It looks like Apple could finally be getting serious about helping to eliminate nuisance calls on iPhones. A new Apple patent for “Detection of Spoofed Call Information,” targets a specific type of calling that has become increasingly annoying in recent years.
In this life-saving tutorial, we’ll share how to turn on the fall detection feature on your Apple Watch to notify emergency contacts and services if you ever suffer a hard fall.
A Chinese filing leaked today by MySmartPrice has corroborated next-generation iPad Pro information published earlier this week. It includes model numbers pertaining to the upcoming iPads, including new identifiers hinting at further iPad Pro and Apple Pencil updates.
Genius, which calls itself the world’s biggest encyclopedia of music, now has a dedicated soundtrack. Apple Music subscribers can now listen to entire songs in Genius. In addition, Genius lyrics are coming to the Apple Music app.
Back in July, Apple said Apple Pay would finally arrive at CVS retail stores before the end of the year. It seems that process is now in full swing. According to AppleInsider, a “large number” of CVS stores now support Cupertino's mobile payment and digital wallet service.
CVS, the largest pharmacy in the United States, has long been a hold-out for Apple Pay. Back in 2014, in fact, it went as far as shutting down NFC access in stores so Apple's payment system couldn't be used by customers. It later joined CurrentC, a now-defunct merchant-supported payment platform which it hoped would compete against Apple Pay.
In recent weeks, 7-Eleven also joined the growing ranks of merchants who accept Apple Pay. In September, it's 9,400 U.S.-based stores began offering Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Holdouts remain, however, Two of the biggest retailers in the U.S. still don't accept Apple Pay: Target and Walmart.
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Third-party Apple Watch faces still haven't arrived. Despite this, there's now a way to create customized watch faces using the graphics rendering and animation tool, SpriteKit.
Apple has agreed to pay $600 million to buy parts of Dialog Semiconductor, an Anglo-German supplier of power management chips and technologies. The move hints at Apple’s further custom semiconductor efforts in areas like power management and charging. Under the terms of the agreement, Apple is getting Dialog's patents, a team of about 300 engineers representing sixteen percent of Dialog's workforce and the company's offices in Europe.
Snap today announced exclusive shows on its Snapchat app which were created by professional storytellers, with a single short episode released every day.
True wireless earbuds have grown in popularity since Apple released its first-generation AirPods in December 2016. Since then, there has been a steady stream of alternatives making their way into showrooms online and off. Here are the best true wireless earbuds you can buy.
Luna Display by Astro HQ is available to the public starting today following their rather successful Kickstarter campaign. This cool accessory, as we noted in our preview, is a lag-free solution to turn your iPad into a secondary display for your Mac desktop or notebook.
Waze today announced that its dedicated app for carpooling is now available to all riders and drivers in the United States after launching as a test in the Bay Area back in 2016.
The popular email app Spark by Ukrainian developer Readdle has introduced support for the new Siri Shortcuts automation feature introduces in iOS 12.