Thanksgiving is a time to reflect upon the prior year, be thankful for what we have, gorge ourselves until we’re near bursting, and then settle into our favorite chairs and watch the first half of a TV show before the tryptophan kicks in. If you usually spend your post-meal time falling asleep to A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, you won’t find it on the usual broadcast or cable channels–it’s exclusively on Apple TV.

Before you wave that turkey drumstick in the air and curse the state of television and all the darn streaming services you need subscriptions for—yes, I’m talking about you, Uncle Fred—you don’t need a subscription to Apple TV to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Apple is making the show available to anyone for a limited time. If you are an Apple TV subscriber, however, you can watch it anytime.

How to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for free on Apple TV

On November 15 and 16, anyone with an Apple ID can watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. If you own an Apple device, you have one, but if not, Apple IDs are free and you don’t need a credit card to sign up. Once you have signed up, you can watch in several ways:

• Through the TV app on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
• On smart TVs with the Apple TV app.
• On the web at tv.apple.com.
• On an Apple TV device.

As we noted when Apple did this same deal with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Apple has all the classic Peanuts specials for the holiday season that used to air over broadcast TV. Apple TV also has A Charlie Brown Christmas that will have its free airing on Dec. 12 and 13. Apple TV also has Happy New Year, Charlie Brown but it is not listed as free-to-view.

A few years ago, Apple acquired the rights to the Peanuts cartoon series that stars Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and other memorable characters. Since then, Apple has aired new Peanuts shows such as The Snoopy Show and Snoopy in Space, and new movies, including Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10, Lucy’s School, and It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown.

The Apple TV subscription streaming service is $14.99/£9.99 per month. Apple TV is also included in the Apple One subscription bundles, which include other Apple services, such as Apple Music, Apple News+, and iCloud storage. Apple One bundles are priced between $21.95/£18.95 and $39.95/£36.95 per month.

For more information about Apple TV, read our Apple TV FAQ. We also have a detailed list of current Apple TV shows and upcoming shows.

TL;DR: Get a near-mint Grade-A refurbished iPad 9th Gen with 256GB of storage on sale for $314.99 (reg. $479).

Buying a refurbished tablet can mean living with scratches, dents, or a worn case, but that’s not true for every refurb. If you want a tablet that looks close to new, try this Grade-A 9th Gen iPad on sale for $314.99 (reg. $479).

A Grade-A rating means this iPad is in near-mint condition with minimal to zero scuffing on the case. You get a tablet that looks almost new for $164 less than its regular price.

Beyond the price, this is also just a good tablet. Apple’s A13 Bionic chip keeps everyday apps, web browsing, and multitasking moving without lag. Text and video look sharp on the 10.2-inch Retina display, and stereo speakers make shows easy to hear without headphones. On video calls, the 12MP Ultra Wide front camera uses Center Stage to keep you in frame as you move.

At 256GB, this model has four times the storage of the 64GB version. That’s enough room for a large photo library, downloaded movies for a flight, and every app you use. Battery life runs up to 10 hours, and Touch ID unlocks the screen with your fingerprint.

This iPad is Wi-Fi only and works with the first-generation Apple Pencil, sold separately. A charging cable and power adapter are also included.

Get a Grade-A iPad 9th Gen on sale for $314.99.

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TL;DR: Run Windows apps on your Mac with a Windows 11 Pro lifetime license for $12.97 (reg. $199).

Plenty of Mac users still need Windows for games, work software, or one app that never got a macOS version. Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion can run Windows alongside macOS without rebooting, but you still need a Windows license to install. If you’d rather not pay full price for one, try a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro lifetime license on sale for $12.97 (reg. $199).

Windows 11 Pro does a lot more than the basic Home version of Windows 11. BitLocker encrypts your entire drive, so files inside your virtual machine are protected if your Mac ever goes missing. Windows Sandbox runs unfamiliar apps in an isolated space before you trust it with your main setup. Developers and IT staff also get Hyper-V for running virtual machines and Azure AD for signing in to a company network.

For everyday work, Snap layouts arrange several Windows apps on screen at once. Copilot in the taskbar can answer questions, summarize pages, and write code when you ask.

Give your Mac a full copy of Windows 11 Pro without paying full price.

A Windows 11 Pro lifetime license is just $12.97 through November 8.

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Gaming subscription services are all the rage now, but Apple Arcade isn’t a little different from the likes of PlayStation Plus, EA Play, or Xbox Game Pass. If you’ve got questions about it, we’ve got plenty of answers.

Updated November 6, 2026: There are four new games on the service this month: Crossy Road Rush, Food Stylist — Design Game+, KAMI 2+, NBA 2K7 Arcade Edition.

What is Apple Arcade?

Apple Arcade is a gaming subscription service for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and AppleTV that features several hundred games. The games are a mix of genres and styles, and include original games you’ll only find on the service and others that can be found on the regular App Store or even other platforms. Apple Arcade isn’t a streaming service like Xbox Live Cloud Gaming or GeForce NOW. Games must be downloaded onto your device in order to be played.

What do I need to run it?

Apple Arcade was made available as part of iOS 13, iPad OS 13, tvOS 13, and macOS Catalina or later. Some of the more visually-intensive games may only run well on newer hardware, though, and some Mac games require macOS 11 (Big Sur).

How much does Apple Arcade cost?

Apple Arcade costs $6.99/£6.99 per month, and you’ll also get a one-month free trial or you can get three months free if you purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac. To claim your free trial click here.

You can get Apple Arcade for less than $6.99 a month if you subscribe for a year upfront. A year of Apple Arcade is $49.99/£49.99 (so $4.16 a month). If you’re currently on the $6.99 month-to-month plan and want to switch to the annual plan and save some money, you can do so on your iPhone or iPad. Open the App Store app, then tap your account icon in the upper right. Tap Subscriptions, then tap the entry for Apple Arcade. Here, you can switch to the annual plan.

Apple Arcade is also included in the Apple One subscription bundles, which range from $20 a month to $38 a month and include access to Apple Music and Apple TV and iCloud storage. There is also a month free trial of Apple One. To claim the trial, or sign up for Apple One, click here.

How do I sign up for Apple Arcade?

There isn’t an Apple Arcade app—it’s built into the App Store. On your iPhone, iPad, or Mac open the App Store and look for the Apple Arcade tab at the bottom of the screen (or in the left column on macOS). A sign-up screen with a Try It Free button will appear. After the trial you’ll be charged either the monthly or annual fee, depending on your selection. When subscribing, you’ll need to enter your Apple ID password or use Touch ID or Face ID to sign in, and you’ll have to confirm your subscription purchase a few times.

Once you’re done with the sign up, the Arcade section of the App Store shows what games are available to you. To access a game, tap on it in the App Store, then tap the Get button. When the game is done installing on your device, the Get button turns into a Play button, and you can tap it to launch the game. The game app icon will also appear on your device’s Home page.

On the Apple TV, there actually is an Arcade app. Open that to see the sign-up offer. You’ll also find an Arcade tab within the App Store.

Does my subscription include family sharing?

Yes. One $6.99 per month subscription can be shared between up to six people (including you).

How do I cancel Apple Arcade?

First off, keep in mind that if you cancel Apple Arcade (either before your free trial is up or after subscribing), you won’t be able to keep playing the games unless you re-subscribe. If you’re okay with that, you can use the same process you use to cancel any other subscription service. Here’s the easiest way to do it on the iPhone and iPad:

1. Open the App Store app and tap on your profile photo in the upper right.
2. In the screen that pops up, press Subscriptions near the top of the page.
3. You’ll then see a list of active subscriptions, and Apple Arcade should be listed there. Tap it.
4. You’ll either see Cancel Free Trial or Cancel Subscription toward the middle of the page that appears. Tap whatever option is available, then Confirm Cancellation.

And here’s how to cancel Apple Arcade on the Mac:

1. Open the App Store app and then press the icon with your profile photo in the lower left.
2. The Account window will appear, and you should then click View Information at the top of the window. Enter your password when/if prompted.
3. When your Account Information appears, scroll down to the Manage section and click the Manage link to the right of Subscriptions.
4. When the list of your active subscriptions appears, click Edit to the right of Apple Arcade.
5. Toward the middle of the page that appears, you’ll see a button that says either Cancel Free Trial or Cancel Subscription. Click it, then click Confirm Cancellation and Confirm.

Do Apple Arcade games have in-app purchases?

No. In Apple’s words, “since every game includes access to the full experience, including all game features, content, and future updates, no additional purchases will be required.” Even games that have in-app purchases on the App Store won’t have any in Apple Arcade.

Do Apple Arcade games have ads?

Also no. On a related note, Apple says Apple Arcade has no ad tracking.

Is Apple Arcade a game streaming service like GeForce NOW or Xbox Game Streaming?

No. All Apple Arcade games are downloaded.

Are there demos for Apple Arcade games?

No, and they’re not really necessary. Like regular App Store apps, games download quickly and can easily be removed if you don’t want to keep it anymore.

Apple partly envisions Apple Arcade as a way of letting players try out games with more freedom than the App Store currently allows (which is basically none). In Apple’s words, “rather than pay upfront for each game, a subscription to Apple Arcade will give players the opportunity to try any game in the service without risk.”

The service has a free trial, though, as we’ve seen with other Apple subscription services.

Am I able to keep playing Apple Arcade games if I cancel my subscription?

No. As with most subscription services, you only have access while you’re a subscriber.

Can I use controllers with Apple Arcade games?

Yes. In additional to traditional MFi (Made for iOS) controllers, you can pair some specific Bluetooth controllers for either PlayStation or Xbox with your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. Since many Apple Arcade games are playable on Mac and Apple TV (where controller support is more common), many games will support them. Some games, especially those that are also available in the broader App Store and only for iPhone or iPad, have no controller support.

How often are new games released?

Games are typically released on the first Friday of each month. There are some rare exceptions.

What games have been released so far?

There are over 200 games available for Apple Arcade, and the list grows all the time.

