Gaming subscription services are all the rage now, but Apple Arcade isn’t quite like Google Stadia or Xbox Live. So if you’ve got questions about it, we’ve got plenty of answers. Updated 08/27/21: Two new games launch on Apple Arcade today. Baldo in…
Lees meerApple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. The service launched on Novembe…
Lees meerOn Thursday night, Apple announced an agreement with developers involved in a class-action lawsuit that involved several changes to the App Store. As part of the agreement, which still needs to be approved by a judge, Apple has made several concessi…
Lees meerThirteen years ago, when I was lucky enough to interview a then-22-year-old Lady Gaga on the verge of mainstream success, she described her collaborative songwriting style as a process that allowed her to “synthesize other people’s ideas and edit th…
Lees meerConcerned about your Mac’s startup SSD or hard disk drive falling into someone else’s hands? Encrypting the startup volume prevents access to that drive unless they know an account password password or, in some cases, possess the correct hardware to…
Lees meerIn a surprise announcement late Thursday, Apple announced several changes to its App Store terms as part of the resolution of a class-action suit from U.S. developers. The agreement, which is pending court approval, identifies “seven key priorities …
Lees meerIt’s been six years since the first Apple Watch hit the market, and the device has seen some important changes in its time with cellular, larger displays, and more powerful sensors. Lately, however, it seems as if we’ve hit the part in a product’s l…
Lees meerThis fall, Apple is upgrading all paid iCloud accounts to something it calls iCloud+. It includes several interesting new features on top of the existing iCloud storage, sync, and cloud features, but the most interesting might be something Apple cal…
Lees meerApple on Thursday announced the News Partner Program, an initiative for subscription news services that post to Apple News. Participants “may qualify” for a 15 percent commission rate on in-app subscriptions from day one. That’s a change from the us…
Lees meerApple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all of…
Lees meerOne of the best security features of Apple’s Face ID unlocking and authentication system is also its biggest annoyance: it only works when it can see your entire face, as millions of mask-wearing iPhone users learned during the pandemic. However, a …
Lees meerWhile the MacBook Air is tremendously popular, some users need a little bit more. More performance, a bigger battery, more ports, a larger screen…if you need more, you need a MacBook Pro. If you want a Mac laptop with a display larger than 13-14 inc…
Lees meerDuring the introduction of its new Charge 5 fitness tracker, Fitbit stole a bit of its own thunder with a pretty big revelation: A smartwatch based on Google’s Wear OS is on the way. Now that Google owns Fitbit, that isn’t too much of a surprise. Ho…
Lees meerVehicles scour the streets of cities in most countries snapping pictures of their surroundings to allow for an on-the-ground experience via Street View (Google), Look Around (Apple), or Streetside (Bing). This includes the public frontage of your ho…
Lees meerThe fall season is the season when Apple seems to be dropping everything—operating systems, laptops, tablets, watches and more. But of all the products coming from Cupertino, what are the Macworld editors most looking forward to? We cover that in th…
Lees meerUpdate 08/25/21: iOS 15 Beta 7 has been released to developers. The public beta version usually follows within a day. Every year, Apple releases major updates for its iPhone and iPad operating systems in the fall. For months before that, it releases…
Lees meerEngaging intros can elevate your videos and are critical if you want to build a following on YouTube. It is the first thing a viewer sees when they play your content and is the main component that hooks them to watch the rest of the video. In this a…
Lees meerEach year, Apple celebrates the founding of the U.S. National Park Service (which happened on August 25, 1916) across its ecosystem. In Apple’s announcement, CEO Tim Cook is quoted as saying, “With every passing year, our national parks only become …
Lees meerSo what if there’s a new iPad mini on the way? The current model is still our favorite tiny tablet and you can get one for a big discount today: Amazon is selling the iPad mini 5 with 64GB of storage and LTE in any color for $430, the lowest price w…
Lees meerEvery year, a new version of iOS. And every year, some big new features can totally change the way you use your iPhone. But each new iOS release also comes with a bunch of tiny changes; little hidden features and tweaks that you won’t even notice if…
Lees meerThe Photos library used in macOS acts like a file when it’s actually a package, a special macOS container for holding many objects together. This prevents us from accidentally moving items out of it, renaming files that need to have fixed names, or …
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