Month:June 2024

Blackmagic Design has announced the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera designed for shooting spatial video content for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. The URSA Cine Immersive camera features a custom stereoscopic 3D lens system with dual 8K sensors, capable of capturing a 180-degree field of view with spatial audio support. It is designed to capture content …
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The Notes app in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 supports colors for typed text for the first time, providing an option to add new hues to text. Apple offers five colors, including purple, pink, orange, mint, and blue, and there is no option for custom colors. Colors can be added to text through the formatting …
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Apple has revamped the song queuing system in the Music app on iOS 18, and early reaction to the changes has been overwhelmingly positive. Notable changes include a new “Add Songs to Queue” button at the bottom of the queue, an option to clear the entire queue all at once, and the ability to change …
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iOS 18 includes a small but interesting change for the buttons on the iPhone, adding more of a visual element when changing volume, activating the Action button, or locking the screen. When you press an ‌iPhone‌ button in ‌iOS 18‌, the display bezel bulges outward slightly. This feature is available for the volume buttons, Action …
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Earlier this year, we reported that “Apple ID” would be renamed to “Apple Account,” and this change has now been officially announced. Apple confirmed the change in a press release today, with “Apple Account” branding now used across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11:With the releases of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS …
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Apple’s stock price has crossed the $200 mark and reached a new all-time high in intraday trading, one day after the company unveiled its Apple Intelligence suite of AI features coming with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Apple’s stock price has split five times since the company went public, including on a 4-for-1 …
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Apple has shared updated iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads were running those software versions before WWDC. These adoption numbers are based on iPhones and iPads that transacted on the App Store on June 9, the day before WWDC began, according to Apple. The statistics are as follows: …
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With the first beta of iOS 18 now in the hands of developers, there are a handful of smaller changes and quality-of-life improvements being discovered in Apple’s iPhone software that are worth highlighting. First up, Apple has improved the flashlight controls. In iOS 18, turning on the Flashlight via the Lock Screen or Control Center …
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In addition to text effects and scheduled messages, iOS 18 adds a small but helpful change to iMessage: link card previews for more types of content. Screenshot: Aaron Perris When you paste a link for a social media post into the text field in the Messages app, the associated link card now appears before you …
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