Category: Apple

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, emphasized during a conversation with singer Dua Lipa that there are certain key character traits the company’s HR managers seek in candidates during interviews. Cook highlighted the significance of ‘collaboration’ as one of the primary qualities that individuals must possess to secure a position at the tech giant’s Cupertino,… Continue reading THESE are ‘must-have’ traits to join Apple, reveals CEO Tim Cook

So many apps like Uber have important notifications for like an hour and then use them to spam you the rest of the time. I would love to force them to ask every time and only enable for an hour (or some customizable duration). Apple already has this capability for AppClips — they would just… Continue reading Apple should add an option to only enable push notifications for one hour

This is to ensure that the product is not stolen and that you are truly the one permitting the repair. It’s a hard line drawn and there are no exceptions. If Find My is not turned off, the system detects that Activation Lock is enabled and will not allow the technician to finalize and save… Continue reading Questionable Action by Apple Employee – Machine going to offsite for repair, instructed me to remove from Find My app

Apple is one of the biggest tech giants yet to produce something with AI. I suspect they’re not avoiding it, but rather they have plans we haven’t been privy to. What are your thoughts? It’s a big space and I can imagine they have many areas of opportunity. Maybe they are going to make Siri… Continue reading What’s Apple going to do with AI?

I don’t care how perfect iOS thinks it is, the one thing I really miss about android is the ability to close all programs. Periodically one program just isn’t working, shutting that program down (yes by really closing it by swiping up on it when you have your open programs showing as thumbnails) doesn’t work,… Continue reading Stop all apps

Seems like an obvious move to me, I love the diversity of all the different reactions you can have to a message. So why are we still stuck with “like” “dislike” “love” “laugh” “emphasize” “question” as our reacts, when all of those can be portrayed through emoji, as well as many other reactions?

I’ve recently started using Apple notes. I enjoy how quickly I can subcategorise things. However I’m finding it quite overwhelming at times because of the number of sub folders I may need to create. I also find that tags aren’t particularly helpful and I don’t know what to use tags for rather than putting into… Continue reading How do you organise your Apple notes folders vs tags

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

They’re pretty much just begging to be regulated then. They have been presented ample opportunity to self-regulate and now that other governments are going to see the European example in action there is no reason they wouldn’t try and implement something similar. Then Apple will have to deal with different regulations in different markets, all… Continue reading Apple to allow sideloading, but only in Europe

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Unlike many, I’m going to plant a flag in the ground and say I believe this product line is going to be extremely successful in the long term. This is the future of computing. Success for this first device simply means capturing the world’s attention, and inspiring the generation of a robust ecosystem of content… Continue reading Apple Will Take Scattershot Approach to Pitching AR/VR Headset

I’ve wanted to and tried for ages to have a shortcut automation that changes my Apple Watches watch face, wrist wake, and always on settings base on if I am at home or not. But it never does it. I actually get notification saying the shortcut activated same with my phone base ones, but the… Continue reading Location based shortcuts for Apple Watch not working

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I have been looking for a wallet tracker card that integrates with Find My and supports UWB based precise location similar to AirTags. Surprisingly, I have not found any so far. The likes of Chipolo and Pebblebee only seem to support Bluetooth based tracking, which is not very precise. It will tell you the general… Continue reading Do Third Party Precision (UWB) Trackers Exist?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Notes. Pages docs. Messages in the cloud. Reminders. On all of my devices, these apps and individual files within them can remain out of sync for minutes if not more before they sync properly. Sometimes they have to be forced to sync. A note updated on the phone will not appear on the computer unless… Continue reading iCloud Syncing Is a Joke (for me)

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

AMEX used to be king on iPhone. They were one of the first to support Apple Wallet, and their app used to be the best designed of all the big banks. Now their app is trailing behind other fintechs, and has basically become a glorified coupon book requiring you to save offers to get most… Continue reading Report: Inside Apple’s relationship with Goldman Sachs, Amex’s fears, and more

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I like to keep the boxes for the duration of the store return period at a minimum, and for the entire warranty period at a maximum. This is for all products, not just Apple. Smaller boxes like iPhone, Apple TV, and HomePod mini are easily tossed in a closet and forgotten about, so I still… Continue reading Apple Product Boxes… anyone else keep the them?

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I want to talk about a glaring omission in Apple’s ecosystem that needs to be addressed: the Health app is not available on the iPad. I believe that Apple should bring the Health app to the iPad. Apple has a responsibility to make their products accessible to all users, including those who may have difficulty… Continue reading Apple Needs to Bring the Health App to the iPad

I’ve noticed there are a lot of dirt roads everywhere on maps that are inaccessible to the public or on private property. How do they decide what’s a road and what isn’t, do they use other phones activity data and make a road that has appeared to have been used multiple times? I guess this… Continue reading How do they decide drivable roads on Maps?

“Based on documents seen by WSJ, a personalization feature will highlight potential topics for users to write about, such as a workout, while the app will also offer “All Day People Discovery” to detect a user’s physical proximity to other people. According to the report, Apple’s app will have the ability to gather much more user… Continue reading WSJ: Apple to Release iPhone Journaling App for Logging Daily Activities

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman suggested that “authentic conversation” on Reddit makes its data valuable to these models. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all,” he told the New York Times. But “we don’t need to give all of that value to… Continue reading Upcoming Reddit changes may spell the end of free third-party apps

Most Apple users (including myself) don’t use Pages, Numbers or Keynote for a variety of reasons, even though at its core they are decent products. One of the reasons I am an Apple user is for privacy concerns. And when it comes to documents and spreadsheets, I feel like I am being left in the… Continue reading Apple should invest more in iWork its iCloud integration.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

If you remember there’s a whole industry besides Apple, and that every high profile multi-billion dollar foray into AR/VR has failed, the sane stance is to be wary. Nothing that can’t be changed by a revolutionary product, though. And it’s not like being skeptical is a crime.

The biggest reason MacOS hasn’t seen much malware isn’t the fact that MacOS is necessarily safer than Windows or other operating systems. Of course Linux or *BSD (OpenBSD especially) are safer than Windows! https://www.liquidweb.com/blog/what-is-openbsd/ “OpenBSD has only had two remote code execution vulnerabilities in the entire operating system’s history.” Compare it to Windows and what… Continue reading Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

People are just assuming it’s meant to take off and be a successful killer product right out the gate when I think Apple is playing the long game here. Many higher ups in the company (and others like Meta) believe Augmented Reality is the next revolutionary interface, and an early adopter product for developers to… Continue reading What will Apple’s headset do? Gaming, sports viewing, and meditation may come in the box

Prove me wrong, but If I remember correctly something that people seek while buying a phone is it’s size. If the iPhone and iPhone Pro have a nice size, why someone would want a bigger screen? And then there’s the iPhone Plus. Seriously the only iPhone with big display should be the Pro Max. So,… Continue reading Why do the iPhone Plus and Pro Max even exist?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Of course it’s Messages. Of course. One former Apple employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Apple requires its employees to sign agreements prohibiting them from commenting on nearly all aspects of the company, even after they leave, said it was difficult to communicate with security researchers who reported bugs in Apple products… Continue reading NSO zero-click iPhone hack accessed HomeKit, but blocked by Lockdown Mode

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

So Apple looked into the future and saw something very few outside of the payment world did Or they looked into what Europe had been doing for ages. Chip and pin was nothing new at the time. There’s more to the world than USA. Fortunately Apple has learned that a long time ago.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Remember folks, have an external backup disk that you only connect while doing backup. Do backups at least once per week, if you can remember to do them more frequently, even better. When you take care, the pain of getting hit by ransomware is much more manageable. (Of course, it’s even better to not get… Continue reading LockBit ransomware gang appears to be targeting Macs for the first time

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⚠️There seems to be a huge Apple server outage currently. Affected services are: Apple ID / iCloud Apple TV Apple Music Chat Support …and probably more. Avoid purchasing anything in the App Store or the Apple Online Store. It’ll probably be down for at least an hour. (From @maybearidan on Twitter) All my devices have… Continue reading AppleID and other services down

Virtually every card reader out there that fairly new already have the chip/NFC reader also built in. I am not sure on the specifics of unlocking that bit, but many stores lock it because they want you to use their payment system, like WalMart, they have WalMart pay or whatever it is called in their… Continue reading Why do stores have to individually roll out Apple pay in the US ? How does that work?

Likewise, I love the touchbar and will miss it when it’s gone at my next upgrade. I will never understand the hate. You can get the function keys back by tapping the Fn key or disabling anything other than the F keys in settings. Edit: yeah, I know, you can’t as easily use them without… Continue reading Asahi Linux: The team managed to get the Touch Bar working under Linux with KDE, as a secondary display

Ok so as not an American I am confused by this… For me Apple Pay is simply the wallet, tap to pay, how is it different there that they holding out on Apple Pay, how can their tap to pay accept say a physical card but not one from a phone? Does that mean they… Continue reading Kroger Begins Accepting Apple Pay After Years of Holding Out

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

This brings back so much nostalgia. Growing up poor, I could never afford these things and watching these walkthrough videos and WWDC events over and over again was a constant hit of dopamine and appreciation of their presentation. Now that tech has become more accessible in terms of cost, it lost some of it’s novelty.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I don’t miss plastic computer casings. what I dislike more is how almost any other modern laptop is still made of plastic. Apple’s gizmos like the spaces keys on the board seem to trickle down to the concurrence. It should be illegal to make plastic laptops or to sell them without a deposit

Particularly, people who: Used to use Android and/or Windows Create music/visual art/software/video Did you find that switching to Apple products benefitted you with this work? Did it make some things more difficult?

The mistake is thinking that people will choose a car first and let the car manufacturer dictate what phones they can use. In reality, people are more invested in their phone than their car brand. Tell me I can’t use my phone with your car? Ok, there are plenty of other car choices. This reminds… Continue reading ‘A huge blunder’: GM’s decision to ditch Apple CarPlay, Android Auto sparks backlash

Intersting. Netflix is getting too expensive. Exporting my list and cancelling for a while. Enjoying the old shows on Disney (stars) at the moment. I think I’ll just keep one on the go and rotate. I was there was an app to manage watch lists for when you subscribe/unsub /resub

Apple is an enormous corporation with a vast number of employees, yet they still can’t manage to translate the entire iOS interface into every language that iOS officially supports. For example, the App Store isn’t translated into a third of the languages supported by iOS itself and just uses English. Apple Music Classical for example… Continue reading Why can’t Apple fully translate their iOS interface into all supported languages?

PSA to anyone that has an old Apple ID that uses security questions and can’t remember the answer, so you get stuck in the loop of “we don’t have sufficient information to reset your security questions” there is a work around to get into your old Apple ID, if enough people are interested I will… Continue reading Old Apple ID

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I use Notes every day to take note for my coaching clients, write articles, and even track recipes and holiday gifts. I love that I can track it on my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, and MacMini – and it syncs PERFECTLY. But why does it look AMAZING on my iPad and not on my MacMini/Air?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I wish they would expand innovative practices that support reduce, reuse, and recycle. But so far they’ve only done the latter because it supports their endless consumption machine. Meanwhile they are producing computers with soldered storage, effectively giving them a several year lifespan before they’re bricks.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

First of all, tech crunch needs to be banned. It’s an awful website that doesn’t load correctly on iPhones. Second of all, shame on apple for letting it take over your calendar invites. I had to switch to chrome which actually alerts you that the site is attempting to open another app and asks if… Continue reading Mercenary spyware hacked iPhone victims with rogue calendar invites, researchers say

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I think Apple has found a relatively good balance on most of its apps and it’s operating systems, making it convenient and easy to look at. But what are some Apple apps or design choices, that just leave you scratching your head as to how it got green lit to public use?

