Apple promotes Pride Edition Watch band with custom store displays, employee celebration
After announcing the availability of a new Pride Edition Woven Nylon Band and watch face at this past week’s WWDC keynote, Apple is promoting the new products and Pride Month in select retail stores.
Safari 12 details: Deprecating legacy extensions, Apple Watch support, more
Safari 12 on macOS 10.14 Mojave and iOS 12 includes a host of changes, such as intelligent tracking prevention improvements, automatic strong passwords, security code autofill, extension changes, and more. During a session at WWDC entitled “What’s new in Safari and WebKit,” Apple dove deeper into these improvements…
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This week’s top stories: Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2018 and more
In this week’s top stories: Apple unveils iOS 12, macOS 10.14 Mojave, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12 at WWDC 2018, a class action lawsuit alleges that all Apple Watches are defective, why FaceTime isn’t an open-standard, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest stories…
Making The Grade: ARKit 2.0 may allow AR to take off in K-12 classrooms
Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students.
WWDC was actually light on specific updates for the K–12 environment. One thing that caught my eye was ARKit 2.0, including Apple’s announcement of a new file format called USDZ: more…
iOS 12 includes support for reporting unwanted texts & calls as spam
iOS 12 includes a notable update for handling spam messages and calls. As outlined on its developer webpage, app makers can now create an app extension that allows users to report unwanted messages and calls as spam…
watchOS 5: How to customize Apple Maps navigation alerts
In pervious versions of watchOS, Apple Maps navigation alerts were all in or all out, with no middle ground. Now, in watchOS 5, Apple is giving users more options to allow alerts based on the type of navigation the user is doing.
Apple Watch to adopt solid state Side button and Digital Crown with Haptic Feedback
iOS 12: How to retry Face ID after a failed attempt
iOS 12 brings a host of subtle refinements to daily iPhone use. One of these is the option to retry Face ID after a failed attempt instead of being forced to enter your passcode. Follow along for how this change works.
9to5Mac Happy Hour 176: WWDC 2018: iOS 12, macOS Mojave, watchOS 5 and tvOS 12
This week Benjamin and Zac talk WWDC 2018 including iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS, and macOS Mojave.
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