Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Friday, January 16th, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

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Leading off today, Verizon suffered a widespread outage on Wednesday,

and the carrier is looking to try and make things right by

offering its customers a credit. Verizon says that affected users can get a $20 credit applied to

their Verizon account. In a statement, it says, quote, to help provide some relief to those affected,

we will give you a $20 account credit that can easily be redeemed

by logging in to the My Verizon app, end quote.

The process for getting and applying that $20 credit includes waiting for a text message

that Verizon will send you, which will tell you that your credit is ready.

Then you'll have to open the My Verizon app and follow the redemption instructions

in that app. The credit will not be auto-applied, so you have to make sure that you manually go into

the app and redeem it towards your statement. The major Verizon outage on Wednesday lasted for

about 10 hours, starting shortly after 12 p.m. Eastern time and officially being resolved

after 10 p.m. Eastern time, making for essentially an entire day of issues for Verizon users.

Verizon still hasn't offered any details on what exactly happened and what led to this massive

outage. And it would certainly be nice if Verizon automatically applied that $20 credit for affected users rather than requiring user outage. And it would certainly be nice if Verizon automatically applied that $20 credit

for affected users rather than requiring user action. But still, if you're an affected Verizon

customer, keep an eye out for that text message and make sure you get your $20. Next to the day,

a new Apple monitor has reportedly appeared in a Chinese regulatory database.

This comes, as rumors suggest, Apple will update at least one of its external displays,

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