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TL;DW: The “iPhone” Jobs did the demo with and wouldn’t ship until almost half a year later wasn’t fully functional yet (big surprise!). He used multiple demo units that were each programmed to run apps in a certain order and swapped between them. This has been well-known for a long time.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Luxshare’s takeover marks the first time a Chinese company will be solely responsible for the manufacture and assembly of a new Apple product at launch. Perfect opportunity for the CCP to install their own spy chips to the device!

A bit of a rant here… but I’m not a fan of the design of the website, especially the lack of dark mode support. I’m currently in bed, have my lights turned off and really want to read the first few pages before going to sleep… but unable to do so because of the white… Continue reading “Make Something Wonderful” official ebook: Steve Jobs in his own words

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

you can’t freely choose toppings in the car, as the functionality is only available for preselected or recently placed orders good, i’d hope people aren’t sitting there picking between pepperoni and sausage on the freeway if this stops people from ordering from their phones while driving that’s great, but it’s sad that they wouldn’t just… Continue reading You Can Now Order Domino’s Pizza Using CarPlay

When the richest company on planet Earth feels it can’t pay its workers a fair wage and provide benefits, Capitalism is no longer a viable concept. It’s time to move to an economic model that places the health of society above the psychopathically singleminded pursuit of pursuit of shareholder profits.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I work at an airport and we get lost iPhones (and Android) turned in daily. Almost NONE of them have the Emergency info filled out so we can call your emergency contacts and tell them about the found phone. Or page you to come get your phone. Not to mention the possibility of a passenger… Continue reading Why don’t people fill out the Emergency Contacts info?

That’s cool. I don’t use chrome because I don’t like chrome. Privacy or not, it just sucks. Also, screw companies making money off my information. I didn’t give them permission. They can revoke my access to their services, so why I can’t I revoke their access to my info?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Apple is slow to roll out maps to new locations, but when they do, they’re so, so good. Puts Google maps to shame, and let’s not even talk about how ugly Waze is, in comparison. And Apple’s street view is far and away better than Google’s too. The parallax effect is unmatched.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I was having this problem opening Memoji and gifs within iMessage, called Apple and the lady walked me through my Settings, (that I had already checked), and before the call got disconnected, we concluded that downtime was causing them to be inaccessible even though the iMessage app was not affected by downtime. To fix this… Continue reading Downtime Glitching iMessages (Fixed)

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Before anybody says anything, I keep my ears very clean. In fact there isn’t one smidge of ear grime on my airpods. I always wipe them with alcohol. But no matter what I do, after an hour of wearing them my ears start to itch. I sometimes have to wash/wipe my ears because I’m just… Continue reading Airpods pro vs itchy ears. Anybody else having this problem?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Am I the only one that’s pretty disappointed with the layout on iPad? It’s not been formatted for iPad. Like they took the iPhone version and threw it on there. I guess I just expect more when they hype it up and let you pre-order it.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

A few comments in the HN thread say it’s to offload load from the carriers service, but the original OP has neighbors broadcasting a hotspot (xfinity router/modems do this automatically when you rent a modem from them) so now its competing with their home wifi with no way to shut it off. This breaks (off… Continue reading iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

I’m just curious if there’s any culture for it or if it’s largely unused. I’ve always been a big fan of it, but don’t do a lot of video stuff but IMO, I’ve always thought it came out too late. It was needed most in the age of only having photos and iMovie and them… Continue reading Are there any content creators using the clips app?

Seems like such a no-brainer; I really only use Facebook because its messenger provides a common and somewhat seamless way to send URLs between PCs and phones. Apple could deal a strong blow to Facebook that probably wouldn’t cannibalize Mac sales in any significant way. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Gets me thinking maybe there… Continue reading If Apple ever created a version of their messages app for the PC I’d delete my Facebook account. I can’t be alone

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Has it ever been suggested to get a Settings options when you long press an App? I find it would be much more useful instead of having to open the settings app, long scroll down to find the app or manually searching the app the top of the settings app Fanboys please don’t attack it’s… Continue reading I’ve switched from Android, can we get a settings option when we long press on an App?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

From PayPal statement: Beginning today, PayPal will also give small businesses access to four new features to help them drive payment acceptance and enhance how they run their business. This will include Apple Pay as a checkout option, the ability for customers to save payment methods with the PayPal vault for faster future checkout, real-time… Continue reading PayPal Adds New Features to Its Complete Payments Solution for Online Small Businesses

No kidding. We had nasty storms here in Chicago on Friday and the entire day I wanted to look for weather updates, I had to go elsewhere. I didn’t even seem to get notifications for severe weather warnings… It’s happening again this morning too, right before a severe weather event tonight. It’s not only disappointing… Continue reading Apple Weather App Data Not Loading for Many Users

Can you think of anything in the first verse (the rest is in the same vein) that people may find offensive; my not want their children to see? Drankin’ dope turned me to a superhero, yeah, yeahHit that pill, turned me to a superhero, yeah, yeahBoominati turned me to a superhero, yeah, yeah (Metro)(If Young… Continue reading Lyrics disappearing from all my favorite songs!

Let me choose what the default screen on my watch is: watch app browser, watch face, particular app interface, or a readout. Make complications work across all faces. A particular developer who’s product I use has made their complication only viewable on two faces. There’s no reason it cannot work everywhere. Allow more customization of… Continue reading Changes to WatchOS coming. What would you like to see?

Are you able to click the side button? It requires less force than the digital crown. If you’re able to click it, try the solution below. Click the side button to open the dock, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see a button to access all of your apps. You can customise the dock with… Continue reading I have a mobility disability, I dont have a enough force to use Digital Crown to acces home screen. Help me

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Sometimes you have to use defensive programming and assume that people can and will deviate from specs. Do not assume that if X returns Y it supports Z. It’s annoying, but it will make you programs more resilient and able to support in your case more browsers. After all, there are many niche browsers out… Continue reading Safari releases are development hell — a blog post by the developers of game creation app ‘Construct’

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

ill go first the ability to have different wallpapers on each home screen the ability to change app images (without shortcuts) the ability to put app folders within app folders

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I feel you on that. Click wheel, solid feeling controls I can operate easily from my pocket, modern downloading of audiobooks, podcasts, and music as well as linking to my AirPods and I would open my wallet so fast.

Queuing up for a new iPhone is such an antiquated thing to do. I’d simply just order it online or walk in days after the product launch. As much as I love the iPhone, but sorry, I’ve got better things to do than queuing outside an Apple Store for hours just to buy the first-batch… Continue reading Do people still camp outside Apple Stores for new iPhones?

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music control should be unified across all apple devices, at least when using apple music. i use all my devices to play music on apple music, each depending on the situation. but every time i have to switch and navigate through menus if for example i’m going from watch to ipad or even watch to… Continue reading apple music should be unified across all devices

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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The Apple Watch model wasn’t disclosed, but the internal GPS signal was active so Rocha was able to see the device in Find My. That isn’t right, is it? I’m guessing the water is t going to allow anyone to connect to the watch under water and report via Find My. Instead isn’t Find My… Continue reading Lost Apple Watch spends a night in the ocean, found in working condition

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Good God this is a non-story. A couple claims, someone put an AirTag in the front pocket of a backpack, while they were wearing it. It beeped (as it should), so they removed it. They still freaked the f*ck out thinking someone could be “looking for them”. So they changed where they were staying and… Continue reading AirTag hidden in luggage forces tourists to change vacation plans

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Apple has a history of this And yet I see a lot of people making the claim that once a phone stops getting the main yearly iOS updates it’s irresponsable and unsafe to continue to use it

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From the article: Apple fired five union organizers in Kansas City, Mo., in retaliation for union activity, the Communications Workers of America alleged in charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. The terminated workers, who all were active organizers in a nascent union drive at the Apple store at Country Club Plaza… Continue reading Apple illegally fired five labor activists, union says | The workers, who were disciplined and fired for attendance-related issues, believe they were let go because of their union organizing

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Has anyone ever wondered why Apple hasn’t attempted making a proper social media site/app? I’d assume it would take off quite well, even if it was exclusive to iPhone/Mac/iPad and they could learn a lot from how google handled Google+ to avoid some serious mistakes regarding integration into the ecosystem. It would have the benefit… Continue reading What would a Social Media site created by Apple look like? Would it be successful?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Be great if they could get the basics of the app working well first There isn’t a folder feature in the betas yet so there’s currently no timing for it, Freeform was already a rather late feature for iOS so I do wonder what is holding them down

On an iPhone you used to be able to click on an “incorrect” word in the dictation/ auto correct about the keyboard, so your “dictionary’ would learn words you use and not auto correct them? What is that feature called and how do i turn it on? Thank You!!

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Looks reasonable, especially with the lifetime purchase option, and knowing the extortionate pricing of the main competitors. Really ideal for small businesses. Can users import or export client contacts as vCards, vcf? Would you consider adding a BTC currency option? No request for a slew of so called cryptocurrencies, just an one basic alternative currency… Continue reading Simple invoicing app for small businesses and freelancers

I made an app that can record audio and write down what people are saying near your microphone. I made it initially as an audio lifelogging app on Android, where the idea was to transcribe nearby audio for a full day and search through it (possibly much later) on a timeline. A memory bank of… Continue reading Transcribe text from microphone audio on iOS. Multilingual and translation to English support.

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Thanks for taking the time to take and look and leave your feedback. This is really important to us 🙂 Straight to your points. We’re already examining the option of making authentication optional in the near future. The benefit of being logged in is that you can easily access your tabs on all devices as… Continue reading instatab: I made a free app to track and split expenses with friends

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When iphone finally gets underscreen camera, how would you like the status bar to be? clock in the middle (like old ios style) current implementation of dynamic island, even when the display is free of cameras android style notification symbols and clock on left

As I use my iPhone and Macbook, I cannot help but notice how often I’m prompted for permissions for everything. Most times this is a good thing. I don’t want an app to have my location or access to my photo album for everything without my say so. Other times, however, it can be more… Continue reading I’m not exciting about the future of computing, where we need to grant permission for everything

Man, WhatsApp hasn’t added a feature I thought “oh wow, I like this” since it allowed you to use the app on desktop. Before that, it was probably the initial release of the app on iOS. Why are there so many pointless feature updates? Do things we actually want. Custom / animated emojis. Better groups.… Continue reading WhatsApp working on short video messages for iPhone users

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So I’m struggling to find any definitive answer on if the indicator LED is wired in series with camera or is it just the display on the phone lighting up a few pixels. From what I’ve read Macs are set up in this fashion but I cannot find any article stating this for iPhones, and… Continue reading Apples camera indicator led, is it wired in series?

