This App Lets You Use Android Auto in Any Car

The driving experience with Android devices has been a bit hit-and-miss down the years, it's fair to say, with features and modes appearing and then disappearing, and Android Auto going through a few changes as well since its 2014 launch. Android Auto was originally available on both phone screens and vehicle dashboards, before being replaced by Google Assistant Driving Mode on handsets. As Gemini emerged, Driving Mode disappeared as well, which means there's now no customized interface for driving on Android devices themselves—everything gets handed off to Android Auto.

However, with the help of Headunit Reloaded Emulator (an app I found thanks to How-To Geek), you can override Google's decision and get Android Auto back on your phone. You can also beam the Android Auto interface to another Android phone or tablet. It's a $4.99 purchase, but it works as advertised—or at least it did with the Pixel and Galaxy phones I was using. If you don't have an Android Auto-compatible dashboard in your car, you can use this to get the same experience on your main handset or on a spare phone or tablet you've got.

I should note that there are some bad reviews of this app on the Play Store, though it worked perfectly fine for me. Users complain about about flaky performance and difficulties with certain phones—so it's worth reading through to see if your handset is mentioned—although others give the app a full five-star rating and seem happy with how it worked.

As always, remember the dangers of using your phone while driving. This is specifically for emulating Android Auto on a screen other than your built-in head unit—the other functions on your phone should stay unused until you're safely parked up.

Setting up Headunit Reloaded Emulator

Once you've installed Headunit Reloaded Emulator from the Play Store, you need to approve all the permissions that allow it to work, including Bluetooth and location access. When you're in the app, you'll see your three mode choices: Phone Mode (for using it on the current handset), and Wi-Fi and USB (for connecting to another device).

Tap Phone Mode to get Android Auto on your handset's own screen. It might not look great at first due to the cramped display size, but if you turn your phone around to its landscape orientation it should fit nicely. Any taps on the screen register just as they would on Android Auto, and you can switch apps and change the layout via the icons down the side.

Android Auto running on a Pixel phone. Credit: Lifehacker

To quit the interface, you need to go back inside the app rather than exiting it completely: On most Android handsets, this is now a left-to-right swipe on the left edge of the screen. A row of options shows up, including options for exiting the mode and even running it in a picture-in-picture format on your screen.

Back on the main screen, you're able to access a wealth of options under Settings. These cover everything from pixel density and screen margins to key press configurations and audio routing—you can pipe the audio from apps through your car's speakers via Bluetooth if you want, even if the Android Auto interface is on your phone.

Connecting to another device

If you have a separate phone or tablet you want to get Android Auto running on, then you need to get Headunit Reloaded Emulator up on this specific device—the one acting as the head unit (control center) in your car. You can then connect your primary phone to it, using that phone's apps and data.

The USB option is easier, if you've got a cable to spare and are happy to keep both devices hooked up during the course of your drive. Connect the cables, then on the device running Headunit Reloaded Emulator, tap the USB option on the main screen and select your main phone when it appears. On your main phone, you may need to tap the USB notification and choose Transferring files / Android Auto as the connection mode before it works.

Connecting to a secondary device over USB. Credit: Lifehacker

There's a wifi option as well: You need Headunit Reloaded Emulator running on the device that's displaying Android Auto, and the companion Wi-Fi Launcher app on your primary phone (driving the maps, apps, and info on the Android Auto screen). On the former device, choose Wi-Fi as the connection method inside Headunit Reloaded Emulator, and make sure the latter device is set up to be discovered in Wi-Fi Launcher.

By default, both devices need to be on the same wifi (your car's built-in wifi for example). You can also use a direct wifi connection: select it under Wireless in Wi-Fi Launcher, and under Settings > Connectivity in Headunit Reloaded Emulator. One device will then drive Android Auto on the other—no connecting wires needed.

iOS 27 Comes With a macOS-Like Recovery Mode for iPhone

Your iPhone is a mini computer, for all intents and purposes, and yet, some essential iOS features still require a Mac or a PC. That includes system recovery: If your iPhone is facing software issues, you've traditionally needed a computer to restore it. Apple is changing that slowly: In iOS 26, the company rolled out a new Recovery Assistant, which lets you triage your iPhone directly within iOS, as if it were a Mac. However, that menu would only appear if your iPhone failed on its own, with no way for you to access it yourself. That changes with iOS 27. If you're running the beta, you can try out Recovery Assistant whenever you want, with a new menu to boot.

