The recent wave of good deals on Apple gear doesn’t stop at iPad, MacBook Air or Apple Watch models. A four-pack of Apple AirTags has dropped back down to a record low price of $64.49. That’s 35 percent off the regular price of $99.

The AirTag is our pick for the best Bluetooth tracker for iPhone users. AirTags are deeply integrated into Apple’s ecosystem, making them a cinch to set up using an iPhone. They’re easy to use as well as they work with Apple’s Find My app.

In large part thanks to the many, many iPhones that are out in the wild, AirTags can help you find misplaced items. Whenever someone with an iPhone is close enough to such an item with an AirTag attached, it will appear in your Find My app. 

In addition, if you happen to accidentally leave something with an AirTag somewhere, you’ll likely receive a left-behind alert once you’re a certain distance away from it (1,200 feet or so, based on our testing). It’s possible to disable these alerts for certain trackers and set up exceptions for such notifications when your AirTags are at, say, your home or place of work.

If you have an iPhone 11 or later (not including an iPhone SE or iPhone 16e), your phone’s ultra-wide band chip can point you in the direction of an AirTag using arrows and a distance meter once you’re within 25 feet of it. One major reason that this is useful is because the AirTag has the quietest ring of any tracker we’ve tested. It also comes in handy when the AirTag is out of sight.

The AirTag has a replaceable battery and it has an IP67 rating for water and dust resistance. However, the device’s audible ring only lasts for seven seconds, so you might end up having to trigger it a few times to find your AirTag. There’s no attachment point built in either, so if you’d like to affix an AirTag to a set of keys, for instance, you’ll probably need to buy an AirTag accessory.

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Morgan Stanley has reduced its iPhone shipment forecasts after Apple confirmed the delay of a more advanced Siri personal assistant, dampening prospects for accelerating phone upgrades. The investment bank now predicts 230 million iPhone shipments in 2025 (flat year-over-year) and 243 million in 2026 (up 6%), down from previous estimates.

An upgraded Siri was the most sought-after Apple Intelligence feature among prospective buyers, according to the bank’s survey data. “Access to Advanced AI Features” appeared as a top-five driver of smartphone upgrades for the first time, with about 50% of iPhone owners who didn’t upgrade to iPhone 16 citing the delayed Apple Intelligence rollout as affecting their decision. The firm also incorporated headwinds from China tariffs in its assessment, noting Apple is unlikely to fully offset these costs without broader exemptions.

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Each year, Samsung takes what Google has made with the annual Android update—the Android Open Source Project (or AOSP) to be precise—and builds a fresh version of One UI, its bespoke mobile operating system complete with all the extra Samsung bells and whistles. This year, we’re getting One UI 7, which is based on Android 15.

One UI 7 comes preinstalled on the new Galaxy S25 phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, but the rest of us are still waiting for it to roll out at the time of writing. Here’s everything new that’s coming with the software update, and when you can expect it to make its way to your Galaxy handset.

Best new features in One UI 7

Perhaps the most significant new features in One UI 7 are the Now Bar and Now Brief. The Now Bar is Samsung’s answer to Live Activities on iOS: It shows pertinent information, including sports scores, map directions, workout stats, media playback controls, and stopwatch timers right on the lockscreen.

Then there’s Now Brief, which gives you regularly updated summaries of information you need front and center as the day progresses. You might get alerts about upcoming meetings, for example, or the weather forecast for the rest of the day, or a summary of your stats from Samsung Health.

The Now Bar is new in One UI 7.
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As you would expect, there’s plenty of AI: The writing assist tools have been upgraded to make it more straightforward to rewrite, summarize, and compose text across any app, and using any Android keyboard. There are also AI-powered call transcriptions so you can get your spoken conversations on the phone written out for you as you talk, and enhanced AI search with natural queries in the Samsung Gallery app.

A more minor change comes with tweaks to the adaptive charging options. With One UI 7, you can set a limit for charging, beyond the standard 80% and 100% options. if you want charging to stop at 85% or 90% instead, that’s now possible if you dive into the battery settings.

Sticking with device maintenance, One UI 7 follows Android 15 in making app archiving a system-level feature (previously it was inside the Play Store app). This means if you’ve got apps you don’t use often, you can clear out most of the associated data to free up space, without doing a full reinstall—that saves you time if you need to get back to the app again (in terms of logging in and configuring it). One UI 7 will also recommend apps it thinks you should be archiving.

There’s more control over adaptive charging.
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One UI 7 also brings with it a pretty comprehensive visual overhaul. It looks cleaner and more modern than One UI 6, with icons, widgets, and menus that are a little more colorful and easier on the eye. The Quick Settings and notification panels have also been split up, so you need to swipe down from different sides of the screen to see them—though there is a setting to go back to the old combined panel if you prefer it.

Finally, Samsung has also given the default Camera app a bit of a refresh, with a more intuitive approach to the interface that makes it easier to get to the pro-level photography tools (while also keeping them well hidden away if you never need them). Like the other visual changes, it makes the software feel fresher and easier to navigate.

When is One UI 7 being released?

Samsung has recently confirmed that One UI 7 will be rolling out to at least some older phones sometime in April, though it hasn’t provided a full list of which devices will get it (perhaps because it’s not sure). The Samsung Galaxy S24 range will certainly get the update, as the software has been available in beta for those phones since December.

Since the launch of the beta program, it’s been extended to cover the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and the Galaxy Z Flip 6, with support for the Galaxy S23, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy Tab S10 tablet series coming soon. However, as these devices are all joining the beta at different times, it’s not clear whether or not they’ll get the finished One UI 7 by April.

The update could go back as far as the Galaxy S21.
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Broadly speaking, Samsung tends to offer four years of Android upgrades to its flagship and mid-range devices, so handsets as far back as the Samsung Galaxy S21 (from 2021) may well be eligible—but that’s just an estimated guess, not an official confirmation, and it’s difficult to say how long it may take for the software to fully roll out.

There also remains some confusion over which handsets will get which One UI 7 features—again, it’s not something Samsung has been very specific about. There has been speculation that features such as Now Brief may remain as Galaxy S25 exclusives, most likely to push sales of the newer devices.

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Amazon, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms on Wednesday said they support efforts to at least triple nuclear energy worldwide by 2050. From a report: The tech companies signed a pledge first adopted in December 2023 by more than 20 countries, including the U.S., at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Financial institutions including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley backed the pledge last year.

The pledge is nonbinding, but highlights the growing support for expanding nuclear power among leading industries, finance and governments. Amazon, Google and Meta are increasingly important drivers of energy demand in the U.S. as they build out AI centers. The tech sector is turning to nuclear power after concluding that renewables alone won’t provide enough reliable power for their energy needs. Microsoft and Apple did not sign the statement.

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