In the event an app on your Apple Watch stops responding, you can force quit the app instead of restarting your entire device. I’ve had to do this a number of times since iOS 10 and WatchOS 3 were released. The next time you find yourself staring at a watch app that won’t load, or …
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Now playing: Watch this: Did the iPhone 7 survive our water test? 4:36 Plop. That’s the sound of your phone impacting a pot of tomato sauce. Or a swimming pool. Or — God forbid — a toilet bowl. Normally, you’re screwed. Unless you’re very, very lucky (and have some silica gel packets handy), your phone’s delicate circuits are toast. But …
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We’re just starting to get a clearer picture of Apple’s “Portrait” mode. A new beta version of iOS 10 released to developers on Wednesday includes software for taking portraits, according to MacRumors. Portraits is a feature the Cupertino, California-based tech giant touted when it introduced the enormous iPhone 7 Plus earlier this month and it’s just now getting tested out. …
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All that new tech crammed into the new iPhone 7 isn’t coming cheap for Apple. Apple’s materials and manufacturing costs for the phone total $224.80, according to a teardown estimate by researcher IHS Markit on Tuesday. That’s up about 18 percent from the iPhone 6S, released last year. Apple kept the base price for its newest phone the same, at …
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Now playing: Watch this: Testing Siri and more on Apple’s new MacOS 3:18 Apple’s next Mac operating system, MacOS Sierra, is here. Siri integration headlines the new features Sierra introduces, but the update also features optimized storage via iCloud Drive, a universal clipboard, a picture-in-picture video player, auto unlock via Apple Watch and Apple Pay on the Web. MacOS Sierra: …
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As everyone knows by now, Apple finally worked up the “courage” to eliminate the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smartphones. According to Phil Schiller, head of marketing, the decision was based on three reasons: firstly to show off Lightning’s ability to adapt to uses beyond charging and data transfer, secondly to save space and thirdly …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7, reviewed: maybe it’s boring, but it’s absolutely… 2:45 Go ahead. Yawn at the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Or dig a little deeper, and maybe you’ll perk up at some tantalizing clues to the future of the iPhone. You see, there may be more to Apple’s latest phone than just a carbon copy …
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Now playing: Watch this: 10 reasons to upgrade to iOS 10 2:30 iOS 10 is here. Even though it looks just like iOS 9, a lot — and we mean a lot — of features are radically different. Messages is a lot more like Facebook Messenger, the lock screen packs a lot more info, and you can finally delete Apple’s …
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Apps. How retro. Bookings by bots are outstripping the growth of the early app economy, according to a Citigroup research note reported by Bloomberg. Bots, short for chatbots, are software applications that use artificial intelligence to do simple tasks: answer a question, write an email or book travel. Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s messaging service, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Jet Black iPhone 7 scratch test 2:44 The shiny finish of the jet-black iPhone 7 comes with a catch: It’s scratch-prone. Apple was forthright with this caveat, detailing the potential drawbacks of buying the new model: “The high-gloss finish of the jet black iPhone 7 is achieved through a precision nine-step anodization and polishing process. Its …
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