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Transit delivers promised Apple Watch app return while wheelchair-accessible trips arrive on iPhone

December 3, 2019
After pulling its Apple Watch app almost two years ago, the popular Transit for iOS is back on Apple’s wearable and on iPhone, it’s gaining details when trips are wheelchair-accessible. The developers of Transit announced back in September that they would resurrect the Apple Watch app and today have delivered on that promise (via ). The app’s return comes as watchOS 6 offers an…
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Mario Kart Tour was the most downloaded iPhone game of 2019

December 3, 2019
Despite launching relatively late in the year, Mario Kart Tour was the biggest game on the iPhone in 2019. Today, Apple revealed its top charts for the year, and the free-to-play version of Mario Kart, which debuted in September, topped the free game charts. Nintendo’s…
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Apple picks its best iOS apps and games of 2019

December 3, 2019
Apple revealed its own editors’ picks for the best apps and games and the most powerful trends that drove app culture in 2019. And this year, it has new platforms such as Apple Arcade to show off the winners. For apps and games, Apple’s editors leaned on those that help…
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Apple blocks downgrades to iOS 13.2.2 as updates continue to fix bugs and performance issues

December 3, 2019
Apple today has stopped signing iOS 13.2.2. This follows the release of iOS 13.2.3 a few weeks ago, which included more improvements to background app performance, the Mail app, Messages, and more. Now that Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.2.2, it means that no one can downgrade from iOS 13.2.3 to that version via iTunes/Finder. Reverting to older iOS builds is common for those in the jailbreak…
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Spotify’s Sleep Timer is coming to the iPhone today

December 2, 2019
Starting today, iOS users can fall asleep to their Spotify playlists without having their rest disturbed later. Spotify Sleep Timer — which has been available on the Android version of the app since May — lets you select a countdown timer between five minutes and…
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Analyst expects Apple to split flagship iPhone releases into separate summer and fall launches, starting 2021

December 2, 2019
Apple could switch up its iPhone release cycle as soon as 2021 according to a new analyst report from JP Morgan’s Samik Chatterjee (via Marketwatch). Since the iPhone 4S in 2011, Apple has released its flagship iPhone models all at once in the fall — almost always in mid-September. What JPMorgan proposes is that there would be two pairs of iPhone launches in 2021, one in the first half…
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