Tag: Apple

With version 7.3, Twitter stops supporting iOS 9

Yesterday, the official iOS app for Twitter was updated to version 7.3 and amongst the usual bug fixes and feature improvements, support for iOS 9 was removed. Granted, not many devices are running a software version that old anymore, most of them can now run iOS 10 or later. iOS 9 If you haven’t updated and have a device that can, we highly encourage you to do so, as in […]

Apple Pay has had increased growth, now with an estimated 250 million users

According to a recent report this week from Loup Ventures, Apple Pay transactions are up and are continuously rising. Now, an estimated 31 percent of all iPhone users have used Apple Pay complete a transaction within the last year, when compared to the same time last year it was only 25 percent. In Apple’s recent earnings call, no details were mentioned on how many users or anything related to the […]

Stocks, Voice Memos, News and Home all coming to the Mac with macOS Mojave

macOS Mojave is the next big version software for the Mac, which is coming later this year. But we did have a few surprises, Apple is now bringing News, Stocks, Home and Voice Memos all to the desktop and in terms of looks, they all look pretty similar to their iPad counterpart. Like on iOS, Stocks now integrates with Apple News to provide business related news and News now includes […]

iOS 12 will bring third party navigation apps to CarPlay

With iOS 12, which is coming out later this year – CarPlay is gaining support for third party navigation apps. In the slide fro the keynote, Google Maps, Waze as well as a Chinese app were featured. For Apple, this is a good move – since Apple Maps was launched with iOS 6, in 2012 it hasn’t been the most popular app that Apple bundles with iOS and while every […]

What’s new in iOS 12?

This is it, iOS 12 has been revealed a this years WWDC conference keynote and now the fun starts for all the developers who are at San Jose this week, but we need to learn about what Apple has unveiled on stage for iOS 12. Performance Boy, Apple is hitting the message home hard that they are focusing hard on performance, especially for holder iPhone models, Craig Federighi said on stage […]

It’s WWDC day! Follow us live for updates

Today is the day, it’s Apple’s annual WWDC conference for developers all this week and staring at 10AM PT / 6pm BST is the main event for most people, the main keynote. What are we expecting to see? Well, we should definitely see the next version of iOS for iPhone and iPad, which will be iOS 12. The next big version of macOS should debut, macOS 10.14 and tvOS 12 […]

macOS 10.13.5 is here, brings Messages in iCloud to the Mac

Late this week, following the release of iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4 and watchOS 4.4 Apple released macOS 10.13.5 which as usual, includes a handful of bug fixes, as well as Messages in iCloud which has been much anticipated since September last year when iOS 11 was released. Messages in iCloud As mentioned, this feature has been much anticipated, as it has been delayed and postponed in every version of iOS […]

Apple is launching HomePod in Canada, France and Germany on June 18th

Since the delayed launch earleir this year, which was pushed back from the end of last year – the HomePod has suffered from a limited lauch base, with it only being availe in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia from day one. Now however, Apple is planning on expanding the sales reach of its smart speaker to Canada, France and Germany, starting from June 18th. To go alongside this […]

iTunes 12.7.5 released for macOS and Windows

Yesterday, Apple released a minor update to iTunes which brings some very small improvements to the apps performance. The jukebox app has long been available on both Windows and macOS and the latest update, iTunes 12.7.5 is out for both platforms. To update on a Mac, simply go to the Mac App Store, click the Updates tab and check for any updates avaible. On Windows, you can use the Apple […]

Report: iPhone 5s will most likely work with iOS 12

Very soon, we will see the first versions of iOS 12 make appearances this June at Apple’s annual WWDC developers conference, and while we have all the nice positive press surrounding new features, big changes and also security enhancements it’s rarely all good news for those users who are on the older devices, the ones on the bottom of the supported devices list. iPhone 5s Last year, with iOS 11 […]