By news@appleinsider.com (Sponsored Content) Get around price gouging based on IP location, local restrictions, or streaming exclusivity by country by using Surfshark VPN on your iPhone, Mac or iPad to browse as if you’re anywhere in the world without leaving your couch.Surfshark VPN for iPhoneVirtual Private Networks are great for maintaining user security and privacy over an internet connection, but they have many more uses. Surfshark VPN can help you browse the web as if you’re in a different country for a variety of useful reasons.AppleInsider has already shared how Surfshark VPN is an excellent option for travel, but it’s great for when you’re at home as well. Travel to anywhere, from anywhere, using Surfshark to encrypt data and get around different IP-related issues. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Investment firm Piper Sandler believes Apple Intelligence will not boost iPhone 16 sales at first, and an expected price hike may impact demand.Renders of a possible designs for the iPhone 16 rangeIn July 2024, Piper Sandler raised its Apple target price to $225 specifically because of Apple Intelligence. Ahead of the iPhone 16 launch, the company still believes that Apple Intelligence will be key — but not immediately.That’s because the features of Apple Intelligence will launch later in the year, rather than coming out alongside the iPhone 16 range. Then, too, the company says that it wants to see Apple do more to market the benefits of Apple Intelligence, given “the lack of a killer consumer AI app” to date. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Consecutive Apple Watch Series 10 reports from the same leaker offer conflicting details over whether the screen will be flat like it is on the Apple Watch Ultra.A render of what the Apple Watch Series 10 could look likeThere have long been rumors that the forthcoming Apple Watch Series 10 would feature a significant redesign to mark the device’s 10-year anniversary — and that it won’t. The rumors have also vacillated over whether the new watch, which might be called the Apple Watch Series X would be thicker or thinner than the current model.Now a series of leaks from Majin Bu only adds to the uncertainty. For in one leak, he or she shows an Apple Watch Series 10 screen protector, which appears to prove that the display will be flat, as on the Apple Watch Ultra. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) A new rumor says that the capacitive Capture button on the forthcoming iPhone 16 range will work regardless of whether cases include an opening for it.A dummy iPhone 16 model shows where a capacitive Capture button could goIt’s now as close to certain as it can be that the forthcoming iPhone 16 models will have a new Capture button. Expected to be partly a camera shutter button and partly a touch-sensitive control, Capture is only the second new button to be added to the iPhone in years.The first was the Action button, which was introduced to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max in 2023. That button, however, requires a cutout in iPhone cases for users to be able to press it. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Bon Adamson) No matter how long you’ve been reading, no matter how vast your vocabulary is, you’ll always find words you just don’t know from time to time. The Mac’s built-in Dictionary app makes those moments exceedingly temporary.Apple’s Dictionary app can be a robust tool in a pinch, and you don’t even have to open it to use it.Anywhere across macOS, you can figure out the meaning and pronunciation of a word within seconds of seeing it, and all barely any hassle at all. You can even do so without even fully opening the Dictionary app. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Charles Martin) The latest podcasting mic from Shure is an all-around winner — especially for those recording in less-than-ideal locations.The Shure MV7+, in black, with its included yoke.The Shure MV7 , an improved version of previous excellent Shure vocal mics, is another feather in the company’s cap. Only a few minor flaws keep it from being perfect, but the quibbles are pretty minor.Out of the box, the mic offers a solid single-person experience for either digital or analog recording. The sound, which can be further tailored through software, is natually warm and smooth. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple has unusually issued one of its ninth-round developer betas earlier than the rest, with a new build of visionOS 2 now testable.Apple Vision Pro, used to run visionOS. Apple’s beta-testing process typically involves a batch of updates being tested at the same time. However, this time Apple has made one beta available before the rest.The ninth build of visionOS 2 was rolled out to developer beta testers on Tuesday. Apple’s last developer beta release involving visionOS 2 was on August 28, which also saw the eighth betas of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Apple AirTags are back down to nearly record low prices, with the 4-pack dropping to $74.99 at Amazon (within $2 of the all-time cheapest price).Grab 4 Apple AirTags for $74.99.With holiday traveling starting up soon, having a pack of Apple AirTags on hand can help you stay organized. Drop an AirTag in your laptop bag or suitcase to know the whereabouts of your valuables with ease. And now you can pick up the 4-pack for a fraction of the retail cost at Amazon, now $25 off, bringing the price down to $74.99.Buy for $74.99 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) If you ever thought that Facebook was listening in on your conversations to hit you with targeted advertising, you may have been right.Meta and Google were allegedly clients of an advertiser’s open-mic surveillance program.The advertising industry has been trying to improve how it targets ads to users for years, often by mining data for information to build user profiles. However, in the latest revelation, it may have been assisted by smartphones and tablets actively monitoring your everyday conversations.A slide deck from Cox Media Group seen by 404 Media discusses a service it offered that effectively performed surveillance on a user. Called “Active Listening,” the document leak says it could use a device’s microphone to listen in to a user’s speech whenever they are within audible range. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Despite continually saying a touchscreen MacBook Pro is a bad idea, newly-revealed research shows Apple hasn’t stopped exploring the idea.Detail from the patent showing a touchscreen MacBook ProDespite widespread excitement when there is even a hint of a touchscreen Mac, Apple’s position has famously and consistently been that there will never be one. Specifically, the Mac and the touch-screen iPad are two different things, and we should all buy both of them.”We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering said in 2018. “I don’t think we’ve looked at any of the other guys to date and said, how fast can we get there?” Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
