You may remember that, back in July, Apple released rare bug-fix updates for older versions of its operating system: iOS 10.3.4 and iOS 9.3.6. This was necessary to help keep older iPhones and iPads maintain accurate location functionality as the GPS network goes through a time rollover transition.
However, the problem is even more serious for iPhone 5. Apple is sending out alerts to iPhone 5…
Chinese report suggests ‘AirPods Pro’ will come in multiple colors, perhaps to match iPhone 11
October 26, 2019
The rumours around new AirPods continue to build. A Chinese report today from Economic Daily News indicates that Apple will sell the ‘AirPods Pro’ in multiple colors, like black, white and midnight green. This would be significant as obviously the current AirPods only…
This has been a big week for Rich Communicator Services with the four largest US carriers announcing (a Google-less) plan to roll out the SMS/MMS successor. Today, a trick has emerged that appears to enable RCS on any Android device and carrier.
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In this week’s top stories: some Pixel phones pick up the “Rules” feature spotted in Android 10 betas, Google releases six experimental digital wellbeing apps, a firmware update inadvertently bricks some Google Home speakers, and more.
This week, some reported that the “Rules” feature, which first appeared in the Android 10 Beta, has begun to roll to their Pixel phones of all…
Apple highlights iPhone privacy with new ‘Simple as that’ ad
October 25, 2019
Apple has shared a new one-minute ad focused on iPhone privacy. The video highlights how much private information we have stored on smartphones and that it should belong to “you.”
The new privacy on iPhone ad features an opening scene of a city at night as the narrator…
These are the latest Apple Arcade games for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV
October 25, 2019
Apple Arcadelaunched with over 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.
You can learn more about and downloadall the new games by heading to the Arcade tab in the App…
HomeKit support for the Arlo Ultra smart camera started rolling out to customers a few days ago and now the iOS app has got an update with iOS 13 Dark Mode support, improved 2FA, a host of bugs fixes, and more.
After bringing HomeKit support to its Pro and Pro 2 cameras back in August (reviewed) Arlo promised to add the functionality to its high-end Ultra camera sometime during Q4. The company…
Samsung just kicked off its Android 10 beta with the Galaxy S10 a couple of weeks ago, and now there’s an update available for those devices. On top of that, Samsung has also opened up the Android 10, One UI 2.0 beta program to Galaxy Note 10, and Note 10+…
Apple has confirmed that 17 malware iPhone apps were removed from the App Store after successfully hiding from the company’s app review process.
The apps were all from a single developer, but covered a wide range of areas, including a restaurant-finder, Internet radio, BMI…
YouTube Music 3.39 for Android adds homescreen widget
October 25, 2019
As we’ve been expecting since early August, YouTube Music now has a homescreen widget. Available with version 3.39, it’s quite straightforward and actually looks like the one from Play Music.
This update to Google’s primary streaming service lets you add a widget to the Android homescreen. By default it’s 4×1, but looks better at 5×1 to span the full width of a screen. While it can be…
