Since iOS 12 was launched last September, the initial pickup was generally quick, especially compared to the previous year with iOS 11. This was mainly down to the focus on basic improvements for performance and stability, whereas iOS 10 and iOS 11 were much more buggy, in comparison. iOS 12 Now, this week Apple has now published new numbers, mainly aimed at its developers detailing the current adoption rate for […]
Apple is always working on improving what they do all the time and one of the main ones, is Apple Maps. This week, more features for Apple Maps have rolled out to more places. Transit Directions Apple’s relatively new public transport directions is now available in the following United States states Alaska Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Indiana Illinois Kentucky Mississippi Missouri New Jersey North Dakota New York Oklahoma Rhode Island […]
This week, Apple has released a much needed bug fix update for iOS 12, with iOS 12.1.3. This update applies to iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and the HomePod, as the HomePod basically runs a lighter version of iOS, it gets all the updates too. What has been fixed? Messages Some users had issues with Messages, where if you scrolled through a list of images in the details panel, it would […]
Public transit directions arguably came a bit late to Apple Maps, considering Google has had the feature for a long time but Apple has executed it very well and it is extremely useful for getting tube, bus or train directions if you happen to be lost in a city somewhere. MacRumors reported today that as of today Apple has expanded the feature to select large cites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and […]
This week, we reported that AirPlay 2 and iTunes will be coming to some 2018 and newer Samsung Smart TV models and now from all the CES 2019 announcements, Apple have revealed that more smart TVs coming this year from Samsung, Vizio, LG and Sony will be supporting AirPlay 2 and HomeKit. What does this mean? Having support for AirPlay 2 directly into the TV means you’ll no longer need […]
On Sunday last week, Samsung announced that it has been working with Apple on some pretty big news. For the first time since Apple adopted iTunes on Windows back in 2003, iTunes content will be coming to an additional non-Apple platform. iTunes on Samsung It may seem like iTunes is coming to Samsung TVs, but it’s Apple’s movies and tv shows from iTunes which are coming to Samsung’s range of […]
Apple Music, since it’s launch hasn’t really been available on third party devices, apart from Android. It has long been an ‘Apple only’ service, which makes sense as Apple doesn’t typically make money off services, it is the hardware which brings in the money but this week Amazon and Apple both announced that Apple Music will be coming to the range of Echo devices later this month. The announcement took […]
2018 isn’t over for Apple, we’ve had the event in September for the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR and the new Apple Watch Series 4 but people have been expecting new products. When’s the event? First things first – Apple sent out invites late last week for the event which is taking place on October 30th and for the first time in a while, its on the […]
iOS 12 was released a little under a month ago, back in September – and already over half of the devices that can run iOS 12, are now running it. Last year, in 2017 with iOS 11 – it took 50 days for 50% of devices to start running iOS 11. Quick takeup With iOS 12, it has been well advertised that this new update does in fact help improve […]
In a press release from Apple about the new software update for HomePod, it mentions all the new features that were added with iOS 12 for HomePod, but at the very bottom of the page it mentions HomePod is available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US, and will be available in Mexico and Spain starting October 26. HomePod is available in white and space gray at an […]
