Learn how to toggle the ability to capture a special moment of your FaceTime video call as a Live Photo on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How to allow or block Live Photos during FaceTime calls
How to configure accessibility keyboard settings on Mac
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through four handy keyboard accessibility features to help you get the best typing experience if you have difficulty using the Mac’s keyboard in its standard configuration.
iOS 13.5 will let you disable ‘Automatic Prominence’ while in a Group FaceTime call
Group FaceTime supports up to 35 people on a single video call, which means it can get pretty busy depending on how active folks are.
The best free mood tracking apps for iPhone and iPad
Check out the best mood-tracking apps for your iPhone and iPad so you can capture how you’re feeling no matter where you go.
Twelve South BackPack adds an aluminum shelf to iMac
As part of a little work from home (WFH) miniseries, I am highlighting the Twelve South products that are keeping me organized while sheltering in place. With an iMac, external monitor, iPad Pro, external drives and several gadget stands, a desk lamp, desk fan, multiple keyboards and sundry items, adding my work laptop to the home desk started cramping my setup. Sitting in front of messy wires and disorganization began making me feel cluttered and unproductive while stuck WFH. The Twelve South BackPack helped me start getting organized and less distracted.
DisplayPort AltMode 2.0: USB 4 compatibility, two 8K displays or one 16K display & more
Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today unveiled DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 with support for the new USB4 protocol, two simultaneous 8K displays, a single 16K display, 80 Gbps video data throughput or 40 Gbps with simultaneous SuperSpeed USB data delivery.
iOS 13.5 makes it easier to skip Face ID when you’re wearing a mask
Face ID is designed to be a secure biometric security measure, but sometimes it can be frustrating in certain circumstances. Like with the ongoing health crisis where mask wearing is paramount to helping stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Spotify now has 130 million paid subscribers and 163 million free, ad-supported accounts
Swedish music service Spotify, the biggest name in music-streaming, now has an impressive 130 million subscribers who pay for the premium service and about 163 million accounts who are on a free, ad-driven tier, the company announced Wednesday.
Apple seeds third betas of iOS 13.5, iPadOS 13.5, tvOS 13.4.5, watchOS 6.2.5, and macOS Catalina 10.15.5 to developers
Apple recently launched iOS 13.4, along with updates to iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS, to the public. And now the beta seed process is back up and running for the next update to the platforms.
Google’s videoconferencing service Meet is now free for everyone with a Google account
In an effort to tackle Zoom’s lockdown dominance and at the same time help people during the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, Google today announced that its premium videoconferencing solution, dubbed Meet, will be free to anyone starting in the next few weeks.
Alleged kernel-level jailbreak bypass may let jailbreakers evade detection in apps [U]
Anyone using a jailbroken iPhone or iPad as their daily driver has likely experienced the aching inconvenience of something called jailbreak detection. This is essentially where an app developer implements some kind of trap in their app that detects if your handset is jailbroken and then responds one of two ways: 1) by denying the user access to the app on the jailbroken handset; or 2) banning the user for the use of potential third-party hacks.
Jailbreak detection has been a pain (to say the least) for users who enjoy the freedoms made possible by liberating their handset from Apple’s control, and the feeling is made worse when you find out that an account for one of your favorite games was banned for accessing said game on a jailbroken device. These issues have raised community-driven demands for jailbreak bypasses, especially one at the kernel level that would be far more robust than the traditional variety.
Pandora’s Apple Watch app now supports Siri
Pandora has supported the Apple Watch with an official app for a bit of time now, and now it supports Siri.