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If you've been having trouble with some of Apple's online services today, you're not alone, with the company confirming numerous ongoing outages as well as more that have been fixed. Issues are being reported across iCloud in particular, with Backup, Mail, Notes, Calendar, and Keychain all among the services affected.
Apple started including the iPhone 11 in their store with refurbished stock for the first time in the device's history. This refurbished stock includes the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. If you have, for whatever reason, been looking for these specific models before and found yourself out-of-sorts when you found out they weren't in the Apple store anymore, now's your time!
Apple has been slowly but surely bringing some of its apps and services on Windows, allowing Apple users to stay within the security of their chosen platform even while on someone else's operating system. Cupertino's latest offer was an extension for the Chrome web browser on Windows that allowed it to access passwords stored on Apple's iCloud. Now that extension is temporarily unusable because the version of the iCloud app on Windows that it requires has been suddenly pulled out.
It's definitely a big day for Apple car rumors and speculation, from serious market analysis to tongue-in-cheek theories about electric vehicle's charging system. Riding on these waves is a new report that Apple made yet another big move that reveals its chosen partner for this endeavor. Although Hyundai has unsurprisingly retracted its previous statements, its affiliate Kia is now seemingly in line for that spot, at least based on a single local news report.
Apple has released the macOS 11.3 developer beta, just a day after the new iOS 14.5 beta addressed Face ID while wearing masks on iPhone. The new software for Mac actually has some overlap with its iOS counterpart, including bringing support for next-gen console game controllers such as those for the Xbox Series X and Sony PS5.
Does the Apple Car come with a Lightning cable and charger? Do you have to flip it upside down to charge it? Do you need a dongle? Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of jokes about the oft-rumored Apple Car out there are the moment, but as is often the case there's something serious behind the comedy - and a serious opportunity for Apple to disrupt it.
The long-standing rumors of an Apple car keep gaining traction, with the Cupertino firm's supposed collaboration with Hyundai helping add some potential specifications to the upcoming electric vehicle. The subject of speculation and leaks for several years now, Apple's car project - known as "Project Titan" internally - got more serious in early January, when Hyundai seemingly confirmed that the two companies were in talks about a partnership.
For a long time, the most complicated part of the car dashboard was figuring out where to hang your furry dice. These days, though, bigger screens - and more of them - are just the surface glitter on a new age of vehicle tech. The potential for confusion is accelerating, not least as new names wade into car software.
Apple has released its first iOS 14.5 beta for developers, revealing a number of new features that will make life easier for iPhone users. Perhaps the most notable addition for the average user is the ability to unlock an iPhone with Face ID when wearing a face mask, assuming you're also wearing an Apple Watch.
In the past, if you had an Apple product, you had to live in the Apple ecosystem and only in the Apple ecosystem. Sure, there was iTunes on Windows but that's pretty much on the way out, too. Today's Apple is very different from that, however, and it is more confident in its own products, especially its services, that it doesn't mind mixing with other platforms and software. Knowing that even its own users would sometimes be forced to use a different web browser, Apple is now at least providing them a way to protect themselves even when using Google's Chrome.
Apple Studios has set a Sundance record by paying more than $25 million for CODA, a hit movie that was also reportedly sought by competitors Netflix and Amazon. With this purchase, Apple has achieved the worldwide exclusive rights to the feature film, which is expected to launch on the company's Apple TV+ streaming service.
If you are finding it hard to resist the $549 AirPods Max, you might just want to hold your horses as the Apple AiPods Pro 2 is speculated for a launch much earlier than previously believed. The true wireless earbuds will be far cheaper than the outrageously priced AirPods Max (only if you are not a diehard headphones fan) and pretty much like the earbuds-style accessory.