What is iOS 27's recovery mode?

If your iPhone is glitching out, freezing, or has other software problems, you can use iOS 27's recovery mode to identify and fix the problem. Apple Support can also use recovery mode to run diagnostics on your iPhone without connecting it to a computer. The new recovery mode has the following five options:

• Recovery Assistant: With this, iOS automatically identifies and tries to fix software issues on your iPhone.

• Software Update: This option uses a nearby iPhone or iPad to update your iOS device to the latest version. This could help if your device is having trouble booting into an older version of the operating system. Note that this feature isn't available on older devices. (I can't access it on my iPhone 14 Pro Max.)

• Diagnostics Mode: This option helps Apple employees diagnose problems and decide how to proceed with repair. It's also how Apple checks your iPhone for defects during the trade-in process. If you're planning to sell your iPhone, you may use this feature to identify issues with your device.

• Erase All Content and Settings: This option lets you format your iPhone and reset it to factory settings. Again, this option is helpful if your iPhone is unable to boot into iOS.

• Recovery Mode: This option lets you connect your iPhone to a computer and restore it to factory settings.

How to access recovery mode in iOS 27

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It's quite easy to access recovery mode in iOS 27, but you should only do so as a last resort. Multiple options in recovery mode actively point you towards formatting your iPhone and losing all data. For most software-related issues, you should only use Recovery Assistant if other common troubleshooting methods fail. Before you start using recovery modes regularly, try restarting your device once, updating to the latest version of iOS, or reinstalling any problematic apps. Once you've tried the above steps, you can fire up recovery mode on your iPhone by doing the following:

1. Press Volume Up and release it.

2. Press Volume Down and release it.

3. Immediately after this, hold down the Side button (power button).

4. Keep holding the button even after the Apple logo appears. You'll see a message that reads, "Continue holding for recovery."

5. You can release the power button when you see "Loading recovery options…" on screen. A progress bar will appear under the Apple logo, and when it completes loading, your iPhone will load the recovery mode screen.

6. To exit recovery mode, hit the power button in the top-right corner of the screen, and tap Restart. This will reboot your iPhone and bring you back to its lock screen.

10 Privacy Hacks for Managing Browser Cookies Everyone Should Know

Do you "accept" or "reject" that cookie request? Browser cookies don’t just remember your login details: They can track your browsing history across websites, follow you around with specific ads, or even hijack your active browser session to log into your accounts without a password. On the other hand, if you don’t click accept when you see a cookie banner, that can affect your browsing experience—many websites need cookies to function normally.

Luckily, cookie management isn’t just a binary choice any more. You can choose which cookies to accept on a website, auto-delete cookies after a set amount of time, or even switch between browser profiles to control which cookies stay active during a session.

Switch on Device Bound Session Credentials in Chrome

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When an attacker steals your session cookies, they can bypass the requirement for passwords or multi-factor authentication and get into your logged-in accounts right away. Websites think it’s you accessing an account you already logged into, so they don’t ask for credentials again. 

DBSC (aka Device Bound Session Credentials) is a Chrome feature that restricts your session cookies so that they apply to your current physical device only. A hardware boundary is established, preventing hackers from replaying your session cookies from a different device. DBSC is turned on by default in Chrome, but you need to be using version 146 or above and enable TPM on Windows for it to work. 

Install the official Multi-Account Containers add-on for Firefox

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Blocking all third-party cookies outright often prevents any embedded content from loading, but if you don’t do it, cookies from different websites can stitch your complete browsing activity together for ad targeting. 

Total Cookie Protection is the default Firefox feature that creates a separate cookie jar for each domain, so third-party cookies stay enabled but can’t track you after you leave that website. This is great, except when you’re trying to stay logged into multiple accounts on the same domain, like several inboxes on Gmail. Firefox won’t create separate cookie jars for different accounts on the same domain, so third-party cookies can follow you from one account to another. 

