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Apple reported its best fiscal third quarter yet earlier this week, with 11.6 million iPads sold within the quarter. Overall, iPad’s success isn’t enough to push the overall tablet market up however.
Ever receive an iMessage that you really wanted to share with other people, but not publicly? Fortunately there’s a way to make that happen.
Plex today is updating its app to officially bring offline support for podcasts. The company is also making it easier to import podcasts from other podcast players. The last major update to Plex for iOS was adding support for podcasts itself.
One thing Apple has yet to figure out with Apple Watch is timely watchOS updates. Anyone who’s ever owned an Apple Watch knows that watchOS updates can be painfully slow. Sometimes taking several hours to complete, depending on model.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced this afternoon during the company’s earnings call that Apple Pay will be rolling out to Germany later this year.
Apple announced earlier this month that it would be discontinuing its photo printing service by September 30, 2018. This means that users will need to look at other third-party solutions.
However, today VentureBeat revealed that RR Donnelley was a partner for Apple’s first-party photo printing service. And with that, the company is also releasing its own app called Motif that lets macOS Photos users continue to purchase calendars and books similar to the ones Apple was offering.
While the Apple Music app itself isn’t getting a huge overhaul in iOS 12 as some might have hoped for, it is getting a nifty feature that will help users find the song they’re looking for.
Just a few days ago, MoviePass experienced a major outage due to the fact it ran out of cash, and now it is seemingly planning to try and turn its monetization struggles around by preventing users from seeing major new film releases…
Apple Music next month will release a documentary featuring the popular artist, Kesha. The documentary will be primarily focused on the making of her latest album, Rainbow, as well as never before seen footage of Kesha performances.
While you can’t change your default web browser on iOS, Apple does allow you to change the default search engine in Safari. The default on iOS is Google, but you are able to change it to either, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo.
In its latest original content efforts, Apple is working on closing a deal to turn the film Time Bandits into a TV series.
While most users won’t make or receive phone calls anymore, it’s still a thing that’s built into iPhone. Especially, when you have family who is older who may have a smartphone but really shouldn’t. In any case, sometimes you simply cannot take a phone call. For example, if you’re in a meeting or at an event. So, in those situations it would be nice to send a quick text, letting the person on the line know what’s going on.
The popular cross-platform communications app, Slack, has announced that it will be acquiring HipChat, giving the company more ground to compete against Microsoft’s Teams.
While whether or not closing apps on the iOS actually has any performance, there are some reasons why it might be useful. For example, if an app is not responding or it drains a ton of battery (Facebook?).
Whether you’re in a group iMessage or SMS, the notifications can be insane at times. In certain situations, you don’t want to leave the group, especially when its family, but at the same time you don’t want to keep getting spammed with notifications. So, there’s the next best thing: Do Not Disturb for individual message threads.
One nifty feature with iMessage that isn’t available in regular SMS is the ability to leave a group message. While it’s not completely obvious, it’s pretty simple to remove yourself from an overwhelming group message.
Follow along to learn how….
In an effort to be more transparent, YouTube announced via a tweet that it is testing a new Explore tab for iOS users, rolling out today.
One of the great benefits of modern cell phones and carriers is that you’re able to put calls on hold while you’re on a phone call. While you could easily create a 3-way call, that’s not always convenient nor appropriate for the case. That’s where Call waiting comes in, a feature that lets you have two separate calls and lets you interact with an incoming call. Disabling the feature will force all incoming calls to go to voicemail if you’re currently in a call.
Most users will dial *67 before calling any number in which they don’t want the receiving end to know the originating phone number to, it’s the oldest trick in the book. However, if you’re wanting to stay completely off the grid, there’s a way to do it to all calls, that way you never have to dial *67 ever again.
Spotify is today rolling out a new beta feature for Spotify for Artists and Spotify Analytics that lets artists and labels more easily share unreleased music with Spotify, letting curators create better playlists and better exposure.
Carriers are now offering ways to let customers use their phones while abroad without getting charged an absurd amount of money. While both iOS and Android still throw up huge warnings against doing so, it is possible to enable data roaming on your iPhone or iPad.
VLC has today updated its app on iOS with a handful of new features. Today’s update brings the app to version 3.1.0 and includes several long-awaited features sure to please users…
One of the more bizarre things we’ve seen in the watchOS 5 betas is that some users (including myself) are experiencing the Walkie-Talkie app disappearing throughout the beta process.