Apple is officially launching its so-called “nutrition label” privacy disclosures for all iOS device owners running the latest version of iOS 14. The Verge reports: Apple says the new labels will be required for apps on all of its platforms — that includes iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — and they will have to be up to date and accurate…
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Xbox Series X Controller Support Coming To Apple Devices
Apple and Microsoft are working on adding support for the Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices, according to an Apple Support page spotted by a Reddit user. MacRumors reports: The support page states that Apple devices only support the Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth, Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2, Xbox Adaptive Controller, PlayStation DualShock 4 Wireless Controller, and various…
iOS 14 Resets iPhone’s Default Apps To Apple’s Safari and Mail After Reboot
Users have found a major bug in Apple’s iOS 14 iPhone software. The free software upgrade, which Apple made publicly available last week, includes features many users had long asked for, such as better ways to organize apps, living programs called widgets on the home screen, and the ability to change which default apps the phone uses to browse the web…
What To Expect At Apple’s ‘Time Flies’ Event
On Tuesday, Apple will hold its annual September event called “Time Flies.” Unlike in previous years, the company is not expected to announce new iPhones as they have reportedly been delayed “a few weeks” due to the pandemic. Macworld reports on what we can expect to see announced instead: Apple’s invitation was light on details, as always, but it’s hard to…
Apple Showing Signs It May Soon Launch a Search Engine To Compete Against Google Search
An anonymous reader shares a report from Coywolf News, written by Jon Henshaw: For several years, it’s been reported that Google pays billions of dollars to Apple to remain the default search engine on Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The deal ensures that iPhone, iPad, and Mac users search with Google when they use Safari. That is unless they manually…
Apple Releases iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 To Public Beta Testers
Apple today seeded the first public betas of upcoming iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates to its public beta testing group, two weeks after first providing the updates to developers after the WWDC keynote.
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Safari 14 Will Let You Log in To Websites With Your Face or Finger
With Safari on iOS 14, MacOS Big Sur and iPadOS 14, you’ll be able to log in to websites using Apple’s Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication. That’s a powerful endorsement for technology called FIDO — Fast Identity Online — that’s paving the way to a future without passwords. From a report: Apple disclosed the biometric authentication support in Safari…
iOS 14 Will Let You Change Your Default Email and Web Browser Apps
One of the new features available in iOS 14 is the ability to switch default app preferences for the first time. 9to5Mac reports: Details are scarce currently, but one of the slides in the WWDC presentation featured a block that announced users will be able to change their default browser and default email app. This is a long-requested feature, as iOS…
Apple Will Let You Emulate Old Apps, Run iOS Apps on ARM Macs
At the WWDC 2020 keynote today, Apple announced that the company is going to switch from Intel chips to Apple’s own silicon, based on ARM architecture. They also announced that iPad and iPhone apps will be able to run natively on ARM-powered Macs. TechCrunch reports: First, you’ll be able to compile your app to run both on Intel-based Macs and ARM-based…
Devs Might Be Able To Write Software On iPad, iPhone With Xcode For iOS
macOS and iOS software developers will soon be able to code on an iPad or even iPhone, if an unconfirmed report is correct. iPadOS 14 and the iPhone equivalent will reportedly include support for Xcode, Apple’s software development environment. Cult of Mac reports: This report comes from Jon Prosser, founder of YouTube channel Front Page Tech, who recently correctly predicted the…