That’s why you should install Multi-Account Containers. This official Firefox extension lets you separate cookies not just by domain name, but by creating different container tabs that each represent a distinct browsing activity like Personal, Work, or Shopping. Each container gets its own cookie storage that does not interfere with the others. This can work together with Total Cookie Protection for even more privacy benefits.

Learn about the different privacy options on Safari

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ITP, ATFP, and AFP are three overlapping cookie management systems that work together to protect your browsing activity from trackers and cookies on Safari. You should know which does what so you can enable the functions that work best for you. 

• Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) is the default anti-tracking engine built into Safari since 2017. It causes script-set cookies to expire after seven days and purges all site-specific data after 30 days of no activity. 

• Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection (ATFP) is an optional feature that adds another layer of security protocols on top of ITP for domain blocking and link tracker removal. 

• Advanced Fingerprinting Protection (AFP) is a newer Safari feature that prevents websites from identifying your device using high-entropy device APIs that pull data like screen size, hardware specs, audio data, canvas rendering, etc. 

You can adjust your privacy settings on Safari by navigating to Settings > Apps > Safari > Advanced on your iPhone or Mac. 

Delete cookies automatically when tabs are closed

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Most people aren’t used to clearing their cookie storage manually, even though that’s something you should absolutely do. Luckily there are browser extensions that can automatically clear all cookies from a website the moment you close your browser tab, unless you’ve specifically whitelisted that website. 

Cookie AutoDelete on Firefox is the original extension that introduced this feature. But on Chrome, Opera, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers, you’ll need a newer extension like Cookie Guardian. Safari does not have a similar extension but it sets cookies to delete automatically after seven days by default, so you don’t have to worry about it so much. 

Delete cookies individually to customize your site experience

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Sometimes you want to remove specific tracking cookies without wiping your whole cookie session with a website. Cookie-Editor, an open-source extension that’s available across all major browsers, lets you do exactly that. While it is primarily intended as a developer tool for troubleshooting web apps, you can also use it to manage your privacy while surfing the internet. 

That said, Cookie-Editor does not support rule-based automation and cookies must be deleted manually on every visit, so treat this more as a last-resort fix for persistent tracking cookies rather than something you’d use all the time. 

Save cookie profiles to avoid logging in and out every time

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Did you know that you can save a snapshot of your browser’s full set of active cookies, delete them, then restore them at any point to the last snapshot using specific extensions? Instead of manually logging back into accounts every time you clear your cookie storage, you can create a cookie profile to instantly snap back to the logged-in state after you delete your browsing activity. 

Cookie Editor on Chromium-based browsers (not to be confused with the open-source Cookie-Editor), lets you create cookie snapshots for each site and restore them with a single click. On Firefox, you can get the same functionality out of Cookie Quick Manager. Safari does not have any extensions that support cookie profiles just yet, but you can export and import cookies in JSON, which gets you close enough. 

Create temporary cookie permissions for each site

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Instead of allowing third-party cookies on every site, you can create temporary exceptions on a per-site basis for websites that need to have cookies enabled. 

You can do this in Chrome by clicking on the eye-shaped icon next to the address bar, then switching “Third-party cookies blocked” to “Third-party cookies allowed.” This grants that website an exception that lasts for 90 days by default, unless you choose to disable it manually. 

On Firefox, you can click the shield icon on the address bar and toggle off Enhanced Tracking Protection. Your page will now reload with trackers and cookies enabled. It won’t use tracking protection again until you manually enable it. If you visit a website occasionally and need complete functionality when you do, but don’t trust the site to have blanket cookie exceptions the year round, this could be a nice middle ground. 

Regularly revoke active sessions on your device

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Passkeys protect your login credentials, but not the logged-in accounts on your web browser. If you’ve already signed into an app or website from your browser, it generates session cookies that stay active until the moment you close your browser. If an attacker gains access to those session cookies through malware or phishing, they can freely access your accounts as long as your current browser session remains active. 

You can revoke your session cookies once you’re done with an app or website by simply logging out of the account from that device. But if you want to log out of all sessions from other devices too, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and all other major online platforms let you revoke active sessions tied to your account either per device or all at once. 

This even works on third-party apps or websites that use the single sign-on feature to let you sign in with your Google or Microsoft account without setting a username and password.

