Apple’s ‘new’ polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper

https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/polishing-cloth.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,16.342557965595,100,67.314884068811

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still “made with soft, nonabrasive material” but costs $9 instead of $19.

It doesn’t look like anything else has changed, as the description matches an archived version of Apple’s old polishing cloth, which it no longer lists on its website. The polishing cloth is compatible with what looks like the same massive list of Apple products, including the iPhone 5 and up. It “cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture, safely and effectively.”

Curiously, the products Apple released alongside the new cloth aren’tcompatible with it — namely, because they don’t...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to theverge.com. To see the full text click HERE

Read more

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/crwCbqY6PhFTZf8MAZtG4M-1920-80.jpg

‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’: We were dreaming about ChatGPT thousands of years before it existed — here's how ancient myths shaped the AI we’re building today

Whenever a new AI model is released in a cut-down form because it is too powerful, or one transgresses its sandbox and performs an unexpected cyber hack on a company’s website, we tend to see jokes made about Skynet or HAL 9000 becoming a reality. But science fiction didn’