I do it so I can hear properly and be more comfortable. Yes you can pass through sound, but it’s not the best, having one out and you can hear much more naturally. And I fatigue after a while, having one out doesn’t cause headaches in my experience. I feel like working in service showing… Continue reading Why do people wear their AirPods in one ear?

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Has anyone had better experiences with bass intensity and quality with the spatialize Stereo option on Apple Air Pod Pros? Either the head tracked or fixed option. I feel like there is no doubt for me that the bass I hear is way more clear and powerful in these settings versus the normal setting. I’m… Continue reading Better Bass with Spatial Stereo setting on Air Pod Pros?

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It’s garbage and they apparently don’t care to fix it. My coworker and I have tried utilizing it and when it actually works it’s fantastic for us but when it doesn’t it’s super frustrating. For some reason the sound would also never go through my AirPods which added another layer of “wtf why” because I’ll… Continue reading Anyone else have lots of connectivity issues with walkie talkie on Apple Watch?

Thank god someone is taking Mac hardware seriously. Fucking seriously apple why do you hate your own equipment so much. Just support Vulkan and stop dicking over your own customers

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I can justify it easy peasy. Someone being malicious at a repair shop (or who has ahold of the machine in some other way) could replace this thing with a non-working one, not triggering the Lock Screen when a machine is shut and locking your screen is one of the biggest things you can do… Continue reading Apple’s most ANTI-repair move yet – I dare someone to justify this!

Petty of Apple to hamper usability so much They haven’t hampered so much as they haven’t done anything to support it. Microsoft are just using Bluetooth notifications to do this as a workaround. For the second point, I can’t wait for the day (that may never come) that we have a universal standard for messaging.… Continue reading A first look at using iMessage from a PC with Microsoft’s Phone Link app – The Verge

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Then again we are talking about a man that is afraid of anything Apple does – even when he has signed a written contract and has everything in writing. He is so afraid of Apple that he violates that contract and then blames Apple. He talks about freedom, ethics and that he and his company… Continue reading Epic CEO fears Apple’s influence over the metaverse | AppleInsider

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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This is about getting people to quit voluntarily so they don’t have to pay severance. They get to reduce some headcount costs which they want to do anyway, get to avoid paying severance, and get to avoid announcing “layoffs.” One of the oldest tricks in the book.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I was playing some games on my iPhone and there are more and more games that provide free games with commercials and I thank you for all free games and your hard work, I will pay for the good ones, after I try them first. I understand that developers need to earn money, I don’t… Continue reading Developers or add advertisers, please respect our sound settings in games for the adds shown in games or apps

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Noo, they were there gardening and planting potatoes for vodka. Also they didn’t attacked and stole Ukrainian civilian ships in international waters a few months before the attack, they were rescuing them from their freedom /s

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It is because your Apple ID does not let your iPhone see much of the end-to-end encrypted data on iCloud. The iPhone passcode is to grant access to modify the current iPhone. iCloud password let you login to your iCloud account. All your iCloud data is still end to end encrypted. Passcode of a device… Continue reading Re-logging into Apple on iPhone requires entering Apple ID, iPhone passcode and iPad passcode

Should Apple have progressive growth forever? Won’t people just at some point stop having more money to give them? Yes, this is one of the fundamental problem with capitalism. To maintain infinite growth, especially in the short term, corporations must eventually exploit their workers. When these corporations exploit their workers, either by cutting their wages… Continue reading Inside Apple’s Companywide Cost-Cutting Push to Avoid Layoffs

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The main issue with the notch is that it takes space from the menu bar. You applied Dynamic Island concepts to the notch, but the problem is that the Dynamic Island CAN expand because there is free space around it just for that. Not the same with the notch.

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Are there any news on Apples effort on chatGPT? I find this can be a great opportunity. Imagine integrate this functionalities with Pages, slides to help you create contents, and do it offline with the help of neural engine. Also, Siri can be improved dramatically and actually be useful.

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To be fair, all subscriptions require a pop-up sign into your account, so it’s very transparent that you are subscribing and paying for something. Apple makes it very easy to cancel any subscription made through the App Sore as well. Furthermore, they make it fairly simple to request a refund if you feel you paid… Continue reading How come Apple allows predatory scam apps on the app store?

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Yeah this was my initial take when reading those rumors as well. Limiting data speed is probably technically fine, EU can’t mandate how Apple decide to write their OS drivers. Charging speed, however, would go so far against the entire purpose of the law (to minimise E-waste and simplify device charging) that it would seem… Continue reading European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed

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AirTags are not marketed as antitheft devices, but they are great for keeping track of things. I have a very expensive electric skateboard that I use for grocery shopping. It gets quite dirty, so when I go into a store, I have to leave it outside. I live in a small town, and it’s unlikely… Continue reading Can AirTags be disabled remotely?

I thought I’d love it for music, like changing songs or pause/play, but to be honest I still either find myself swiping from the top right corner to switch songs from the now playing box, or just using my AirPods. I wish I used it more, but old habits are hard to kill. Also, I… Continue reading Has the dynamic island been useful to y’all?

Anyone ever seen a wonderful issue where you have an incorrect password entered in to one of your mail accounts, and yet when you’re running Mail.app it shows absolutely no messages about one of your accounts being “broken”. My Mom was trying to figure out why she wasn’t receiving emails on her iPad, but she… Continue reading Mail.app on i(Pad)OS doesn’t warn users of broken accounts?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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“So how is charging for updates going to fix this problem? Instead ofreassigning some iOS engineers to work on other projects, such as theAR/VR headset, Apple could just use the revenue from software updatefees to hire more engineers.” It’s hard to even put into words how financially illiterate you have to be to believe this.… Continue reading Apple should reintroduce paid software updates

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Who wants to get their weather from a condescending program? Is this an early April Fools joke? And what the heck is that article photo? The time and cell signal bars are cut off. EDIT: Looks like you can set the bot’s personality to traits like helpful, funny, suave, sarcastic etc. That’s better. But still… Continue reading Carrot Weather update introduces snarky chatbot based on ChatGPT

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Hi. Hope you’re all doing well. That’s one of those features I like about Samsung Galaxy devices and it’s always seemed odd my iPad Pro doesn’t at least offer that as an option, especially given the premium price tag. I mean, I know App,e devices aren’t known for their customization options, but if you expect… Continue reading Do you imagine it will be possible one day to change aspect ratio on an iPad and would you want to?

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I might get one if I’m feeling super impulsive and it can realistically replace monitors. Might be cool to be a digital nomad with an easy to set up alternative to external monitors. But that’s such a ridiculous use case, right? Otherwise, this feels a lot like the Metaverse hype. Hope to be wrong though.

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AirPods are such an incredible product They’re basically that rare instance of a first generation product that arrived fully formed and perfect Whatever obvious changes or upgrades that were needed have now been made Noise cancelling Volume control Always on Hey Siri Find my built into the case I’ll leave it to apple to convince… Continue reading Apple AirPods getting health features in the next few years

enough sleep = making no money for rent no rent money = going homeless being homeless = not getting enough proper sleep you’re not getting enough sleep either way, might as well have a bed to sleep properly on

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That headline is misleading. They’re launching a ‘goggles’ type VR focused headset. What the designers seem to have wanted was to delay the launch years, until they could make an AR glasses product. It’s not that whatever product they’re launching isn’t ‘ready’ to be launched.

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Do the websites that appear as default favorites in Safari (eg. Disney, Yahoo, etc.) pay for that privilege, or does Apple just pick them? I assume it’s the former, if so, how much do the companies pay and do we know what are the terms of the contracts? I have heard of Google’s multibillion dollar… Continue reading Default favorites in Safari

What does it show when you tap on the “McDonald’s” right below the amount? It should show the unadjusted merchant name as opposed to the cleaned up version. If that indicates the proper name then there’s something wrong on Apple’s side in terms of detecting the correct merchant and you can report it to be… Continue reading How often are your Apple Pay Merchant labels completely wrong?

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Counterpoint – at work (and at home a bit too) there have multiple occasions where I just wanted to reach over and touch a button or excel field for someone when we were looking at the screen together. Obviously not a primary input, but sometimes it’s very convenient instead of saying “there, no up, no… Continue reading Apple’s Work on Touchscreen Macs: What We Know So Far

There is an argument to be made that China is just as dependent on Apple as Apple is on them (because Apple is responsible for employing so many Chinese citizens), so I feel that Apple is actually in a far safer position that people give them credit for. Not to mention that today’s friend could… Continue reading Why Apple stays in China

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I take a lot of screenshots. I particularly grab a lot of stills from YouTube videos. This is a problem because I watch YouTube on four different devices. But they’re all within the Apple ecosystem, so what gives? Syncing and sorting is fine within iOS, my iPhone and iPad screenshots both show up in my… Continue reading Screenshots should be unified

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Is anyone having issues with their passkeys disappearing? I’ve created several passkeys for my various google accounts and saved them in keychain. Been using them since about the time the passkey feature was available. I wake up today and they are all missing. Luckily I have a backup security key so I created a new… Continue reading Passkeys have disappeared

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

A dedicated button to add songs to your library, something they removed since lyrics was launched. Ability to see singles as a separate item and not them showing up in the albums tab in my library. Cloud control. The ability to control songs on multiple devices from one place by showing them as available devices… Continue reading Things I wish Apple Music had:

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Wondering if any lawyers can help break this down for me. When I read Gurman and others’ blog posts, they expose orders of magnitudes more details than the company is willing to offer themselves— details that are not public, which may very easily materially affect the stock price, and which can easily give away sensitive… Continue reading [Request] How is reporting on illegally obtained Apple-insider information legal?

I was trying to understand the NPC and what use it has since the keynotes keep emphasising how more amazing they become each iteration. This article explains a bit https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/what-is-apple-neural-engine/, but no clear examples of applications or apps that heavily use it or depends on it. Does anyone knows what it is currently most used… Continue reading Apple keep adding more neural engine cores, but for what application on our devices at this moment?

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It’s interesting to see that there is enough love for these games to warrant the effort to do this. When if you asked gamers across the board, especially back then, if iOS gaming was “real gaming” you’d be laughed out of the room.

they surely have enough cash to hire or buy whoever or whatever they need. Yeah, but I feel like I’ve read multiple stories over the years about Apple poaching top AI talent from other places like Google, and then… Nothing seems to happen with Siri. Maybe they’re just prioritizing putting their machine learning talent towards… Continue reading Report: Apple to ‘Re-Examine’ AI Development

We all use the button, but as a person who uses their phone periodically. A useful feature would to be able to change the use of the button. For instance as a student I don’t necessarily use my phone during the day, so an easy switch to turn off Wifi, brightness, and like notifications or… Continue reading More uses for ‘Silent Mode’ button.

This is such a great idea. On the one hand I’m still part of groups whose sole purpose ended years ago, literally, but most of us found it awkward to just leave them. On the other hand, it’s incredible the amount of times a new group would come in handy and I avoid creating it… Continue reading WhatsApp Testing ‘Expiring Groups’ Feature to Easily Leave Redundant Chats

I can’t seem to understand how people can consume media with iPads bigger than Mini, assuming they hold it it hand while in bed. So that brought a question, is there a market for a pro version of IPad Mini? With oled display, pro motion, thin bezels, and so on… I’d gladly pay premium for… Continue reading Would you buy IPad Mini Pro over existing iPad?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Just wondering if Apple reduces the trade-in value of Macbooks more if you bought them from the refurb Mac store, versus ones you bought new? Couldn’t find a clear answer on this. I.e would the same macbook with the same specs get the same trade-in value whether or not you bought it new or as… Continue reading Are Apple-Refurbished Trade-ins valued less than trade-ins that were not purchased as refurbs?

