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Filipe Espósito is a Brazilian tech Journalist who started covering Apple news on iHelp BR with some exclusive scoops, including the reveal of the new Apple Watch Series 5 models in titanium and ceramic. He joined 9to5Mac in 2019 to share even more exclusive details about Apple’s plans.

You can contact Filipe at hi@filipeesposito.com or on Threads, @filipe.esposito.

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Looking for cool AirPods accessories? Here are some of the Black Friday 2023 deals

Looking for cool AirPods accessories? Here are some of the Black Friday 2023 deals

Yes, AirPods are accessories, but you’d be surprised to find out that there’s a whole market for AirPod accessories. Not surprisingly, Apple itself promotes some of these products in its stores, ranging from protective cases to lanyards. And if you’re an AirPods owner, we’ve selected some Black Friday deals for cool AirPods accessories.

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FCC images show Apple Watch Ultra prototype with black ceramic back

FCC images show Apple Watch Ultra prototype with black ceramic back

The Apple Watch Ultra’s design differs from traditional Apple Watch models. In addition to the titanium body, there’s the flat glass covering the display, reinforced buttons, and a gray ceramic back to match the titanium finish. However, changing the color of the ceramic back may have been a last-minute decision, as shown in these photos revealed by the FCC.

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RCS is coming to iOS, but will it change anything for most iPhone users?

iMessage RCS

It’s official: Apple will add support for the RCS messaging standard in iOS. This won’t happen until the end of next year, and we don’t have many details about how Apple will implement RCS. In the meantime, we can reflect on the impact this will have on Android and iPhone users – and honestly, I don’t think it will be as huge as people might think.

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Apple’s plans to bring its own 5G modems to the iPhone have been delayed once again

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Apple has been trying to develop its own 5G modems to replace the Qualcomm radio chips currently used in the iPhone. However, even after years of development, the company has struggled to achieve good results with its in-house developed chips. According to a new report by Bloomberg, Apple will miss its goal of finalizing its first 5G modem in time for the 2025 iPhones.

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visionOS beta 6 gets new onboarding videos as Apple Vision Pro launch nears

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Apple on Tuesday released the sixth beta of visionOS, the Vision Pro operating system. visionOS beta is only available to developers with an Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit. However, we were able to look at the internal files of visionOS beta 6, and we found new onboarding videos that will guide users through setting up the new headset.

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iOS 17.2 lets users disable inline text predictions without turning off predictive text

iOS 17.2 lets users disable inline text predictions without turning off predictive text

Apple has made a number of improvements to the iPhone and iPad virtual keyboard with iOS 17, which now uses a large language model (LLM) to improve autocorrection and provide inline text predictions. Until now, turning off inline text predictions required users to also turn off predictive text. With iOS 17.2, however, users can toggle each feature separately.

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Threads now lets users delete their account without leaving Instagram

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When Threads was launched earlier this year, Meta decided to use the same credentials as Instagram so that users wouldn’t have to create another account to use its new microblogging platform. However, because of this, users couldn’t delete their Threads account without deleting their Instagram account. Luckily, Meta is finally changing that with an update.

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Apple to phase out dedicated iTunes Movie Store with iOS 17.2, merging it with the TV app

Apple to phase out dedicated iTunes Movie Store with iOS 17.2, merging it with the TV app

With iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2, Apple introduced a new way to navigate within the TV app via a sidebar that lets users quickly jump between different sections, including Search, Watch Now, Channels, Store, and Library. But Apple will do more than that, as the company plans to soon phase out the dedicated iTunes Movie Store by merging it with the TV app.

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iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store [U]

Apple App Store sideloading iOS

Apple has been under pressure in the European Union as the Digital Markets Act antitrust legislation requires the company to allow users to sideload apps outside the App Store to increase competition. 9to5Mac has now found evidence in the iOS 17.2 beta code that the company is indeed moving towards enabling sideloading on iOS devices.

Update: Apple has published new documentation for the ManagedAppDistribution API on its website confirming that it is primarily intended as an MDM solution. As we suggested in our report, it could still be used for other purposes. You can read the original article below.

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iPhone SE 4 now rumored to have a similar form factor to the iPhone 14

iPhone SE 4 now rumored to have the same form-factor as the iPhone 14

iPhone SE 3 was launched in March last year, and it didn’t bring any significant changes apart from the A15 Bionic chip. Rumors about a next-generation iPhone SE have been quite controversial, with some reports claiming that Apple has even paused development of the new phone. But now, a rumor suggests that the iPhone SE 4 will have a similar form factor to the iPhone 14.

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