In a report from 9to5Mac today, the original big HomePod has been jailbroken by L1ngL1ng on Twitter and the Checkra1n team. The team so far have got partial access to the HomePod’s command line, but the possibilities of what could be achieved are quite large. Hello Homepod, meet checkra1n. Huge thanks to @DanyL931 for helping to get this running. pic.twitter.com/FjH7253RFR — L1ngL1ng (@_L1ngL1ng_) November 19, 2020 Now the team have jailbroken […]
A new rumour from The Verifier in Isreal has predicated that when Apple releases iOS 15 next year it’ll be dropping support for the iPhone 6s and first generation iPhone SE. Taking this rumour with a pinch of salt, it would actually make sense, the iPhone SE is based on the iPhone 6s, it has the same A8 SoC. The iPhone 6s was launched in September 2015 and the iPhone SE followed […]
The new Xbox Series X was recently made available and it also comes with a new redesigned controller, which can be purchased separately too and some users (myself included) have been noticing it doesn’t work at all with iOS and iPadOS, it will connect ok to them and be recognised but it doesn’t do anything. This is actually because the Series X controller isn’t supported by Apple yet and right […]
Apple has recently released a minor update for iPhone 12 models only, so iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Mac and of course the iPhone 12 mini. iOS 14.2.1 fixes a new issues related to MMS messages, lock screen issues for the iPhone 12 mini and others. Release Notes iOS 14.2.1 addresses the following issues for your iPhone: Some MMS messages may not be received Made for iPhone […]
More and more cars seem to be offering wireless CarPlay in their new vehicles, as the rumour of the next iPhone not including any Lightning port whatsoever. For example, in the US, Hyundai is adding wireless CarPlay to the 2021 models of the new Tuscon, Santa Fe, Venue and Palisade. Here in the UK, the latest Volkswagen Golf 8 now has wireless CarPlay too. Wireless CarPlay uses a combination of […]
This week, to coincide with the release of the brand new line of M1 Macs from Apple, the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini – Google is releasing a new version of Chrome to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs, with Chrome version 87. Instead of releasing a universal app, Google has chosen to offer two different versions, both offered at the download page. When you visit the webpage […]
Yesterday, a report was logged from the Northamptonshire Police that last week, around $6.6 million (£5 million) worth of Apple products were stolen directly from a lorry on the slip road of the M1 motorway here in the UK on the 10th November at around 8pm. The event took place off the slip road of the M1 and the entire incident seemed to be planned well beforehand, as the stolen […]
Ever since the Apple Card was launched last year, applications could only be taken on an iPhone within the Apple Wallet app and this week, Apple and Goldman Sachs are expanding this process to the web as well for the first time. Apple rolled out this change very quietly and was spotted yesterday by MacRumors and this marks the second thing related to Apple Card which is now on the web and […]
Yesterday, just ahead of todays day for the new M1 Macs to be available, Adobe released the first beta of Photoshop specially designed for Apple Silicon and naturally the new version requires you to have a Mac with Apple Silicon and the latest version of Creative Cloud desktop (version 5.3.1.470 or newer) Adobe has said that there is a new limitations, and that “many features” are not available so if […]
Earlier this week, Apple announced the new M1 chip for Mac, and it is already in the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13-inch and Mac mini. Apps do need to be updated to support the new models, otherwise they’ll be emulated using Rosetta 2 and earlier this week Microsoft has released the first beta of Office for Mac with support for the new chips. Learn more here about the Office […]