Interesting move by MS, I’m kind of curious why they did it. Not that I’m currently complaining, I quite like the app in all honesty.

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So Apple is bad. But why aren’t these folks going after Amazon? They do the same thing. Just without a smart phone and a smaller presence in the tablet market. Heck Amazon favors their own stuff constantly and even provides no option to avoid seeing things you have to pay extra for on their platforms.… Continue reading Spotify says Apple’s DMA compliance must includes these changes

The article occasionally conflates Samsung Mobile with other arms of the Samsung conglomerate. Still they are the same corporation in a legal sense. I found this part very interesting as it means Apple is serious about making their own display Samsung so distrusts Apple—which is on a quest to find alternatives to Samsung’s displays—that it… Continue reading How Apple’s Need for Cutting Edge Screens Kept Tech’s Unhappiest Marriage Alive

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I hate how requests that work fine for weeks suddenly stop working and giving stupid responses. Then I figure out a variation of the request that works for a while, then it too stops working eventually. It’s so infuriating. Just in the last few days, it stopped being able to stop alarms ringing on my… Continue reading Anyone else continually disappointed with their HomePod?

Has anyone else noticed that Apple’s silicone and leather cases tend to fall apart? I’ve been using them for years, as they’re always attractive, fit perfect, and have good buttons. When I noticed the leather would become faded and rough-looking I switched to silicone. But these cases too don’t seem to last longer than a… Continue reading Durability of apple’s phone cases

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Reminder that affirmations can be useful in shifting your mindset to a more positive outlook, but it’s not a magic bullet or panacea. You still have to put in the work.. If you do, you can reap the rewards, but if you just read some affirmations and then move on it’s not any better than… Continue reading Affirmations App

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I’m looking to make the switch from Firestick to Apple TV because it just seems to have gotten laggy and choppy and not as intuitive and I have all Apple anyway. For owners of the Apple TV, does it seem to slow down after a year or so of use like my Firestick is doing??

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Agreed.What they need is to have a screen unlock passcode, then everything else under a different code.. at least give the option. My lock screen code is alphanumeric, so I’m not terribly concerned, but most aren’t.

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I download a small amount of apps (well, compared to what I assume the average visitor to this sub downloads anyways, compared to friends and family probably not) and generally just delete it if it asks for too much or doesn’t ket me use it if I don’t allow access. Many apps still work if… Continue reading Have the app privacy labels helped you decide whether or not to download an app?

I’m massively annoyed by the lack of accountability. After an in-app purchase didn’t work, the vendor recommended that I’d get in touch with Apple for a refund. Despite providing evidence of the vendor themself asking me to do it, Apple refused the refund. I appealed, same result. You’re not getting a reason as to why… Continue reading Lack of accountability at Apple

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BLUF/TLDR: Apple should make Time Machine capable of keeping local backups of data that has been offloaded from your device due to iCloud Drive’s Optimize Storage option. Apple has Time Machine to support local backups. Apple offers Optimize Storage with iCloud Drive for those who have limited local hard drive space. Unfortunately, any files MacOS… Continue reading Apple Should Support iCloud Drive Backups to Time Machine

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presents data in a prettier way, lets you have streaks (and incorporates rest days if you want, which is a concept apple has yet to learn about with any of their fitness endeavors related to the Watch), have a complication on your watch face with your step count, and more features that apple’s apps don’t… Continue reading Pedometer++ app revamped with iPhone workout tracking, rich maps on Apple Watch, more

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I love this quote. ““We send the messages back and forth via Bluetooth, Apple I think in turn sends those as iMessage once it gets onto their system,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s head of consumer marketing, explained to The Verge.” Wait, the guy from Microsoft ‘thinks’ that how it works? Does he not know?

USB-C confirmed incoming. This fire takes out Lightning cable production. How convenient for them. Conclusion : Indian subcontractors burned the place down for insurance instead of retooling to produce MFI certified USB-C cables.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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They operate in a jurisdiction, they are subject to the laws of that jurisdiction. It’s not support, it’s paying a penalty imposed by the justice system in said jurisdiction. What’s wrong with people here? They do the same in every other country in which they operate – china being the obvious one. Apple pays taxes… Continue reading Apple surrenders one hour of profit to Russia for antitrust violations

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My girlfriend and I have been going through a rough patch recently and I was looking back at old photos of us. I noticed that they were taken with live on and so I played them and in one she was laughing at the start of it and it made me break down crying, but… Continue reading Live photos are amazing.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I was seeing an Apple add in Reddit and I was thinking. Why Apple spends money in ads? Don’t they have a strong fan base? When I jumped to Apple was mostly to have a reliable ecosystem. Previously had a huawei ecosystem (laptop, cellphone, tablet and headphones). But the cellphone would get issues with bank… Continue reading What made you switch to Apple?

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Hello, How many of you use background app refresh on your devices? I have had the feature off for years as I never saw a benefit, and I didn’t want to sacrifice battery life. However, now that I think about it I think it could be rather useful for emails. Does anyone know how much… Continue reading IOS/iPad OS Background app Refresh

I had a quick look but couldn’t find anything, so happy to be redirected to another post. Apple requires that you have two security keys, can the keys be utilised across two AppleIDs. For example if I have one key and my SO has another can those two keys be used to secure each other’s… Continue reading Security Keys Reuse

Apple’s response (emphasis mine): In response to the report, an Apple spokesperson said “security researchers agree that iPhone is the most secure consumer mobile device, and we work tirelessly every day to protect all our users from new and emerging threats.” “We sympathize with users who have had this experience and we take all attacks… Continue reading Apple Responds to Report About Thieves Spying on iPhone Passcodes to ‘Steal Your Entire Digital Life’

Something every iPhone user should do to mitigate this to an extent: go to Screen Time settings and Set Screen Time Passcode Go to Content & Privacy Restrictions > Disallow changes to Passcode and Account With this the thief will need to know your Screen Time passcode as well to make any changes to your… Continue reading Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem

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Basically, yes. Additionally, you can reset your iCloud password with just your device passcode and the device itself, so they then lock you out of iCloud so you can lockdown the device, report it as lost/stolen, or remove it from your account. Finally, they are able to log into your services (e.g. banking) using saved… Continue reading WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life

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From the article: In yet another case of a stalker using Apple’s AirTags — and of the AirTags alerting the victim — police near Memphis have arrested a woman’s ex-husband. Carlos Atkins is not the first man to be charged with what the Fox News local affiliate station reports is defined as “electronic tracking of… Continue reading Tennessee man charged with using AirTag to stalk ex-wife

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I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I heard it’s believed that iOS, MacOS are secure not like Android, Windows and antivirus is not needed.

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This topic has been automatically locked due to being controversial and/or political by nature. However, the submission itself will remain accessible as long as it is related to Apple. This decision was made by a bot based on specific keywords. If you feel that this was in error, please report it to the moderators so… Continue reading Move to oust former Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore from Apple board

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My experience is that about five years ago Apple’s voice to text was pretty good save for some minor fixes it needed. Nothing has changed with my voice, though I did buy an upgraded iPhone. But what has coincided with updates over the last two years is that its voice to text got a lot… Continue reading Voice to text recently became so bad it is unusable for business.

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Yawn It’s a fairly minor update to the notch and a slight rethink of notifications It was never going to take the world by storm It works fine and once it’s on all iPhones we will see broarder software support I love the way these early adopters complain though. They talk themselves into needing the… Continue reading The iPhone’s Dynamic Island Isn’t Living Up to Its Potential

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This is a BS comment… There is a demand for mobile gaming. Take Epic Games vs Apple . It’s obvious people are gaming on their devices. Or Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming for iOS. There is a demand for gaming on mobile… And it’s becoming more apparent how Apple’s App store in iOS is standing in the… Continue reading I was an App Store games editor – that’s how I know Apple doesn’t care about games | Mobile games

The team found the malware hiding in pirated versions of Final Cut Pro, Apple’s video editing software. This malicious version of Final Cut Pro was running XMRig in the background.

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Users really overestimate how good and useful Apple review is. It’s a human review, after all, so it’s bound to be flawed. Especially if the priority lies with checking payment rule compliance, as far as I can tell Edit: obviously, Apple is to blame here, not the user. Without marketing the App Store as an… Continue reading Apple is finally removing scam authenticator apps ! Great news.

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I still can’t believe that it takes these companies so long to implement such simple features. Most video apps on Apple TV don’t even do PiP, including huge apps like YouTube, Disney and Netflix.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Airdrop is a feature that utilizes Wi-Fi protocols. What you describe is just Airplay (which also uses Wi-Fi protocols) but in the Airdrop menu. I don’t see the point I’m that when AirPlay and screen mirroring and extension (sidecar) works like you described. As for the VR/AR stuff..it’s not out so there’s no telling how… Continue reading Why doesn’t apple use the airplay protocol for more applications?

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Honestly there really isn’t a way, you could search hard in the playlist section of Apple Music. I think they have a public playlist that plays the music you hear throughout the store but the only way to get that playlist, I think, will be to go back to the store and AirDrop it to… Continue reading This may be a stupid question… but where do I find the playlists they have on the demo iPhones at the Apple Store?

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It’s not incorrect and you are not supposed to attach an AirTag to Pets. But even then you could still activate family sharing and it wouldn’t notify. Basically a non-story.

Websites such as instagram.com, chat.google.com, etc. already have their own web apps created and can be added to home screen. But some websites like Reddit and WhatsApp Web haven’t yet. What is the reason behind it? Will they have it later some time or never? if they’ll have later sometime, how much approximately? I’m really… Continue reading Safari Web App support for Reddit, WhatsApp Web, & others.

Does anyone else think that Shared Library needs a “send back to original Personal Library” feature? I’ve set my wife’s iPhone to automatically add photos to our Shared Library from the camera, because Shared Library suggestions aren’t always accurate. But I end up with photos that don’t need to be in the Shared Library. Right… Continue reading Shared Library needs “send back” option

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Apple has hundreds of engineers in its Exploratory Design Group (XDG) working on the project, but the technology is still years off Shame, it’s the one feature that’ll make me upgrade aside from maybe if I take up diving and get the ultra

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This would be the band they should sell if they wanted to change the connector for how bands connect. This is assuming that Apple wants to change the band connector, that may be an incorrect assumption, but it’s my worry every time they come out with a new model. Play my phone camera at what… Continue reading Apple granted patent for color-changing Apple Watch band, controlled by an app

Totally. I’m a fan of VR gaming (PCVR and Quest). And I know that this won’t be for gaming. BUT Apple is good at leading in areas that others then copy. So even if this isn’t any good for gaming, but grows AR/VR as a whole, I think that benefits the entire space. My guess… Continue reading Are you excited about Apple’s AR / VR glasses?

