Apple on Friday sent out invitations to select members of the press for a March 27 event.
Apple to host educational event on March 27: “creative new ideas for teachers and students”
Google rebrands Android Wear as Wear OS
Google is renaming its Android Wear software as “Wear OS”.
Apple’s new Families webpage gathers all the parental tools for iOS and macOS in one place
Apple yesterday published a new webpage that brings all of its parental controls in one place.
The HeartMonitor app tracks your heart rate continuously without starting an active workout
Due to power concerns, Apple Watch does not monitor your heart rates continually.
WWDC 2018 iPhone wallpapers
On Tuesday, March 13, Apple announced the forthcoming WWDC 2018, held June 4-8 in San Jose. The annual event announces updates to macOS, iOS, and tvOS. Sometimes, we get to see some updated hardware too!
As with all Apple events, a media invitation is sent out to the community, at which point everyone attempts to find clues in the design. More importantly, the iDB wallpaper group gets to work, designing invitation-inspired wallpapers for your iOS devices.
How to quickly edit screenshots on iPhone or iPad with Instant Markup
With Instant Markup on iPhone and iPad, you can annotate or quickly edit screenshots right after taking them. You can do things like add text and vector shapes to your screenshots, doodle anything with your finger or Apple Pencil, zoom in on a part of a screenshot to emphasize it, and much more. Let's show you how.
Censor your photos and screenshots with Redacted for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple provides iOS users with a handy Markup tool that makes it easy to annotate their photos and attachments, sign documents, cover up sensitive information and so forth.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm for Mac is launching in the spring
Developer Feral Interactive on Wednesday announced that the adventure game Life is Strange: Before the Storm has been ported to the Mac platform and will be launching this spring.
VideoHUD provides system-wide access to iOS 11’s new volume HUD
One of the most significant pain points involving the iOS user interface is the stock volume HUD. It pops up directly in the middle of your display, forcing you to wait for its automatic dismissal before returning to your tasks.
Apple provided meaningful volume HUD-centric upgrades in iOS 11, but you’ll only notice them when you watch videos or play full-screen games. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak called VideoHUD by iOS developer Youssef Mikhail lets you enjoy these upgrades from anywhere in iOS.
This tweak puts the date under the time indicator on your jailbroken iPhone X
DateUnderTimeX is a subtle new jailbreak tweak made by iOS developer NeinZedd9 that adds a date indicator beneath the Status Bar time indicator on jailbroken iPhone X handsets.
Shown above, you can see how well the date meshes with the existing time indicator. The implementation is so clean that it virtually looks like something Apple would offer right out of the box.
Google is bringing Dark theme to its mobile YouTube app today
At long last, YouTube for iPhone and iPad has gained a new Dark theme, rolling out today.
WWDC scheduled for June 4-8 in San Jose, registration now open
Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place during the week of June 4-8, in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. Registration is now open for folks hoping to attend.