Developers and public beta testers who installed the iOS 11.4 beta are noticing that Apple's AirPort Express wireless base station is showing up in the Home app as AirPlay 2 speakers.
AirPort Express will apparently gain AirPlay 2 speaker support
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Style your text in places that accept only plain formatting with Textlicious for iPhone
You may have noticed that not all iPhone apps support text styling.
Apple Music surpasses 40 million paid subscribers
Apple Music has surpassed 40 million paid subscribers, according to Apple content director Steven Huon. That's up at least 2 million from the latest number shared on March 12 by SVP Eddy Cue, during a SXSW conference.
Apple Pay launches in Brazil
Apple Pay today launched in Brazil, as previously rumored.
Apple is reportedly working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for iPhones
Apple is allegedly working on new touchless gesture control technology and developing screens for future iPhone models that curve inward gradually from top to bottom.
RealCC improves Control Center’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles
Control Center’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles don’t entirely disable their corresponding wireless radios on iOS 11, but instead limit their capabilities such that system processes like AirDrop and Instant Hotspot, among others, continue working.
If you wish that iOS 11’s Control Center-based Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles worked as you’d expect them to, then you might be interested in a new free jailbreak tweak called RealCC by iOS developer Jake James.
Public betas of iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4 with AirPlay 2 and Messages in iCloud now available
Following developer-only iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4 betas, members of Apple's Beta Software Program can now install the forthcoming software updates on their iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
Education iPad teardown finds repairability doesn’t pencil out
“School is a brutal place for electronics—they need to be long-lived and fixable on the cheap for most education budgets,” iFixit told me in an email Tuesday.
Tired of minimalism, this designer wants to bring skeuomorphism back
You could argue that Apple's Scott Forstall-era iPhone software gave digital skeuomorphic designs a bad name, especially after skeuomorphism escalated to an obnoxious level in iOS 6 which culminated with Forstall's departure and the Great Flattening of iOS.
iOS 11.4 beta hands-on: AirPlay 2, Messages in iCloud, HomePod stereo pairing & more
Apple yesterday seeded first developer-only betas of iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4 and watchOS 4.3.1, with the iOS and tvOS betas reinstating a pair of missing features that we were promised at WWDC back last summer: AirPlay 2 and Messages in iCloud.
Apple to report Q2 2018 earnings on May 1
Apple has announced that it will be sharing the earnings results for its second fiscal quarter of 2018 on the first of May. The company has scheduled a conference call for Tuesday, May 1 at 5pm ET (2pm PT) to talk about its performance over the past 3 months.
iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4 betas bring back AirPlay 2, Messages in iCloud & HomePod stereo pairing
HomePod stereo pairing and the underlying AirPlay 2 technology that powers it have now re-appeared in the developer betas of iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4 (that arrived earlier today) following their unexpected removal from the previous iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3 updates.