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The brilliant cameras on the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X let you easily snag brilliant snaps. If you want to take your mobile photography beyond simple snaps, though, you’ll need to start thinking more about how you’re taking photos. In the first of a series of how-to features, I’ll take you through my top …

Hey, I’m on the Millennium Falcon! I’m a hologram. BB-8 is spinning around behind me. I snap a quick square video of myself, add captions and titles. It’s a bit like a personal green screen. If you’ve got an iPhone X, Apple’s Clips app gets some fun new tricks. The free app, an iOS exclusive from Apple first released back …

Apple said Thursday that it’s working on a software fix for complaints that the iPhone X’s screen becomes unresponsive in cold weather. Some iPhone X users began complaining this week that their handsets don’t recognize input on the touchscreen when exposed to cool outdoor temperatures. Apple recommends operating its iOS devices in temperatures between 32 degrees and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. …

You’ll now be able to talk about yourself as much as you want in iMessages.  A bug in Apple’s iOS 11.1 software prevented some users from typing the letter “i.” Instead, it would autocorrect to the letter “A” and a unicode symbol.  But Apple on Thursday released a software update, iOS 11.1.1, to fix the issue. You can download the …

Competitors like Samsung and Google may have caught up to Apple when it comes to mobile-phone photography, but iPhones might reclaim their lead if a startup acquisition works out. Apple bought InVisage, a company developing image sensor technology called QuantumFilm that could outdo traditional image sensors from giants like Sony. Apple confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch on Thursday. QuantumFilm, which …

Augmented reality is expected to become a new, major tech platform in the years to come, and Apple wants a piece of the action. The iPhone maker is working on a new AR headset that could become available as soon as 2020, according to a report Wednesday from Bloomberg. Also on today’s podcast, we talk about Snap’s lousy quarterly results …

Apple is working on a new iPad that’ll have the same facial recognition feature as its iPhone X, according to Bloomberg. The device could be out as soon as 2018. Apple typically unveils its new line of iPads in June. In next year’s launch at least one of its tablets could have Face ID to unlock the device, according to …

Apple could be working on an augmented reality headset, though we shouldn’t expect to see it until 2019. The news comes from “people familiar with the situation,” cited in a Bloomberg report published Wednesday. If true, it’s not surprising: Every major company is betting on “reality” headsets — AR, VR or mixed — of some form as the future of human-computer interaction. …

While the iPhone X is expensive to buy, it’s also expensive to make — but maybe not as expensive as you’d think. The iPhone X’s parts add up to about $357.50, according to TechInsights (via Reuters). That converts to about £270 or AU$470. To arrive at this estimate, TechInsights tore down an iPhone X and tallied up component costs. Keep …

So you can’t get an iPhone X, but you don’t want to miss out on all the fun of owning a state-of-the-art phone that does a bunch of cool stuff. Not to worry. There are plenty of amazing handsets stuffed with the hardware features and software tools you crave, and they might also save you a fistful of cash. Here’s …