Apple has launched an internal investigation into damning reports alleging that its supplier Quanta Computer illegally employed high school students to assemble Apple Watch units in China's Chongqing, reportedly pushing employees to work overtime and night shifts.
A tiny icon for iOS's Battery widget, discovered in August, showed an iPad Pro with no Home button and featuring thinner bezels. And now, another higher-resolution icon unearthed from the iOS code has given us a bit more detailed overview of the 2018 iPad Pro form factor.
The Apple Watch Series 4’s most anticipated new feature, an electrocardiogram (ECG) app, is expected to launch in the United States first before officially rolling out elsewhere. It seems a simple software change could make the feature accessible, no matter your location, according to 9to5Mac.
Like iTunes and Apple Pay before it, the ability to use the ECG feature is expected to be based on the software region selected on the Apple Watch and iPhone. In other words, if you change these settings on your devices to the U.S. region, the ECG feature should work.
9to5Mac explains:
That the Apple Watch ECG limitation is software-based is already a good sign, since software limitations are inherently easier to bypass when compared to hardware ones. By being based on the region, users will be able to get access to the feature by changing the region on their iPhone and Apple Watch, similar to how other features such as Apple News can be enabled on unsupported countries.
The Apple Watch Series 4 includes electrodes built into the Digital Crown that work with the device’s back crystal to generate an ECG waveform. This information can help determine whether the user is showing signs of atrial fibrillation. To make this claim, Apple needs approval from national health agencies wherever it sells the wearable device such as the U.S.-based Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This process can take a long time, especially in places like Canada and the European Union.
9to5Mac notes Apple could make changes to how it determines location settings for the ECG app before it's released to the public. Therefore, there is no guarantee the software fix will actually work once the feature is launched. Time will tell.
Are you looking forward to using the ECG feature on your Apple Watch?
On Sunday, Apple developer Steve Troughton-Smith leaked new details about the second-generation Apple Pencil. Likely to be announced tomorrow, Oct. 30, alongside new iPad Pro models, Apple’s next-gen input device for iPad could include a button on the side that performs various tasks.
Being able to process and transcode iPhone videos to another format, edit iPhone videos shot in 4K resolution and running other fast video conversion tasks on your computer is a big challenge without proper software that includes hardware acceleration and direct GPU support.
Just over a year ago, iOS developer Elias Limneos announced a ground-breaking jailbreak tweak called NFCWriter that enabled iPhone users to tap into the full potential of the NFC (Near Field Communication) chip embedded within their handset. This week, Limneos continues that fun with NFCWriter X for iOS, which can only be described as the latest iteration of the tweak.
NFCWriter X for iOS is intended for advanced users and tinkerers with an interest in playing around with NFC tags, Credit/Debit Cards, MRTD documents, and more directly from your iPhone. Nearly anything with NFC support can be tinkered with by NFCWriter X for iOS.
Just hours after releasing the iPhone XR, Apple has published the official iPhone user guide for iOS 12.1. Available through the Books app for iOS and macOS, like previous software guides, the free instruction manual arrives even before iOS 12.1 is released to the public. The guide is also significant for the secrets it has now given away.
That was quick. The first iPhone XR teardown video has arrived online. It arrives just hours after the device launched in 50 countries and territories around the world. Not surprising, the inside of the device looks a lot like what was found on the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max last month when those phones were released.
Keeping true to its promise, Apple today launched its HomePod smart speaker in Spain and Mexico. Additionally, we've learned that Apple is internally testing Italian support for Siri on HomePod, indicating the accessory could soon arrive in Italy.
Video game developer and publisher Blizzard yesterday released a brand-new tvOS app designed to stream content from BlizzCon, its annual gaming convention, on your Apple TV.
Earlier this month, Apple Watch Series 4 owners in Australia and New Zealand had to deal with a software bug when the clocks were changed for Daylight Saving Time. The same bug could now affect those in parts of Europe who change their clocks this weekend. Luckily there's an easy fix.
Apple is busy selling new iPhones and is about to unveil refreshed iPads, but that doesn't mean that the next major version of iPhone and iPad mobile operating system, iOS 13, is not being worked on as we speak. In fact, Bloomberg broke in the summer that iOS 13 would bring an overhauled Home screen, tabs in all apps, multitasking enhancements and other perks.