While watchOS 10 has enjoyed a generally positive reception—the Snoopy watch face is particularly popular—there has been some grumbling about how Apple redefined established actions to trigger new behaviors. It’s safe to assume that inside Apple, people also grumbled as familiar button presses generated entirely different results. But after using internal builds of watchOS 10 for months, Apple obviously decided the changes were worthwhile.
Apple has built Continuity features for years, with AirDrop an early example. It means you can transfer documents between devices simply. Stephen Tonna, who manages to be both intensely focused and almost casually relaxed at the same time, explains how it arrived.
“If you remember, when we originally introduced AirDrop, it was because we were in that transition as an industry of going fully wireless and replacing the USB drive. We have long since moved on from that. AirDrop is still the easiest, fastest, most seamless way of transferring content between devices and when have an iPhone with lots of photos and you want to quickly share those, it is the best way to do that.” AirDrop works wherever you are – there’s no need for set-up, pairing devices, checking you’re on the same network or any other faff. In fact, you don’t even need to be anywhere near a wifi network, because it creates its own connection.
Apple has finally closed off the ability of the Flipper Zero pen-testing tool to flood iPhones with so many popups that the handset would lock up and require a reboot.
For those unfamiliar, StopTheMadness is designed to give you back control of the Safari web browsing experience. [...] This includes things like stopping videos from autoplaying, showing native Safari video playback controls, cracking down on tracking tags, and much more. StopTheMadness Pro builds on that foundation of features with things like iCloud syncing of your settings, hiding page elements, platform-specific settings, presets, and much more.
After four years of court hearings and plenty of controversy, Apple and cyber startup Corellium are settling a copyright lawsuit. Terms have not been disclosed.
The suit was filed in 2019, with Apple claiming that Corellium had illegally replicated iOS by creating software that created virtual versions of iPhones so they could be probed by security researchers and app developers. Apple alleged Corellium had breached the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) too by breaking the law’s “anti-circumvention” provision that makes it “unlawful to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works.” The tech giant demanded that Corellium cease selling its software and that it pay Apple for any profits lost as a result of the copies being made.
Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case. First filed in 2019, the lawsuit accused Apple of misrepresenting the way that subscriptions to third-party apps worked with the Family Sharing feature.
Apple, Visa and Mastercard have been hit with a new proposed class action that accuses them of conspiring to thwart competition for point-of-sale payment card network services, causing merchants to pay artificially higher fees for credit and debit transactions. [...] The complaint said Visa and Mastercard had paid Apple what amounted to a “very large and ongoing cash bribe” of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
The one Continuity feature I appreciate most: the ability to copy-and-paste across different devices.
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