Title	Publisher	Release Date
4 Pics 1 Word+	LOTUM	10/01/26
A Slight Change of Sawblades+	Yong Kian Chin	05/02/24
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure	ustwo	12/11/20
Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City	Team Alto / Snowman	07/16/21
Alto’s Adventure—Remastered	Team Alto / Snowman	03/25/22
Arkanoid vs Space Invaders+	TAITO Corporation	11/07/24
Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles+	Klemens Strasser	09/04/26
Angry Birds Bounce	Rovio	09/03/25
Angry Birds Reloaded	Rovio	07/16/21
Asphalt 8: Airborne+	Gameloft	08/27/21
Badland Party	HypeHype Oy	05/06/22
Balatro+	Playstack	09/26/24
Ballistic Baseball	Gameloft	10/18/19
Barbie Color Creations+	StoryToys Limited	12/05/24
BEAST: Bio Exo Arena Suit Team	Oh BiBi	02/01/24
Beyond a Steel Sky	Revolution Software	06/26/20
Big Time Sports	Frosty Pop Games	09/19/19
Blackjack by MobilityWare+	MobilityWare	01/05/24
Bleak Sword	Devolver Digital	09/19/19
Block Blast+	Hungry Studio	09/04/26
Bloons TD Battles 2+	Ninja Kiwi	03/07/24
Boggle: Arcade Edition	Zynga	12/05/24
Bold Moves+	Red Games Co.	06/09/23
Bridge Constructor+	Headup GmbH	02/04/22
Card of Darkness	Pendleton Ward	09/19/19
Castle Crumble	Orbital Knight	02/03/23
Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls	Konami	09/17/21
Charrua Soccer	Batovi Games	02/07/20
Chess Universe+	Tilting Point	05/04/23
Cityscapes: Sim Builder	Playstack	05/04/23
Clue: The Classic Mystery Game+	Marmalade Game Studio	03/24/23
Coffee Inc. 2+	Side Labs	06/04/26
Coloring Games for Families+	KindoLand Kids & Toddler Games	09/04/26
Cooking Mama: Cuisine!	Office Create Corp.	06/17/22
Cornsweeper	Robert Morrison	01/05/24
Cozy Caravan	5 Lives Studios	01/08/26
Crayola Adventures	Red Games Co.	03/07/24
Crayola Create and Play+	Red Games Co.	10/29/21
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+	Red Games Co.	09/03/25
Crazy Eights: Card Games+	MobilityWare	03/06/25
Creaks	Amanita Design	07/10/20
Creatures of the Deep+	Infinite Dreams	07/02/26
Cricket Through the Ages	Devolver Digital	09/19/19
Crossword Jam+	PlaySimple Games	10/20/23
Crossy Road+	Hipster Whale	10/08/21
Crossy Road Castle	Hipster Whale	02/28/20
Crossy Road Rush	Hipster Whale	11/05/26
Cult of the Lamb	Devolver	12/04/25
Cut the Rope 3	SeptoLab UK	10/13/23
Cut the Rope Remastered	Paladin Studios	04/02/21
Cypher 007	Tilting Point	09/29/23
Dandara: Trials of Fear+	Raw Fury	12/03/21
Dead Cells+	Playdigious	12/02/22
Dear Reader	Local No. 12	09/19/19
Delicious — Miracle of Life+	GameHouse	11/24/23
Dicey Dungeons+	Distractionware	05/02/24
Disney Coloring World+	StoryToys Entertainment	05/04/23
Disney Dreamlight Valley	Gameloft	12/05/23
Disney Getaway Blast+	Gameloft	05/04/23
Disney SpellStruck	Artist Arcade	05/04/23
Doctor Who: An Unlikely Heist	Tilting Point	04/07/23
Dominoes: Classic Tile Game+	MobilityWare	10/02/25
Doodle God Universe	JoyBits	07/16/21
Doodle Jump 2+	Lima Sky	02/06/25
Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story+	Kairosoft Co.	03/05/26
Downwell+	Devolver	11/17/23
Draw It+	Kwalee	07/02/26
Dredge+	Black Salt Games	04/02/26
Drive Ahead! Carcade	Dodreams Fairytale Company	11/07/24
Dungeon Clawler+	Stray Fawn Studio	07/02/26
Easy Come Easy Golf	Claphanz	02/04/21
Episode XOXO	Episode Interactive	01/06/23
Everybody Shogi	AltPlus	08/07/25
Everyday Puzzles: Mini Games+	Fanatee	08/06/26
Fabulous – Wedding Disaster+	GameHouse	06/06/24
Family Feud Pocket	GameLoft	06/30/26
Fantasian	Mistwalker	04/01/21
Farming Simulator 20+	Giants Software	05/04/23
Farmside	The Label	02/17/23
Felicity’s Door	Area 35	02/05/26
FFIV: The After Years	Square Enix	12/09/24
Final Fantasy+	Square Enix	01/10/25
Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)	Square Enix	12/09/24
Finity	Seabaa	08/25/23
Flow Free+	Big Duck Games	03/05/26
Food Stylist — Design Game+	Zeste	11/05/26
Food Truck Pup+	Game Start	10/03/24
Football Manager 2023 Touch	SEGA	11/08/22
Free Cell Solitaire: Card Game+	MobilityWare	06/04/26
Frogger in Toy Town	Konami	09/19/19
Furistas Cat Cafe+	Runaway	10/03/24
Galaga Wars+	Bandai Namco	11/12/21
Game Dev Story+	Kairosoft Co., Ltd	06/18/21
Game Room	Resolution Games	01/20/24
Garden Tails: Match and Grow	Playdots, Inc.	09/16/22
Gear.Club Stradale	Eden Games	04/08/22
Getting Over It+	Bennett Foddy	05/04/23
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees	Broken Rules	02/25/22
Gin Rummy Classic+	MobilityWare	10/07/22
Goat Simulator+	Coffee Stain Publishing	05/13/22
Good Pizza, Great Pizza+	Tapblaze	05/07/26
Grand Mountain Adventure+	Toppluva	04/28/23
Grindstone	Capybara Games	09/19/19
Hearts: Card Game+	MobilityWare	01/07/22
Helix Jump+	Voodoo	06/05/25
Hello Kitty Island Adventure	Sunblink	07/28/23
Hidden Folks+	Adriaan de Jongh	01/28/22
Hill Climb Racing+	Fingersoft	05/04/23
Horizon Chase 2	Aquiris Game Studio	09/09/22
Hot Lava	Klei Entertainment	09/19/19
Hot Wheels: Race Off+	Hutch Games	12/05/24
Human: Fall Flat+	505 Games	03/31/23
HYKE: Northern Light(s)	Akatsuki Games	04/02/26
I Love Hue Too+	Zut Games	02/05/26
INKS.+	State of Play Games	06/25/21
Iron Marines+	Ironhide Irl	05/04/23
It’s Literally Just Mowing	Protostar	01/10/25
Japanese Rural Life Adventure	Game Start	09/15/23
JellyCar Worlds	Walaber Entertainment	12/09/22
Jeopardy! Daily	Frosty Pop	09/04/25
Jeopardy! World Tour+	Uken	10/06/23
Jet Dragon	Grezzo Co.	06/16/23
Jetpack Joyride+	Halfbrick Studios	07/23/21
Jetpack Joyride 2	Halfbrick Studios	08/19/22
Jigsaw Puzzle by MobilityWare+	MobilityWare	06/10/22
Junkworld TD	Ironhide	09/22/23
KAMI 2+	State of Play Games	11/05/26
Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE	Bandai Namco	04/03/25
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+	Ironhide Irl	09/03/25
Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD+	Ironhide Irl	11/12/21
Kingdom Rush Vengeance TD+	Ironhide Irl	07/29/22
Kingdom Two Crowns+	Raw Fury	05/04/23
Kingdoms: Merge & Build	Cherrypick Games	08/18/23
Knotwords+	Zach Gage	11/03/23
Legends of Kingdom Rush	Ironhide Game Studio	06/11/21
LEGO Brawls	The Lego Group	09/19/19
LEGO Builder’s Journey	The Lego Group	12/19/19
LEGO DUPLO World+	StoryToys	07/07/23
LEGO Friends Heartlake Rush+	StoryToys	05/01/25
LEGO Hill Climb Adventures+	Fingersoft	06/05/25
LEGO Star Wars Battles	TT Games	09/24/21
LEGO Star Wars: Castaways	Gameloft	11/19/21
Leo’s Fortune+	1337 & Senri LLC	06/25/21
Let’s Go Mightycat!	Ponos corporation	08/07/25
Let’s Play! Oink Games+	Oink Games	09/04/26
Limbo+	Playdead	05/04/23
Lost in Play+	Snapbreak Games	06/05/25
Lumen	Lykkegaard International	02/05/21
Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition	Electronic Arts	08/06/26
MasterChef: Let’s Cook!	Tilting Point	09/03/21
Masterpieced	BorderLeap	12/01/23
Mini Football Legends	Miniclip.com	06/04/26
Mini Motorways	Dinosaur Polo Club	09/19/19
Millionaire Trivia: TV Game+	Uken	06/30/23
Monomals	Picomy	11/01/19
Monster Train+	Good Shepherd Entertainment	09/05/24
Monument Valley+	ustwo games	02/02/21
Monument Valley 2+	ustwo games	03/11/22
Moonshot – A Journey Home	Noodlecake	04/22/22
My Bowling 3D+	iWare Designs	07/01/22
My Dear Farm+	HyperBeard Inc.	02/06/25
My Little Pony: Mane Merge	Gameloft	12/16/22
My Talking Angela 2+	Outfit7 Limited	09/08/23
My Talking Tom+	Outfit7 Limited	08/12/22
My Talking Tom Friends+	Outfit7 Limited	09/04/25
My Talking Tom 2+	Outfit7 Limited	06/04/26
My Town Home – Family Games+	My Town Games	05/04/23
My Very Hungry Caterpillar	StoryToys	04/02/26
MySims	Electronic Arts	11/06/25
MySims Kingdom	Electronic Arts	11/06/25
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja Storm+	Bandai Namco	12/04/25
NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition	2K Sports	10/24/23
NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition	2K Sports	10/03/24
NBA 2K26 Arcade Edition	2K Sports	10/16/25
NBA 2K27 Arcade Edition	2K Sports	11/05/26
Nekograms+	Hungry Sky	08/10/23
NFL Retro Bowl ’25	New Star R&D	09/04/24
Nick Jr. Replay!	Viacom	05/07/26
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm	Cornfox & Bros.	09/19/19
Oceanhorn 3	Cornfox & Bros.	03/05/26
Octodad: Dadliest Catch+	Young Horses	05/04/23
Oddmar+	Mobje Ltd.	12/03/21
Old Man’s Journey	Broken Rules	11/18/22
Outlanders	Pomelo Games	09/19/19
Outlanders 2	Pomelo Games	07/03/24
Over the Alps	Stave Studios	09/19/19
Overland	Finji	09/19/19
PAC-MAN Party Royale	BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment	10/18/19
PAC-MAN 256+	BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment	12/05/24
Patterned	BorderLeap	09/19/19
Perchang World	Perchang	05/07/26
PGA Tour Pro Golf	HypGames	02/06/25
Piano Tiles 2+	Koapps	03/06/25
Piffle+	Hipster Whale	10/02/25
Play-Doh World	Scary Beasties	08/07/25
Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!	Game Freak	01/20/23
Pocket City 2+	Engaged Labs	07/02/26
Pocket Love!+	HyperBeard	03/05/26
Potion Punch 2+	Monstronauts Inc.	01/08/26
PowerWash Simulator	FuturLab	12/04/25
PPKP+	Shimada Toshiro	05/04/23
Pro Darts 2026+	iWare Designs	05/27/22
Pro Snooker & Pool 2026+	iWare Designs Ltd.	04/15/22
Prune+	Joel McDonald	04/29/22
Puffies.	Lykkegaard Europe	04/03/25
Punch Kick Duck+	Shaun Coleman	07/03/24
Pusheen’s Place	Electric Square	10/01/26
Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop	Sega	04/04/24
Puzzle & Dragons Story	GungHo Online Entertainment	12/05/23
Rabbids Multiverse	Ubisoft	06/06/24
Reigns+	Devolver Digital	07/01/21
Retro Bowl+	New Star R&D	06/23/23
Retro Bowl College+	New Star R&D	08/06/26
Retro Goal+	New Star R&D	06/23/23
Retrocade	Resolution Games	02/05/26
Return to Monkey Island+	Devolver	06/06/24
Ridiculous Fishing EX	Vlambeer	07/17/23
River City Survivors	Arc System Works	10/01/26
Rodeo Stampede+	Featherweight Games	01/10/25
RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic+	Atari	04/03/25
Sago Mini Jinja’s Garden	Sago Mini	01/08/26
Sago Mini Trips+	Sago Mini	04/04/24
Samba de Amigo: Party-To-Go	Sega	08/29/23
Sesame Street Mecha Builders+	StoryToys	04/03/25
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII	2K	02/05/26
Skate City	Snowman	09/19/19
Skate City: New York	Snowman	01/10/25
Slay the Spire+	Humble Bundle	07/07/23
Smash Hit+	Mediocre	10/03/24
Snake.io+	Kooapps	05/04/23
Sneaky Sasquatch	RAC7	09/19/19
Solitaire Stories	Red Games Co.	07/02/21
SongPop Party	Gameloft	04/02/21
Sonic Dash+	Sega	04/08/22
Sonic Dream Team	Sega	12/05/23
Sonic Racing	Sega	09/19/19
Sp!ng	SMG Studio	03/05/21
SpaceInvaders InfinityGene EVO	TAITO Corporation	04/03/25
Spades: Card Game+	MobilityWare	01/07/22
Spider Solitaire: Card Game+	MobilityWare	10/07/22
Spire Blast	Orbital Knight sp.	01/22/21
Spongebob SquarePants: Patty Pursuit	Nickelodeon	05/28/20
Spongebob: Patty Pursuit 2	Viacom International	12/04/25
Squiggle Drop	Noodlecake	01/27/23
Star Trek: Legends	Tilting Point LLC	04/02/21
Stardew Valley+	ConcernedApe	07/21/23
Stitch.	Lykkegaard Europe	10/28/22
Subway Surfers+	Sybo Games	12/04/25
Subway Surfers Tag	Sybo Games	07/15/22
Suika Game+	Xgimi Limited	09/03/25
SUMI SUMI: Matching Puzzle+	Imagineer Co.	05/01/25
Summer Pop!+	Ocean Games	05/02/24
Summon Quest	The Label	04/21/23
Super Leap Day	Nitrome	08/06/21
Super Mega Mini Party	Red Games Co, LLC	11/01/19
Super Monsters Ate My Condo+	PikPok	04/04/24
Super Stickman Golf 3+	Noodlecake	08/06/21
Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat	BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment	04/02/21
Talking Tom Blast Park	Outfit7 Limited	12/05/24
Tamagotchi Adventure Kingdom	Bandai Namco	01/05/24
Temple Run+	Imangi Studios	05/04/23
Temple Run Legends	Imangi Stuidios	08/01/24
Temple Run: Puzzle Adventure	Scopely, Inc.	09/17/21
Terraria+	505 Games	10/01/26
Texas Hold’em Poker: Pokerist+	KamaGames	11/07/24
The Battle of Polytopia+	Midjiwan	03/07/24
The Game of Life 2+	Marmalade Game Studio	04/03/25
The Last Campfire	Hello Games	08/27/20
The Oregon Trail	Gameloft	04/02/21
Thomas and Friends: Let’s Roll+	StoryToys	10/02/25
Three Kingdoms Heroes	Koei Tecmo Games	01/10/25
Time Locker+	Sotaro Otsuka	05/04/23
tint.	Lykkegaard International	09/19/19
Tiny Wings+	Andreas Illiger	10/15/21
TMNT Splintered Fate	Paramount Global	05/04/23
Trials of Mana+	Square Enix	01/10/25
True Skate+	True Axis	01/08/26
Toca Boca Jr. Classics	Sago Mini	11/06/25
Tomb of the Mask+	Playgendary	06/06/24
Touchgrind BMX 2+	Illusion Labs	10/01/26
Turmoil+	Gamious	12/05/23
Ultimate 8 Ball Pool+	HypGames	05/07/26
UNO: Arcade Edition	Mattel	06/05/25
Unpacking+	Humble Bundle	04/02/26
Vampire Survivors+	Poncle	08/01/24
Very Little Nightmares+	Bandai Namco	05/04/23
Warped Kart Racers	Electric Square	05/20/22
Water Sort Puzzle: Get Color+	Tripledot Studios	08/06/26
What the Car?	Triband ApS	05/04/23
What the Clash?	Triband ApS	05/01/25
What the Golf?	Fig	09/19/19
Wheel of Fortune Daily	Frosty Pop	11/07/24
Where Cards Fall	Snowman	09/19/19
Winding Worlds	KO_OP	05/15/20
with My Buddy	Neilo inc.	05/01/25
Words in Progress	Gamious	02/01/24
Words of Wonders: Search+	Fugo Bilisim	05/01/25
Worms Across Worlds	Team 17	08/07/25
Wurdweb	Aran & Adriaan	08/13/21
Wylde Flowers	Studio Drydock	02/22/22
Zen Koi Pro+	LandShark Games	07/03/24
Zen Pinball Party	ZEN Studios	09/03/21
Zookeeper World	Kiteretsu Inc.	09/10/21

