Macworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. Life after the iPhone Last week a new CIRP report indicated a trend that will be worrying for Apple: the company’s customers are holding on to their iPhones for longer. From 2021 to 2022 the average age of replaced iPhones dropped, but that figure is now heading back towards the peak recorded in March 2021. It would seem that the…

Macworld Joining a warehouse club like Costco comes with many benefits, including savings on thousands of products for your household needs. As a Costco member, you can shop for all kinds of brand-name products both online at Costco.com and at over 800 warehouses located across the United States. Costco Services offers additional savings on various products and services such as pet insurance, identity protection, personal checks, and more. Costco also works with selected providers to offer home maintenance and renovation services. If you’re looking to save money on travel, Costco also offers travel deals, as well as the popular Costco Gas Stations as additional benefits for members. For a limited time, score a one-year Costco Gold Star Membership + a…

Macworld Portable power banks that charge your phone are popular, but wireless battery packs using Apple’s MagSafe technology offer a simpler and smarter cable-free solution for iPhone 12, 13 and 14 users. Phone batteries are prone to run dry just when you’re heading away from a power source, so having a portable charging source is one of today’s necessities. Annoyingly, most power banks require you to carry around a cable, too. Wireless power banks do away with cables but come with their own major limitation–the inefficiency of wireless charging means you need a high-capacity power bank to fully charge a drained iPhone. I use one as a quick bedside iPhone charger so I can charge and use the phone at…

Macworld A good MacBook bag shares many qualities with Apple’s laptops. We want it to be tough, so it needs to be made from good materials. We want to use it for multiple tasks, so it needs to have plenty of pockets and compartments. Let’s admit it, with the diminishing number of ports on the MacBook, the bags often have the edge. And since we all admire good design here, we certainly don’t mind if the bag looks fantastic. Plus, whatever MacBook you’ve got, Air or Pro, you’ve probably spent enough on it that you don’t want to risk it breaking—and don’t mind spending just a little more to keep it safe. There’s no shortage of companies out there that…

You can get a discount no matter whether you buy a single AirTag or a set of four today. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Memorial Day is just around the corner, and if you’ve got plans to travel, today’s deal on Apple’s AirTags has landed at the perfect time. Right now, you can buy a single AirTag for $25 ($4 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, which is the lowest price we’ve seen so far this year. If you’d like to buy a set for the whole family, you can also buy a pack of four for $89.99 ($10 off) from Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Even better? If you order from Walmart or Amazon in the next…

Macworld If you own an iOS device or two, then it’s highly likely that you also have chargers and cables to go with each one. Wish there was a streamlined, all-in-one charging solution for everything in Apple’s mobile ecosystem? You’ll be happy to learn that there is — And it’s called the MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station, currently offered at $27 off the MSRP. The MagStack isn’t like any other wireless charging station you’ve seen before. It actually folds up into different configurations so you can use it in a lot of different ways to keep all of your devices charged and usable throughout the day. You can lay it flat on a table, for instance, and charge three…