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Have you noticed that since installing iOS 13.5.1 that you need to charge yup your iPhone’s battery more often? You might have even noticed that the iPhone is feeling warm — or even hot — even when it’s not doing anything. Yes, it seems like this release suffers from yet ...

With the current generation of smartphones and their much faster processors and vivid, high-resolution displays, and always-on connectivity, demands on battery performance are now higher than ever. You may have noticed that, while you are on the road, you’re quickly running out of juice. If you have this problem, portable ...

In late June, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference where the company announced several software updates for its entire hardware lineup, including WatchOS 7 for its smartwatch lineup.  One of the new features that will debut this year is something many users have been asking Apple to add for ...

In a presentation at its developer conference this week, Apple announced that the upcoming versions of its iOS and macOS operating systems will support the ability to handle encrypted DNS communications. Apple said that iOS 14 and macOS 11, set to be released this fall, will support both the DNS-over-HTTPS ...

Apple just revealed the next major software update for its iPad lineup, iPadOS 14. The announcement was made during the opening keynote of WWDC, its annual developer conference where the company also announced iOS 14, WatchOS 7, and TVOS 14.  Among the new features in iPadOS 14 is a new-look ...

Apple’s preview of macOS Big Sur promises Mac users an overhauled interface, newly designed app icons, and much needed improvements to the Messages app.  MacOS Big Sur is the first version of macOS to support Apple’s new Arm-based silicon processors – but it also introduces a lot of design changes ...

Today, at the 2020 edition of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced new privacy and security features for iOS and macOS users. Just like last year, this year’s theme has been on improving user privacy, with a special focus on the predatory online advertising industry. This year, Apple announced ...

Seen something about COVID-19 tracking on your smartphone? Don’t worry, you’re safe. Some devious hacker hasn’t infiltrated your phone and installed malware. What you’re actually seeing is the groundwork that Apple and Google have done to allow governments and health agencies to develop their own COVID-19 trackers, and also to ...

(Image: CNET) Remember AirPower? It was an ambitious Apple project to develop a wireless charging pad that you could place your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods anywhere on the pad and they’d charge without having to properly align each charging coil.  It was so ambitious, in fact, Apple ultimately canceled the project in ...

Jason Cipriani/ZDNet On Monday, Basecamp launched an email app and service called Hey. The paid service attempts to reimagine email as we know it with features like removing tracking pixels, email screening, and more, all of which attempt to lessen the burden of email and make it more manageable. The cost of ...