Apple partners with US carriers to offer 2 free months of 200GB iCloud storage
Apple appears to be partnering with all four of the big US carriers with a new iCloud introductory offer. Customers upgrading their iPhone plans get recommended to visit a special iCloud link (first discovered on this Reddit thread), which lets customers get 2 free months of the 200 GB iCloud tier, ostensibly to ‘get ready for your new iPhone’.
The offer is only available to new iCloud customers in the US, and automatically renews if not cancelled at the normal $2.99 pricepoint. If eligible, you can grab the offer here with this direct link.
Apple gives $1M to Kerala flooding relief efforts, opens donations via iTunes & Apple․com
This week’s top stories: A new pro-focused Mac mini, Apple registers the Apple Watch Series 4, more
In this week’s top stories: Apple prepares for the release of new Apple Watch models this fall, Netflix looks to avoid sharing App Store earnings, two new iOS 12 betas, and more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories.
Making The Grade: Digital textbooks for iPad never took off, and here’s why
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.
When the iPad was released was back in 2010, many people in the education industry saw it as a way to end the large backpacks that children have to carry back and forth to school. To sum it up, that mainly hasn’t happened. In 2018, there still aren’t great solutions for the majority of schools to deploy ebooks in mass to any device. This problem spans across the Apple Bookstore, Kindle store, and the Google Play store.
Details: Apple’s first store in Kyoto opens as a community centerpiece for Japan
(Top Photo: Youta Suzuki)
Nearly 15 years after opening its first store outside of the United States in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Apple has reiterated its fondness for Japan with a modern store for an ancient city – Kyoto. The store is positioned as a cultural centerpiece for the region, marking a key milestone in Apple’s renewed investment in Japan.
Apple Watch: How to enable power saving mode for the Workouts app
Naturally, the Workouts app burns a ton of battery life on Apple Watch. It constantly uses the heart rate sensor, GPS, and cellular (if you’re away from your iPhone). This could be an issue if your Apple Watch battery is running low but you need to fill in your Activity rings, still.
Multiple vulnerabilities cause compromised AT&T and T-Mobile account PINs
U.S carrier’s T-Mobile and AT&T recently had their customer’s account PINs compromised by two different security flaws.
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Hands-on: AirSnap leather case for AirPods [Video]
AirPods are one of my favorite Apple products to come along in quite some time, and I use them every single day. I especially enjoy using them while traveling, because they’re completely devoid of wires, have all-day battery life, seamless device pairing, and are easy to stow away.
I was skeptical during their initial unveiling, but after using AirPods for the last year and half, they’ve become one of my favorite tech products of all time. Next to my iPhone, AirPods are easily my favorite tech-related travel companion.
Outside of the long-awaited AirPower mat wireless charger from Apple, I didn’t think there was any accessory that could improve or enhance AirPods in any way. But Twelve South, always the innovator with new Apple-related accessories, is making a case for its new AirSnap accessory. Watch our brief hands-on video walkthrough for the details. more…
CloudKit outage sees some apps experience (temporary) user data loss, Apple working on fix
There appears to be some prolonged issues with Apple’s CloudKit service today, which Apple offers to developers as a way to store user data and sync across devices. Several developers have reported to us that they have seen data for their apps temporarily wiped in the last 24 hours as the CloudKit service experiences some form of outage.
The developer system status page is reporting an issue with the CloudKit Dashboard, the backend admin interface that developers use to manage their CloudKit containers. Clearly, these issues affect more than just the dashboard, but Apple’s system status page does not have an entry for CloudKit itself.