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Apple says iPhone 13 production in India now underway after earlier problems

iPhone 13 production in India has now begun, says the company, some three months after the planned start date. The delay was due to horrendous working conditions uncovered at the Foxconn plant in Chennai … Background Apple continually works to reduce its manufacturing dependence on China, by diversifying production around the world. The company’s suppliers now carry out iPhone, iPad, and…
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YouTube for iOS officially rolling out picture-in-picture support in a ‘matter of days’

This weekend, YouTube removed the long-running experiment that allowed iPhone and iPad users to keep watching videos in picture-in-picture mode. Now, YouTube has confirmed that its iOS app is in the process of rolling out picture-in-picture support to everyone on iOS 15 and up. In a tweet late last night from @TeamYouTube, the company officially confirmed that picture-in-picture support is now…
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WhatsApp for iOS will soon make it easier to see file transfer progress

At the end of March, 9to5Mac reported that WhatsApp started testing the ability to send files up to 2GB on the app. While its beta testing is still limited to Argentina, there’s another feature that may be coming to users in the near future – the ability to see the file transfer progress. As spotted by WABetaInfo, beta versions 22.8.0.74 of WhatsApp for iOS and 2.2209.03 for Desktop are…
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YouTube ends experiment for quickly enabling PiP on iOS, still works for existing users

YouTube started officially rolling out Picture-in-Picture to the iOS app last June and it’s been a very slow process. Premium subscribers were given a workaround, but YouTube’s PiP test for iPhone and iPad has now ended. The “Picture-in-Picture on iOS” experiment (from August) has disappeared from youtube.com/new after hitting its early April end date. Google notified people with a…
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