Kanye West’s presidential campaign appears to have hit a bit of a snag after his ballot papers were filed in Wisconsin some 14 seconds after the deadline. West’s campaign lawyer had a variety of reasons he thought this shouldn’t matter, including suggesting that the iPhone clock is ‘notoriously faulty’ …
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West’s campaign is arguing he belongs on the…
, the popular Mac app subscription service has just launched an iOS version of the same service. We’ve tested out Setapp in the past, and it’s a great value for what it offers. The Mac version includes premium versions of popular apps like PDF Pen, Wi-Fi Explorer…
Fantastical Premium makes iOS and Mac calendar system family-friendly with new group plan
August 13, 2020
The highly popular calendar app Fantastical by Flexibits has launched a family subscription. The new option lets up to 5 users take advantage of the rich calendar software across all Apple devices at an economical price.
Flexibits shared today that Fantastical Premium for…
Among the variety of security and privacy enhancements with iOS 14 is improved control for photo permissions. Read along for how to limit third-party access to the iPhone’s Photos app.
With iOS 13 and earlier, when a third-party app asked for permission to access your Photos library, the only options were to deny or allow the request. That meant saying yes gave access to your full Photos…
One of the key privacy features in iOS 14 is a new option that allows users to disable tracking between different applications. During its quarterly earnings call last month, Facebook pointed out that the new tracking setting could impact its advertising revenue, and a new…
Twitter opens up anti-troll feature to all iOS app users [U]
August 13, 2020
Twitter tested an anti-troll feature earlier in the year, allowing select users to choose who is able to reply to their tweets. The experiment was clearly a success, as the latest version of the iOS app makes the feature available to all …
It turns out Twitter made a…
iOS 14 lets users grant approximate location access for apps that don’t require exact GPS tracking
August 13, 2020
An iOS 14 feature that has gone a bit under the radar is the Precise Location toggle for Location Services. This new toggle gives the user more control over which apps can access your current location, and to what granularity.
Before iOS 14, you could grant an app access to your location whilst using the app, or always. However, if location access was allowed, the app would always get an exact…
Clever BBC feature lets you use iPhones and iPads as surround-sound speakers for your Mac
August 13, 2020
Britain’s BBC is trialing a clever new piece of technology that lets you use your iPhones and iPads as a kind of surround-sound speakers for your Mac.
You can try it today with a demo, and then listen to a radio drama series which uses it …
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The BBC has…
Smartphone-use lens modules Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) has maintained its production is still running without issues, and demand from its brand handset clients remains normal.
Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is reporting that a quality problem has emerged during…
A new report today from Canalys shares its estimates for US smartphone shipments. The data shows Apple as the big winner with iPhone sales actually increasing during the pandemic despite the overall smartphone market in the US seeing a drop in shipments.
We’ve seen estimates for Apple’s iPad shipments from Q2 (Apple’s fiscal Q3) which showed impressive growth as high as 34% YoY. Now…