Live Rewind, one of the more compelling features demonstrated at the launch of the Apple Watch Series 12 back in September, has finally become available with the launch (in beta form) of watchOS 27.3 and iOS 27.3. I’ve spent several days testing Live Rewind, and can report that it’s a thoroughly impressive proof of concept. But there are flaws and limitations to be aware of, even if several of the latter are the result of good intentions.

Here are six takeaways from my extensive hands-on testing with Live Rewind on the Apple Watch Series 12.

Live Rewind is surprisingly accurate

I was skeptical, but Live Rewind does a surprisingly decent job of understanding and transcribing what it hears.

I started by playing YouTube videos of restaurant conversations for people learning English as a foreign language: slow, clear, with largely simple vocabulary. I sat close to the iPad playing the video. An easy task to begin with, and Live Rewind coped easily. The transcripts were virtually perfect, not to mention beautifully formatted with line breaks to denote separate short speeches.

I stepped up the difficulty by looking up some menus online (I selected this fancy restaurant) and acting the part of the waiter myself. I selected esoteric dishes I hadn’t heard of, spoke quickly and was careless with my enunciation, chucked in some ums and ers, varied volume and occasionally mumbled a little. And the feature produced a mostly accurate transcript that would have been extremely useful to a diner who had missed an option on the list.

This time the formatting was more of a challenge–Live Rewind couldn’t keep track of separate sentences, so the whole thing was jumbled together with a sometimes misleading number of commas–and occasionally I had to decipher a soundalike guess when the feature didn’t recognise a term. (“IV” instead of Ivy, “7 and Y” instead of the British rivers Severn and Wye, for example.) But the information was mostly there.

The most difficult task was when I used Live Rewind (after obtaining consent!) to recall snatches of random conversations with my family. This was more mixed. It caught the gist a lot of the time. But there were more soundalike guesses than before, and some sentences were missed entirely. This mostly related to distance, I think, and I’ll come back to that later.

So Live Recall is by no means perfect. But considering the difficulty of the task–handling variations in accent and diction, mumbling and muffled speech, irregular grammar, slang, in-jokes, proper nouns, brand names, technical or foreign terms–it does a very solid job. My verdict is that the accuracy is high enough to be useful as backup if you missed something, but not yet accurate enough to depend on as an alternative to paying attention.

Live Rewind has a short memory

Like the proverbial goldfish, Live Rewind has a memory of 15 seconds. Which is shorter than you might think.

