Apple has had a busy year as far as events are concerned, and the company may not be ready to call it just yet.
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The Wristcam adds a camera to your Apple Watch
One of the dreams of a smartwatch back in the day was a built-in camera. That really hasn't caught on just yet, but for anyone who wants to live that dream the wait is over. Almost.
Is your iPhone 12 battery draining quickly on standby, even when on Wi-Fi or with 5G off?
So how's your iPhone 12 battery life been so far? If you've been seeing an excessive battery drain when idle at a rate of as much as four percent on Wi-Fi, you're definitely not alone!
An increasing number of iPhone 12 owners are reporting persistent drops in cellular coverage
More and more people who own an iPhone 12 have taken to user forums and social media to complain of problems with cellular coverage — specifically, dropped 5G and LTE connectivity.
Apple is now offering two-hour holiday delivery for just $5 in most metro areas
Apple is now offering two-hour delivery for just $5 this holiday season, which is available in most metropolitan areas. If you live in one of such places, you can now get in-stock Apple products with two-hour holiday delivery (or Apple Pickup) in exchange for just five bucks.
This cool Apple Watch concept puts complications right into the Control Center
watchOS 8 won't arrive before the next fall, but that didn't stop YouTube channel “A Better Computer” by Matt Birchler from envisioning a clean look for watch faces.
Apple must bundle a power adapter with iPhone models sold in the Brazilian state of São Paulo
With the introduction of the latest iPhone 12 family, Apple has officially stopped including a power brick and its EarPods earphones in iPhone boxes “as part of our efforts to reach our environmental goals”. But it appears as if the Cupertino giant might be required to include a power adapter with every iPhone sold in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
News Showcase expands to Google News on iOS
If you're a Google News user, you may be able to access paywalled articles from major news sites. According to Google, the News Showcase feature will now start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers.
Watch a new sneak peek clip of “Stillwater” before its Apple TV+ debut this Friday
“Stillwater,” as we reported earlier, is the upcoming kid-friendly animated series based on the book series “Zen Shorts” written by Jon J. Muth that's debuting on the Apple TV+ streaming service this Friday. Ahead of the scheduled launch, Apple has now shared a new sneak peek clip that revolves around Addy and Michael, who are the show's two siblings.
LongKeys makes it easier to type several instances of the same Emoji
Emojis have quickly transformed into one of the most popular ways to share expressions and reactions via messaging and social media platforms. If you’ve ever wanted to enter several of the same Emoji into a text field, however, then you’d find yourself tapping the Emoji key of your choosing repeatedly until satisfied.
LongKeys is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer maximehip that tries to take the edge off of this user experience by allowing typists to simply tap and hold on an Emoji key of their choosing to input several instances of that particular Emoji into the text field all at once.
Chimera jailbreak updated to v1.5.1 with more bug fixes and improvements
If you’ve been paying attention to the Odyssey Team’s Discord channel or Twitter page recently, then you’ve likely witnessed the sudden priority shift to the iOS 12-centric Chimera jailbreak – a notable departure from the team’s typical precedence, the iOS & iPadOS 13-centric Odyssey jailbreak.
The sudden attention to Chimera is no coincidence, as Chimera Team lead developer CoolStar had long envisioned back-porting the Odyssey Team’s successes with the Procursus bootstrap and libhooker tweak injection to Chimera. The team officially made it happen with Chimera v1.5 this week, and they’re out with yet another update this Wednesday evening in the form of Chimera v1.5.1:
‘Cherry’, starring Tom Holland, will premiere on Apple TV+ on March 12, 2021
Back in September, we found out that the Russo Brothers had a new film coming to Apple TV+ called Cherry. Unfortunately we didn't know when the film would actually become available to watch at the time.