Implement network-level blocking with DNS filters

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Not all browsers support cookie management extensions on every device. If you’d like to block tracker cookies before they can even reach your browser, you can use network-level tools that block cookie requests directly from your router. Pi-hole is a self-hosted application that runs on a remote server or virtual machine. Once installed, you can configure any router to route all internet traffic through your Pi-hole server by changing some DNS settings. 

This will block any known advertisement or tracking domains from sending cookie requests to your connected devices, effectively stopping tracking cookies from even being generated. If self-hosting Pi-hole feels intimidating, you can also try the cloud-based alternative NextDNS. 

Back up your cookies before performing cleanup operations

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Once you click “Clear browsing data,” your browser permanently deletes all your cookies from the device storage and there’s no way to retrieve them. If you’d rather avoid re-authenticating logins on certain websites every time, you can back up your cookie storage before performing a cleanup by exporting it as a CSV file or JSON. You can use the Cookie-Editor extension mentioned earlier to export your cookie storage on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and other popular web browsers. Other extensions like EditThisCookie and Cookies.txt offer the same feature. 

Why Bevel Is a Way Better App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health

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The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it's thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you have premium features turned on, and it’s missing simple things like the ability to see your stats from yesterday. Fortunately, the iPhone app Bevel is now compatible with Google Health, which means you can replace the app entirely. 

Google Fitbit Air - Berry

$99.99 at Amazon

$99.99 at Amazon

What is Bevel?

Credit: Beth Skwarecki, Bevel

Bevel is an iOS app that reads health and fitness data from Apple Health, and back when it was subscription-only, I thought of it as an app that uses your Apple Watch to give you the kind of metrics you’d normally get from Whoop. But Bevel is free to use these days, with only a few add-on features behind a paywall. And it can pull data directly from Garmin, Oura, Strava, or now, Google Health. That means you can wear your Fitbit Air, ignore its native app (Google Health), and instead browse your health data and track your workouts through Bevel. 

Unlike Google Health, Bevel has habit logging, a strength training feature that keeps track of what muscles you worked and whether you’re getting stronger, live activities for workouts, and food logging that includes barcode scanning, even on the free tier. Meanwhile, Google Health can only scan barcodes with a Premium subscription and AI turned on.

How to use Bevel with your Fitbit Air

To get the best of both worlds, you still need to have the Google Health app installed. Make sure it’s set up with your Fitbit Air as a connected device. If you have Premium or a Google AI subscription, you may want to turn off the Health Coach so you stop getting that constant commentary from the Coach. (You could turn off notifications entirely, but then you’d miss the ones letting you know your Fitbit Air is running low on battery.)

Next, install Bevel. To get Fitbit Air data, go to Settings and then Data Sources. Tap the plus button next to Integrations, and choose Google Health. This will let Bevel pull in data from Google Health, which gets it from Fitbit Air. If you use other devices, you can add them here, too. 

What you get with Bevel

Cardio load as reported by Google Health (left) and Bevel (right) Credit: Beth Skwarecki

Here are a few things I like about using the Bevel app rather than Google Health: 

• You can see a previous day’s metrics by tapping on today’s date, and then choosing any date in the past—this is something Google Health is somehow still missing. 

• You can do strength workouts in the app. Bevel will give you a timer for the whole workout and for each set and rest; it will let you add exercises and log the weights and reps; and it will keep track of which muscles you’ve used recently. Google has none of that. 

• You can change your status to sick, injured, or “taking a break” if you don’t want to be nagged about keeping up your usual activity level.

• Cardio load is presented in a way that's much easier to understand, with a graph of your past history and recommended window, rather than Google’s single target. 

• Bevel’s “coaching” is limited to a few lines of text commenting on how your workout went or how you slept, unlike Google’s long and often hallucinatory paragraphs.

Bevel does offer a premium tier with AI coaching and an estimate of your “biological age,” which I haven’t tried. But overall, I find the free tier a much better way to view data from the Fitbit Air than either Google’s free or premium tiers. The integration between Bevel and Google Health is new as of this week, and I think it will be my preferred way to use the Fitbit Air going forward.

