It’s now illegal in most places to hold your phone and use it while you drive. A quality car mount is vital if you want to use your iPhone XS, iPhone XR, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus while you drive, whether it’s to answer calls, play music, or get directions. A great overall option is the Kenu Airframe+. Here some of the best car mounts for your iPhone.

Best Overall: Kenu Airframe+

The Kenu Airframe+ is one of our favorite car mounts. It’s affordable, installs easily into your car’s vent without blocking airflow, and can expand to hold even bigger sized devices. The sides clamp on to your iPhone XS, XR, 8, or 8 Plus to give it a secure fit, and you won’t have to worry about your device falling while you’re driving.

Pros:

Secure
Easy to install
Expandable

Cons:

Angle not adjustable

Best Overall

Kenu Airframe+

$19 at Amazon

Simply works

There are no bells and whistles here, but this simple car mount does the job well.

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The iPad mini 5 is awesome for several reasons, but one of the best things about it is that it has a headphone jack: now you just need a pair of super cool headphones to go with it! Here are the best headphones available for your new iPad mini 5.

Highly-rated and ready to rock

OneOdio Headphones

Staff pick

Add a bumpin’ soundtrack to your iPad mini (2019), pop on your OneOdio Headphones, and stark rockin’ and rollin’! These comfortable headphones can swivel and adjust to perfectly fit your ear while an adjustable headband makes the fit even more precise. You can pick up a pair in black, red, and silver color options.

$33 at Amazon

Comfortable and affordable

VOGEK Headphones

Fall in love with your iPad mini’s headphone jack with a little help from a pair of fresh VOGEK Headphones. These padded headphones have an in-line microphone and a 1.5 meter-long cable. They come in blue, black, gray, and white color options.

$15 at Amazon

Super comfy and convenient

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Your Apple TV’s serial number is easy to locate in the Settings app.

A serial number is a handy thing to be able to access. Whether your device needs service of you’d just like to have it for your own records, you want to at least know where it is. On the Apple TV, it’s easy to find and in fact, it’s just a couple clicks into the Settings app.

Here’s how you find the serial number for your Apple TV.

How to find your Apple TV’s serial number

Open Settings on your Apple TV.
Click General.

Click About. Your Apple TV’s serial number will be the third line down.

Questions?

If you have any questions about getting your Apple TV’s serial number, let us know in the comments.

Updated January 2020: Everything is up-to-date through tvOS 13.3.

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”Think about Apple as a blue-chip of yesterday, as opposed to a blue-chip of tomorrow-the worst kind of investment because all the good news is priced into the stock, while the bad news is not.”

What you need to know

Despite consistent, record-breaking gains in 2020, some investors remain unconvinced by AAPL.
One investor pegged Apple when asked to name a widely held company that worried her.
Elsewhere, Rosenblatt Securities warned that the market was ”too enthusiastic” about the upcoming 5G cycle and that the iPhone SE 2 would cannibalize sales of iPhone 7 and 8.

Despite Apple’s record-breaking 2019, and its continued growth in 2020, some investors remain unconvinced by the prospect of AAPL.

In two separate reports today, January 24, two investors warned of Apple’s upcoming struggles, and possibly its impending doom. First, Rosenblatt Securities’ Jun Zhang actually raised his AAPL target price by $100, to $250…

Until now, Zhang’s AAPL target price was only $150 a share, les…

The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!

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Apple Arcade has reignited my love for mobile gaming.

Mobile gaming has always been a bit of a mixed bag. While the idea of having access to thousands of games on my iPhone through the App Store has always appealed to me, finding quality games that were worth my time and money was incredible hard. Not to mention the free-to-play model is so prominent in mobile developing that playing a game you really love can eventually become frustrating to play unless you decided to consistently spend money. The good news is, this has all changed with the release of Apple Arcade.

When Apple Arcade launched in September 2019, I immediately fell in love with the service and it made gaming on my iPhone a truly enjoyable experience.

Game on!

Apple Arcade

$4.99 per month from Apple

Unlimited games, one price

Apple Arcade has over a hundred premium games with more added regularly each week. There is something here for everyone, and it only costs $5 a month for all you can game!

Apple delivered…

Everyone who bought an iDevice after September 10 got a year’s free subscription…

What you need to know

A Wall Street Journal article has hinted at estimates about Apple TV+ subscriber figures.
According to data from Ampere Analysis, Apple TV+ has an estimated 33.6 million subscribers.
Those figures would put it ahead of both Hulu (31.8 million) and Disney+ (23.2 million).

A Wall Street Journal story regarding Amazon Prime content includes data that estimates Apple TV+’s subscriber count to be around 33.6 million users, putting it ahead of both Hulu and Disney+.

The report as picked up by John Gruber over at Daring Fireball, was actually about how roughly two-thirds of the content on Amazon Prime is user-uploaded, and as a result quite sketchy.

Buried in the report, however, was a graphic alluding to the number of distinct titles on each platform. The second half of that graphic contained Q4 2019 US customer base estimates by service. The figures are as follows:

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It’s 2020 and I still can’t watch 4K YouTube on almost any of my Apple stuff. Why?

On my Apple TV, iPad, Safari on Mac, I can watch 4K almost everything, from iTunes to Netflix to Disney+ to Vimeo… just not YouTube. And I can watch 4K YouTube on almost everything else, from Roku to Amazon to ChromeCast, just not my Apple stuff.

So, why, and more importantly, when’s it all just going to be fixed?

When standards and companies collide

The short answer is that, unlike HD where pretty much everyone supported H.264 for video encoding and decoding, 4K has been split between almost everyone, including Google, supporting H.265 aka HEVC, and YouTube, supporting only a competing codec, VP9.

Since YouTube won’t support HEVC and Apple won’t support VP9, their shared users and customers — us — well, we get screwed right in the middle.

The good news is, the next, next-generation codec, AV1, seems to be supported by just about everyone again, including Apple and YouTube. So, once we g…

Keep them safe, enhance the fun, and keep the iPhone or iPad running with these kid-friendly setup tips!

Kids are receiving iPhones and iPads earlier and earlier. There are now two-year-olds who are better on an iPad than some of us will ever be. These devices help kids have fun and helps them learn and discover a whole world of tech. But there’s also the bad stuff, like what’s lurking on the internet, as well as your kids just spending way too much time on these devices.

Here are tips for setting up Apple devices for kids:

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Best parental controls to set up right away

Thanks to Apple’s Screen Time, you can monitor and restrict access across all your most important devices, including the iPhone and iPad. The tool, which first launched with iOS 12, lets you block content, limit viewing times, and more.

How to set up Screen Time for your child

Best sta…