On one test I read out a list of just four main courses, but made sure to include the additional verbiage for each one, as I suspect many waiters in high-end establishments would be encouraged to do. Nothing extreme, just an extra sentence detailing ingredients and/or preparation. The result of this slight bulking out was that Live Rewind, despite being triggered the very moment I finished my list, missed a big chunk of it. The first main and half the second were lost to history.

Bear in mind, too, that while lists of specials in restaurants may frequently fit in the 15-second window (assuming the waiter refrains from prolixity), other scenarios may not work so well. Will the list of cocktails at a bar fit in 15 seconds, or the list of films at a cinema, or the list of changes your boss told you to make to a document? I have my doubts, although Siri Recap, if you use it, does not have a time limit and may be able to step in.

The short memory, it’s worth noting, applies whether or not Live Rewind is currently hearing anything. If you trigger the feature, it won’t rewind to the last 15 seconds of audio it heard; it will show you any speech it has heard in the past 15 seconds, ending when you double-press the Digital Crown. If you’ve been sitting in silence for at least 15 seconds, you’ll see the message “No voice detected.”

And even if you do manage to capture the transcript of some speech, Live Rewind will by default forget it the moment you tap the X button to close it. You need to explicitly save it to the Siri app if you want to keep the record. (You’ll save only the transcript, needless to say, not the audio from which it was created.)

This short memory is deliberate, by the way, as we’ll discover.

Live Rewind has a short range

My first impressions of the feature were not good. When I tried to use it on a conversation with my daughter, who was sitting perhaps 6 or 8 meters away and speaking unusually clearly, it produced a transcript of all my words and literally none of hers. But after more testing it became apparent that this was an issue of range, not accuracy. Live Rewind is good at picking up speech that’s close to you, and far less effective when someone is speaking even from the other side of the room.

I haven’t been able to find any evidence that this is deliberate (I know, for example, that the closely related feature Siri Recap can and will listen to people further away, since Apple gives the example of a lecturer “in an otherwise quiet room” in its notes) but suspect that it may relate to privacy. If the waiter leans in and tells you about today’s delicious cod cheeks, one may assume they consent to being heard. If the speaker is three tables away, things become murkier.

Live Rewind doesn’t approve of swearing

I don’t want to shock you, but while testing this feature I happened to hear a YouTuber use the word “shit.” Live Rewind transcribed this as ****. (Siri Recap did the same, incidentally.)

The closest I can find to an explanation is in the support document, where Apple says Siri Recap is “designed to omit potentially harmful content, such as language that promotes self-harm or hateful speech.” But that’s a different issue, and “shit” does not, as far as I can see, constitute hateful speech.

So it’s a bit of a mystery. But very much the sort of family-values prudishness we’ve come to expect from Apple.

The range of privacy measures is admirable…

For better and worse, the issue of privacy is absolutely central to Live Rewind.

Apple is conscious that most of us are creeped out by the idea of a wrist-mounted surveillance bot listening in on conversations. It’s conscious that previous surveillance-adjacent tech (Google Glass, for example) has encountered significant public pushback, and wants to avoid bad PR. So everything has been done with privacy in mind.

To trigger Live Rewind, you have to double-press the Digital Crown, a distinctive gesture intended to be hard for creeps to disguise. A similar intent lies behind the on-screen animation and non-mutable sound effect, both of which alert anyone close enough to be recorded by the feature that you are summoning a transcript of what they just said.

It’s also worth mentioning that the feature works on your device. (The processing legwork happens on the companion iPhone, not the Apple Watch, by the way, so make sure it’s nearby.) It doesn’t happen in the cloud, and Apple insists it does not have access to the data.

I won’t pretend I’m completely on board with listening tech in general. I fear that such technologies are becoming more and more widespread and normalised. But with Live Rewind, Apple has done everything it can to take privacy concerns into consideration.

…and sometimes frustrating

I applaud Apple for its efforts to safeguard privacy. But like the AirTag, which quite rightly took steps to combat stalking and in the process made itself a far less effective anti-theft device, Live Rewind finds itself in a position where good intentions lead to many of its most frustrating limitations.

The short memory is there to limit the feature’s surveillance capabilities. Ditto, I suspect, the short physical range. It also doesn’t attempt, by design and for explicitly privacy-related reasons, to identify or differentiate between multiple speakers (not even “speaker A” and “speaker B”), despite this being an obvious way to make transcripts easier to parse.

When viewing the transcript on your Apple Watch, you’ll find that the screenshot function is disabled, presumably to make it slightly less convenient for bad actors to eavesdrop and then share the results. But this also makes life less convenient if you want to share them for innocent reasons, such as sending the list of specials to a latecomer on their way to the restaurant, or publishing an article about how well the feature works.

Live Rewind would be much more useful if these limitations were cast aside, but it would also be more controversial, and Apple doesn’t like that.

Conclusions

I’m way more impressed by Live Rewind than I expected to be.

The accuracy is very solid. Yes, it makes some mistakes when tested under the most challenging conditions, but a lot of those mistakes will actually be phonetic best guesses that can be deciphered with little effort. And it usually gets the important details right.

It’s not quite sharp enough that you can ignore the waiter listing off specials or the senior colleague asking you a question and assume everything will be transcribed perfectly. But it’s a handy backup for the parts you missed while mostly paying attention.

The main issues I have with Live Rewind, if they can be called issues, are the limitations deliberately put in place for privacy reasons. It’s got very short range, for instance, and the 15-second memory window is on the low side in terms of usefulness. But privacy matters, and I understand why Apple made these decisions.

Speaking only for myself, I still find the concept a tiny bit creepy. But Apple has done its best to minimise that factor, and this is overall a very decent effort.

With the MacBook Pro with PROLED Display, Apple returned the Apple logo to its former glory, switching from shiny aluminum to one that lights up and glows again. And it’s got a new trick: Turn up the display brightness, and the logo gets brighter, too. Turn down the display brightness, and the logo dims.

However, since the brightness controls on the display and logo are linked, the only way to turn the brightness on the logo all the way down is to also turn off the display. And sadly, Apple did not include a system setting control for the logo, so you can’t turn it off by simply flicking a switch.

But you can turn it off through Terminal, Apple’s command line interface for the Mac. In fact, Apple has a support document with the details.

Turn off the glowing Apple logo

1. You must be logged into the Mac with an account that has Administrator rights.
2. Launch Terminal. It is in Applications>Utilities. You can also press Command + Space to bring up Spotlight Search, type “Terminal,” and press Return after “Terminal — Open” appears in the search box.
3. Copy the following and paste it into Terminal sudo defaults write com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0 then press Return
4. Terminal will ask for your password, which must be a user with Administrator rights. (When typing the password, Terminal will not show the characters.) Press Return and the logo should turn off.
5. Quit Terminal.

Turn on the glowing Apple logo

Follow the same steps as above, but enter this Terminal command: sudo defaults delete com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode

The glowing Apple logo is on by default, so if you reinstall macOS after turning it off, it will turn back on.

What’s new on Apple TV? What are the best shows and movies? How do you sign up and what does it cost? This article will answer all of that, and you’ll also get a list of all the currently-available Apple TV content.

There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s service, too. If you want to know what’s on the way, check out our list of upcoming Apple TV shows and movies.

Updated November 6: Season 2 of sports comedy series Stick is now streaming, as is the reality/comedy/cooking series Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook.

Latest Apple TV releases

• Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook
  Released: November 6, 2026
• Stick (season 2)
  Released: November 4, 2026
• Nocturne
  Released: October 30, 2026
• Where’s Wanda? (season 2)
  Released: October 21, 2026
• Tenzing
  Released: October 16, 2026
• Matchbox The Movie
  Released: October 9, 2026
• Small Prophets
  Released: October 7,2026

How to get Apple TV

You can subscribe to Apple TV on Apple’s website here, or via the Apple TV app on your device. It costs $12.99/£9.99 a month, which you can cancel at any time (Read: How to cancel an Apple subscription). You can also opt for a one-year subscription for $99/£89, which essentially gives you two months free each year.

Apple also offers various trials so that you can try out Apple TV before you subscribe. Take a look at our article explaining all the ways you can watch Apple TV for free, and the best Apple TV deals you can get.

Students can get Apple TV for free with an already subsidized Apple Music subscription.

Best shows on Apple TV

There’s far too much content on Apple TV to sift through it all yourself. If you’re looking for something to watch and don’t know where to start, here are a few of the Macworld staff’s favorite shows, series, and movies.

Full list of Apple TV shows and series

These are all the episodic series you can currently watch on Apple TV, including both recurring and limited series. This list is in alphabetical order.

