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Vizio’s AirPlay 2 & HomeKit support stretches all the way back to 2016 SmartCast TV models
Apple's list of AirPlay 2-enabled TVs has Vizio's SmartCast models from 2017, 2018 and 2019 gaining support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit, but now the American TV manufacturer has confirmed that 2016 4K models will be gaining these handy features as well.
Apple Music no longer allows parallel streaming on HomePod & iPhone without a family account
Although Apple's HomePod page states that AirPlay 2 lets you “ask Siri to play jazz in the living room and the Moana soundtrack in the kids’ room,” it doesn't make it clear that multi-device streaming requires a family account. Apple says a now-fixed bug permitted individual subscribers to listen to different music on their HomePod and iPhone.
HomePod will be available in mainland China and Hong Kong starting Friday
Following HomePod's launch in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico and Spain, Apple announced yesterday that the Siri-powered wireless speaker will be available in mainland China and Hong Kong starting this coming Friday, January 18.
Tihmstar opts not to release standalone exploit, instead says “something cool coming”
There was no shortage of exciting jailbreak-centric news this past week, but perhaps the most captivating tidbit of all was the announcement that tihmstar was tinkering with an exploit that could hack a subset of devices running iOS 11.2.6-11.4.1 – specifically those with headphone jacks.
It didn’t take long after the initial announcement for tihmstar to share that he had achieved tpf0, which permits arbitrary reads and writes to a device’s kernel memory. On the other hand, a pair of Tweets shared just weekend shed new light on the hacker’s intentions involving said exploit:
Apple’s allegedly begun production of the elusive AirPower multi-device wireless charger
Originally intended to be released in 2018, Apple's AirPower wireless charger could be coming soon because the iPhone maker has purportedly begun production of the device.
Building a Mac style menu for iOS
iPhone and iPad are held back in the productivity department in part due to Apple's decision not to adopt a more comprehensive menu system beyond iOS's weird popovers.
How Apple could make the notch less notchy
Samsung’s Galaxy A8s arrived with a hole-punch display and the upcoming Galaxy S10 should reduce the chins by putting the camera and the sensor array into a small circular cutout in the display. Apple, meanwhile, is rumored to make the notch on 2019 iPhones a bit smaller.
Chart: every product Apple has made so far
It's said that Steve Jobs reduced Apple's product lineup so drastically after returning to helm the company that the whole product portfolio could fit on a table, and that holds true today. But do you ever wonder just how many different products Apple has made throughout the years?
HomeKit for TV allegedly supports controlling power, volume, input source, brightness & more
Although not official as of yet, Apple's HomeKit software framework for managing smart devices for the connected home apparently includes support for controlling power, volume, input source, brightness and so forth on compatible Smart TV sets.
TiVo’s upcoming tvOS app will let you watch live and recorded television on your Apple TV
Apple TV could have been the ultimate set-top box if only Apple's engineers equipped it with DVR capabilities and cable input so we could also watch and record live television. TiVo's new software for Apple TV, Fire TV and Roku should help fix that, to a certain extent.
WSJ: 2019’s iPhone XS Max will rock 3 rear cameras, XR’s successor to gain 2 rear cameras
The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that it has learned from people familiar with Apple's roadmap that the company plans on releasing three new iPhone models in 2019, with a refreshed iPhone XS Max picking up a triple-lens setup out the back and a second-generation iPhone XR gaining two rear cameras instead of one.