App Store, iTunes Store and Apple Music are currently down, slow or inaccessible for some users and Apple has now acknowledged these issues on its System Status page.
Apple acknowledges temporary issues with Apple Music, App and iTunes Stores
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UK government spooks want to join encrypted chats and calls as an invisible eavesdropper
As major technology companies in the United States like Apple, Google and Facebook find themselves in the spotlight over various security and privacy snafus, government spooks in the United Kingdom are looking to exploit critical flaws such as the group FaceTime bug as a feature, hoping to secretly listen in on encrypted Messages chats and FaceTime calls.
Group FaceTime eavesdropping bug will be fixed next week as Apple issues an apology
After the issue was widely reported at the start of this week, Apple immediately disabled the group FaceTime feature and promised to release a fix later this week.
Complete Apple’s Heart Month challenge in February to unlock this special badge
Apple is marking Heart Month by offering a new Activity challenge on Apple Watch and related health-focused events in its brick-and-mortar stores in San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
Apple shuts down Google’s internal apps over Enterprise Certificate abuse [updated]
Apple has shut down Google's internal apps over its abuse of the Enterprise Certificate program, reports The Verge. Citing sources familiar with the situation, the outlet says that beta versions of Google Maps, Hangouts and Gmail, as well as employee-only apps, have stopped working.
Zuckerberg: WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger merger to create an iMessage-like layer for SMS
Facebook recently revealed plans to merge your WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger threads so you could easily message people across these services, and now CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his rationale for making this controversial move.
The Facebook app gains native display support on iPhone XR, iPhone XS Max & iPad Pro
Facebook today released a compatibility update to its mainland mobile app on App Store, adding native display support for the 6.1-inch iPhone XR, the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max and the new iPad Pros.
DigiTimes: iPad mini 5 rumored to arrive later in 2019
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Compal Electronics is expected to build Apple's fifth-generation iPad mini tablet that should arrive "later in 2019".
Watch Apple’s new video shot on 32 iPhone XR cameras mounted on a bullet-time rig
Apple's latest video, showcasing some of the creative video-capture possibilities afforded by its smartphone line, has been shot using 32 iPhone XRs mounted on a 360-degree bullet-time rig.
2020 iPhones to rock laser cameras capable of recreating the real world in 3D
This year's followup to iPhone XS Max is expected to have a triple-lens camera while other 2019 handsets could eventually come with the upgraded system, but 2020 will bring substantial iPhone camera innovations in a major augmented reality push.
2019 iPhones getting better cameras, triple-lens system headed to an iPhone XS Max successor
Apple is expected to release followups to the current iPhone XR, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max sporting better cameras, with an iPhone XS Max successor rocking a triple-lens system.
Apple is allegedly testing USB-C iPhones
Publications like DigiTimes and reliable analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo have been speculating that Apple might transition iPhones to the industry-standard USB-C connector this year, and now Bloomberg has corroborated those claims.