Apple deals on AirPods, MacBooks, and iPads from Amazon Prime Day that you shouldn’t miss today

The Apple Watch SE is the budget model in the lineup, and now costs $170. It has been selling for $189 for most of the past few months. We recommend it for those looking for excellent integration with iPhone notifications and solid health tracking capabilities. It doesn’t have all the sensors of the Apple Watch Series 9, but as we said in our review, you get a lot of features for the money.

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is on sale for $699.99 on Prime Day, instead of Apple’s $799 list price. As we said in our Apple Watch buying guide, this is the watch to get for adventurers or anyone who needs a bigger screen in a more rugged case. It has a 49mm display, cellular and GPS connectivity, and some features not found on other Apple Watches, like a dive depth gauge and a siren.

Prime Day has brought the latest AirPods Pro down to $170, down from $249 when they were listed. In recent months, the regular price was $189, and $180 is the lowest price we’ve seen before, so this is a considerable discount.

AirPods Pro are the current recommendation for iOS users in our guide to the best earbuds thanks to their excellent transparency mode, seamless integration with iPhone and Siri, and solid noise cancellation. They’re soon getting an update that will let you nod or shake your head to answer Siri’s questions.

Read our full review of the second-generation AirPods Pro.

The third-generation AirPods are now priced at a record-low $120, down from the original price of $169. We gave them a score of 88 in our review thanks to their improved design and audio. Note that they have an older chip and lack active noise cancellation, but they are water resistant and more affordable than the Pro model.

Apple’s over-ear headphones, the AirPods Max, are currently $394, down from their list price of $549. The lowest price we recorded them before this was $430. They scored an 84 in our review when they came out in 2020.

The biggest drawback was the price, but we appreciated the excellent, balanced sound and active noise cancellation (ANC). And we got 20 hours of use out of the headphones on a single charge, just as Apple promises.

In our May review, we called the new iPad Air “the iPad to own,” and it’s the Apple tablet we recommend to most people in our buyer’s guide. Right now, the 11-inch model with 128GB of storage is down to $559 thanks to Amazon’s deal. A $30 discount is the biggest we’ve seen previously. You can get the 13-inch version for just $738.

The new iPad Air features the M2 chip, which makes it plenty fast for everyday productivity and lets it handle more than just casual entertainment. The display is bright and sharp, and thankfully the camera has moved to the horizontal edge.

Read our full review of the new iPad Air.

In May, Apple released two sizes of the new iPad Pro, each with the latest M4 chip. Currently, the Pro tablet is the only Apple device to feature the company’s latest chip. On Prime Day, you can pick up the 11-inch iPad Pro with 256GB of storage for $900, down from $999.

The 13-inch model with the same capacity is now $1,198 instead of $1,299. Before this, the biggest discounts we saw were $70 and $100 on the two models, respectively. We were impressed by the iPad Pro’s incredible display and incredibly powerful performance, as you can see in our review, but we rate it as “prohibitively expensive.” This discount may change things a bit.

The standard iPad wasn’t replaced during Apple’s iPad event in May, so the 10th-generation iPad remains the most current. The Prime Day price brings it down to $299, which is an all-time low. With the release of the new Pro and Air models, Apple permanently reduced the list price to $349. We gave it a review score of 85 after its release in October 2022. It’s also the budget option in our iPad buying guide.

The iPad mini is the smallest tablet in Apple’s lineup (it wasn’t replaced this year), and now Amazon has dropped the price to $380 for Prime Day. The lowest price we previously recorded was $380 during last year’s sale, and the list price is $499. The Mini is our pick for one-handed use in our iPad guide, and is best for those who want something they can easily slip into a bag or use as a high-capacity e-reader.

The latest MacBook Air models with the M3 chip are priced down to $850 (after adding the $50 coupon) for the 13-inch model and $1,049 for the 15-inch size. Before this, the lowest prices we’d recorded were $899 and $1,129, respectively.

Apple launched the new MacBook Air models in March, and as we noted in our review, they don’t stray too far from the previous generation, though that’s no bad thing. The 13-inch version remains our top MacBook recommendation for most people in our buying guide.

M3-equipped MacBook Pro models hit the market late last year, cementing them as the go-to laptops for professionals. For Prime Day, Amazon is selling the 14-inch model with the M3 chip, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage for $1,399, after a discount. The 16-inch Pro model with the M3 Pro chip, 18GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD is now $1,999, down from the $2,499 MSRP. In our debut review, we gave the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops a score of 90, praising the gorgeous displays, fast chips, and solid port selection.

The Apple AirTag is our pick for a Bluetooth tracker for iPhone users. It takes advantage of Apple’s vast Find My network to track lost items, and calls out to nearby iPhones to anonymously ping and triangulate the location. Right now, a single tag is $24 instead of the list price of $29, making it one of the best Prime Day deals under $25 this year.

If you get one of Apple’s new iPads and want a compatible Apple Pencil to use it with, you’ll need either the Apple Pencil Pro or the Apple Pencil USB-C. The Apple Pencil Pro is currently $119 for Prime Day. It adds new features like squeeze, twist, and haptic feedback and can be charged by magnetically attaching it to the side of the new iPad models. Just keep in mind that it’s only compatible with new models.

The Apple Pencil USB-C is now $69 after the Prime Day discount. This one only charges via USB-C, but can attach magnetically for storage. It works with the new iPad Air and Pro models, as well as previous-generation iPad models, which you can check out here. The second-generation Apple Pencil works with the latest previous-generation iPads and lets you store and charge the pencil magnetically on the side of your tablet.

Apple’s Studio Display is on sale right now for $1,300 for models with adjustable tilt and standard glass (without nanotexture). That price is in line with the all-time low we saw earlier this year.

In our 2022 review, we gave the Apple Studio Monitor a score of 80 thanks to its build quality, good audio, and bright, accurate display. It only has a 60Hz refresh rate (which is pretty low these days), and the webcam was mediocre. But if you’re an Apple devotee, you’ll find plenty to appreciate in its 5K LCD monitor with a 27-inch, 2880p display that supports 1 billion colors. It can also provide 96W charging to your MacBook for a cleaner-looking desktop.