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Apple Music was redesigned in 2016 in an effort to streamline the app. While Apple did succeed in its efforts to make the app easier to navigate, it’s still quite easy to get turned around when hunting for music across Apple’s vast, 40-million-plus song catalog. Here then are some tips to help you keep track …

China’s mobile payments market is worth almost $6 trillion, and Apple wants a bite of that. To encourage more Chinese to start using Apple Pay, the iPhone maker is offering up to 50 percent discounts off purchases at participating vendors, many of them Western brands. It’s also rewarding users up to 50 times the usual points for designated credit cards, …

Apple is said to be working on a 3D laser system to make for better AR, or augmented reality, on the iPhone 8 — our going name for Apple’s next iPhone — according to a report by Fast Company. Apple’s ARKit was debuted at WWDC last month. James Martin/CNET Although Apple has been hush-hush about its next iPhone, we’re 99 percent …

The upcoming iPhone 8 may not get the entire slew of features that Apple has planned. Problems with the iPhone’s rumored wireless charging and facial recognition software could cause Apple to disable these features when the phone arrives in stores, according to Fast Company. June was allegedly a tough month for Apple’s iPhone team, according to the report. With Apple’s usual iPhone reveal …

iTunes has added PayPal.  Starting Wednesday, PayPal is a payment option for iTunes customers in 12 countries: the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, the US, UK, according to a PayPal blog post.  The advantage of using PayPal is that you don’t have to give your credit card or debit card details to …

You want Minecraft on your phone, but don’t want to use your credit card to pay for it? Apple and PayPal hear you.  From today, Australians can use PayPal to purchase from Apple‘s digital stores — iTunes, iBooks, Apple Music, the App Store, Apple TV — on both iOS and desktops.  To set it up, sign in to your PayPal account through your Apple …

For the past few months, I’ve been sitting on a couple of Apple gift cards. Now that the company has refreshed nearly its entire line of Mac computers, it seemed like the perfect time to get rid of them. But there’s a problem: I’m trying to choose between the new 12-inch MacBook and the entry-level, MacBook Pro sans Touch Bar, …

For months now, the internet has been awash with rumors that Apple’s 10th-anniversary iPhone (which we’re calling the iPhone 8 for now) will have facial recognition built into at least one of its cameras. Now a patent application dated today, and spotted by TechCrunch, spells out Apple’s ambition to patent a sensor that can tell if you’re human.  The application …

All of next year’s iPhones could adopt a new screen technology, according to Nikkei Asian Review, not just the most high-end model. (Brace yourself for a lot of “ifs.”) That could be a departure from what we get later in 2017, when it’s rumored that the iPhone 8, Apple’s celebratory 10th-year anniversary effort, will ditch the LCD display and go …

If Qualcomm wins its latest legal battle against Apple, it could be a lot harder to buy certain iPhones in the US. The company plans to file a complaint with the US International Trade Commission, accusing Apple’s iPhones of infringing six of Qualcomm’s mobile patents. As part of the filing, Qualcomm wants the ITC to ban the import of certain …