The iPhone maker said it will update its web page for managing Apple IDs in coming months to let users download a copy of all their data stored with the company. The site will also let customers correct personal information, temporarily deactivate their account, and completely delete it. The new privacy controls are designed to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which kicks in May 25, the Cupertino, California-based company said.
Today Apple released the latest update to iOS, version 11.3, which adds the previously promised iPhone battery health settings, along with four new Animoji, ARKit 1.5, a new Music Videos section in Apple Music, and more.
The update brings support for Business Chat, which will allow you to interface with businesses like Wells Fargo and Lowe's right in the Messages app, and it includes official support for external graphics processors (eGPUs).
In watchOS 4.3, Apple has restored the ability to browse the entire iPhone music library and control iPhone music playback from the Watch.
Apple has announced tvOS 11.3, which includes frame rate matching features that were previously only available on the Apple TV 4K.
You can access the new Music Videos interface by heading to the Browse tab and choosing the “Music Videos” banner along the top.
Apple’s release notes say that Audio 11.3 includes "general improvements for stability and quality." However, it doesn’t include AirPlay 2, which offers multi-room audio support.
But though the $299 iPad isn’t as broadly useful as a good notebook, its feature set is so far beyond its price point and are so empowering to the user that I’ll grant Apple a mulligan. If the company wants to respond to the question “What about a budget Mac?” by pointing to the $329 general-consumer Pencil-compatible 9.7″ iPad, I’ll sign off on that choice.
In the end, the Chicago event confirmed a longstanding belief of mine. During a public presentation, Apple is completely unable to fake any excitement about a product that it couldn’t care less about. Like, any Mac whatsoever that’s not powerful enough to build software for iOS devices. “We love the Mac,” the Apple executive who drew the short straw backstage sighs. “It’s still a tremendous focus of our passion and interest. And to prove it, I’d like to show off a new stickers feature we’re adding to the Mail app.”
If Apple were to offer something akin to Google’s G Suite for Education, it would be a game-changer for privacy. The biggest issue with a Chromebook tablet isn’t Google, it's the relative ease with which bad actors can infiltrate the Chrome browser with malicious content and ads designed to harvest data that should be off-limits. Private data needn’t only be on the device the student is using, and Apple has the tools to offer similar cloud-based tools for managing classrooms, collaborating, and communicating that it does through the Classroom and Schoolwork apps.
There are certain things that will always be too fiddly to do with fingers or styluses on a touch screen, like closing windows or precision editing in PhotoShop. But there are also a lot of times where tapping the screen is quicker than maneuvering a mouse to click a button, like when skipping a track on iTunes. And trying to use an iPad Pro keyboard on your lap is just an exercise in futility.
Whenever Apple decides it wants to be “magical” and “revolutionary” by adding a touch screen to its laptops, like all its competitors already have, there will likely be a fair number people waiting with open arms—and laps.
But there are plenty of reasons to keep that old iPad around. The most obvious, at least for parents: Fill it up with educational games, e-books and the like, and give it to the kids.
You can also devote an old iPad to a specific task or set of tasks. Let's take a look at some practical ways to wring more life from that aging tablet.
The new update, albeit a small one, includes updates to the core language, new build options, and minor enhancements to Swift Package Manager and Foundation. Apple notes that code written in Swift 4.0 will be compatible with Swift 4.1.
You’ve probably never given the complexity of restaurant reservations much thought because they’re simple for customers: Make a call or click a button online, show up, and you get a table. But for restaurants, every night is a constant struggle. Hosts start each service with carefully planned maps of where each reservation will sit — then watch as it slowly unravels over the course of the evening. Every no-show, slow eater, late arrival, and extra guest is like a little earthquake that disrupts the entire plan. A good host constantly rebuilds and reshuffles tables until everyone fits, and the mental gymnastics required are astounding. (If you’ve ever set up a seating chart for a wedding, imagine that stress, every night, with twice as many people in half as much space, and guests who all want to eat at different times.)
Tock, which turns seven this year, is not alone in trying to help restaurants through the realities of these everyone-is-flaky times. In the last few years, a series of high-profile start-ups have hit the restaurant-reservation scene with the goal of selling restaurateurs on their ability to better manage you, the unpredictable guest. Improbably, most of these services are growing, to the point where you might need to navigate four different services to eat at four hot New York restaurants: Resy for Fausto; Reserve for La Mercerie; Yelp Reservations for Juku; and a service called SevenRooms for Cote.