Title	Premiere	Seasons / Episodes
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything	May 21, 2021	8 episodes
Acapulco	October 8, 2021	4 seasons, 40 episodes
Amazing Stories	March 6, 2020	1 season, 5 episodes
Amber Brown	July 29, 2022	1 season, 10 episodes
Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook	November 6, 2026	1 season, 8 episodes
Bad Monkey	August 14, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
Bad Sisters	August 19, 2022	2 seasons, 20 episodes
BE@RBRICK	March 21, 2025	1 season, 13 episodes
Becoming You	November 13, 2020	1 season, 6 episodes
Before	October 25, 2024	10 episodes
Best Foot Forward	July 22, 2022	1 season, 10 episodes
Big Beasts	April 21, 2023	1 season, 10 episodes
Black Bird	July 8, 2022	6 episodes
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker	April 7, 2023	2 episodes
Born to be Wild	December 19, 2025	6 episodes
Brothers	September 23, 2026	1 season, 8 episodes
Calls	March 19, 2021	1 season, 9 episodes
Camp Snoopy	June 14, 2024	2 seasons, 26 episodes
Cape Fear	June 5, 2026	10 episodes
Carême	April 30, 2025	1 season, 8 episodes
Carpool Karaoke	August 8, 2017	5 seasons, 75 episodes
Central Park	May 29, 2020	3 seasons, 39 episodes
Chief of War	August 1, 2025	9 episodes
Circuit Breakers	November 11, 2022	1 season, 7 episodes
City on Fire	May 12, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
Constellation	February 21, 2024	1 season, 8 episodes
Cowboy Cartel	August 2, 2024	4 episodes
Criminal Record	January 10, 2024	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Curses!	October 27, 2023	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Dark Matter	May 8, 2024	2 season, 19 episodes
Dear Edward	February 3, 2023	1 season, 10 episodes
Dear…	June 5, 2020	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Defending Jacob	April 24, 2020	8 episodes
Dickinson	November 1, 2019	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Disclaimer	October 11, 2024	7 episodes
Dope Thief	March 14, 2025	8 episodes
Doug Unplugs	November 13, 2020	2 seasons, 26 episodes
Down Cemetery Road	October 29, 2025	1 season, 8 episodes
Dr. Brain	November 3, 2021	1 season, 6 episodes
Drops of God	April 21, 2023	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Duck & Goose	July 8, 2022	2 seasons, 17 episodes
Earth at Night in Color	December 4, 2020	2 seasons, 12 episodes
Earthsounds	February 23, 2024	1 season, 12 episodes
Echo 3	November 23, 2022	1 season, 10 episodes
El Deafo	January 7, 2022	3 episodes
Eva the Owlet	March 31, 2023	2 seasons, 17 episodes
Extrapolations	March 17, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
Five Days at Memorial	August 12, 2022	8 episodes
For All Mankind	November 1, 2019	5 seasons, 50 episodes
Foundation	September 24, 2021	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock	January 21, 2022	2 seasons, 27 episodes
Fraggle Rock: Rock On!	April 21, 2020	1 season, 6 episodes
Frog and Toad	April 28, 2023	2 seasons, 18 episodes
Get Rolling with Otis	October 8, 2021	2 seasons, 18 episodes
Ghostwriter	November 1, 2019	3 seasons, 39 episodes
Government Cheese	April 16, 2025	1 season, 10 episodes
Greatness Code	July 10, 2020	2 seasons, 13 episodes
Gutsy	September 9, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Harriet the Spy	November 19, 2021	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Hello Tomorrow!	February 17, 2023	1 season, 10 episodes
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show	November 5, 2021	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Helpsters	November 1, 2019	3 seasons, 40 episodes
Helpsters Help You	April 24, 2020	6 episodes
High Desert	May 17, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
Hijack	June 28, 2023	2 seasons, 15 episodes
Hollywood Con Queen	May 8, 2024	3 episodes
Home	April 17, 2020	2 seasons, 19 episodes
Home Before Dark	April 3, 2020	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Imperfect Women	March 18, 2026	8 episodes
Interrupting Chicken	November 18, 2022	2 seasons, 17 episodes
Invasion	October 22, 2021	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Jane	April 14, 2023	3 seasons, 20 episodes
John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial	December 6, 2023	3 episodes
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars	October 10, 2025	2 seasons, 16 episodes
K-Pop Idols	August 30, 2024	6 episodes
KPopped	August 29, 2025	1 season, 8 episodes
La Maison	September 20, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
Lady in the Lake	July 19, 2024	7 episodes
Land of Women	June 26, 2024	1 season, 6 episodes
Last Seen	September 9, 2026	6 episodes
Lessons in Chemistry	October 13, 2023	8 episodes
Liaison	February 24, 2023	1 season, 6 episodes
Life by Ella	September 2, 2022	1 season, 10 episodes
Lincoln’s Dilemma	February 18, 2022	4 episodes
Lisey’s Story	June 4, 2021	8 episodes
Little America	January 17, 2020	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Little Voice	July 10, 2020	1 season, 9 episodes
Long Way Up	September 18, 2020	11 episodes
Long Way Home	May 9, 2025	10 episodes
Loot	June 24, 2022	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Losing Alice	January 22, 2021	1 season, 8 episodes
Love You to Death	February 7, 2025	1 season, 7 episodes
Lovely Little Farm	June 10, 2022	2 seasons, 14 episodes
Lucky	July 15, 2026	7 episodes
Make or Break	April 29, 2022	2 seasons, 15 episodes
Manhunt	March 15, 2024	7 episodes
Margo’s Got Money Troubles	April 15, 2026	1 season, 8 episodes
Masters of the Air	January 26, 2024	9 episodes
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed	May 20, 2026	1 season, 10 episodes
Me	July 12, 2024	1 seasons, 10 episodes
Messi Meets America	October 11, 2023	6 episodes
Messi’s World Cup: Rise of a Legend	February 21, 2024	4 episodes
Midnight Family	September 25, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters	November 17, 2023	2 season, 20 episodes
Monster Factory	March 17, 2023	6 episodes
Mr. Corman	August 6, 2021	1 season, 10 episodes
Mr. Scorsese	October 17, 2025	5 episodes
Murderbot	May 16, 2025	1 season, 10 episodes
My Brother the Minotaur	April 24, 2026	1 season, 10 episodes
My Kind of Country	March 24, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
Mythic Quest	February 7, 2020	4 seasons, 40 episodes
Nocturne	October 30, 2026	1 season, 10 episodes
Not a Box	June 13, 2025	1 season, 8 episodes
Now and Then	May 20, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Omnivore	July 19, 2024	1 season, 8 episodes
One-of-a-Kind Marcie	August 18, 2023	39 min.
Onside: Major League Soccer	February 21, 2025	8 episodes
Oprah Talks COVID-19	March 21, 2020	1 season, 13 episodes
Oprah’s Book Club	November 1, 2019	1 season, 14 episodes
Pachinko	March 25, 2022	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Palm Royale	March 20, 2024	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Physical	June 18, 2021	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Pinecone & Pony	April 8, 2022	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Platonic	May 24, 2023	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Pluribus	November 7, 2025	1 season, 9 episodes
Prehistoric Planet	May 23, 2022	3 seasons, 15 episodes
Presumed Innocent	June 12, 2024	8 episodes
Pretzel and the Puppies	February 11, 2022	2 seasons, 18 episodes
Prime Target	January 22, 2025	8 episodes
Puppy Place	October 15, 2021	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Real Madrid: Until the End	March 10, 2023	3 episodes
Roar	April 15, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Sago Mini Friends	September 16, 2022	3 seasons, 24 episodes
Schmigadoon!	July 16, 2021	2 seasons, 12 episodes
See	November 1, 2019	3 seasons, 24 episodes
Servant	November 28, 2019	4 seasons, 40 episodes
Severance	February 18, 2022	2 seasons, 19 episodes
Shantaram	October 14, 2022	1 season, 12 episodes
Shape Island	January 20, 2023	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Shining Girls	April 29, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Shrinking	January 27, 2023	3 seasons, 33 episodes
Side Quest	March 26, 2025	4 epsiodes
Silo	May 5, 2023	3 seasons, 30 episodes
Slow Horses	April 1, 2022	6 seasons, 36 episodes
Slumberkins	November 4, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Small Prophets	October 7, 2026	1 season, 6 episodes
Smoke	June 27, 2025	9 episodes
Snoopy in Space	November 1, 2019	2 seasons, 24 episodes
Star City	May 29, 2026	1 season, 8 episodes
Stick	June 4, 2025	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Still Up	September 22, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
Stillwater	December 4, 2020	4 seasons, 40 episodes
Strange Planet	August 9, 2023	1 season, 10 episodes
STEVE! (martin): A documentary in two pieces	March 29, 2024	2 episodes
Sugar	April 5, 2024	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Sunny	July 10, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
Super League: The War for Football	January 13, 2023	4 episodes
Surface	July 29, 2022	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Surfside Girls	August 19, 2022	1 season, 10 episodes
Suspicion	February 4, 2022	1 season, 8 episodes
Swagger	October 29, 2021	2 season2, 18 episodes
Ted Lasso	August 14, 2020	4 seasons, 44 episodes
Tehran	September 25, 2020	3 seasons, 24 episodes
The Afterparty	January 28, 2022	2 seasons, 16 episodes
The Big Cigar	May 17, 2024	6 episodes
The Big Conn	May 6, 2022	4 episodes
The Big Door Prize	March 29, 2023	2 seasons, 20 episodes
The Buccaneers	November 8, 2023	2 seasons, 16 episodes
The Changeling	September 8, 2023	1 season, 8 episodes
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin	March 1, 2024	1 season, 6 episodes
The Crowded Room	June 9, 2023	1 season, 10 episodes
The Dynasty: UConn Huskies	August 21, 2026	3 episodes
The Dynasty: New England Patriots	February 16 2024	10 episodes
The Enfield Poltergeist	October 27, 2023	4 episodes
The Essex Serpent	May 13, 2022	6 episodes
The Hunt	March 4, 2026	6 episodes
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey	March 11, 2022	6 episodes
The Last Frontier	October 10, 2025	1 season, 10 episodes
The Last Thing He Told Me	April 14, 2023	2 seasons, 15 episodes
The Line	November 19, 2021	4 episodes[a]
The Long Game: Bigger Than Basketball	April 22, 2022	1 season, 5 episodes
The Me You Can’t See	May 21, 2021	1 season, 6 episodes
The Morning Show	November 1, 2019	3 seasons, 30 episodes
The Mosquito Coast	April 30, 2021	2 seasons, 17 episodes
The New Look	February 14, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
The Oprah Conversation	July 30, 2020	1 season, 15 episodes
The Problem with Jon Stewart	September 30, 2021	2 seasons, 20 episodes
The Reluctant Traveler	February 24, 2023	2 seasons, 13 episodes
The Sisters Grimm	October 3, 2025	1 season, 6 episodes
The Shrink Next Door	November 12, 2021	8 episodes
The Snoopy Show	February 5, 2021	2 seasons, 26 episodes
The Studio	March 26, 2025	1 season, 10 episodes
The Super Models	September 20, 2023	4 episodes
The Wild Ones	July 11, 2025	1 season, 6 episodes
They Call Me Magic	April 22, 2022	1 season, 4 episodes
Time Bandits	July 24, 2024	1 season, 10 episodes
Tiny World	October 2, 2020	2 seasons, 12 episodes
Truth Be Told	December 6, 2019	3 seasons, 28 episodes
Trying	May 1, 2020	5 seasons, 40 episodes
Twisted Yoga	March 13, 2026	3 episodes
Unconditional	May 8, 2026	8 episodes
Visible: Out on Television	February 14, 2020	5 episodes
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn	August 25, 2023	4 episodes
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson	July 30, 2021	1 season, 6 episodes
WeCrashed	March 18, 2022	8 episodes
Where’s Wanda?	October 2, 2024	2 seasons, 16 episodes
Widow’s Bay	April 29, 2026	1 season, 10 episodes
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory	September 24, 2021	2 seasons, 20 episodes
Women in Blue	July 31, 2024	2 seasons, 20 episodes
WondLa	June 28, 2024	3 seasons, 20 episodes
Wonder Pets: In the City	December 13, 2024	2 seasons, 26 episodes
Yo Gabba Gabbaland	August 9, 2024	1 season, 20 episodes
You Would Do It Too	October 30, 2024	1 season, 8 episodes
Your Friends and Neighbors	April 11, 2025	2 seasons, 19 episodes

Full list of Apple TV movies and short films

Apple TV is home to a fair number of original movies, too. Some of the movies saw a limited theatrical release, all are listed here in alphabetical order.

