Apple’s ecosystem allows you to easily work on your smartphone and then move to another device, like your tablet, and pick up where you left off. Whether you’re browsing the internet, making a payment online, sketching a drawing or texting your friends, you can use a feature known as Continuity, which seamlessly connects all your …
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Apple introduced Picture in Picture mode back in 2020 with the release of iOS 14, which allows you to watch videos in a floating window anywhere on your phone or tablet. If you want to watch Netflix or HBO Max without being in the app, you can easily do so by swiping up out of it, which usually enables PiP …
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The Wristcam, the $299 (roughly £240, AU$420) Apple Watch accessory that pairs the watch with a wristband camera, is getting updated to include live video calling from your wrist. Wristcam is announcing the update Thursday, and will be rolling out to existing and new Wristcam devices. The Wristcam, first announced in late 2020, already supports photography and video recording through …
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Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack‘s charging speed got a boost with its latest firmware update Wednesday. The update makes the iPhone accessory leap to 7.5-watt charging on the go from its original 5-watt capability, Apple said in a support page. The version 2.7 firmware update begins automatically after you attach your battery pack to your iPhone, but this method “can take …
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If you have iOS 15 or 14 downloaded on your iPhone, you have access to all sorts of fun ways to customize your home screen. You can switch up your app icons, take advantage of a pseudo app drawer called App Library and experiment with widgets. (Plus, rumors suggest that iOS 16, which Apple could show off at WWDC in June, might introduce bigger …
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A new iPhone update arrived recently: iOS 15.4.1. Coming on the heels of iOS 15.4, this update is relatively small but still important: It resolves a battery-draining bug and fixes a security flaw that Apple says “may have been actively exploited” on some devices. Read more: iOS 16 Wish List: New iPhone Features We Hope Apple Debuts at WWDC Some iPhone users took …
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If you’ve downloaded iPadOS 15 onto your iPad, you have the App Library feature on your home screen. The App Library provides a searchable look at all of your installed iPad apps, grouped by category. Tapping the search box also brings up a full alphabetical list of your apps. While the iPhone stashes the App Library neatly to the right of your …
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I shoot a lot of video footage these days, but I don’t do a lot of video edits. Apple’s latest iMovie update for iOS seems to be speaking to me: iMovie 3.0 introduces new modes that promise to make the video editing process a lot more automatic. And, in one case, it’ll do everything for you. Will that make me …
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Your phone doesn’t need to be working to access texts on WhatsApps. Thanks to the web and desktop app’s new Linked Devices feature, previously in beta and rolling out to the public over the next several months, you can get faster access to chats from nearly any computer or tablet you choose, while preserving much of the encryption and security …
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This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and sanctions imposed on Russia from the international community increase, cybersecurity concerns are also on the rise. Though US officials haven’t identified a specific retaliatory cyberthreat to the US coming out of Russia …
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