Apple continues to land huge deals for Apple TV+ productions, this one another production company with a legendary pedigree.
Ridley Scott’s production company signs a first-look deal with Apple TV+
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Eero mesh Wi-Fi routers are now available to purchase from Apple.com in 7 countries
Mesh Wi-Fi routers from Eero have landed on the online Apple store's virtual shelves.
Bloomberg outlines Apple’s plan for employees to gradually return to corporate offices
Bloomberg yesterday shared a write-up detailing Apple's plan for its employees to gradually return to corporate offices around the world over the course of a few months, including the main Apple Park campus in Silicon Valley, starting with hardware development engineers.
Unreal Engine 5 unveiled with impressive real-time demo, launches in 2021 with iOS and Mac support
Later this year, Sony and Microsoft are going to launch their next-generation (or, by then, current-generation) video game consoles. And today Epic Games showcased its new engine that will help bring games to life on those consoles and more.
Apple is reportedly planning to record audio of news stories for Apple News+
Apple News+ is still one of Apple's services you can sign up for, and it sounds like Apple is looking to add a new feature to maybe draw more customers into the fold.
The official Apple Store app has picked up Dark Mode support
Apple's official mobile shopping app was updated on the App Store yesterday with a single new feature addition: support for the system-wide Dark Mode that debuted in iOS 13.
MessageUnread lets users mark read messages as unread in iOS
Raise your hand if you’ve preemptively tapped on an unread conversation in your Messages app by accident before, only to find yourself too busy to read or respond to the message and later forget to look back at it because the notification indicator had disappeared as a result. *Raises hand slowly*
If you joined me in the hand raise of shame, then don’t fret because we’ve all been there before. Fortunately, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed MessageUnread by iOS developer Greg0109 can remedy this unfortunate experience by letting users mark read conversation threads in the Messages app as unread instead.
LetMeScrub improves the Now Playing widget’s music scrubber experience
One of the things that has always irked me about the Lock screen’s Now Playing widget in iOS is the difficulty of scrubbing through music from the interface to position myself somewhere else in the song. Fortunately, jailbreakers now have an easy way around this tedious feat.
Say hello to LetMeScrub, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer TheLazyITGuy that not only enhances song scrubbing on the Lock screen via the Now Playing widget, but also brings customizability to the scrubber’s grabber itself.
GamingNotification brings animated RGB effects to your iPhone’s notifications
If you’re a PC gamer at heart and your entire desk is brimming with unicorn barf colored RGB accessories, then perhaps the one thing missing in your life is an iPhone decked out with the same colorful swag. Fortunately, that shortcoming can be solved with a newly released jailbreak tweak.
Enter GamingNotification, an add-on created by iOS developer Minazuki that brings configurable animated RGB borders to your iPhone’s incoming notification banners and Today widgets.
This tweak adds the proper suffix to the Lock screen’s date indicator
If you ever want to know the date or time, it’s always just a glance away thanks to your iPhone’s Lock screen. But one thing that has always bothered me is Apple’s native date formatting and display style, something that the company doesn’t seem to give users much control over on a stock handset.
FixLSDate is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Mikah that fixes at least one of my gripes with the Lock screen’s date display. More specifically, it completes the date string by adding the proper suffix behind it, as shown above.
A regional German probe is investigating Apple’s temperature checks at reopening stores
Apple is currently undergoing the slow and steady process of reopening its retail stores across the globe, even as the global health crisis continues.
Second-generation AirPods firmware updated to version 2D15
Apple has taken time out of the first couple of weeks of May to update the firmware version for its truly wireless headphones, including the second-generation AirPods.