If You Loved 'Off Campus,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next

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One of the great joys of a rom com is the fact that you know exactly where the story is headed, but that doesn’t reduce your enjoyment of the journey even a little bit. Prime Video’s Off Campus (adapted from the bestselling books by Elle Kennedy) is a perfect example: It is achingly obvious from the moment they meet in the men’s locker room that Garrett (Belmont Cameli) and Hannah (Ella Bright) are going to end up together. The fun is watching them fight the inevitable. If you’ve devoured the first season of Off Campus and have already burned through all the shows like it, switch gears to long-form and check out the most perfect movie vibe-match you can find: 1992’s The Cutting Edge.

Why The Cutting Edge is the perfect movie to watch after Off Campus

Yes, The Cutting Edge is three decades old. No, you probably don’t recognize the stars. But if you’re looking for a movie that offers the same overall feeling and faith that love can conquer all, including misunderstandings and awkward partnerships, then this movie is what you’re looking for.

Love the arrangement between Hannah and Garrett that leads to them pretending they’re not totally into each other? The Cutting Edge has a similar premise: A talented hockey player, Doug Dorsey (D.B. Sweeney), is injured just before he can win Olympic gold and go pro, ending his career. When a brilliant figure skater, Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly), can’t find a partner due to her temperamental nature, perfectionism, and acidic tone, her desperate trainer offers the job to Dorsey. Dorsey thinks figure skating is humiliating, but he’s desperate for a comeback. Kate thinks Doug is a dumb jock, but she’s out of options. They agree to work together—and sure, they hate each other at first, but this is a romantic comedy. Before long they’re denying their feelings and getting in their own way, just like Hannah and Garrett.

Is your favorite part of Off Campus the banter between Hannah and Garrett (and Allie and Dean and everyone and everyone)? The Cutting Edge is packed with sharp, hilarious exchanges, from Doug learning what a “toe pick” is the hard way to Kate saying “I'm sure there's nothing I do that you'd find exciting. I don't open beer bottles with my toes.” In short, Doug and Kate are increasingly adorable as they try to bicker their way out of how hot they are for each other.

And if what you’re here for is the same thing everyone comes to a rom com for—the big, dopey, heartfelt ending where everyone finally just says what they’re feeling—The Cutting Edge has you, too. The end of the movie is surprisingly powerful after following their journey with each other—it has everything a scene like this needs. It has a passionate speech. It has a character surrendering the final piece of their emotional armor and being truly vulnerable. And it has a grand gesture—though there’s a twist on that, as it’s not the dude running through a metaphorical airport, for once. It’s satisfying and one of the main reasons The Cutting Edge has become something of a cult movie in recent years.

If you need help getting through it until season two of Off Campus, watch The Cutting Edge pronto. You can stream it for free on Tubi or rent it on Prime Video.

The Cutting Edge (1992)

$3.99 at Prime Video

$3.99 at Prime Video

More movies like Off Campus

Movies are great, but they end. Need more Off Campus vibes in movie form? Here are a few more suggestions.

Challengers (2024)

If you want a bit more focus on the sports and athleticism on display in Off Campus without sacrificing the complex (and very horny) vibes, this Zendaya-centric film is perfect. The story follows three friends-slash-competitors in the cutthroat world of competitive tennis who navigate a steamy throuple situation, exploring deep issues of friendship, betrayal, sex, and love along the way. Stream Challengers on Peacock or rent it on Prime Video.

Challengers (2024)

$3.99 at Prime Video

$3.99 at Prime Video

My Fault: London (2025)

The film My Fault: London and its sequel, Your Fault: London (based on the book series Culpables by Mercedes Ron), are probably the closest match to Off Campus in some ways. The story follows Noah, who is forced to move to England just before she starts college when her mother marries a wealthy businessman. Her relationship with her new stepbrother, Nick, starts off tense, but these two broken people slowly learn to trust each other—and more. It’s a bit higher on the thriller/drama scale than the show, but slots into the college-age romance space nicely. Stream My Fault: London on Prime Video.

My Fault: London (2025)

at Prime Video

at Prime Video

The Kissing Booth (2018)

If you really love the twisting, soapy drama of young love on display in Off Campus, The Kissing Booth (and its two sequels) will deliver. The characters are a bit younger, but the vibe is similar: Elle (Joey King) and Lee (Joel Courtney) have been best friends literally since birth, and Elle has crushed on Lee’s older brother Noah for almost as long. Elle and Lee have a deal, though, that his brother is off-limits no matter how hot he gets (and he’s played by Jacob Elordi, so you know how that’s going). It’s got the same light-but-serious tone as a group of friends tries to figure out love and life together. Stream The Kissing Booth on Netflix.

