If you ever wanted help picking out an outfit, Meta just rolled out a beat for its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses that’ll give you fashion advice based on what’s in your closet. Meanwhile, the Apple and Beeper Mini messaging saga took a dramatic turn. Gizmodo covered all this news and more, and you can catch up with … Read more
Apple’s strategy, if there was one at all, for protecting your phone’s data from theft has been pretty bad all along. If the thief can take a glance at your password before stealing your iPhone, you have handed him your entire digital life. With the iOS 17.3 beta that rolled out yesterday, the company finally … Read more
There are plenty of things to like about the latest iOS 17.2 update. For one, iPhone 15 Pro users are getting telephoto camera improvements and can finally use the titanium-shelled hardware to shoot spatial videos for the Vision Pro. There’s also a new Action button shortcut for real-time translation. But the most helpful bit of … Read more
Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper’s servers began faltering. TechCrunch reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple’s servers, though I’m still able to send text-based messages with a bit of delay. This piece covers the experience before this breaking news hit. I reached out to Beeper to ask … Read more
Photo: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Apple will dispute the European Union’s latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services, according to Bloomberg. The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for Halloween Apple is one of six companies targeted by European regulators under the Digital Markets … Read more
Android users can finally join the realm of the easy login life. Google revealed Monday that Credential Manager will arrive on Android devices beginning Nov. 1, ushering in the next phase of the company’s conversion to passkeys. This also means Android users will finally have the iPhone’s FaceID-like unlocking mechanisms available for authentication across the … Read more
Image: hanohiki (Shutterstock) Apple released its iOS 17.1 Wednesday, which introduces new features for AirDrop, Apple Music, and others. The update also fixed radiation issues for the iPhone 12 brought up by French regulators. How To Set Up Private Relay on iCloud+ The OS update added a feature allowing AirDrop transfers to continue via a cellular connection, … Read more
Graphic: Poetra.RH (Shutterstock) Like more than half of adult Americans, I need a little noise to go to sleep. Some use a white noise machine or their TV, but my preference is podcasts playing on my phone. At least that was my preferred method until iOS 17 came along and messed things up. Is USB-C … Read more
Within the early days of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple hadn’t provided customers a strategy to mechanically change to darkish and lightweight mode at completely different occasions of the day. As ordinary, there have been third-party builders keen to select up the slack. One of many extra well-regarded night time mode apps to repair this … Read more
Google and Apple get pleasure from taking one another on in as many various arenas as attainable: cellphones, maps, cloud storage, music streaming, photograph administration, be aware taking, good assistants, tablets, smartwatches, calendars, internet browsers, phrase processors, e mail, and extra apart from. In automobiles, we’ve Android Auto and Apple CarPlay vying for management of … Read more