By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Lake Vrangla is a foggy new environment available in visionOS, beta or not, and is found near Oslo, Norway, in the real world.Lake Vrangla now available to all Apple Vision Pro usersApple launched the Apple Vision Pro in February 2024, and a slow trickle of updates and media followed. The reveal of visionOS 2 during WWDC showed that some welcome improvements were coming, as well as new environments.Bora Bora debuted in the first visionOS 2 beta, and now we have Lake Vrangla. However, it arrived as a server-side push from Apple to all Apple Vision Pro users, so visionOS 2 is not required. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol.Choosing the “Pistol” emoji on Twitter/X now again gets you a gun instead of a water pistolThe existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode Consortium and its annual decisions, rather than specific firms such as Apple, Google, or Twitter. Each company does its own graphic design representation, and today, X has demonstrated that by going against the industry’s recognized standards.According to Emojipedia, Twitter/X has updated its emoji design for the word “pistol,” and made it into an image of a firearm. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple is now on its fifth round of current-generation operating system builds, including release candidates for iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6.iOS 17Developers taking part in Apple’s beta program can download the new builds to an Apple Developer Centeror by updating their iPhone or iPad already running the betas via the Settings app. Public beta versions usually arrive shortly after the developer versions.These release candidates are for the current-generation versions of Apple’s operating systems, including iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, tvOS 17.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. They are not to be confused with the fall build testing for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple’s now on its fourth round of developer betas for its fall operating system updates, with new builds of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2 now availableApple releases fourth developers betas for iOS 18 and the restRound four arrives after an unusual third round. After the initial release on July 8, July 10 for macOS Sequoia, Apple then reissued the betas for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia on July 15.The betas are for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, as well as visionOS 2. Apple is also operating developer betas for its current generation of operating systems, including iOS 17.5 and so forth. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) While AI is under attack from copying existing works without permission, the industry could end up getting into more legal trouble over trademarks.Images created by Microsoft’s CopilotThe rise in interest in generative AI has also led to an increase in complaints about the technology. Along with the complaints that the AI can often be incorrect, there are often issues with the sourcing of content to train the models in the first place.This has already caused some litigious action, such as Conde Nast sending a cease and desist to AI startup Perplexity from using content from its publications. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple has plans for making Apple Vision Pro even more accessible and allowing for it to be controlled with customized gestures.Apple Vision Pro may recognize familiar gestures and let you assign them to tasksImagine being on a Zoom call and being able to mute yourself the way a radio DJ does by making a slicing gesture in front of your throat. Or perhaps make the age-old hand signal for “phone me” and have Apple Vision Pro send your contact details to whoever you’re looking at.That’s the implication of Apple’s newly-granted patent, “Method And Device For Defining Custom Hand Gestures.” It’s a method of assigning any gesture to any Apple Vision Pro function, and while it comes from the headset’s accessibility features, it has a broad use. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) A new industry report claims that Apple’s iPhone Fold is now set to arrive sooner than expected, with the iPhone 18 range.A render of an iPhone FoldReports of Apple producing a foldable iPhone have persisted for years, and for at least as long as its rivals have had ones. Most recently, there have been reports of two different designs of a folding iPhone being considered, and that a launch won’t be until 2027.According to Digitimes, however, Apple may have chosen its design, and that overall timescale may be accelerating. Based on various Korean media outlets, the report claims that Apple formally began research in 2004, which is when it also signed a contract with Samsung. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Back-to-school deals on iMacs are heating up at Apple resellers this week, with Prime Day pricing returning at Amazon and exclusive triple-digit discounts on upgraded models at B&H and Adorama.Kicking off the iMac sale is a price war on the standard 24-inch configuration with an 8-core GPU, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD, which is marked down to $1,149 at Amazon and B&H Photo Video in select colorways.Buy from $1,149But if you’re looking to future-proof your purchase (and budget allows) we highly recommend upgrading to a model with 16GB or 24GB of unified memory, as every model is up to $200 off at Apple Authorized Reseller Adorama when you enter promo code APINSIDER during Step 4 of checkout. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Four years after declaring it wanted to block third-party cookies in Chrome, Google has confirmed it won’t block the online trackers after all.Google Chrome iconIn 2020, around the time when Apple blocked third-party cookies in Safari, Google insisted it would do the same thing. Four years later, Google has seemingly given up on blocking them.A blog post from Google VP Anthony Chavez about the Privacy Sandbox published on Tuesday says that the plan is moving in a different direction. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) India is cutting back its import duty on iPhones and also selected iPhone components, meaning it will cost Apple less to bring in completed phones, and to make new ones locally.Mumbai, IndiaAt least one reason that Apple even began producing iPhones in India was because locally-made devices have avoided the country’s 20% import tax. In recent years, iPhone manufacturing in India has increased radically, with the region specifically benefitting from Apple’s moves to reduce its dependency on China.According to Reuters, the Indian government has now announced that its import rate will be cut to 15%. Saying that it is in the “interest of consumers,” the government is reducing the import tax on smartphones, mobile phone chargers, and printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
