Spam calls are annoying, and annoyingly abundant. But Apple is making a change to the phone app that aims to help with that.
iOS 13 uses Siri intelligence to triage incoming phone calls
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Follow along with time-synced lyrics and see a better Up Next view with Apple Music in iOS 13
While it was brief, Apple discussed a new feature coming to the music listening experience with iOS 13 (and tvOS 13) later this year.
Apple registers 7 new Mac notebook models in Eurasian database
Apple has taken a bit of an irregular update approach to its MacBook lineup over the last few years, with the company leaning away from a yearly refresh for most models. As a result, some, like the 12-inch MacBook, haven't been upgraded for quite some time. But it looks like Apple is gearing up to offer new choices in the near future.
HomePod will offer personalized experiences, support Handoff with iOS 13
Apple took some time at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote to discuss HomePod, and how iOS 13 will help improve the company's first smart speaker.
Screen Time in iOS 13 gives more options to parents, offers new limits, and more
Screen Time is a helpful tool for iOS users who want help reducing their device and app usage. At this year's WWDC, Apple introduced new features coming to Screen Time in iOS 13, which will launch later this year.
Twitterrific 6 brings full timeline images, Giphy integration, new customization goodies & more
Twitterrific, The Iconfactory's venerable Twitter app, first launched back in 2008. Today, it was bumped to version 6.0 on App Store. Twitterrific 6.0 delivers a bunch of new features and improvements along with a change of business model that now embraces subscriptions.
Dashboard support has been pulled from WebKit following the feature’s removal from the first macOS Catalina developer beta
Dashboard is no longer present in macOS Catalina, and now Apple's confirmed it'll be going away after fourteen years because it's been discovered that Dashboard support has been completely removed from WebKit, Apple's open-sourced rendering engine powering Safari.
With iTunes going away, app previews are now hosted under the apps.apple.com domain
Apple has replaced the itunes.apple.com URLs when accessing listings from App Store and Mac App Store through a web browser with the new apps.apple.com domain in yet another sign that the iPhone maker is unshackling itself from the past and moving forward.
Safari in iOS 13 lacks the awesome iPad-only features, but iPhone still gets a download manager along with a bunch of other perks
iOS 13's Safari lacks the iPad-only capabilities afforded by the iPadOS software, such as the ability to create multiple browser windows by dragging, but there are plenty of other feature enhancements to make it a worthwhile update, like a dedicated download manager.
Google teases the Pixel 4, confirms a square camera bump on the back
Google is working on a successor to the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, a handset that will more than likely be unveiled in October later this year. Before that happens, though, the rumor mill has to do its thing, revealing details one by one. But it turns out Google wants to do things a bit differently this year.
Google’s login chief says Sign In with Apple will make people ‘much safer’
At this year's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple took some time to announce a brand new, secure way to log into websites and applications. The new "Sign in with Apple" is meant to help customers navigate the internet, their favorite sites and apps, and keep things a bit more anonymous along the way. And despite having a competing button with a very different outlook, Google's login chief likes Apple's methodology.
Apple offers a more personalized Health app in iOS 13
Apple is reworking the Health app to offer a more personalized approach. The company showed off a variety of the changes coming to the app at this year's WWDC keynote, with plans to launch the redesigned app alongside iOS 13 later this year.