While Apple shares battery specifications for each iPhone battery via talk time, Internet use, video playback and more, it doesn’t share the actual battery capacity for each model.

This may have changed, as MyDrivers has published documents from TENAA, China’s FCC equivalents which reveal that the iPhone XS features a smaller battery capacity than the iPhone X. As noted last week, the XS features an hour less talk time than the X, but an hour longer use when it comes to video playback. It can also be hard to tell how much a new processor like the A12 factors in to the battery life mix.

As such the XS features roughly a 2% smaller battery than its predecessor with a 2,658 mAh capacity compared to 2,716 mAh of the X.

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It’s the beta code that sometimes reveals the nifty things down the road.

In this case, the iOS 12.1 developer beta 1 code seems to be hinting at new iPad Pro models en route for this fall. The code shows Face ID in landscape mode is coming, which isn’t possible with any iPhone.

Steve Troughton-Smith, well known for credible leaks and finding new products and features in the beta OS releases, says iOS 12.1 has references to landscape mode support for Face ID, plus external display connections. Troughton-Smith stated that “Face ID has support for landscape orientation (presumably for iPad only), and iOS 12.1 seems to care a lot more about whether an external display is connected.”

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Getting ahead of an upcoming 2016 tax ruling, Apple has paid the equivalent of more than $15 billion to the Irish government to settle claims of underpayment of tax to the European Union.

The company’s 13.1 billion euro outstanding balance of its disputed balance to the government of Ireland, according to the country’s finance mirror.

In addition to the 13.1 billion euro balance, Apple has paid an additional 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in interest.

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Amidst the slew of updates and new releases, Apple also released Safari 12 for macOS Sierra and High Sierra on Monday.

The new version of the browser adds the following fixes and changes:

– Adds the ability to view website icons in tabs

– Automatically suggests and fills a strong, unique password when creating an account or changing a password
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At long last, Apple has released its iOS 12 operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 12 is available on all devices able to run iOS 11, which includes the iPhone 5s and later, the iPad mini 2 and later, the iPad Air and later, and the 6th-generation iPod touch.

The update cab be snagged on all eligible devices by going to Settings –> General –> Software Update. It could potentially take a few minutes for the update to propagate to all users due to high demand. As with all iOS updates, iOS 12 is free to download.

iOS 12’s new features include the following:

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Following Apple’s announcement last week, you may have notice that the Apple Watch Series 4 unit incorporates a “LTPO-OLED” screen.

Here to explain what that is, a quick engineering discussion screen cap offered the following details:

Apple’s watch comparison [Source : 0]
Section 1: What are backplanes

Before we can understand what the LTPO OLED really is, we need to understand the current state of OLED displays.

When high resolution/large size OLED displays are involved, as in the case of high resolution Televisions and the increasingly common high resolution OLED displays on iPhones, there is a need to drive the large number of pixels correctly.

This is accomplished by something called the Backplane which is a Thin Film Transistor(TFT) layer that activates the OLED pixels and control the current going to the OLED layer which then determines what they show and at what brightness. This is because unlike LCD’s, OLED’s produce their own light and so the Backplanes need to take on the dual role of LCD’s Backplane and the Backlight by providing both the control voltage and the driving voltage to the OLED matrix. As a result OLED backplanes play a pivotal role in the OLED technology.

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A confluence of overheating, communication, and interference issues may be causing delays for Apple’s long-awaited AirPower wireless charging pad.

The AirPower, which was teased over a year ago at the same event used to announce the iPhone X, was set to debut sometime ago. the device, which could simultaneously charge your AirPods, Apple Watch, and iPhone, may have been a bit ambitious to begin with.

Over on Daring Fireball, John Gruber has highlighted the AirPower’s multi-coil design as being the source of woe. The design allegedly causes the device to overheat, an issue which has been rumored to have been around since June, with Apple struggling to find a solution.

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Apple’s delivery times for both the iPhone Xs Max and Apple Watch Series 4 devices began to slip after the first hour or so of early-morning pre-orders. At present, many iPhone Xs configurations can be delivered or picked up on September 21st, whereas most iPhone Xs Max configurations are available as early as September 28th, and as late as October 12th. Apple Watch Series 4 slipped to the middle and end of October.

Users reported that the Apple Store’s servers were largely able to handle the demand, albeit some minor issues were reported, such as some AT&T orders not being able to complete and some Apple Pay transactions failing to complete. Overall, through, it appeared to be a much smoother pre-order event for most customers.

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This is pretty interesting, especially where the Apple Watch’s health perspective is concerned:

I’m an Emergency Physician and read/interpret ECGs on a daily basis. I wanted to talk about the Apple Watch’s new ECG feature as there are a lot of misconceptions about this new function. Apple Watch’s new ECG feature is pretty neat and a lot of people here are understandably excited about it, but it does have limitations.

I also wanted to do a brief tutorial on the basics of ECGs.

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Pre-orders for the iPhone XS, XS Max, and Apple Watch Series 4 will kick off on Friday, September 14 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, allowing customers to purchase one of Apple’s newly announced devices.

With Apple planning to launch the new devices around the world simultaneously, here’s a list of when pre-orders will be accepted around the globe:

Australia West – 3:01 p.m. AWST

Australia East – 5:01 p.m. AEST

Austria – 9:01 a.m. CEST

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