We are tracking announcements and news for Apple in 2025. To find out what they did in 2024, read here.
February
- Apple TV is now available on the Android platform. - Apple
- Pixelmator Pro is officially now a part of Apple. It was annouced that Apple is buying Pixelmator and the acquisition is now complete. - MacRumors
- The UK government demands Apple to break encryption to allow government spying worldwide - Arstechnica
- Apple introduces Apple Invites. It is an iPhone app that help people create custom invitations to gather friends and family. - Apple
- As part of Black History Month, Apple release new Black Unity Collection - [Apple]https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/01/apple-introduces-the-2025-black-unity-collection/)
January
- Apple Q1 2025 earnings released. Financial statement can be found here. Highlights: best Q1 ever, $124.3 billion in revenue, mostly driven by services. There’s a $1.2 billion increase in Mac sales due to new product launched in Q4 2024. Sales in China is down, but rest of the world is up. - Apple
- Apple may face a class-action lawsuit regarding underpaying female workers for similar work - Arstechnica
- The Mac Mini turns 20. - MacRumours
- Apple Intelligence is now on by default in iOS 18.3 and other OS updates - Arstechnica
- As part of the Tik-Tok ban, Apple removed all apps that is developed by ByteDance Ltd. - Apple
- Tim Cook at Donald Trump inauguration
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— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) January 20, 2025 - Parallels, a popular virtualization software, has been updated to finally able to run x86 version of Linux & Microsoft Windows on Apple Silicon - Arstechnica
- As part of the upcoming release of the critically acclaimed TV series Severance, Apple has set up a pop-up at the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The pop-up features a glass box with workstations identical to the TV show set up inside. On January 15, the director Ben Stiller made an appearance together with cast members. The cast members then went inside and behaved as though they are working in Lumon Industries for 2.5 hours - MacRumours
- Apple Watch Chips is being made in the USA for the first time - MacRumours
- Apple CEO Tim Cook to personally donate $1 million to Trump’s Inauguration Fund - Variety
- Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit. Apparently Siri recorded private conversations unintentionally - Reuters
- There’s news that Apple Vision Pro may be out of production. With starting price of $3,500, and limited availability, it is no surprise that this product isn’t moving much - MacRumours