iOS 14.4 has now hit the Release Candidate stage and is currently available to the developer and beta tester communities. As such, the current change list includes the following: Smaller QR codes can be recognized by Camera Option to classify Bluetooth device type in Settings for correct identification of headphones for audio notifications Notifications for […]
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The current word around the water cooler is that Apple’s iOS 15 operating system would lose support for older devices such as the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and the original iPhone SE. Per French web site iPhoneSoft, the update will seemingly drop support for devices with an A9 chip when it launches later in […]
The fairly nifty sensor-shift optical image stabilization feature could be en route to each model in the iPhone 13 lineup this year. Per DigiTimes, the feature, which is only found on the iPhone 12 Pro Max model, could be seen from the low to the high end of the iPhone 13: “Apple’s next-generation iPhones slated […]
This portends some good things to come for operating systems that can run on new Apple Silicon hardware. A group of security researchers at Corellium have ported a version of Linux to the Apple Silicon M1 chip that will ultimately be released under an open-source license. The Linux version is a full Ubuntu desktop operating system that […]
The cool cats at iFixit have just completed and posted a complete teardown of the new AirPods Max headphones. The good news is that it’s repairable. The bad news is that the company cited Apple’s “obsessive craftsmanship” that makes other offerings look “like toys, by comparison.” To this end, the headband portion of the unit […]