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I’m a paralyzed former Mac user who switched to Windows because Apple stop supporting Dragon for Mac (a voice recognition software that allows me to control my computer). I recently found out about voice control and it’s very promising as an alternative to Dragon for Mac. It’s actually pretty similar to the Dragon software. I’m… Continue reading How stable is Voice Control on the most recent Mac OS?

This topic has been automatically locked due to being controversial and/or political by nature. However, the submission itself will remain accessible as long as it is related to Apple. This decision was made by a bot based on specific keywords. If you feel that this was in error, please report it to the moderators so… Continue reading Biden declines to veto Apple Watch ban, company says

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I mean all of this is shorthand for people being mad that they lose all their chat features. Its never been about the color of the bubbles but what the color of the bubble represents. If the bubble turns green now you don’t have delivered or read receipts, no typing indicators, no high quality media,… Continue reading Gen Z is key to Apple’s dominance, due to their fear of green bubbles

It’s very easy to only enable notifications (or even apps themselves) for ones you care about. I only allow notifications for my main messaging apps. Or thing I truly need to know about in real time. I don’t allow any social network notifications. Also I only charge my watch while I shower. I wear it… Continue reading Apple highlights long-term heart health research aided by Apple Watch | AppleInsider

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Honestly, some apps I would prefer to just be websites that are properly made. There are plenty of stores, coffee shops, food chains, etc. that have their own apps, even though IMO those aren’t app-worthy things I don’t think developers of other types of apps would be compelled to switch to PWAs, maybe develop one… Continue reading How to Use Web Apps on iPhone and iPad

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Arguably they’ve been doing that already with TV and arcade, at this time it doesn’t seem to be making the largest splash. Yet to be seen what a more powerful Apple TV could do, but if it’s anything like the Mac’s, we could probably look forward to ports like No Mans Sky. Tripple A refers… Continue reading Apple should release a game console

The new(?) update that gestures (two finger pinch/zoom) to see your Tabs page is exactly in conflict with pinch-to-zoom in apps with canvases like Figma, Miro, etc. This is forcing me to use Chrome instead. Even though I like Safari for my work stuff. Not sure if there is a work-around or not. Using Chrome… Continue reading Safari is impossible to use with design software or Miro on trackpad because of the gestures

With many online fintech companies in Europe that support Apple Pay, big banks like HSBC, and Credit Suisse. It remains still a mystery that Pay Cash at least isn’t available here. I would close most of my online bank accounts if I could just use Pay Cash. I understand that the Apple Card cannot come… Continue reading It sucks that Apple Pay Cash and Apple Card not in Europe

Changing the refresh rate for an external display is so g*dd*mn difficult… literally have to hold down the ‘option’ key to bring up some kind of ‘hidden menu’. And half the time it doesn’t even work!!! Apple–why do y’all do this?? What is the point of this hidden menu that has to be activated by… Continue reading Why is changing the display refresh rate so difficult??

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I think the author of this piece and other people (even Apple fans) do not realize that this cloth is solely meant for users of Nanotexture display coatings. It’s not a general purpose microfiber cloth, and isn’t marketed as such. It is specifically meant for cleaning the nanotexture displays. It does this extremely well and… Continue reading Apple Polishing Cloth review: Burnishes displays, tarnishes reputations

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Beyond perfecting the advanced technologies in the product, Apple is up against another issue with its headset: selling into a market that has been disappointed and confused by efforts from competitors. Over the last several months, Meta Platforms Inc. has described the mixed-reality market as one that is built around a metaverse, virtual avatars and… Continue reading Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset and WWDC Are a Perfect Match

I mean to be fair, ChatGPT is of a new category (“new” at least in terms of mass public use). Google Assistant, Alexa, etc., are much more like Siri than they are like ChatGPT. The ChatGPT generation of AI is a new category altogether, it’s kind of akin to the leap from dumb phones to… Continue reading how is SIRI so far behind in language model comprehensive than other AI’s such as CHATGPT?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I ordered a new macbook pro for my company. It was to be delivered to my house by postmates/uber within a few hours. I received a text saying get ready for your delivery. Then a text saying your delivery is arriving. A guy came to my door w/ an apple bag, showing my name and… Continue reading beware ordering same day delivery

There’s some amateur radio stuff that I use that only works on Windows. I have minimized my need as much as possible. Quicken is also tricky. There was a time when the Mac version was a joke. Now it’s fine but missing a ton of the Windows version features. And then work, I either have… Continue reading People that want to run Windows on Apple computers, why?

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Would love if I could set the silent switch to change to the “Do not disturb” focus for example. Switching between different focuses would be really great. This would allow for some people to still call through while everything else is silenced. Sadly the only portions that silence has is whether haptics are left on.… Continue reading iPhone silent switch should be able to switch to a focus instead of just silence.

When setting up a new machine or updating to a major release, one of the first things I do is enable FileVault. In the past, it has always thrown up a modal dialog giving me the option to copy the recovery key, which I always do. I upgraded two machine this week. Using a USB… Continue reading Clean installation of Ventura appears to automatically enable FileVault — no recovery key supplied?

Change your notification settings to being persistent, so that they stay on your home screen until you clear the manually. You can scroll back through all of them that you receive throughout the day. At least, I think that’s how it works, because I have some notifications that refused to go away until I cleared… Continue reading Historical Push Notifications

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I’ve seen a skyrocketing in spam that began around the end of December I think. Maybe January. I’m also seeing a ton of text spam that knows my full name and even address. Some of them are scummy “you have a delivery fee owing” clickbait links. I got one today that references Apple as the… Continue reading Has anyone else noticed a huge increase in the amount of spam they get in their iCloud email addresses?

Here’s an idea Apple: stop piggybacking on other people’s controllers and convince us (and game devs) you’re serious about gaming by making your own gaming controller that is at least as good as theirs. Then spend a few billion to get game developers who make good games to come over and make their AAA games… Continue reading Apple holds press event showing off its ‘latest advances in gaming’

People have been confused by this article as posted elsewhere. The allegation is that Google is paying Apple a portion of search results made from the Chrome browser, possibly in exchange for Apple not making Safari more competitive. There are some problems with this allegation as the report doesn’t specifically mention the Chrome browser but… Continue reading Google said to give Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

So, nothing new to see here? I mean, yeah, we don’t know all the nitty gritty, but it has been know for a very long time that Google pays apple a shitload to make sure they just continue to use Google.

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Yeah, it’s such a cheap option for multi room or wireless Audio, for what I spent on two Sonos speakers (which I kinda regret, but that’s another story) I could have a nice setup in every room. And good speakers last, just because how we connect to them changes doesn’t make them lose sound quality.… Continue reading Crazy to snapping up old Airports?

Honestly Apple (and most big companies) shouldn’t rely on users for free software testing. App developers are on betas to test new APIs and to see if their apps actually work. Apple needs to invest more in, in-house software testing, their software quality has been really lacking.

I can appreciate how patient and slow Apple is with pursuing these fad-like technologies. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It’s a lesson Samsung and others have never bothered to learn. Being first rarely counts. The software has to be there to make it all worthwhile. The hardware alone without a clear user… Continue reading Apple Exploring Viability of Foldable Devices With Touch-Sensitive Chassis

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From the article: Despite Apple Silicon currently working solely with its own on-board GPU cores, Apple is researching how to support more options, like PCI-E GPUs, all working in tandem. One thing Intel Macs had that Apple Silicon ones do not, is the ability to use GPUs in external enclosures across Thunderbolt, or internally in… Continue reading Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel

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I like my Apple Card for the installments that are interest free. I have a high credit limit that putting an installment on there doesn’t mess anything up. I do wish there were better incentives though or better cash back. If I had to do it over, I’d probably just get an Amex card for… Continue reading Goldman Sachs is losing billions on Apple Card, but it ‘remains committed’.

So I just attended a meet and greet type event and one person started a big group chat. I have an Android phone and they were unable to add me to the group because everyone else had an iphone. It’s likely I am going to be excluded from this group as a result, and the… Continue reading Can’t add android to group chat

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A patent granted to Apple last week describes a smartwatch with a camera on the device’s bottom surface. While it sounds like the worst possible spot to place the camera on, as it’s pointed directly at your wrist, the patent describes a system that would make this usable in some scenarios. The trick is in… Continue reading Apple receives patent for Apple Watch with a camera

I use two emoji’s on my son’s contact card, but when I say his name via text dictation in notes, email, text, etc., it automatically adds the the emojis and it’s super annoying. Example: Grey ⛳️🤙 I don’t think it’s relevant, but he is listed as one of my “favorites”. Can this be fixed?

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Former foreign minister Ann Linde (S) has received an assignment as an advisor to the tech giant Apple, according to Altinget.There she will contribute with “analyses and assessments of global trends”.The assignment concerns an advisory body within Apple consisting of people with a background in politics, civil society and business. The former foreign minister has… Continue reading Ann Linde’s (former Foreign Minister of Sweden) new mission: Advisor to Apple

While the feature is just as easy to use as Apple Pay, behind the scenes, Apple checks everything it can ascertain about your financial history: How many Apple devices you own Whether you’ve applied for the Apple Card Other cards you use for Apple Pay Your spending habits in Apple Stores App Store purchases and… Continue reading Only loyal Apple customers can use Apple Pay Later

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There are other reasons for simultaneous releases (like features that require updating all devices on an iCloud account), but this is almost certainly the most important one. I don’t know how Apple handles putting security patches in beta updates, but they don’t announce the fixed security issues until the final release. Now of course most… Continue reading Is there a specific reason why Apple releases software updates for BOTH iOS and macOS at the exact same day?

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I wouldn’t compare Siri to ChatGPT (or other similar projects). I mean, we can see where those things are going and how voice assistants will be very significantly impacted, but they’re still a ways off from practical implementation into every day constant use voice assistants. While those projects are very public facing, Apple is notoriously… Continue reading Is Siri bad because Apple doesn’t collect user data to the same extent as other tech companies?

What is the consensus on Apple’s ADP rollout and on use of Security Keys to secure an Apple ID? For ‘general’ users, would it be recommended to adopt one or both of these measures? I’m interested to see what the feeling is amongst Apple users.

Well, if MLS Season Pass proves successful, you can bet Apple will be looking to expand that footprint. So far, MLS Season Pass is promising with tons of investment in infrastructure such as cameras, and many of the most well-recognized names in MLS broadcasting. The season starts in two weeks so we’ll see soon!

Smartphone innovation is slowing. The idea of camping outside of an Apple store today waiting for the next iPhone would sounds pretty stupid. iPhone is responsible for about half of Apple’s revenue so the need the service satisfies is the slowdown in money flowing it’s way. Apple’s bottom line is and always has been to… Continue reading Apple Hardware subscription would be a big step – raising big questions

This is what happens when penny-pinchers and operations folk are at the helm. Apple should devote its resources to hardware and software innovation, like the during the Jobs era. Not sinking resources into fields of business that would make them a jack-of-all-trades. Apple will eventually become a conglomerate of tech, finance, entertainment, vehicles. It’ll be… Continue reading Apple’s Push Into Next-Generation Financial Services Hits Delays

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Turn off learn from this app in the Apple Store app in Siri and this will stop. Settings > Siri & Search > scroll on till you find the App name, kick it, then turn off learn from this app Annoying I know. But it stays off once set.