Title	Release Date
9/11: Inside the President’s War Room	September 1, 2021
Argylle	April 12, 2024
All of You	September 26, 2025
Beastie Boys Story	April 24, 2020
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry	February 26, 2021
Blitz	November 22, 2024
Blush	October 1, 2021
Bono: Stories of Surrender	May 30, 2025
Boys State	August 14, 2020
Bread and Roses	November 22, 2024
Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You	October 23, 2020
Causeway	November 4, 2022
Cha Cha Real Smooth	June 17, 2022
Cherry	March 12, 2021
CODA	August 13, 2021
Come from Away	September 10, 2021
Come See Me in the Good Light	November 14, 2021
Dads	June 19, 2020
Deaf President Now!	May 16, 2025
Echo Valley	June 13, 2025
Emancipation	December 9, 2022
Eternity	February 13, 2026
F1: The Movie	December 12, 2025
Fancy Dance	June 28, 2024
Fathom	June 25, 2021
Finch	November 5, 2021
Fingernails	November 3, 2023
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds	November 13, 2020
Flora and Son	September 29, 2023
Fly Me to the Moon	December 6, 2024
Fountain of Youth	May 23, 2025
Ghosted	April 21, 2023
Girls State	April 5, 2024
Greyhound	July 10, 2020
Hala	December 6, 2019
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas	November 22, 2023
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth	April 17, 2020
Highest 2 Lowest	September 5, 2025
Killers of the Flower Moon	January 12, 2024
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues	October 28, 2022
Luck	August 5, 2022
Lulu is a Rhinoceros	May 30, 2025
Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special	December 4, 2020
Mariah’s Christmas: The Magic Continues	December 3, 2021
Matchbox The Movie	October 9, 2026
Mayday	September 4, 2026
Napoleon	March 1, 2024
Napoleon: Director’s Cut	August 29, 2024
Number One on the Call Sheet	March 28, 2025
On the Rocks	October 23, 2020
Outcome	April 10, 2026
Palmer	January 29, 2021
Propeller One-Way Night Coach	May 29, 2026
Raymond & Ray	October 21, 2022
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me	November 4, 2022
Sharper	February 17, 2023
Sidney	September 23, 2022
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical	August 15, 2025
Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne	December 10, 2021
Snoopy Presents: It’s The Small Things, Charlie Brown	April 15, 2022
Snoopy Presents: Lucy’s School	August 12, 2022
Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Snoopy	July 31, 2026
Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), With Love	May 6, 2022
Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin	February 16, 2024
Spirited	November 18, 2022
Stephen Curry: Underrated	July 21, 2023
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie	May 12, 2023
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Apple’s new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display isn’t just the best display ever put in a laptop. It’s also Apple’s first-ever touchscreen in a Mac and the first time macOS has supported Touch as an input option. It’s a feature we longtime Mac users thought we’d never see, mostly because Apple has a history of saying it won’t happen.

But it has happened—and on the expensive laptop Apple sells, no less. While the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has plenty of other features to attract customers, which I will outline in my upcoming review, the touchscreen is one of the most interesting features to come to the Mac in years and is sure to be a major consideration for buyers when choosing which laptop to get.

However, macOS with Touch isn’t the same interface that you can just reach out to control with your fingers. Apple has enhanced and optimized macOS to accommodate Touch, making the overall experience satisfying. Here are my observations after spending a few days with it.

No lag or delay

Apple did not simply take a Touch input sensor, slap it on top of the OLED, pack it all up, and ship it. For the optimal experience, the Touch sensor is incorporated into the OLED panel, just as it is with the iPad Pro. That makes it perform more like a tablet than a usual touchscreen laptop.

It also means there’s no lag when touching the screen. Tap the screen, and you’ll get an instant reaction from macOS: buttons, menus, sliders, icons, the Dock, you name it. Everything reacts the instant you touch it.

UI clarity

My major concern about the touchscreen MacBook Pro was whether Apple would do enough (or anything) to adjust macOS’s longstanding UI elements for Touch input. Some elements in macOS need to be larger to make them easier to touch; others need to be shifted to create more space; and still others need a complete rethink. A touch UI that demands cursor-style precision means you have to concentrate to do the most mundane of tasks. That’s tiring.

In macOS 27.2 on the new MacBook Pro, Apple has enhanced macOS to accommodate Touch. Throughout the OS, elements appear when using Touch and return to the normal view when using a mouse or trackpad. The first thing you’ll notice is the set of traffic lights that appear in the upper right corner of windows to close, minimize, or expand windows full-screen, respectively. When tapped, the red, yellow, and green buttons magnify to make the target easier to hit.

Even menu items adjust by expanding a bit to add space between the items so they’re easier to tap with your finger. Another example is checkboxes, which let you tap on the accompanying text to select as well as the box itself.

UI confusion

Almost all of the time, I can navigate through macOS just by using Touch. Apple thoughtfully considered the elements that I encountered to make them easy to touch, with one exception: video files. The ability to watch a tiny version of the video by clicking on the “Play” icon in the center of the video’s icon gets in the way of opening the file. Double-tapping to open the video file often resulted in the video playing in the icon, not actually opening the file. It’s one of the things that hasn’t been adjusted to accommodate Touch, and it needs a retool.

I also found that the mindset for Touch on macOS is separate from iOS. My experience with Apple’s touch-based UI is mostly with iOS, so I thought that macOS Touch would work similarly. But Apple decided to stick to macOS conventions, as illustrated by opening an app. In iOS, opening an app is a single tap. In macOS, a single tap selects the app, just as a single click does with a mouse or trackpad. You need to double-tap to launch the app.

Gesture support

Multi-Touch gestures on the Mac support the same gestures that are on the trackpad and, for the most part, your iPhone and iPad. It’s all smart and effortless, especially if you already use these gestures on a trackpad: Swipe with two fingers to scroll up, down, left, or right.  Use three fingers and swipe left or right to switch desktops. A four-finger swipe up opens Mission Control. A four-finger swipe down opens App Exposé, etc.

Pinch-to-zoom even works. Rotate, where you use two fingers in a rotating motion, also works, but this gesture was awkward for me to do on a standing screen. I think it’s easier to do on a trackpad or, say, an iPad that’s lying flat.

Screen wobble

Apple re-engineered the MacBook Pro’s hinge to make the screen more stable while touching it. The hinge provides enough resistance when you’re pressing relatively softly against the screen. Push hard enough, and the screen falls back, but most of the time, you’re not going to need to push that hard. In the animation above, you can see the screen wobble as I do the rotation gesture, but it’s exaggerated since I repeated the gesture several times and inadvertently pressed harder than usual.

If you tap lightly, you won’t see the display move, but most people will tap hard enough to see a wobble. However, my regular taps caused the display to shake slightly, which was noticeable but bearable. The wobble is significantly less than a regular MacBook Pro, however, and after the first few taps, I barely noticed it.

Fingerprints

It’s a consequence of using any touchscreen: the display will end up with fingerprints smeared all over it. Like an iPad, they’re not noticeable when the display is on, but when the display goes dark or turns off, ugh. It’s gross.

This is just a fact about touchscreens we have to live with. Even with Apple’s oleophobic coating, there just isn’t a practical way to prevent fingerprints from appearing at all. There are personal habits that can be practiced to minimize the mess: clean your hands before using the touchscreen, wipe your hands frequently, don’t eat while using a touchscreen, etc. Or you could use touch-friendly gloves, or even wear latex gloves (I tried it and it works), but that’s not practical (and it’s ridiculous). Have a microfiber cloth handy to clean the display; Apple unfortunately doesn’t include one unless you spring for the nano-texture coating, but they sell one for $9. Amazon sells a six-pack of Koala Lens Cleaning Cloths for $10.

The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display’s Touch works only with fingers, not with an Apple Pencil or any third-party stylus. Other than fingerprints, using your fingers doesn’t offer nearly the same precision as using a stylus, so it’s closer to using an iPhone rather than an iPad or a graphics tablet.

A very good start

Apple isn’t marketing the MacBook Pro as a Touch-first device. Rather, Touch is something users can turn to when the situation calls for it. But it’s promising nonetheless. This first version of the Mac’s Touch UI is smooth, reliable, usable, and even fun. It’s a good start, and I hope Apple invents ways to take advantage of Touch, evolving it beyond being a touch interface on top of macOS.

After years of rumors and speculation, Apple has finally begin shipping its first MacBook with a touchscreen. But while this may sound like a dream come true for some users, others are still trying to figure out whether this change actually makes sense. After all, the move appears to contradict principles laid down in 2010 by no less a commentator than Steve Jobs.

I’m not entirely against the idea of touchscreen Macs. There are a lot of touchscreen Windows laptops out there, and plenty of use cases to suit them. It’s just that Apple’s implementation doesn’t seem particularly effective. The touchscreen doesn’t seem to add anything new to the user experience, or to the rest of the market. In fact, the more I look at the new MacBook Pro and its marquee feature, the more I find myself missing something else: the Touch Bar.

