By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has taken down its online Education Store, and it is expected to be reopened shortly with the company’s latest Back to School gift card deals.Apple has taken down its US Education StoreAs predicted, Apple appears to be preparing to launch its Back to School 2024 promotion. Or at least it is for the US and Canada, as at present other versions of the store around the world are operating normally.As ever, the US store says only “be right back” — Canada’s says “We’ll be right back” — with no schedule, or detail about what is changing. Consequently details of the Back to School promotion will not be known until the store reopens. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) Apple’s included Freeform app is a versatile tool for note-taking, doodles, collaborative planning, and much more. Here’s how to use it as a mind-mapping tool for visualizing plans, projects, and ideas on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.Freeform is included on Macs, iPhones, and iPads.First unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2022, Freeform is an open-canvas type whiteboard app. It is meant to be both a creative and business tool — allowing single users or a group to share thoughts, ideas, sketches and text visually.Among its many abilities, Freeform can easily replace sometimes-expensive mind-mapping and brainstorming apps. By being able to expand a project as you go or move separate sets of information around on a limitless space, it makes a good place for visually organizing thoughts, ideas, artwork, feedback, and more. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Marko Zivkovic) Apple previewed a true multitude of OS features and AI-related improvements during WWDC that didn’t quite align with leaks and rumors. Here’s everything Apple changed and why.Apple changed several OS features ahead of their debut at WWDC 2024In the months leading up to WWDC, AppleInsider published a series of exclusive reports detailing the different features Apple was set to debut at the event. In speaking to people familiar with the matter, we obtained a large amount of information on then-unannounced operating system features.Following our reports, Apple changed some of the features we described by renaming them, altering minor design elements, removing functionality, or eliminating them entirely. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Despite all that Apple says, you can in fact use an original Apple Pencil with the company’s latest iPad Pro and iPad Air — it just takes some work. Here’s what to do.With a little work, the original Apple Pencil can be used on a USB-C iPad ProApple Pencil Pro may be the latest and definitely the best of the Apple Pencil range, but each model is good. If only you didn’t have to be so careful, making certain that the Apple Pencil model you buy will work with the iPad you’ve got.You still should make certain what you need, and for the most part, each generation of Apple Pencil is better than the last. But even the original Apple Pencil from 2015 can work with the latest iPads. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) A threat actor is claiming to have leaked source code for three internal Apple tools, in a supposed breach that Apple has yet to confirm actually happened.Servers in a data centerApple prides itself on being security-focused and being willing to defend the privacy of customers. However, it is claimed that it was the victim of a breach earlier in June.In a post by DarkWebInformer on X, the threat actor IntelBroker has allegedly leaked code from Apple. Posted to a hacker forum, it is alleged that the post contains the “internal source code” to three of Apple’s “commonly used tools” for internal purposes. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Best Buy has issued a $200 price cut on multiple iPad Air 5 models, with prices dipping to as low as $399.99.Save $200 on Apple’s iPad Air 5.Best Buy is clearing out last-gen iPad Air models to make way for the new iPad Air 6, and that equates to big bargains on the 5th Gen tablets. Save $200 on a variety of models in numerous colors. Even Apple Pencil models are on sale to make note-taking a breeze.Shop the sale Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple is making a bigger drive for people to game on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, but Game Mode can be annoying. Here’s what it is, and how to turn it off.The Game Mode indicator in iOS 18The WWDC 2024 keynote was surprisingly game-forward, with multiple announcements aimed at entertainment. Among the changes was the expansion of the Game Mode feature.In theory, it’s a feature that could level up gameplay for avid gamers on their mobile devices. It’s already something that has been used by gamers on Mac since its introduction in 2023. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has made it easier to customize and arrange your iPad home screen, with iPadOS 18 letting you rearrange icons and even tint them. Here’s how to do it.iPadOS 18Apple has gradually given more control to users about what items they can put onto the home screens of their devices. With Apple’s latest update, there’s even more options available to make your iPad screen as perfect as possible. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The headline Apple Intelligence improvements to Safari’s Reader mode on iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia are not available yet, but the feature has still been updated.The new Reader options on iPhoneApple has announced that Safari’s Reader mode, where all website distractions are removed so that you can read articles more easily, will be getting two specific updates. They are an automatic summary of an article, and also a contents page for longer ones — both done by Apple Intelligence.There is no Apple Intelligence in the first developer beta of any of Apple’s OSes, but Safari’s Reader mode has been improved. While AppleInsider will revisit Reader after Apple Intelligence arrives, there are already new benefits to the feature including quicker access to options. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew O’Hara) At WWDC, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence as an expansion of its AI capabilities. It’s incredibly impressive in action, and if you let it, it will change how you work.Apple Intelligence is coming this fallThe span and ambition of Apple Intelligence are staggering now, and it’s not even in the betas yet. This project that has been years in the making can help you search video content, answer personalized questions, and create any image you can image.The keynote at the annual developer conference spent nearly half of the run time of the presentation on these features. After that, we also got to see it firsthand. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
