A class action lawsuit filed in California by a woman named Christina Grace yesterday alleges that Apple intentionally broke FaceTime’s functions in iOS 6 in an effort to force users to iOS 7. Just a quick reminder: we’re now on iOS 10, but the suit digs back into Apple’s history of FaceTime to suggest that Apple pushed consumers to upgrade to iOS 7 for financial gain....
Siri doesn’t normally see big improvements outside of iOS updates, but Apple has rolled out one that’s sure to please baseball fans. The digital assistant is now better than ever at fetching baseball information, including detailed statistics. Not only can Siri fetch baseball scores to help you stay on top of the game, but it can also fetch information about your favorite teams and...
YouTube has announced that it will be closing down its custom apps on a number of aging devices this May. The move will affect the second-generation Apple TV and its predecessor, as well as iOS devices running iOS 6 and below. "As we upgrade the YouTube Data API to bring more features, we'll begin shutting down the old version on April 20, 2015," Google explains in a post on its...
As part of an ongoing effort to improve its own Maps service, Apple is now allowing small business owners to submit their own business data through a new service called Maps Connect. In doing so, businesses will make it easier for potential customers to locate them. Apple has been frantically working to improve Maps since the platform made its debut alongside iOS 6 back in 2012. It was...
It’s been less than a month since Apple delivered iOS 8 to the public, and yet adoption rates have already slowed down significantly. 46% of users had upgraded by September 21, according to App Store data, but only 47% had upgraded two weeks later. New iOS releases traditionally have excellent adoption rates; within just a few months of big updates like iOS 7, the vast majority of...
It’s been a full day since Apple officially released iOS 8 to the masses, but it looks like the company’s fans aren’t embracing the new operating system quite as quickly as they have in recent years. New reports from mobile platforms including Chitika and Tapjoy reveal that adoption for iOS 8 is off to a slow start compared to last year’s iOS 7 launch and even iOS 6 despite the...
If you frequently use your iPhone as a wireless hotspot you might want to listen up: researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany found that they were able to crack the default pre-shared key (PSK) authentication method in iOS 6 (and below) in 24 seconds. While users can always set their own pre-shared key, many mobile devices including the iPhone often propose a...
If you missed Apple's big WWDC presentation on Monday, and you're just catching up, one of the more jarring bits of news isn't what was included in iOS 7 (or what wasn't), but what the upcoming mobile OS looks like. Reactions have been mixed so far—people either love it or hate it. Maybe that's what Gruber meant when he called iOS 7 polarizing before the official announcement. Apple...
As we near Apple’s unveil of iOS 7, data collected by Chitika Insights suggests iOS 6, released last September, is on nearly 93 percent of North American iPhones. That’s pretty incredible distribution compared to certain competitors—over 80 percent of iPads are running the latest version of the OS, according to Chitika’s data. Chitika was able to collect data by analyzing over 300...
Apple issued the latest update for iPhone 5 users on Thursday. iOS version 6.1.4 is now available and, according to the change log, includes an “updated audio profile for the speakerphone.” This probably isn’t a major update that you’ll need to jump on — there aren’t any security enhancements or bug fixes so far as we can tell, but it’s probably always a good idea to stay up to date...