The Touch Bar was misunderstood

The Touch Bar was an OLED strip that sat above the keyboard on MacBooks. Introduced in 2016, it replaced the classic function keys with virtual buttons that changed depending on what was on the screen; each app had its own controls. The idea seemed too good to be true when it was announced, and I was really excited about it.

Apple itself seemed to lose interest in the Touch Bar after a while and stopped adding new features. Not only that, but the Touch Bar never made its way to any Mac other than the MacBook Pro: not the MacBook Air, or Apple’s wireless keyboard for its desktops. The reality is that users didn’t have many reasons to like or prefer the Touch Bar over conventional function keys. At least physical function keys were easier to hit without looking. Perhaps it was for this reason that Apple brought back the physical Esc key on later MacBook Pro models, before finally getting rid of the Touch Bar for good.

But the Touch Bar also had its good side, like being able to adjust the MacBook’s brightness or volume with just a swipe. It was also handy to have quick controls for picking emojis or scrolling through the Final Cut Pro editing timeline. None of these features were really a must-have, but they made the Mac experience a little bit nicer. And crucially, they were accessible in a place that was easy to reach.

By contrast, Apple’s examples of how owners should use the new MacBook Pro’s touchscreen seem awkward and uncomfortable. When you use a conventional laptop, your hands sit on the keyboard and the palm rest most of the time. You don’t have to lift your arm to move the cursor and click buttons. Constantly lifting your arm to touch a screen facing you vertically seems unergonomic and tiring.

How does a touchscreen help the Mac?

One of the things that bothers me most about the new MacBook Pro is that Apple seems to be trying too hard to convince us that touching a laptop screen is something we’ve been missing. Apple showed some examples of how people can use the new touchscreen, like playing a virtual piano. I’m sure this is a fun way to show off what the new hardware can do, but in reality the average user is unlikely to do this often, if ever.

There’s a reason why the iPad works so well as a touchscreen device. You can hold it in your hands, place it flat on a table, or adjust the screen angle depending on what you’re doing. A MacBook, on the other hand, is still designed primarily around a keyboard and trackpad. There are laptops designed for touch, with screens that can be tilted at steeper angles or even flipped over so you can use them like a tablet. That’s not the case with the new MacBook Pro.

Apple is rarely the first to introduce new technologies, but it usually takes its time to get them right. We saw this with the iPhone Duo: it isn’t the first foldable phone, but it solved problems that stumped rival companies. That’s not the case with the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro. It feels like Apple added the feature just for the sake of it. The new MacBook Pro is essentially the same laptop with the same user experience, but now you can touch the screen.

Ahead of its time

That brings me back to the Touch Bar. It wasn’t perfect, but it was an idea that made more sense than the current implementation of a touchscreen on a MacBook. We had something to touch that was right at our fingertips. Perhaps it would have been successful if more apps had supported it, or if Apple had figured out how to combine it with traditional function keys for those who need them.

It’s hard to argue in favor of the Touch Bar when Apple killed it because most users weren’t interested. Still, to me it seems like a good idea that was poorly executed, or something that was ahead of its time. It was nice to see Apple trying to bring touch to the Mac in a unique way that only Apple could do.

When we heard rumors about touchscreens finally coming to the Mac, I hoped for a thoughtful execution of a long-requested feature. I wanted Apple to do more than just let users touch the screens of the MacBooks we already had. But based on the latest MacBook Pro, I have to say I’m a little disappointed.

Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro is now on sale. Officially called MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, the new lineup went on sale on November 6, 2026, with the first preorder deliveries arriving the same day.

The biggest changes include Dynamic Island, a smaller and lighter enclosure, and a new 16TB maximum SSD option on M5 Max configurations. The display adds Adobe RGB support and higher peak brightness while retaining a maximum 120Hz refresh rate. Other features include up to 128GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 5, Wi-Fi 7 and audio with a claimed 50% deeper bass.

The touchscreen models retain the same chip families, memory capacities and advertised battery endurance as their equivalent non-touch M5 models, making this primarily an upgrade to the display, design and how users interact with their Mac. U.S. starting prices carry a $400 premium over equivalent non-touch versions, with the 14-inch M5 Pro starting at $2,899 and the 16-inch M5 Max starting at $4,799.

What’s new compared with the non-touchscreen MacBook Pro?

The processor generation, maximum RAM, Thunderbolt generation, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth versions and Apple’s battery-life ratings haven’t changed, but there is a lot that is different.

Change	New PROLED XDR models	Non-touch M5 models
Display technology	Tandem OLED PROLED XDR	Mini-LED Liquid Retina XDR
Touchscreen	Standard Multi-Touch input	No
Peak brightness	2,000 nits peak HDR and outdoor SDR; sustained full-screen brightness remains up to 1,000 nits	1,600 nits HDR; up to 1,000 nits SDR outdoors
Colour and contrast	P3 plus Adobe RGB; quoted 10,000,000:1 contrast	P3; quoted 1,000,000:1 contrast
Screen dimensions and resolution	14.2-inch, 3024×1986; 16.3-inch, 3472×2266	14.2-inch, 3024×1964; 16.2-inch, 3456×2234
Camera cutout and interface	Dynamic Island	Notch
Portability	14-inch: 1.38–1.40kg; 16-inch: 1.82–1.84kg; both thinner	14-inch: 1.60–1.62kg; 16-inch: 2.14–2.15kg
Maximum storage	16TB with either M5 Max GPU configuration	8TB with M5 Max
Camera stabilisation	Adds advanced video stabilisation	Existing computational video features
Speakers	Redesigned system; Apple claims 50% deeper bass	Six-speaker system

To see how the MacBook Pro models compare, read our Best Mac guide where we compare every Mac and MacBook or to find out more about Apple’s whole range of Mac laptops read: MacBook Pro vs MacBook Air vs MacBook Neo.

Touchscreen MacBook Pro release date and availability

• On sale: November 6, 2026

Deliveries and retail availability begin Friday, November 6, through Apple Stores and Apple Authorised Resellers. Apple announces an initial rollout covering 30 countries and regions.

Buy the touchscreen MacBook Pro PROLED XDR from Apple U.S.

Buy the touchscreen MacBook Pro PROLED XDR from Apple U.K.

Touchscreen MacBook Pro price

Apple has introduced a more expensive touchscreen range alongside the existing models. The new range carries a $400 starting-price premium over every equivalent non-touch M5 model. The premium does not buy a newer processor generation, more base memory or a larger entry SSD.

Model	Non-touch starting price	PROLED XDR starting price	Difference
14-inch M5 Pro	$2,499 / £2,499	$2,899 / £2,899	+$400 / £400
16-inch M5 Pro	$2,999 / £2,999	$3,399 / £3,399	+$400 / £400
14-inch M5 Max	$4,099 / £4,099	$4,499 / £4,499	+$400 / £400
16-inch M5 Max	$4,399 / £4,399	$4,799 / £4,799	+$400 / £400

Wondering if now is a good time to buy a MacBook Pro? Read: Should you buy a MacBook Pro now? M6, touchscreen and older models compared.

You can buy the touchscreen MacBook Pro from Apple and participating Apple Authorized Resellers. You’ll see the best prices right now in the boxes below.

Model	Previous width × depth × thickness	New width × depth × thickness	Previous → new weight
14-inch M5 Pro	31.26 × 22.12 × 1.55cm	31.08 × 21.63 × 1.50cm	1.60 → 1.38kg
14-inch M5 Max	Same	Same	1.62 → 1.40kg
16-inch M5 Pro	35.57 × 24.81 × 1.68cm	35.55 × 24.42 × 1.60cm	2.14 → 1.82kg
16-inch M5 Max	Same	Same	2.15 → 1.84kg

Touchscreen MacBook display

Both sizes offer M5 Pro and M5 Max configurations, and every PROLED XDR model includes touch. There is no base-M6 configuration in this touchscreen range.

OLED’s benefits concern image reproduction: individually lit pixels, deeper blacks and reduced blooming around bright objects. Touch adds a separate benefit – direct interaction with content. The maximum refresh rate remains 120Hz.

Apple indicates that pixel compensation mitigates ageing and burn-in, rather than establishing that OLED cannot deteriorate. It quotes 1% reflectance for standard glass; nano-texture scatters reflections further.

There is also an oleophobic coating to reduce fingerprints. For cleaning, Apple advises powering down and using a soft cloth appropriately dampened for standard screens; never spray liquid directly onto the display. For nano-texture, use the supplied polishing cloth and follow Apple’s specific care instructions.

