Just how fast is faster 7.5W wireless charging in iOS 11.2? As per early testing conducted by Matt Birchler, the difference between 5W and 7.5W charging speed is negligible.
7.5W standard offers negligible improvements in Qi wireless charging speed
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These are some of my favorite accessories for the iPhone X
I’ve only had the iPhone X for about a week, but I began a full-blown accessory scavenger hunt long before I had the new handset in my grasp.
In this piece, I’ll outline some of what I think are the best accessories to use with the iPhone X.
Ohio State taunts Apple during recent football game
The Ohio State University and Apple recently entered into a new agreement, but that hasn't stopped them from poking a little fun their way during a recent OSU football game.
iOS 11.2 brings faster 7.5W wireless charging
We've taken a look a look at what's new in iOS 11.2 beta 3, but one thing that slipped under the radar is the inclusion of faster wireless charging on iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.
Apple releases third betas of iOS 11.2, macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, watchOS 4.2 & tvOS 11.2
Apple today seeded third betas of iOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2, macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and tvOS 11.2 to its registered developers and members of the paid developer program, with a matching beta for public beta testers enrolled in the Apple Beta Software Program expected shortly.
Is the Face ID discussion warranted or a secret case of Apple envy?
Whenever a significant new technology is incorporated into mainstream mobile phones, such upgrade should naturally be fair game for scrutiny and critique. Conversely, if by objective standards the new arrival clears all bars, I can think of two reasons why it feels critical to acknowledge the innovative work done by its originators: because for one that credit has been hard earned and - looking at the bigger picture - sowing doubt about a feature that will inevitably saturate most phones in the market is only going to needlessly unsettle the consumer in the long run.
System Info, UnsplashWalls, and other jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend
Although there's been a lot of hype regarding the iPhone X lately, that's not to say that many people aren't still clenching onto their older jailbroken handsets. In fact, one hacker just demonstrated the world's first-known iPhone X jailbreak at the POC2017 event this week.
In this roundup, we'll discuss all the jailbreak tweaks released in Cydia during the past week. As usual, we'll start things off by showcasing our favorites, and then we'll outline all the rest of them afterward.
Augment the About page in your iPhone’s Settings app with System Info
If you didn’t already know, you could navigate to Settings → General → About on your iPhone or iPad to discover a plethora of statistics about your device. Nevertheless, Apple limits what you can see and do here.
To change that, iOS developer ARX8x launched a new free jailbreak tweak called System Info. It expands upon the existing out-of-the-box statistics and also adds handy new features to the About page.
Hacker demos first iPhone X jailbreak
Although it seems like jailbreaks have become few and far in between lately, that’s not to say that hackers don’t still dabble in their exploitational talents every now and again.
Presenting at the POC2017 event in Seoul, South Korea, iOS hacker Liang Chen has demonstrated the first-known jailbreak to date on Apple’s flagship iPhone X handset. A full video showcasing the jailbreak tool and code injection can be seen here.
Apple’s embarrassing “i → A [?]” autocorrect bug could be a machine learning problem
Apple's QuickType keyboard bug in iOS where typing the letter “i” can replace it with the uppercase letter “A” and a question mark symbol could be a machine learning problem, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber.
KeyFunctions lets you respring, reboot, or invoke safe mode with text-based commands
Because of how frequently I handle jailbreak tweaks on my jailbroken iPhone, I respring my device constantly. While some tweaks have respring buttons baked right into them for convenience, I've found that having a backup method for respringing or invoking Safe Mode on your handset can be particularly advantageous.
A whole host of tweaks in Cydia can help you respring your device in various ways, but one of the latest releases called KeyFunctions by iOS developer AlexK piqued my interest.
Apple updates Workflow app with support for HEIF/HEVC, drag and drop, iPhone X & more
A popular automation tool for iPhone and iPad, Workflow, was updated on App Store this morning with several new iOS 11 and iPhone X features.