This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Four years in, the Apple Watch is still an accessory to the iPhone. But it’s starting to find its own way. WatchOS 6, announced at Apple’s WWDC this week, adds a native Watch App Store, streaming audio, more …
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“Apple builds things that people want to buy.” Seems like an obvious sentiment, coming from the executive who leads software development at one of the world’s most successful tech companies. But that comment underscores why Craig Federighi spent so much time highlighting new privacy features in the operating systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac at the start of …
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Bose’s recently launched Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, due to hit stores on June 30 for $400, were the main attraction at a media preview event the company hosted at a New York City hotel on Wednesday. But it also trotted out another new product, the Earbuds 500, its next-generation true wireless earphones that it hopes will make people think twice …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple on Monday revealed the next major update to MacOS. The announcement came on the first day of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Apple said the free update, coming this fall, will be …
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Apple may have a new way to fight the robocall epidemic: Siri. Buried toward the bottom of its new iOS 13 features page, Apple lists an update for the Phone app. Called “Silence unknown callers,” the new setting aims to use “Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail and Messages. All other calls …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The mobile version of Lightroom is going to get a big step closer to its PC-based big brother with Apple’s decision to let iPhones and iPads connect to storage systems like flash memory cards and external drives. Lightroom, Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’m scrambling around a wooden floor, trying to fend off a giant virtual ball with my iPad Pro. It’s a bowling alley, but it feels like a basketball court. A crowd cheers. Eli faces off across from me, pushing his iPad Pro forward, launching …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’d love to take an iPad around as my main work machine. I’ve come close. But I haven’t crossed over. The 11-inch iPad Pro is a fantastic piece of hardware. The limits? The software. Apple’s newly renamed iPadOS is a commitment to the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is known for slickly produced product launches and, in Steve Jobs‘ time, a singular masterful showman unveiling groundbreaking products including the iPhone and the MacBook Air. But WWDC is when the company lets its hair down and gets geeky with its developers. I finally got …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At $5,999, Apple’s new Mac Pro is quite the investment for creators out there. Apple wants to ease you in, literally letting you visualize your new life with the Mac Pro and $4,999 Pro Display XDR monitor by creating a 3D render you can position …
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