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Following through on its promise, Microsoft has ended support for the mobile Cortana app
Following through on its promise to discontinue support for Cortana on mobile devices in early 2021, Microsoft has now shut down support on the digital assistant app on iOS and Android.
Our first look at the redesigned Apple TV remote boasts more helpful buttons [Update: almost, but not quite]
One of the complaints regarding the Apple TV is its remote. It's not well-received by a lot of people out there in the wild, and it's typically one of the only negative marks given to Apple's set-top box. But the company may be looking to right that ship with the remote's upcoming redesign.
tvOS 14.5 beta may hint at a redesigned Apple TV remote with a ‘center button’
Along with rumors swirling around that Apple is planning on introducing a new Apple TV set-top box, a new remote is expected to come along with it. And now tvOS is popping in to throw a reference our way to that potential future, too.
Apple TV+ brings on Zennen Clifton as creative executive
Apple TV+ continues to add new content to its lineup on a semi-regular basis (with a lot of films and series still in early development), and sometimes that happens on the executive side, too.
iOS 14.5 will add a tool for battery recalibration in iPhone
Earlier today, Apple seeded the sixth beta of iOS 14.5 to developers. Now that the pre-release software is out there in the wild, new discoveries are being made. Including a new tool Apple will include with the latest update.
Siri adds a pair of new voices and will no longer default to a female voice in iOS 14.5
Apple is currently working on releasing the latest major update to iOS 14. The company just seeded the sixth beta of iOS 14.5 earlier today. And it turns out the upcoming new software will feature a pretty big change for Siri.
Apple seeds sixth betas of iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS 11.3, tvOS 14.5, and watchOS 7.4 to developers
Apple on Wednesday went ahead and seeded the latest betas of its popular operating systems to developers.
Apple will report March 2021 quarter earnings on April 28
Apple announced on its Investor Relations website that it has scheduled an earnings report to cover its fiscal 2021 second quarter (the first calendar quarter) on Wednesday, April 28.
Apple may announce its mixed-reality headset at an in-person event ‘sometime in the next several months’
It has been rumored for quite some time that Apple is working on various virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets/glasses. And now a new rumor says Apple may be waiting to unveil one of those devices for an in-person event.
How to remove the Feedback Assistant app from iOS beta devices
The Feedback Assistant is an app that comes along with joining the program and installing the beta version of iOS on your device. The app gives you an easy way to pass along issues you find and sends information like diagnostic files to Apple.
Once you finally finish with the public beta and update your device to the commercial version of iOS, you may notice that the Feedback Assistant is still there. So how do you get rid of it when there’s no option to delete it? That’s what we’re here to show you.
Free calls on Google Meet have been extended until June 30
Google has announced that free audio and video calls on Google Meet (formerly Google Hangouts) are now available until June 30 versus the previous cut-off date at the end of March.