I’ve been thinking of switching from all Apple Apps to something I can access from all platforms. I was looking at platforms like Google Drive/Photos, Microsoft OneDrive, Todoist, etc. This would enable to me to access my data regardless of what device I’m using. Thoughts? Do you use services from other companies? Which ones and… Continue reading Switch from all Apple apps?

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I wouldn’t mind RCS. I would, however, mind Google’s flavor of it, which is what they’re pushing Apple to adopt. However, a lot of my problems with SMS magically went away when I switched carriers so a lot of my hate toward SMS may well be misplaced. I still think it’s useful tech, mostly because… Continue reading iPhone users – do you want RCS?

This basically answers it. From a privacy standpoint it’s genius, especially when you use a privaterelay email address. Only the developer you signed up with can send emails to it so even if they sold your email address, the third party advertiser can’t reach you. The result is that apps and services begrudgingly offer SIWA… Continue reading Why is Sign Up/Sign In With Apple significantly less popular than Sign Up/Sign In with Google?

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I’m having trouble finding my most-used apps on iOS spotlight (I use it as a shortcut). On my MacOS Mail app, it doesn’t find people I’m constantly in touch with, if I try to filter my vast inbox to find a specific message. The menu bar Spotlight produces way too many (shitty/far-off) results for it… Continue reading Why is Spotlight garbage these days?

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For me, it’s like “why not”. I store basically every documents in my computer, which is connected to iCloud. I have my citizenship (basically a birth certificate for immigrants) scanned and uploaded to iCloud, just in case my house burns down or something. Along with passport (which I also scanned and uploaded on iCloud), it’s… Continue reading 🔴🟢🟡 Using emoji and tags to manage anything in Apple Ecosystem

Unions are well-embedded in the UK. Our Government website has a pretty great explanation of the process companies have to follow when a union requests recognition: https://www.gov.uk/trade-union-recognition-employers/union-requests-recognition Even if the company chooses to ignore the union, the union can apply for statutory recognition and if that is passed, the company will be forced to work… Continue reading Apple recognizes union of UK Apple Store workers, agrees to negotiate pay and conditions.

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Google pays Apple quite a bit of money to feature Google search as the main search engine for iOS and Safari. Now that competition is heating up between Bing and Google, I’m curious: when doesn Apple’s current contract with Google end? When is the earliest that, even hypothetically, Apple could consider changing the default search… Continue reading When does Apple’s current contract with Google end?

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There isn’t a easy way to create hyperlinks in Apples Notes for iOS. In Apple Notes on MacOS, you can easily insert a hyperlink by selecting the text you wish to create a link to and pressing CMD+K. This allows you to create custom text for a hyper link. I’ve found some sort of bug… Continue reading ProTip: Inserting text in a hyperlink within Apple Notes on iOS

I am glad apple sells a display that I can afford/justify buying I love my nano etched studio display, I can work in my office opposite the window at any time of day I somewhat regret getting the option of the hight adjustable stand, but only because I don’t think the range of motion is… Continue reading Studio Display owners: it’s been nearly a year since release. What are your thoughts now?

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Been using apple laptops for years but new to iphones (privacy concerns). I Just realized my notes are on the cloud: message drafts, passwords, life goals. I know it’s my fault for not reading the manual, but it’s really hard to keep track of what’s synced on icloud by default and what isn’t. Why are… Continue reading Having a hard time keeping track of what is on the cloud. i.e: I’m sick of icloud

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Parental control is good and all, but by definition it is only usable by parents 😂 What about expanding the iPhones communication safety by FINALY adapting RCS! (SMS sucks and has no encryption)

I’ve got to agree, at least at this point in time, looking ahead: Apple seems to clearly make it more convoluted and a nuisance to find Web Solutions then make even more use of Apple devices ATST as it does do a great job of ensuring a secure, quality-control process and integration hardware-OS-applications. Web/Cloud is… Continue reading New iPhone browsers on the way without WebKit; Apple prepping Safari for competition.

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Your line of reasoning is fundamentally limited. Many of the consortiums and forums are ABOVE/OUTSIDE THE EU in any case and the EU “downloads” those standards and regulations then implements them with member nation voting systems as part of their own political creation process aka “SUPRANATIONAL” to National decision-making and legislation processes. The UK being… Continue reading Apple: CMA remedies for cloud gaming on iOS are “plainly inappropriate and unreasonable”

I wish they were more consistent with their Mac & iPad upgrades. Most of the time these things don’t even need to be updated more than once every two years. They should update every single Mac in their lineup just once every other October along with the iPads. iPhone releases every September, Apple Watch upgrades… Continue reading Future Macs likely to get annual(ish) updates, suggests Apple chip designer

Google has the kind of money to do this as a random experiment, so it was pretty easy to dismiss this news when we saw it from Chromium recently. Mozilla, by contrast doesn’t have the kind of money to just throw away on a big change like this if it’s not going to lead somewhere.… Continue reading Mozilla Developing Non-WebKit Version of Firefox for iOS, Possibly Anticipating Shift in Apple’s App Store Policy

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Me: Hey ChatGPT, how’s the weather in Fucking, Austria? ChatGPT: Refuses to give the answer and lectures me over my using a swear word Seriously though, I would choose a prudish AI that actually works over Siri.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I got tired of having to put wings on AirPods Pros whenever I move around a lot and bought a pair of Beats Fit Pro a few months ago they’re really great. I just hate how Beats is now considered a budget brand under Apple. Include wireless case charging already!

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The app itself actually announced that a few weeks back. While it was convenient, I used it like once a month at most, if everyone does it that often I can totally understand that it’s not worth the time maintaining the app. And that’s about the story for like every app I have on my… Continue reading Microsoft Authenticator Discontinues Apple Watch App

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I can see this feature being useful to charge a pair of AirPods in a pinch, but that’s it. That’s probably how Apple would market the feature. Charging anything else just seems impractical. A lot of features don’t really catch on to the general public until Apple implements them on their devices. I could see… Continue reading Exclusive: iPhone reverse wireless charging development continues after Apple missed target

I’m sceptical of OLED on iPad. Phones rarely get burn in but they don’t have the same apps open for hours on end. iPads, specifically for pro/heavy users will be using a select few apps for a significant proportion of the screen on time so it’s much more likely. I hope I’m wrong through. OLED… Continue reading Samsung and LG Preparing for Next-Generation iPad Pro With OLED Display

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His guesses are either the same shit that’s rumored every year (USB-C, portless) or included every year (camera upgrades, new processor). The Apple ecosystem is great; Gurman writes essentially speculation about future products with features that people have been speculating on for years, the ecosystem of Apple fans/insiders/commentators talk/write/re-post breathlessly about Gurman’s article and speculate… Continue reading Gurman: Apple Considering New High-End iPhone Alongside Pro and Pro Max

I can’t see higher end either, but maybe they could do something “lifestyle-specific” that people in a specific niche would buy + those that just like going for the niche & expensive option. Kinda like the Apple Watch Ultra? So, a “rugged” version feels doable, but maybe something weirder, like an iPhone that’s closer to… Continue reading Gurman: Apple Considering New High-End iPhone Alongside Pro and Pro Max

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While I am navigating, why are we blacking out the navigation screen when there’s a call or a message? It’s dangerous because you no longer know where/when you turn and you have to press the screen again. Why has siri stopped telling you the elevation of where you are (what’s my elevation) but if you… Continue reading Please fix apple car play, broken for so long…

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Ok so many times no service is quite common when hiking. Ideally it would be awesome to use the walk-talkie watchOS app so we can chat and be within a kilometre or half mile of each other… or within the device’s overlapping wifi range? Is this a thing with a custom app perhaps? We tried… Continue reading Is it possible? Communication with no signal in Airplane mode between iPhones or Apple Watches for hiking??

That’s not really what he said – he was using Resolve’s colour correction features as an example of how a developer has thought about how to make a complicated professional tool work in the context of a tablet device with a touchscreen. Colour correction was chosen because it’s something a video production company with a… Continue reading Stop saying the iPad needs MacOS! – Mac Address

I have an iPhone. I also have a Windows PC at home and use a Windows PC at work. I use the Windows PC at work because I must, and I use the Windows PC at home because it’s a requirement for my online Business Administration Degree. Additionally, I’ve always liked Windows because it’s what… Continue reading Discussion: The friction between using an iPhone and Windows Computer

Every single other application, by Apple and other developers, has the newest items at the top of a list. The only thing that doesn’t is a messaging conversation, but that makes sense with relation to the keyboard. But why on earth does Apple Photos sort with newest at the bottom, and syncing status below that.… Continue reading Photos “Sort By” order is ridiculous

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What the hell is this headline? Has apple ever “lost” the iPhone. It’s the most curated, shepherded, scrutinized device they have and drives most of their sales. They got that on lock and they don’t care what you or I want with it, they’ll release what they want.

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The positioning is different though. The original was sold as a peerless sound experience, and this one is just the upper version of the HomePod mini so you can save yourself some sound chops and adopt modular parts (see: power cable) for cost reductions. It’s not unlike what happened to the Watch, where the communication… Continue reading New HomePod available from today, online and in Apple Stores, as first orders arrive

Wait it wasn’t already there? Jesus Christ Apple/ Google pay is so big in Australia it’s hard to find a place that doesn’t accept it. I know its less big elsewhere, but damn that’s a fair amount of years behind of SK’s part.

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I love how these companies act like they NEED to lay people off. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc… has billions of dollars in the bank just sitting there. Paying employees for a few years isn’t going to break the bank for them. Twitter is probably the only company here that wasn’t making any money.

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I would imagine those would count. If they’re tied to an Apple ID and have been used then yea, counts as active to me. I have two iPads and two macs, and I don’t always use them week to week. It’s just myself. Depends on the mood or the events in my life.

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This is part of something that was an inevitability once Jobs died. Tim Cook, for all of Apple’s success under his tenure, is a bean counter. Jeff Williams, the heir-apparent, is also a bean counter. The people driving the most growth at Apple are bean counters in Services. We’re still coasting on that tradition of… Continue reading Apple Is Dropping Industrial Design Chief Role in Post-Jony Ive Era

Wow… this is something I never thought I would see at Apple. Of course, design and operations / supply chain logistics are closely tied, but I really think having independent leadership is generally the right move. It seems clear, though, that finding a suitable replacement for Ive has proven challenging for Apple, and maybe the… Continue reading Apple to eliminate ‘industrial design chief’ position; team will now report to COO Jeff Williams

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Easy explanation: Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Exchanges were covertly uploaded to the App Store with false reviews as part of pig-butchering scam. Fraudster tricks user to “invest” or deposit their Crypto assets to the fake app and let them withdrawal a “profit” for a false sense of security. If they get coerced to deposit more funds, the… Continue reading Fraudulent “CryptoRom” trading apps sneak into Apple and Google app stores

Generally, the question is not if AirDrop is safe or not – but what the file being AirDropped is. AirDrop is just a file-transfer protocol and does not guard against malicious files. iOS is pretty safe when it comes to this kind of attacks, but no operating system is bullet-proof. If you want to stay on… Continue reading How safe are Airdrops?

