Like every Sunday, we get to take a look at some of the most popular posts that were published on iDB during the week that just ended. Whether it is a news item, a new jailbreak tweak, a tutorial, or an app review, we sum it all up in one convenient place for you.
Are you finding it impossible to restore your iPad from an iCloud backup?
Could China be really stealing Apple's technology secrets?
Microsoft's Files On-Demand feature today started rolling out to OneDrive for Business customers on macOS. Files On-Demand lets you access all your files in OneDrive without having to download all of them. Your stuff is instead downloaded as needed, which saves precious storage space on your device.
The Weather Company, owned by IBM, is getting sued by the city of Los Angeles over alleged misuse of location data that its popular Weather Channel mobile app was collecting from customers, saying the questionable practice violates California's Unfair Competition Law.
Apple's expectedly pulled the iPhone 7 and 8 models from sale in Germany following a legal spat with chip maker Qualcomm, which proved in court that Apple violated its hardware patent.
While most jailbreak tweaks are made in response to some sort of problem or inconvenience in iOS, some exist purely for good fun and entertainment. A new free release dubbed Waves by iOS developer Muirey03 is a beautiful example of the latter.
As you might have inferred already from the name and the screenshot example above, Waves brings a fluid-inspired animation to your iPhone or iPad’s Home screen. The fluid depicted in the screenshot is sensitive to motion, which means tilting your device causes the fluid to move just as the laws of physics in the real world would command.
The bad news keeps piling up for Apple, but that's not discouraging the Cupertino technology company from sharing some positive developments today, revealing that its App Store has managed to rake in nearly one-third of a billion dollars—on New Year's Day alone.
After China's iPhone injunction, Qualcomm has recently secured another sales ban, this one in Germany, and now the chip maker has put aside €1.34 billion, or approximately $1.5 billion, in security bonds which are required to enforce German ruling.
Apple has cut its sales outlook for the first time in over a decade, but CEO Tim Cook has assured employees in an internal memo that he won’t blame external factors for the overall slowdown in iPhone sales in China and a variety of other business issues.
After slashing Apple's revenue guidance for the important holiday quarter by a whopping $7 billion amid a slowdown in China and iPhone sales deceleration, Tim Cook will hold an all-hands meeting with workers today to assuage any concerns they may have about the situation.
Following Tim Cook's unexpectedly long and detailed open letter to investors in which he revised Apple's projected earnings for the lucrative holiday quarter, the company said today it will be holding a conferences call with Wall Street investors and analysts to discuss the latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday, January 29, at 2:00pm PT / 5:00pm ET.