Your iPad is a powerful device that can do a lot of things, but it's not perfect. Sometimes, your iPad can freeze up. This can be frustrating, especially if you're trying to do something important. There are a few things you can do to try to fix a frozen iPad. In this article, we'll walk you through some of the most common solutions. (more…)

Apple CEO Tim Cook today said he still views mass layoffs as a "last resort," and ensured this is not something the company is considering right now. "I view that as a last resort and, so, mass layoffs is not something that we're talking about at this moment," said Cook, in an interview with CNBC. Major tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta have laid off tens of thousands of employees in recent months amid economic uncertainty, after aggressively hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apple has not made any mass layoffs of full-time employees, but the company has reportedly laid off some corporate employees within its retail teams, let go of some recruiter contractors, and stopped hiring for some…

Last year, we got a close look at the iPhone recycling robot Daisy. With over 2 billion iPhones sold worldwide, figuring out how to scale recycling smartphones efficiently is a major part of Apple’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2030. Now a new behind-the-scenes look at Daisy asks the question, “is this robot Apple’s most important device yet?” more… The post Watch Apple’s iPhone recycling robot Daisy punch out screws, freeze batteries, and more appeared first on 9to5Mac.