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This topic has been automatically locked due to being controversial and/or political by nature. However, the submission itself will remain accessible as long as it is related to Apple. This decision was made by a bot based on specific keywords. If you feel that this was in error, please report it to the moderators so… Continue reading Apple should be required to let iPhone users sideload apps, Biden admin says | Gov’t report recommends laws targeting mobile “gatekeepers” Apple and Google.

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Ok so it’s fixed luckily. That food app that actively exploited it.. there won’t be any consequences for them will there? Even though the collected location data without user consent.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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iPhone, iPad, iMac These are all (relatively) old. Apple hasn’t introduced a new product with the i prefix in a while. I think it was because they found they couldn’t stop other companies from using the i in front of product names but they can stop people using “Apple”, so they started naming their products… Continue reading Why doesn’t apple make all products start with an “i”?

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If you go to contact you can block “caller”, but that’s about three clicks (and obscure). So sick of spam scam spoof phishing messages. Is there no-one with a solution to this?

Another one of these… And again it’s all about recycling and not a peep on making big bucks by flipping devices bought (or in this case gifted) on the cheap. I’m all for recycling and reusing devices, but being realistic helps as well. The statistics on theft plummeted once activation lock was introduced. The alternative… Continue reading Serious issues with iCloud lock/Activation lock system

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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Looking at the Apple website for the Maldives it looks like you can’t buy through Apple directly? The student discounts are done through Apple, so I would doubt they offer the discount if they don’t even sell you the thing. You would have to see if there are any computer stores that offer student pricing… Continue reading Is it possible for a Maldivian student to get the student discount on MacBook?

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Just LOL.. Any plans to make iOS actually better for users? Better keyboard, better siri, better audio stack and volume controls, better widgets? Some options to allow minimal customization? Make better gestures? Allow to skip the fckin lock screen after faceid authentication, to prevent my thumb from tendinitis?

And, more alarmingly, I don’t believe Apple has identified a truly “killer app” for the device yet. The company is hoping that immersive video watching, tight integration with other Apple products and advanced VR-based FaceTime calls will reel in consumers, but I’m skeptical that the approach will be enough. Ooof.

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I switched from an Android to an iPhone and I’m happy about it. But I sorely miss GBoard on Android. I realise there’s an iOS GBoard but it’s much worse. I miss being able to quickly enter numbers by long pressing the qwerty… keys. You can do this on iOS GBoard but you have to… Continue reading Is there an iPhone keyboard like Android’s GBoard?

I have a few Hue lights set up around my house. Home is the only app that continuously says that these devices are ”Unavailable” Google home always works and so does the Philips Hue app. I can’t be the only one experiencing this?

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Mastodon is, basically, Twitter with multiple servers (so, if one server fails or goes rogue, it won’t fail for everyone else), a higher character limit per toot, actual rules against hate that are enforced by community moderators, no ads, no algorithmic suggestions, and a lot less bots trying to trick people into voting against their… Continue reading Apple Fellow Phil Schiller confirms he’s now on Mastodon after deleting Twitter account

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When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple’s browser was blocking the site for their own safety. The access was temporarily cut off thanks to Apple’s use of a Chinese corporate website blacklist, which resulted in the innocuous site being flagged… Continue reading Apple Brings Mainland Chinese Web Censorship to Hong Kong

This reminds me of the iPad? The iPad was the original vision, and they ended up doing an iPhone first which intended or not was the killer product. When Jobs launched the iPad he mentioned this was what they had been working on all along with the Phone but to this day, the iPad still… Continue reading The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question

Does anyone see a real reason for this? This is actually more difficult than it sounds because of the way the AirTag is end-to-end encrypted. It may be possible for the owner’s iPhone to send the decryption key to the iPhone you want to share the AirTag with, but an issue may arise when the… Continue reading AirTag family sharing 🤦

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I was so incredibly excited for Freeform to launch because I love collaborating on projects with people for all types of things. It felt clunky to always be using different apps for different things, and I thought Freeform would be a great combination of other Apple apps (with functionality from Notes, Keynote, Numbers, etc.). BUT… Continue reading Anyone Else Very Disappointed with Freeform?

I can’t imagine still being on a router that old. The AirPort Extreme is ugly AF. Get something modern, if you want style get an AMPLIFI Alien. Or some other mesh system, they all look fairly nice these days. Apple won’t make a new router until they can make their own Wi-Fi chip which is… Continue reading Anyone else still sporting an AirPort router holding out for Apple to get back into the router game?

Oh yea the “green” thing is total BS. Apple produces an insane amount of waste and any time they say they care about the environment it is purely marketing speak. Even their new packaging is just a way for them to look more green, but at the end of the day they’re just looking to… Continue reading Apple encourages the destruction of mint condition Macbooks while pretending to be green

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“Presumably people purchase Apple devices because they believe the company when they say that ‘privacy is a fundamental human right,’ Charlie Smith of Chinese censorship advocacy group GreatFire, told the publication. “What they fail to add is ‘except if you are Chinese.’” Hol up, are people still falling for Apples bullshit marketing about “protecting your… Continue reading Apple extends Chinese censorship to Hong Kong users

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Hide. There is no advantage to me of having it outside the bag, and it points as an attractive target. I wonder how many airlines will ban AirTags with some weak excuse, just to cover baggage handling glitches. If that is the case, having the AirTag hidden, perhaps with the speaker disabled, might be the… Continue reading Do you guys hide your AirTags on bags or just clip them to the outside ?

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Mastodon positions itself as a place where Twitter expats can go, but not directly as a Twitter competitor. This is something a lot of people aren’t catching. Mastodon isn’t a company looking to monetize a social network. The community appreciates user growth because it means a more robust network, but the primary goal for the… Continue reading Apple Fellow Phil Schiller confirms he’s now on Mastodon after deleting Twitter account

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I used Dropbox for file sharing between Apple devices rather then iCloud as I found it faster when trying to push files quickly between Mac-Win. I have given up completely on the idea of using Macs and PCs in the same work environment. You constantly deal with issues either side seem to have built in… Continue reading Windows integration

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e.g. you have an iphone, ipad and MacBook but just don’t get along with the watch – you switched to another type of smart watch, if so how is it better for your circumstances? – you realised you didn’t need one or found it too annoying, what specifically: charging hassle, it broke too easily, didn’t… Continue reading People in the Apple ecosystem who got rid of their Apple Watch, why?

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Possibly been asked a million times before but how is it that Apple allow fraudulent apps? An example of which is the top few “slots” apps put out by or on licence from Aristocrat have embedded ads which market real money gambling apps using local TV personalities and/or real major bank logos. There doesn’t seem… Continue reading Fake/Fraudulent Apps on the App Store?

Bought an Apple Watch ultra abroad (USA) asked if it would work at home (EU) was told it would work and worst case my right to return was world wide. Came home, setup the watch, realised cellular was not working. Went to my local Apple Store to figure it out, they told me US sold… Continue reading World wide returns does not seem to exist

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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distant shores, cro mag rally, flight control, doodle jump, peggle, a tower defense game I’m drawing a blank on, and a survival game where you were the in the middle of a clearing in a forest, and creatures came out of the woods and attacked you and you had to defend using different weapons….only way… Continue reading Random observation: Many of the apps that were featured in early iPhone and iPod touch commercials no longer exist.

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This. It’s the good old convenience vs security dilemma and it all comes down to threat modeling. If you fear friends and family will abuse you phone by knowing the PIN, set a secure long password for phone unlock. “Rubber hose cryptoanalysis” by government etc. also won’t stop just because you use a password instead… Continue reading Why you shouldn’t use iCloud Keychain for all your passwords

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Because the worst parts of cars since time immemorial is the infotainment? It ages the entire vehicle in the worst way possible and makes something seamless, safe, and functional on any other cheap as shit modern shitbox into something complicated ugly and in many cases distractingly dangerous to operate. Idk, that’s my guess.

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I can’t speak for everyone but when it comes to online orders at companies that I either rarely (or never have) order(ed) from, I will always choose the Apple Pay option over ‘continuing as a guest’ or ‘making an account’ (or PayPal for that matter, since its more complicated than Apple Pay). Don’t discount ease… Continue reading Banks Plan Payment Wallet to Compete With PayPal, Apple Pay

All Apple needs to do is make the iPad Pro into a MacOS closed system and voila. And keep their MacBooks as open. People who want to multitask like a pro on a touch device will actually be tempted by the openness of the MacBook and might get one. And MacBook users might be tempted… Continue reading All Apple needs to do is make the iPad Pro into a MacOS closed system and voila.

Why doesn’t Apple take user feedback seriously? Let’s take Siri for example. People have been sharing their experiences and feedback for years yet the product is generally not much better than it was on release. Sure it received a more fluid voice. But as far as its functionality it’s highly inaccurate. Having to tell Siri… Continue reading User Feedback

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If you’re going to keep it ONE spot, then yeah sure get Mac Mini + Monitor, although iMac is nicer as an aesthetic design piece. But, if you’re going to sometimes move the iMac between a couple locations in the house, the all-in-one is easier and has fewer cables than also moving mini + cable(s),… Continue reading Dear Apple: don’t forget the iMac again pls [Luke Miani]

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Back tap of all triggers? In my experience that’s either gonna trigger when you’re holding it wrong or not trigger at all when you need it Cool idea though, would like to signal emergency without calling 000

The catty responses I’m getting…I’m fully in the Apple ecosystem. MacBook, iPad, iPhone, & Apple Watch. I’m not in here to hate. The promotional material had people singing into their phones AND Apple TV support. Why would you have Apple TV support if you can hear your vocals over the speakers? Just seems like a… Continue reading Why isn’t a microphone referenced anywhere on Apple Sing? Am I supposed to pretend?

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https://github.com/Slackadays/clipboard I made Clipboard to solve a simple but almost opaque problem. How can you just copy and paste things in the terminal? It turns out there was no single good way to do it, until now. CB works fantastically on macOS but also great everywhere else too. Unlike some app developers, I’m always all… Continue reading If you’re a Mac terminal user and need to copy/paste things, my free and open source app Clipboard makes this really easy!

CMA has been taking a hard stance fairly recently and their work won’t be impacted by Brexit. Google and Meta have failed to get CMA on their side and Microsoft is getting a hard time over the Activision merger so I doubt Apple will succeed with their lobbying.

iPhone Watch TV MacBook (it’s old so I use my Linux Dell more, but that could change the day I upgrade to a MacBook M+) iPad, sold it because I barely used it. Thinking about getting the mini someday; with cellular it could replace my regular sized iPhone maybe half the time.

On iPadOS, recent iPads without M-series SoCs should still be able to run apps on external monitors full screen or in Split View at arbitrary sizes. Not the full Stage Manager experience but apps are still capable of adjusting to various widths. Also, it should be possible to make notifications from any given app play… Continue reading What would you like to see in the next iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, etc. updates?

What safe guards/ security measures are in place during your visit at the Apple Store. I had a battery issue, the employee asked me to unlock the phone and they took it to the back area. What prevents a employee from opening financial apps, photos, wallet? How is my data and privacy protected ? If… Continue reading Privacy and security at the Apple’s retail storefronts.

