By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) A new report suggests that further enhancements to both the Home Screen and various Apple apps are coming in iOS 18, arriving in fall 2024.Replacement of standard app icons could finally be possible in iOS 18The forthcoming iOS 18, expected to be announced at June’s WWDC event, will mix the usual round of new features alongside AI-based enhancements. Previous reports have proposed that Photos, Safari, Siri, Voice Memos, and Notes among other apps will gain AI-based abilities.Another potential use of AI technology will come to Messages, with the app gaining the ability to suggest new custom emojis, based on what the user is texting. This would be in addition to the ever-expanding library of standard emojis, which work across various platforms. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) The coupon special knocks $200 off Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 chip and bump up to 16GB unified memory. Plus, grab a $50 discount on three years of AppleCare.Save $200 on an upgraded M3 MacBook Pro.The upgraded 14-inch MacBook Pro in Space Gray is equipped with Apple’s M3 chip with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU. It also has a bump up to 16GB of unified memory, helping to increase performance and run additional apps compared to the base model with 8GB RAM.Use code APINSIDER Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) While you probably haven’t thought about it in years, the first mainstream universal messenger app for the Mac and just about every other platform will finally be completely retired in June 2024.Owner Mail.ru’s announcement that the messaging program is being discontinuedTwenty-eight years is a long time for an net-based app to survive. For many early internet adopters, ICQ — “I Seek You” — was their introduction to large-scale, real-time social and private chatting.Launched in November of 1996, it gave users a simpler and more graphical app in order to chat with friends outside of the previous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system, and an AOL messenger that was still constrained to the eponymous service. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Memorial Day 2024 sales are in full swing, with lower pricing on Apple products, ranging from MacBooks that are up to $700 off to AirPods Max that are $100 off. Even 2024 iPads are discounted.Save up to $700 on Apple products during Memorial Day sales. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) You make a fraction as many phone calls as you used to, yet you’re paying over a thousand bucks for a phone. This might be the time to switch from the iPhone to the iPad mini.The iPad mini has almost everything an iPhone does, but for a lower costWe get this question a lot more than you think we would. We get a lot of emails asking if an iPhone is better, or an iPad mini for any given use case.It boils down to a key point. Very simply, take actual phone calls — not FaceTime audio or video — out of the picture for a moment and the iPad mini does everything you need. The devil is in the details, though. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The UK’s Design and Art Direction awards have honored the Apple Vision Pro with its highest accolade in a ceremony attended by Apple designer Alan Dye.The Black Pencil Award was for both the Apple Vision Pro hardware and visionOSApple has been honored with a Black Pencil by the Design and Art Direction (D&AD) awards many times before, including for the original iPhone, the iMac, and even for its website. For 2024, the Apple Vision Pro has won a Black Pencil for Digital Design and Connected Experiences — and a Graphite Pencil for Use of XR.”We are honored that visionOS has been awarded the prestigious D&AD Black Pencil for Digital Design,” Apple’s Vice President of Human Interface Design Alan Dye told design magazine dezeen. “This new era of computing will redefine how we connect and create, and this award is a testament to the tight integration and care the design studio and engineering teams at Apple have invested into crafting a truly magical experience.” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Consumers may have to wait until 2026 before they can buy a new iPad mini — and it may have a brand new display.Apple iPad mini 6Apple has not updated the iPad mini for a considerable amount of time. However, an update may not be arriving anytime soon.According to ZDNet Korea via Naver, Samsung Display has started to develop a new display for the iPad mini. It has already developed samples which it reportedly sent to Apple in April. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) How and why Apple Music chose its Best 100 albums, plus what’s coming to the Music app in iOS 18, and getting into the details of the nano texture iPad Pro, in this week’s AppleInsider podcast.Apple Music’s Best 100 albums documentary on a MacBook ProJust as certain as it is that Apple Music’s Best 100 albums list would always be controversial, is the fact that it’s going to introduce you to some great new music. But as people debate the list and wonder why Apple Music made the choices it did, they are missing the fact that Apple has told us everything — in detail. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) After years of promising legislation against Big Tech firms such as Apple, the UK has now sped up the process to get Digital Markets Act clone passed before its general election.UK ParliamentUp to now, the UK’s progress on its tub-thumping insistence it will control Big Tech has been slow to the point of ridicule. It announced a government department in 2020, but didn’t start it until 2021. Then when it was started with at least 60 staff, the UK literally did not give it powers to do anything, not until 2023.However, also in 2023, the finally active Digital Markets Unit (DMU) did get going with a Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill. While its stated purpose is to lead to establishing codes of conduct for Big Tech firms, it’s a step toward emulating the existing Digital Markets Act in the EU. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Apple has updated the short sizzle reel included in the immersive video section of the Apple Vision Pro Apple TV app to include scenes from American football, basketball, and other content.Apple Vision Pro Immersive ExperienceApple Vision Pro has had quite a slow rollout regarding exclusive content and software. As Apple approaches an apparent global launch, the pace of interesting content seems to be increasing.Late Thursday, Apple updated the Experience Immersive sizzle reel with new content. It had remained unchanged since launch, minus the removal of a basketball scene. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
