Overview: Apple has a simple way to check whether your iPhone is new, refurbished, or replaced; all you need is its model ...

Apple is planning to reformat its serial numbers for Macs and MacBook this year. Currently, Macs use the same 12-digit alphanumeric serial codes as other Apple products, but Apple will soon switch ...

In an internal memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers, Apple has indicated that it plans to update its serial number format to a randomized alphanumeric string for future products ...

Apple will begin to use a new and longer serial number format for iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, and other product repair parts starting October 1, a few weeks following the expected launch of the new ...

Apple will soon be changing the way serial numbers of Macs and MacBooks are created, with a switch to randomized numbers in early 2021 making it harder to suss out details about a device. Currently, ...

Update, Dec 1, 2016: Following our post below showing you how to check if your iPhone 6s is eligible for Apple’s battery replacement program, the company has now added its own tool via the program’s ...

This from a business major type at work yesterday: An effort to keep Wall St. speculators from knowing production figures ahead of official announcements and mess ...

Certain iPhones recently have been running out of power faster than normal. Some iPhones are shutting off when their batteries say they are about 30% charged. When they're plugged back in, the figure ...

There are lots of reasons why you might need to identify your Mac’s serial number: most commonly this would be needed to get help with a technical issue from Apple support, or to check the status of ...

Software serial numbers. You can't live with 'em, but you can't support future development without 'em—unless you buy iWork '09 in a retail box. Last night, I caught an Apple support document in my ...

Apple geeks may be aware of the mystery of the handwritten Apple 1 serial number present on some of the surviving machines. Namely, no one knew how they got there. Steve Wozniak said that he didn’t ...

Major certificate authorities like Apple, Google, and GoDaddy have misissued over 1.2 million TLS certificates that featured an insufficiently long serial number of only 63 bits instead of the ...