I’m amazed that Apple has yet to provide a true “offline mode” for Apple Maps given CarPlay’s dependence on this info. I understand that the app will cache your guidance route when you begin your travel – but then what? Presumably you’re going to need to get from your initial destination to someplace new. If… Continue reading Apple Maps – No true offline mode?

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I lost all my school notes this morning after my boards disappeared. Despite iCloud being on, my boards were not syncing across my devices. I toggled it off and back on and it “merged” my boards locally with iCloud and all my existing ones disappeared. There appears to be no way to get them back.… Continue reading Freeform Warning: Toggling iCloud on/off while your Boards are syncing will delete them

I don’t think it’s that simple. It’s a certification of oversight. You basically know that an MFi product will be interoperable with Apple’s products and conform to relevant safety and quality standards. You don’t know the same about a non-MFi product. It could be okay, but maybe not. And a company that doesn’t want to… Continue reading Apple Certified Chargers

What’s the difference between Apple Notes and Apple Quick Notes? I understand that Quick Notes are stores in Notes but why not just send to Notes vs send to Quick Notes. Even when it comes to the Control Center Controls, there is a Notes control and a Quick Notes control. Can’t find the answer anywhere.… Continue reading What’s the difference between Apple Notes and Apple Quick Notes?

So I love display tech and I’m a software engineer. So every year I’m swapping out for a hopefully improved experience. I run two MacBook pros and they share a dual monitor setup. So I’m intimately experiencing MacOS display support. I’m seeing an abysmal experience with this setup. Whenever I switch inputs the MacBook never… Continue reading Can we get multi-monitor support? Like great UX instead of random support?

Thank you for your feedback, anonymous user. I am the chief engineer representative of the engineers committee at Apple HQ. We have received your message and passed on the fix to the relevant teams. They are currently working on it. Expect an update within the next few hours. Thank you for bringing this to our… Continue reading Apple engineers please take note….

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They would absolutely destroy the culture of their company, the stores especially, if their employees knew that they or their coworkers could be laid off at any moment. Apple takes advantage of their employees specifically wanting to work for them and as soon as that goes away, they’ll be hurting.

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Wow! Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Tweetlogix were my Twitter apps. Sucks it ended like this. I recently got charged for yearly subscription to Tweetbot and noticed it’s been down about a week now. Going to let them keep that and support Ivory.

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Only if someone with an apple product (phone, laptop, watch, computer) comes near them. It’s not actually a tracker by itself. This means it works well in cities and places where there are a lot of apple devices, but isn’t particularly useful in more rural areas. If the dog in this article ended up in… Continue reading AirTag helps rescue dog swept away in California floodwaters

Sounds like Epic’s whinging to be honest, you know what you’re getting into when you buy and iPhone/iPad etc While I think Apple probably should reduce their cut, if it’s causing Spotify so many issues drop the iOS app and do it all via the browser 🤷‍♂️

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Thanks for this! I came from Android OS and they had a backspace button on their calculator app. I then saw that it was missing this on the iOS calculator app and was kind of bummed out. Thanks again!

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Hey all, I have tried numerous USB-C hubs that work but then have issues after a while. One of the most common things I see is that after a while it has a hard time delivering power and video/displayport consistently. It’ll cut one or the other for a split second which causes the docked MacBook… Continue reading USB-C Hub (Displayport/etc) that works?

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Here’s how it would work in authoritarian countries: They pass a law that Apple needs to use their homemade database, and that Apple needs to submit matches that never get uploaded to the cloud. They start adding politically sensitive photos such as Tank Man and modern memes criticizing their government to their database. And since… Continue reading Not sure if this is allowed, but I thought I would share it to prompt discussion.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Microsoft made offers to everyone during Xbox development. Including Square, Midway, and EA. They nabbed Rare and Bungie. Nintendo was the most notable only because…well…it’s Nintendo.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Sound Recognition on HomePods will require Apple’s updated Home app architecture, which is temporarily unavailable after some users experienced issues after installing the update. It’s not clear when the update will be made available again. Guess it can wait then. My home works fine, I’m sure I’m not alone I’m not wanting to upgrade it… Continue reading Apple Expanding Sound Recognition Feature to New HomePod and HomePod Mini With Software Update Later This Year

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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What was the word? Ah, disinformation. The nicest quote is possibly The thieves then used a phishing attack to get his iCloud password. Fishing against whom? The victim did not have their iPhone anymore. And at that point, the thieves were supposed to have added their own “authorized” number, and to do that they must… Continue reading Apple account recovery needs an overhaul: Here’s a simple suggestion

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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This was more of a comment to prompt a discussion, not me asking you or anything else in particular. I’m guessing I wasn’t clear, but I’m asking why is there a “This is how you use this feature”, when you can’t decide when the feature is even activated. You use use the camera app in… Continue reading Why does this article exist? Want to use night mode? Just take a picture in the dark…

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How many others are frustrated by this? I find it very poor design by Apple to change the keyboard configuration when using safari. I get that you need the period key more to type in a url. However every time I’m trying to type in a search on safari I end up hitting the period… Continue reading Always hitting period key instead of space when typing on safari. This.needs.to.be.fixed.

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There have been many attempts over the years to reduce network load, from MacOS Server caching updates for iOS devices, through to iTunes Sync over Wifi. But now with many iCloud Sync, Apple don’t appear to have made any attempts at making this “smarter”. Depending on your sync goals, there’s one glaring flaw with using… Continue reading Apple, it’s time to make sync smarter.

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I don’t want to touch my laptop screen. It sits on a desk and lifting my arms off the desk to touch a screen is annoying and uncomfortable after a while. I also like to keep my screens spotlessly clean and don’t want to spend all day reading text through finger prints. Tablet and phone… Continue reading Apple Needs Touch-Based Macs to Unify Apps and Keep Users Happy

Get Clipboard here When I started out making Clipboard, I did so because I found it was painful to do certain things in the terminal like copying a file when I didn’t know where I wanted to put it. Or maybe it was too slow to type out some long path and hope you got… Continue reading If you’re a terminal user and find moving things around painful, there’s an app for that – Clipboard!

I use it now because I get it for free, but from Spotify the only thing I really miss is the vastly superior multi device support. Being able to have it playing on my computer and I can control it right from the app on my phone, no messing with airplay and it works on… Continue reading What’s wrong with Apple Music?

I was never really an AirPort superfan, but I did like it. When it was discontinued I moved on. Looking back on it though, I really think this was a dumb discontinuation on Apple’s part. There are a lot of examples of beloved and discontinued products whose fans continue to miss them long after they’re… Continue reading Getting rid of the AirPort line seems pretty dumb in retrospect

iOS or MacOS. I’ve been thinking as to why I feel odd with my tablet, and I think it’s the operating system! It’s just a big-screened phone! I mean, the only reason why I had the iPad int he first placed was because I thought it could be a professional drawing tablet with some perks!… Continue reading What do you think is better?

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But the Cube was doomed almost from the start. Upgradability was limited same for the upcoming Mac Pro, if what Gurman reported recently was true, it’s gonna be an even bigger flop and a huge disappointment…

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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I’m actually curious here, as someone who’s still using an iPhone SE (replaced the battery) and don’t feel like updating until this dies. Why aren’t you guys switching? For me, it’s nothing really against Android, it’s just I don’t need the customization, I barely use my phone anyhow, I just need a semi-modern phone to… Continue reading What’s the reason, despite all of Apple’s faults, that you’re likely ever not gonna switch to Windows/Android?

Turning off bluetooth is pointless and i’ve seen so many instances where a dummy turning it off means their airdrop doesn’t work or something else and they get mad when they were the ones that caused it

(I posted this to the apple forum but they’re a bunch of tyrants over there so I don’t think they’ll let me upload this) ok I stopped syncing iCloud with my MacBook because it wouldn’t stop uploading things I didn’t want it to upload, and now, even though I stopped syncing it, it is continuing… Continue reading why is icloud bad

apple’s idea for account recovery is to wait two weeks. there’s nothing i can do to authenticate, it’s an endless loop of two factor authentication to a number that doesn’t work while i’m abroad. people have complained for years yet they have done nothing to fix this problem. it’s insane. i have so many items… Continue reading Recovery Time is ridiculous- Apple ID issues while traveling

I just got Apple music just today, moving from Spotify because of ads(with Premium). As a tech nerd, I first upped all the audio quality, and enabled Atmos. I played “Thriller” by MJ, and bam…… Sound quality is the best of all platforms I’ve used on my MPB. When playing it, I hear tapping on… Continue reading Moving from Spotify to Apple music, my first impressions

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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get a physical braille display and connect it, ios supports them natively for the blind and you’ll learn better with physical touch (braille is not designed to be looked at, but felt with your fingertips – trust me, they are not transferable skills) if you just wanna learn the basics of the dot positions used… Continue reading Braille

https://kiraverse.game/home#partners Fortnite + VR + Renting/selling in game NFTs = Killer money making app? Seems like a nice blueprint of what to expect in the future. I for one am excited for a”Ready Player One” type gaming experience. Seems like a big deal for Kiraverse to announce Apple as a partner. Apple is getting ready… Continue reading Apple is low key getting gaming partners with Kiraverse. Will this be their VR headset’s killer app?

As the title says – an e-ink iPad mini that comes in as the cheapest in the lineup, likely with a custom design, would be awesome. I am fully apple – phone, Mac, watch and iPad – but I also have a kindle. It fits a need for me that the rest of the lineup… Continue reading Apple should make an e-ink iPad

But you can’t install the app even though you would get the update if you had installed before the cutoff version? Is there a technical reason for it or is it just apple saying eff you pay me?

I regularly hear and read comments about how much people hate Apple Music, but it’s always a generalized “it’s awful,” “it’s riddled with bugs,” “it’s a shit show.” Maybe I’m the exception, but I largely do not encounter issues nor have friction with the interface. For those with such disdain for it, what is a… Continue reading For those that dislike Apple Music, what is specifically wrong with it?

I would like to know how private my Apple ID is. Does my Apple ID have its own unique account identifier like a MAC address, if so do apps I download know that identification serial number? If apps do, does changing the email change the unique address or does it stay the same? So for… Continue reading How private is my Apple ID?

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

I struggle to see the direct value of a touchscreen over a mouse/touchpad when space isn’t a limiting factor. You can’t carry a mouse when using a smartphone – the entire interaction needs to be able to fit in your hand – but as the size of the product goes up, the value of touch-technology… Continue reading Apple may add touch screens to Mac computers – Bloomberg News

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

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An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

It’s a subreddit I would love to frequent if the rumor posts weren’t as much posted as they are. They always get upvoted, people complain about it in the comments too. It’s boring content because anyone can make stuff up. Obviously the notch will go away at some point and they will be right at… Continue reading I wish rumor posts would be removed from this subreddit

I just dont understand why some people(americans) use imessage? Whatsapp and Signal exists. I understand for business that you would use imessage/sms but for everything other? I just dont understand how people use inferior software… please dont mention security/facebook. We know every company uses/sells your data, including apple.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way.

Are you using it without an Apple Watch? Because with the watch(which used to be the only way to use Fitness+) there are two confirmation steps: When you launch the app, you verify who’s using it and what Watch you’re using When you start a workout, you need to hit play on either the watch… Continue reading Why do you have to confirm an apple fitness workout on your phone?