This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. When my 4-year-old daughter told me she couldn’t get into bed without her “phone,” I knew it was time to rethink my own phone habits. Of course, she doesn’t have a real phone. It’s a plastic pink phone …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you were looking to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for big game-changing leaps or new hardware, you might have walked away a little disappointed. Monday’s keynote, it turns out, was about the little things. That’s not to say the changes were insignificant. Indeed, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s annual iOS update, iOS 12, will be hitting devices later this year. It’ll bring things like your standard performance improvements, new Animoji features, Memoji — since everyone has always wanted to turn themselves into an Animoji — group FaceTime, camera effects, ways to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its WWDC conference on Monday, Apple took the wraps off iOS 12. If you already own an iPhone ($285 at Amazon) or iPad ($170 at Amazon), especially an older one, you might be wondering whether the device will be able to run the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2018: Best new iOS 12 features and more 5:43 As WWDC 2018 approached, Apple released the last version of iOS 11 recently, 11.4, with important updates such as Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2 for multiroom, stereo audio with HomePods. We speculated as …
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There may be more than one way to break into your iPhone X. A little-known company called Grayshift has been quietly talking about its ability to unlock Apple’s latest phones, including the iPhone X and iPhone 8, according to blog Naked Security. Forbes originally broke the news of the second service. This comes a week after Forbes reported that Israeli …
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If you’re looking for a new wireless Bluetooth headphone, you’ve probably looked at one of the two big names out there: Beats and Bose. Both the BeatsX and the Bose SoundSport Wireless headphones are $149 in the US, share similar specs and design. How do you decide which one’s right for you? (International pricing is slightly different for both: the …
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After setting up and getting your Fitbit Ionic watch to your liking, there’s another feature you probably want to take some time to get to know. Now playing: Watch this: Fitbit Ionic is the most advanced Fitbit watch… but… 3:12 Fitbit Pay is the wearable company’s mobile payment platform, meaning that with a flash of your wrist you can pay …
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Medical records tend to be kept in a variety of doctor’s offices, both digitally and on paper. It can be a mess. Apple thinks it has a solution, saying Wednesday it will introduce a new Health Records feature in its next iOS update this spring. Health Records, which will be available to patients at a dozen medical providers to start, …
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Time for some tough love: If you’re not using a password manager, you’re crazy. These tools not only help you build a more secure database of passwords — a different one for every site, of course — but also save you considerable time when it comes to actually using those passwords. OK, I hear you: There’s the expense to consider. …
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