We're excited that AirPlay 2 is fully here after basically a year of waiting for it. The latest Apple OS updates bring stereo playback to HomePod and multi-room playback in its official form.
Apple on Wednesday seeded the first betas of iOS 11.4.1, macOS 1013.6, watchOS 4.3.2 and tvOS 11.4.1.Registered developers can download the new betas through Apple's developer center, or they can install them using each platform's respective OTA mechanism.
Thanks to yesterday's software updates, Siri on HomePod now understands French, German and Canadian English languages and dialects spoken in those countries, with additional support for Canadian French coming down the pike later this year.
Has price kept you from buying a HomePod? At what price point would you consider ditching Google or Amazon and buying a smart speaker from Apple? What about $250? That's the price one Apple analyst predicts Apple will charge for a new Beats-branded speaker that could be announced at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
A brand new Apple Watch Pride face has been discovered in watchOS 4.3.1 software, inspired by the rainbow flag. Featuring threads of color, the Pride face animates very nicely and smoothly in a different way every time the user touches the screen.
While it can be easy to share files, images, and links across your devices, you likely use different apps for that. For instance, you may use Photo Stream for images and Safari for links. However, if you want to use just one simple app that not only lets you share across your mobile devices, but your computers and browsers too, then check out Pushbullet.
As a longtime fan of Pushbullet, this easy-to-use application lets you share items between your devices instantly. With the push of a button, you can share to several spots at one time or to a single device, and it’s all done securely. If you are ready to dig into Pushbullet, here’s how to get started and use it.
Safari offers a great web browsing experience on both the iPhone or iPad, but truthfully speaking, the smartphone and tablet versions of this stock web browser aren't created equally.
A new free jailbreak tweak called SafariPad by iOS developer LonestarX takes note of this caveat and brings one of the best iPad-centric Safari features to smaller handsets like the iPhone and iPod touch: browsing tabs.
The name Ian Beer should sound pretty familiar by now, as he was the security researcher behind the tfp0 exploit for iOS 11.0-11.1.2 that made CoolStar’s popular Electra jailbreak tool possible.
But Beer is about to become even more popular after a Tweet shared Tuesday afternoon. It appears that he may have yet another tfp0 exploit up his sleeve; only this time, it supports firmware as new as iOS 11.3.1.
Renowned jailbreak tweak developer Ryan Petrich updated his popular Activator extension this week with support for iOS 11.
This is the first time since the release of CoolStar’s Electra jailbreak for iOS 11.0-11.1.2 that Activator received an official update to support Apple’s latest jailbreakable firmware. Notably, unofficial forks were under development by other developers previously.
During next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple's holding a "Close Your Rings Challenge" for developers while they are in San Jose, California. It's designed to motivate developers to close the three Apple Watch activity rings each day beginning on Sunday, June 3 through Thursday, June 7.
Apple has listed third-party speakers and Hi-Fi receivers that will pick up support for AirPlay 2 technology which became available to the general public via today's iOS and tvOS updates.
Alongside iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, watchOS 4.3.1 and all-new HomePod software, Apple today bumped iTunes to version 12.7.5, a minor update with under-the-hood improvements.