The Kissing Booth (2018)

at Netflix

at Netflix

After (2019)

If you love how Hannah and Garrett are destined to be together but can’t seem to let go of their baggage, check out the After film series, based on the books by Anna Todd. Tessa (Josephine Langford) heads off to college determined to remain loyal to her boyfriend and focused on her future. But when she meets brooding, broken bad boy Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) she’s soon breaking all her own rules—but a secret threatens to ruin everything. It’s the perfect overly dramatic side quest for Off Campus fans. Stream After on Netflix or rent it on Prime Video.

After (2019)

$3.99 at Prime Video

$3.99 at Prime Video

Why It's a Bad Time to Buy an iPad Mini Right Now

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The iPad mini is in a league of its own when it comes to Apple tablets. It's too small to be a laptop replacement for most users, and probably isn't most artists' first choice as a digital drawing device. Instead, it's an iPad for extreme portability, for jumping between ebooks and Netflix before slipping into a coat pocket. It's the closest thing Apple has to a phablet, especially when paired with an Apple Pencil. For lack of a better word, it's perhaps Apple's "funnest" device. And yet, you shouldn't buy one—at least, not right now.

That's because on Thursday, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple is readying an OLED iPad mini for later this year, possibly in October. It would mark the first "mini" Apple tablet to ship with the display tech, and the second iPad to get it, behind the Pros. If you care about OLED in an iPad mini, this is glorious news. If you don't, you might be wondering why you should care. The truth is, I don't think you should buy an OLED iPad mini if you don't want one. I just think all prospective iPad mini buyers should wait until it comes out.

Why does OLED matter in an iPad?

OLED is a unique display technology. With the traditional LCD on current iPad minis, a single backlight illuminates all the pixels on the display. While the backlight can get dark, it's always on when using the iPad, so when you're viewing dark images or videos, you'll see gray. It can still look great, but you can notice the effect, especially when watching content in a dark room.

Pixels in an OLED display, on the other hand, light themselves individually. Not only does this give you far more control over the brightness of different parts of the display, but the pixels can actually turn themselves off, too. When you're watching a dark scene, some pixels may disable completely, so all you see is black, providing a much greater contrast than LCD.

OLED isn't the only display tech that can achieve a similar effect. The iPad mini would also benefit from the mini-LED displays of MacBook Pros and previous iPad Pros, which have many "dimming zones" instead of one solid backlight. Like OLED, mini-LED can make dark images truly black, but with less precision, as you still can't turn off individual pixels. I, for one, am happy Apple seems to be choosing OLED here instead of mini-LED.

Is it worth waiting for the OLED iPad mini?

The short answer? Yes, and not just because I think everyone will want an OLED iPad mini. There are definitely users who have been waiting for an OLED iPad mini, so, for them, it's absolutely worth the wait. But I know many people won't necessarily care about the display tech in their iPads, or whether their minis can turn off individual pixels.

If that sounds like you, it's still worth waiting for the OLED iPad mini, because it likely means that older models will come down in price. Apple will probably discontinue the current iPad mini in favor of selling its new OLED model, but other stores, like Amazon and Best Buy, will assuredly sell you the previous models they have on hand. And, because they're now "outdated," they should hopefully be cheaper than they are now.

There's no guarantee, of course. Apple's OLED iPad mini will likely be more expensive than current models, both because of the improved display tech, and the general memory crisis that's making everything pricier. Retailers may take the OLED mini's higher MSRP as an excuse to keep the current mini's price tag the same. I remain optimistic they wouldn't, however: I think most buyers will look for the latest iPad mini model to buy, and, as such, it may behoove Amazon and Best Buy to lower the prices of the older models, so they can actually offload that inventory.

We won't know how retailers will respond until Apple actually debuts the OLED iPad mini. October isn't so far away, however, so I'd encourage you to wait it out. Worst-case scenario, you have your choice between the iPad mini you'd buy today, or a slightly more expensive model with a much better display.

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