Learn how to set a default template in Apple Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for Mac to save yourself a step when creating new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
How to set a default template in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
How to create and edit Smart Folders in Spark on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Just like smart mailboxes in the Mail app, you can set up smart folders in the Spark email app. This makes organizing your inbox easier, plus gives you a specific spot to go to for those particular emails you need.
You can use smart folders in Spark for travel arrangements, purchase receipts, or work-related emails. Or, you can set them up for emails you received in certain time frame, with a particular type of attachment, or from a specific sender.
Whatever you might find smart folders useful for in Spark, here’s how to create and edit them on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Modern Battery upgrades the Status Bar battery indicator on notched iPhones
Lots of iPhone users aren’t happy with the fact that you can’t have a numeric battery percentage in the Status Bar on a notched handset, and you could count me in that camp. As someone to consistently enabled this feature on the older and more traditional iPhones all the time, it felt like culture shock adapting to a user experience without it.
Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Modern Battery by iOS developer Jax Roth can help in this department, as it can put a numeric battery percentage indicator directly inside of the native Status Bar battery icon.
GreenPotion adds a quirky potion-style battery animation to the Lock Screen
Battery information is a bigger deal to some than others, but if you wish battery monitoring could be a bit more fun than it is out of the box on a stock iPhone or iPad, then we think you’re doing to love a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed GreenPotion by iOS developer Plat-Ykor.
The name “GreenPotion” is a dead giveaway in terms of what you can expect this tweak to do. Once you install it, you can tap on a new button situated between the Lock Screen’s Camera and Flashlight shortcut buttons to invoke a potion-like animation that displays real-time battery information, as shown in the screenshot examples above.
Weather Plus adds dates to the stock Weather app’s forecasts
It’s not uncommon for folks to make plans around the weather; this is especially the case when said plans involve outdoor activities. That said, wouldn’t it be more convenient if Apple’s stock Weather app made it just a little bit easier to see the upcoming dates next to each day in the weather forecast?
If you answered yes, then we have no doubt in our minds that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called Weather Plus by iOS developer Hao Nguyen will appeal to you.
Apple is now re-closing 14 stores in Florida
The Apple Store closures continue as the spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, continues in the United States.
watchOS 7 adds FairPlay support, enabling DRM audio streaming apps
FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) tool that Apple developed in-house. It allows the streaming of DRM-protected content on a range of devices, and now the Apple Watch is being added to that list.
You can now buy a leather saddlebag for the Mac Pro
So, you have a Mac Pro, but every time you look at the tower you can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, it would look even better with a saddlebag. Well, the wait is finally over.
Apple enables developers to detect human body and hand poses for screenless app interactions
Apple has added new capabilities to its Vision framework in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14 and macOS 11.0 Big Slur which enable developers to support cool screenless app interactions.
Barclays analysts predict iPhone 12 announcement in September, no EarPods or charger in the box, and LiDAR Scanner on Pro models
Later this year, Apple is going to announce a new lineup of iPhones, what's known right now as the iPhone 12. And analysts are starting to come forward with their predictions of what we might expect to see once fall rolls around.
Watch iDB’s hands-on video walkthrough of the top 50 new iOS 14 features coming to iPhone
With Monday's Apple keynote behind us, we're already in the third day of the WWDC 2020, which means the iDB team has had a decent chance to spend some quality time with the betas by now. We've tried out all of the latest improvements that Apple showed off during the pre-recorded keynote or mentioned in developer documentation and on its website.
Apple’s WWDC 2020 Day 2 video recap dives deep into WidgetKit and App Clips
Apple this morning shared a new video recap highlighting some of the developer features it explored in detail during the second day of its five-day WWDC 2020 event.