Display specification	14-inch	16-inch
Diagonal size	14.2 inches	16.3 inches
Native resolution	3024×1986	3472×2266
Pixel density	254ppi	254ppi
Technology	Tandem OLED	Tandem OLED
Sustained full-screen HDR/SDR brightness	Up to 1,000 nits	Up to 1,000 nits
Peak HDR brightness	2,000 nits	2,000 nits
Peak outdoor SDR brightness	2,000 nits	2,000 nits
ProMotion	10–120Hz	10–120Hz
Colour	One billion colours, P3 plus Adobe RGB, True Tone	Same
Glass	Standard antireflective glass or optional nano-texture	Same

Touchscreen MacBook Pro versus non-touchscreen specs

Model / display range	CPU cores	GPU cores	Available memory (GB)	SSD options (TB)	Video streaming (up to hours)	U.S. included adapter	Battery capacity (Wh)	Display resolution (pixels)
14-inch M5 Pro PROLED XDR (touch)	15	16	24, 48	1, 2, 4	22	70W USB-C	72.6	3024 × 1986
14-inch M5 Pro PROLED XDR (touch)	18	20	24, 48, 64	1, 2, 4	22	96W USB-C	72.6	3024 × 1986
14-inch M5 Max PROLED XDR (touch)	18	32	36	2, 4, 8, 16	20	96W USB-C	72.6	3024 × 1986
14-inch M5 Max PROLED XDR (touch)	18	40	48, 64, 128	2, 4, 8, 16	20	96W USB-C	72.6	3024 × 1986
16-inch M5 Pro PROLED XDR (touch)	18	20	24, 48, 64	1, 2, 4	24	140W USB-C	100.0	3472 × 2266
16-inch M5 Max PROLED XDR (touch)	18	32	36	2, 4, 8, 16	22	140W USB-C	100.0	3472 × 2266
16-inch M5 Max PROLED XDR (touch)	18	40	48, 64, 128	2, 4, 8, 16	22	140W USB-C	100.0	3472 × 2266
14-inch M5 Pro Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	15	16	24, 48	1, 2, 4	22	70W USB-C	72.4	3024 × 1964
14-inch M5 Pro Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	20	24, 48, 64	1, 2, 4	22	96W USB-C	72.4	3024 × 1964
14-inch M5 Max Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	32	36	2, 4, 8	20	96W USB-C	72.4	3024 × 1964
14-inch M5 Max Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	40	48, 64, 128	2, 4, 8	20	96W USB-C	72.4	3024 × 1964
16-inch M5 Pro Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	20	24, 48, 64	1, 2, 4	24	140W USB-C	100.0	3456 × 2234
16-inch M5 Max Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	32	36	2, 4, 8	22	140W USB-C	100.0	3456 × 2234
16-inch M5 Max Liquid Retina XDR (non-touch)	18	40	48, 64, 128	2, 4, 8	22	140W USB-C	100.0	3456 × 2234

You waited months for Apple’s new iPhones to arrive, but it’s worth protecting that big investment from day one. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are tougher than previous generations, but they can still be scratched, chipped or damaged in a drop. A good case also does more than protect your phone: it can improve grip, add a stand or wallet, support MagSafe accessories and give your iPhone a completely different look.

There are thousands of iPhone cases to choose from, ranging from inexpensive silicone shells to rugged cases built for serious drop protection. Price isn’t always a reliable guide to quality, either: a cheap case can split, yellow or develop faulty buttons, while spending more doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get the best case for your needs.

That’s why we hand-test and compare as many iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max cases as we can. We consider protection, materials, build quality, grip, raised screen and camera edges, MagSafe compatibility, weight, useful extras such as stands and card storage, and how the case feels in everyday use. Where manufacturers make specific drop-protection claims, we include those too so you can compare different levels of protection.

In this guide we’ve grouped our recommendations into clear, colorful, protective and leather or faux-leather cases, with options at a range of prices.

• Best clear cases for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
• Best fun cases for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
• Best protective cases for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
• Best leather cases for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
• Best wallet cases for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
• Best cases for iPhone Duo

Best clear cases for iPhone 18

If you want to keep your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max looking like Apple intended you could leave it unprotected without a case, or simply choose a clear case that shows off the iPhone’s color while protecting it from everyday knocks and drops.

Best colorful cases for iPhone 18

Apple’s choice of iPhone 18 Pro colors is, shall we say, limited. Burgundy is nice but it’s no Cosmic Orange, and third-party case designers have had a lot more fun so you can personalize your new iPhone from a choice of thousands—from simple silicone cases to some pretty crazy designs. I do question the sanity of some of the designers at work here, but read on to enter a fairly wild world of fancy.

Best protective cases for iPhone 18

As pretty as some iPhone cases are, your principal consideration should be protection. Most decent cases offer reasonable protection, but these protective cases have extra robust features while often adding as little bulk as possible by using the latest, strongest materials. Kevlar is the material used to make bulletproof vests—it’s also known as Aramid Fiber—but I wouldn’t try turning a rifle on it. Graphene is even stronger, and would probably make Superman wince trying to snap it in half.

Other protective iPhone cases don’t worry so much about thinness, and bulk up to protect your iPhone from the worst disasters that can befall it. These might suit you if you work in riskier environments or are an active outdoors iPhone user.

Material matters too: Graphene (elastic yet harder than diamond and up to 200x stronger than steel, according to case makers) or Kevlar (the material used to make bulletproof vests) for serious durability. Kevlar is a type of Aramid Fiber, a strong, heat-resistant synthetic material that gives the material incredible strength and stability.

Best leather and faux-leather cases for iPhone 18

Looking for a more luxurious look? There are many fine leather cases, more animal-friendly vegan leathers, and cases made from fully recycled materials such as Apple’s own TechWoven fabric made from 100 percent recycled polyester.

Best wallet cases for iPhone 18

The iPhone is the new wallet with Apple Pay available digitally, but if you prefer to still carry physical credit, travel, cash, or ID cards you can buy iPhone cases with a wallet attached—or alternatively buy one that clamps on magnetically.

How we test iPhone cases

When we receive new cases, we test them for fit, button feel, grip, MagSafe strength and alignment, raised-edge camera and screen protection, bulk, weight, and day-to-day handling. Where we are unable to test a case ourselves, we assess it based on its specifications and our experience with other cases from the same manufacturer that have impressed us. We report manufacturers’ claimed drop-protection metrics. As we have listed iPhone cases only from trusted companies we feel safe in these claims but note that measurement is the maker’s own and not ours or Apple’s.

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Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is now available, following its October 27 announcement. Sales begin November 6 through Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. This model uses the standard M6 chip; it does not introduce M6 Pro or M6 Max versions. Apple also introduced a separate touchscreen MacBook Pro.

The biggest changes center on the processor. M6 moves to a 2-nanometer manufacturing process and increases both CPU and GPU core counts from 10 to 12. It also introduces a dual 16-core Neural Engine and higher maximum memory bandwidth.

Wireless connectivity supplies the other major upgrade: Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 replace the M5 model’s Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Apple claims graphics performance improves by up to 30 percent over M5.

Feature	New 14-inch M6	Previous 14-inch M5
Manufacturing process	2nm	Third-generation 3nm
CPU cores	12	10
CPU architecture	New complex with super, performance, and efficiency cores	Earlier CPU design
GPU cores	12	10
Graphics performance	Up to 30% faster, Apple claims	Comparison baseline
Neural Engine	Dual 16-core	16-core
GPU Neural Accelerators	Retained across the larger GPU	Present
Maximum memory bandwidth	Up to 170GB/s	153GB/s
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 7	Wi-Fi 6E
Bluetooth	6	5.3

Model and pricing point	U.S. starting price	U.K. starting price
M5 at October 2025 launch	$1,599	£1,599
Outgoing M5, current listing	$1,999	£1,999
New M6	$1,999	£1,999
M6 vs. original M5 U.S. launch	$400 more	$400 more

Specs	M6	M5
CPU	12 cores: 2 super, 4 performance, 6 efficiency	10 cores: 4 super, 6 efficiency
GPU	12 cores	10 cores
Neural Engine	Dual 16-core	Single 16-core
Memory bandwidth	Up to 170GB/s	153GB/s

Battery/charging specification	Both models
Wireless web browsing	Up to 16 hours
Video streaming	Up to 24 hours
Battery capacity	72.4Wh lithium-polymer
Power adapter listed	70W USB-C
Fast charging	Requires a 96W or higher USB PD power source

When does Apple update the MacBook?

Of the five generations of MacBook Pro, five have been released in the October/November timeframe. The list below also demonstrates that Apple doesn’t always introduce the standard, Pro and Max versions of a chip generation together.

• M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pro: March 2026
• M5 MacBook Pro: October 2025
• M4, M4 Pro & M4 Max MacBook Pro: November 2024
• M3, M3 Pro & M3 Max MacBook Pro: November 2023
• M2 Pro & M2 Max MacBook Pro: January 2023
• M2 MacBook Pro: June 2022
• M1 Pro & M1 Max MacBook Pro: October 2021
• M1 MacBook Pro: November 2020

Apple’s M6 MacBook Pro and new touchscreen MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are all on sale now, joining the existing non-touch M5 Pro and M5 Max range. If you’re buying your first MacBook Pro or replacing an older laptop, there’s plenty to choose from. If your M4 or M5 MacBook Pro still meets your needs, an upgrade is harder to justify unless you particularly want the touchscreen model’s OLED display and lighter design.

The MacBook Pro is best suited to creative professionals, developers, engineers and others who need sustained performance, a premium display, extra ports or large amounts of memory. For web browsing, office work, studying and light creative tasks, the MacBook Air is likely to offer better value.

Price matters, too. Following Apple’s $300 to $500 MacBook Pro price increases in June 2026, discounted and refurbished models remain worth considering. Compare the new arrivals with non-touch M5 Pro and M5 Max deals and remaining entry-level M5 stock. If your purchase isn’t urgent, waiting for Black Friday offers later in November could save you money.

This guide will help you decide whether to buy now or wait, choose the right MacBook Pro and compare current deals. We’ll also explain when an older or refurbished model makes sense, and whether you’d be better off with a MacBook Air.

Should I buy a MacBook Pro: At a glance

Your situation	Our recommendation
Intel Mac or an older Mac that struggles with work	Consider upgrading; choose the configuration around the workload
M1, M2 or M3 MacBook Pro	Upgrade if performance, memory, battery or display is limiting you
M4/M5 model working well	Keep it unless the new screen and design solve a specific need
Want OLED and touch	Consider PROLED XDR models; read our first look and compare the price premium.
Need Pro/Max performance without touch	Compare the non-touch range
Want the lowest price	Compare clearance, refurbished and Black Friday offers
Mainly everyday computing	Consider Air or Neo before paying for a Pro

Timing	Why it’s a good time	Typical saving
Amazon Prime Day (June/July/October)	Deep discounts from Amazon.	$150 – $800+ off MSRP
Black Friday / Cyber Monday (November/December)	The biggest sales event of the year for electronics.	$200 – $500+ off MSRP
After a New Model Launch (March/October)	Retailers discount the previous generation to clear inventory.	Varies; often $200–$400 off
Apple Refurbished Store (Year-Round)	“Like-new” condition with full warranty; pre-hike prices.	15%–30% off original MSRP
Apple Education Store (Year-Round)	Direct discount for students and educators.	$100 – $200 off MSRP