or our personal website.

Software program updates, bugs & issues

A ‘giant new class of bugs’ has left Messages and Pictures susceptible in iOS and macOS.

Pirated copies of Closing Lower Professional could infect your Mac with crypto-mining malware.

Apple pushed out a stealthy safety replace to macOS this week. There’s a brand new model of the XProtect antivirus utility.

Apple simply gave us another excuse to replace our Macs and iPhones ASAP.

Linux 6.2 is up and working on M1 Macs however nonetheless lacking many key options.

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