Survey conducted by mobile app marketing platform Adjust says one-fifth of total iPhone users in the U.S. have opted to prevent in-app ads from being targeted at them directly. About eighteen million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in the country have used the Limit Ad Tracking feature to explicitly opt out of targeted advertising, according to the report.
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KGI: Apple could add 5-7 million iPhone sales due to Note 7 discontinuation
Global Note 7 recall and discontinuation could prove to be a blessing to Apple, helping the Cupertino firm boost iPhone sales by five to seven million units, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
In a note to clients this morning, a copy of which was obtained by MacRumors, the analyst speculates that Apple and Chinese Android manufacturer Huawei could be the primary beneficiaries of the Note 7 discontinuation, with Apple potentially seeing an influx of orders for the iPhone 7 Plus due to its dual-camera system.
Tim Cook says Apple wants to use AI to boost iPhone battery life
Apple's boss Tim Cook traveled around Japan on a bullet train last week as part of his whirlwind tour of the country, his first visit since becoming CEO.
Speaking to Nikkei Asian Review, Cook expressed hope that Apple Pay will help realize a cashless society and hinted that the company's new research and development center in Yokohama, near Tokyo, would be “very different” from its Chinese R&D center as it would explore “deep engineering”.
He then said that Apple wants to use artificial intelligence to turbo charge the iPhone battery life.
How to receive a notification when your friends are leaving or arriving at a set location
Apple’s Find My Friends app has been much maligned over the years and for many served as a great example that Apple does bloatware just as well as the competition. With the arrival of iOS 10 and the ability to delete the stock apps some users might find pesky, Find My Friends certainly must be a contender for the title of most frequently trashed app on the Home screen.
This comes in spite of the fact that, over time, Find My Friends has actually inherited some redeemable qualities: next to a useful widget, one feature in particular has enjoyed little to no exposure, even though there are compelling real life use cases for it.
How to export Safari bookmarks from your iPhone or iPad to a Mac or PC
Learn how to export Safari bookmarks from your iPhone or iPad to save as a backup or import into Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on a Mac or Windows PC.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: No2Theft, Playtopia, & more…
It's been a pretty busy week in Cydia for the most part, but those who have jailbreaks on iOS 9 have still had the opportunity to try some new jailbreak tweak releases.
In this roundup, we'll talk about everything that was released in Cydia this week, starting with our favorites and then moving on to the rest.
Reshape the Phone app’s dial pad buttons with PhoneDialReformer
You can now change the look and feel of your iPhone's dial pad buttons inside the Phone app with a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PhoneDialReformer.
You can use this tweak to mess around with the roundness and corner radius of the dial pad buttons until they match your own personal tastes.
When iPhone 7 Home button fails, iOS 10 offers a nice software workaround
MacRumors forum member “iwayne” has noticed that iOS 10 offers an interesting software workaround for when the iPhone 7's non-moving Home button fails.
Should that ever happen to you, iOS 10 will instantly create a software-based Home button centered at the bottom of the screen.
Not unlike the AssistiveTouch accessibility feature that many iPhone owners in Asia use regularly over fear of breaking the physical Home button, iOS 10's new onscreen button could hint at how a bezel-less iPhone 8 might work without a physical Home button.
Spoil, Chartistic, Serial Box, and other apps to check out this weekend
It's the weekend again, and you know what that means. That's right! It's time for another Apps of the Week roundup. This week we have some great selections, including an app for easily ordering same-day gifts, a great new chart and graph-maker, and an app for creating awesome lip-sync videos.
PlaylistAlarm lets you set your music playlists as alarm sounds on your iPhone
Although you've always been able to set music as the alarm sound for the alarms you wake up to every morning via your iPhone or iPad, you've never been able to set entire music playlists as your alarm sound.
Looking at the bright side, however, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed PlaylistAlarm changes that.
No2Theft deters theft for people who charge their jailbroken iPhones on the go
No2Theft is a new jailbreak tweak release that helps you keep your iPhone from getting stolen when you plug it in for a quick charge in unfamiliar places.
Playtopia is a mini music player that shrinks to a tiny size
Many folks who love using their iPhones to listen to music seem to take a liking to mini player-like jailbreak tweaks, and a new release called Playtopia is the latest to join the lineup of mini player competition.