Here’s your iPhone XS marketing wallpaper

Yesterday's unexpected leak (or could it be a great PR ploy on Apple's part?) of an upcoming “iPhone XS” refresh has vividly illustrated the difference between a 5.8-inch second-generation iPhone X and the 6.5-inch form factor of a brand-new iPhone XS Plus model. The leak utilizes an unreleased wallpaper depicting what appears to be one-half of an imaginary, colorful planet (looks great on OLED screens!). The planet itself fills about a half of the display, mostly vertically to a great effect, with the pitch black void of space cunningly hiding the notch.

Pride Apple Watch face blocked by Apple in Russia

If you're wearing an Apple Watch in Russia and want to use the pride Apple Watch face, you're out of luck. The face is "hardcoded to not show up if the paired iPhone is using the Russian locale," according to iOS developer Guilherme Rambo and later confirmed by The Verge.

View how many characters you’ve typed in the Notes app with countingNotes

The iPhone’s native Notes app has received a multitude of changes in some of the most recent iterations of iOS, but one thing Apple always falls short of adding is a character counter.

Most of the text editors and word processors available today incorporate some form of fundamental support for character or word counting, and so it’d be nice if the Notes app fell into that category. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak called countingNotes by iOS developer CydiaGeek can make it happen.

Microsoft is removing Office 365 device install limits

On Oct. 2, Microsoft plans on increasing the number of devices you can use with Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal subscriptions. On that date, you can install the apps on an unlimited number of devices. Additionally, you may be signed into at many as five of those devices at the same time, according to news first posted on Microsoft's Tech Community website, 

First image purportedly of the 2018 iPhone XS leaks

Just hours after Apple announced it would be holding its fall event on Sept. 12, 9to5Mac has published what it claims is the first official image that shows two of the three new iPhones the company is expected to announce on that date. The site also claims the two new handsets have the name iPhone XS.