Swift Playgrounds, Apple's excellent iPad-only app aimed at children and wannabe developers that makes it fun to learn and experiment with code—has gotten even better.
iOS 11.3 brought a laundry list of new features to iPhone and iPad today, including iMessages in iCloud, new Animoji, new health features, ARKit enhancements and more. Among those is support for AirPlay 2.
Happy beta day, everyone!
If you're worried about losing your multi-year Messages archive or need to be able to instantly delete a text or iMessage from all your devices at once, iOS 11.3 has you covered!
Apple today previewed all-new battery and CPU throttling features and other enhancements coming to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch this spring with iOS 11.3. Registered developers and members of the paid Apple Developer Program can now install the iOS 11.3 beta and test-drive the new features.
Wanna boost your messaging game? How about spicing up your Animoji karaoke videos? iOS 11.3 has you covered with four distinctively new Animoji characters in the Messages app.
As part of the iOS 11.3 preview, Apple today announced it's enhancing the Health app's fairly limited Health Records feature, which debuted in iOS 10, to make it easier for patients to access and control detailed medical information from the palm of their hand.
Apple today previewed some of the new features and enhancements coming to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch this spring with iOS 11.3, including a new battery health section, the ability to disable CPU throttling and adjust power management features, and much more.
Google today announced that it's Play Store is now carrying audiobooks in addition to existing content such as apps, movies, music, TV shows and electronic ebooks.
Security researcher Ian Beer made headlines last year after finding and releasing a tfp0 exploit for iOS 11.0-11.1.2, which powers jailbreak tools like Electra and LiberiOS, just to name a few. But now there’s a new kernel exploit in town, and it impacts later iterations of iOS.
Citing Apple’s security content web page, Tuesday’s iOS 11.2.5 update patches a kernel-level exploit discovered by security researcher Russ Cox, and it purportedly works on iOS 11.2-11.2.1.
If your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch runs iOS 11.2.5 or later, Siri in hands-free mode can read out the news to you. You can even ask your smart digital assistant to read aloud news stories limited to specific domains, such as sports, business or music, here's how.
HomePod is arriving in less than three weeks and Apple is releasing advance software support for the $349 Siri-powered speaker ahead of its scheduled launch on Friday, February 9.