Apple has offered the ability to reserve a time slot in a given day to help with repairs and other service questions at its physical retail stores for years, and now it's expanding the same idea to help customers shop for products.
So now that we know Apple is going to officially transitioning to ARM-based Macs later this year with customer-ready hardware, there remained at least one lingering question: would Apple still support Thunderbolt?
The upcoming WWII epic "Greyhound" is launching on Apple TV+ this Friday, marking the first time a Tom Hanks movie is debuting on a streaming service. Ahead of its Apple TV+ premiere, the iPhone maker today shared an inside-look video in which the project's screenwriter and main star talks about the importance of the Battle of Atlantic in 1942.
For quite some time now Apple's been making videos to show off how pro users are putting Macs through their paces. And now, Apple on Wednesday pushed a new video to its YouTube channel in which it featured English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer James Blake which can be seen cutting tracks in Logic Pro X on his MacBook.
Alongside second betas of iOS 14 and other operating systems that were seeded to developers yesterday, Apple also introduced a second beta of the upcoming HomePod software update which is being available on an invite-only basis to a selection of AppleSeed beta testers.
Amazon is allowing users of its Alexa mobile app to use the smart assistant without having to touch the Alexa button at the bottom control bar for voice control. However, the online retail giant calling this feature "hands-free" voice activation is stretching it a bit.
Apple made an announcement this morning that it's expanding its iPhone repair services to "hundreds of new locations" across the United States, while also opening the Independent Repair Provider Program to independent repair shops across Europe and Canada.
Apple may be working on a new mobile payment feature that would permit iPhone customers to make payments with Apple Pay using either QR codes or traditional bar codes.
You may have read complaints on social media written by opinionated users who think that Apple pretty much phoned in the work for the icons in macOS Big Sur, but what about the rest of the interface? Thanks to app designer Andrew Denty, we now have a great visual comparison of the user interface changes between macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur.
One of the cooler enhancements in the improved Music app in the iOS and iPadOS 14 updates that wasn't mentioned before brings animated artwork for some Apple Music playlists.
Be sure to consult this official Apple TV device compatibility list if you need to verify that your particular model of the Apple set-top box meets the tvOS 14 system requirements.
The rumor that Apple will be ditching the bundled charger and Lightning-based EarPods earphones in the iPhone 12 box was just corroborated by Japanese media outlet Nikkei.