Apple’s macOS operating system has changed a lot over the last 25 years, with new features and designs coming and going as the decades have passed. Even the name has been adjusted, starting out as Mac ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Got an old Mac or two laying around that you want to use with the modern World Wide Web? If that Mac is running Snow Leopard, ...

The second beta versions of iOS 26.3 beta, macOS Tahoe 26.3 beta, and ipadOS 26.3 beta, are available now for testing by ...

Apple Filing Protocol is one of Apple's original file-sharing technologies. Its client software will soon be gone from macOS forever. The year after Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it introduced ...

Warning: If you own a Mac with an M3 Ultra chip, don't be like me. Hold off on upgrading to Tahoe. Here's why.

macOS 16 is Apple's upcoming operating system for Mac computers. One of the things that generates the most curiosity among Apple fans every year is what the company will name the next macOS system. No ...

The latest Apple updates unlock 160 MHz bandwidth on the 5 GHz band for Wi-Fi 6E devices. Here’s how macOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26 ...

Apple silicon has taken the Mac to the next level. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Not too long ago, the Mac was in a truly bad place — and then Apple silicon came along and radically reinvented ...