Every year, Apple honors the very best apps and games of the year through the App Store Awards — a recognition of exceptional user experience, design, and innovation from developers across the world. With 45 App Store Award finalists across 12 different categories, these apps and games have helped users accomplish more, be more creative, and better connect with friends and family. This year, the App Store Awards include a new Apple Vision Pro category, highlighting stunning achievements in the world of spatial computing. App Store Award winners chosen from this distinguished group of app and game developers will be announced in the coming weeks.
“We’re thrilled to celebrate this year’s App Store Award finalists, whose imagination and craftsmanship have produced amazing apps that users love,” said Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of Worldwide App Store. “From games that transport players to fantastical new worlds, to apps that fuel creativity, these developers are delivering remarkable experiences that captivate and inspire.”
Share Item Location generates a secure link that requires only a Web browser to access and that you can pass along using any standard link-sharing method, such as via Messages, email, or AirDrop.
More recently, it was just letting Apple Music recommend music after playing an album from my library. Within a matter of months, I went from first hearing this song on Apple Music while driving around to driving hours away to see the song played live.
Apple calls this feature Autoplay. “Autoplay takes the work out of choosing what to play next,” Apple explains. “Just play a song, then Autoplay finds similar songs and plays them afterward.”
Several people who bought an M1 iMac a few years ago have reported a major problem with the display–a problem that doesn’t appear until after the standard warranty expires.
When you launch it, it looks like a spreadsheet, displaying data in rows and columns, but it doesn’t require that you write formulas to manipulate data. Instead, it has an extensive set of data manipulation capabilities that you apply directly to the contents of a CSV file. In essence, Modern CSV uses CSV as its native format and lets you choose common data transformation, conversion, concatenation, and other actions from menus instead of pre-parsing files in a text editor or building formulas and juggling results columns in a spreadsheet app. With CSV as the native file format, you skip all that to work directly with tabular data.
From now on, every time you receive a notification, you can dismiss it using the keyboard shortcut. If you need to see it later, you can also review everything you closed out in the Notification Center.
The new feature processes the video’s caption, where creators tend to document their ingredient list and instructions, but is powered by on-device machine learning instead of using a third-party AI provider.
YouTube this week reintroduced support for the iOS Share Sheet, which means that it's now possible to share videos from the iPhone Photos app and other video apps directly to YouTube.
Google has introduced a new feature on iOS that injects links on third-party websites that take users back to Google Search.
Apple chief Tim Cook arrived in China on Monday for his third visit of the year as the company tries to navigate the country’s complex regulatory regime and bring its Apple Intelligence to devices sold in the country.
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A top Chinese tech regulator told the Financial Times that foreign groups like Apple would face a lengthy and complex approval process to run their own models and indicated partnering with locals was their best option.
Indonesia said a $100 million investment proposal from Apple to build an accessory and component plant was not enough for the country to allow the tech giant to sell its latest iPhone model, its industry ministry said on Monday.
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"We have done an assessment and this (proposal) has not met principles of fairness," Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita told a press conference, comparing the proposal to Apple's bigger investments in neighboring Vietnam and Thailand.
Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade said on Monday that Apple must lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases, among other things, as the watchdog moved to proceed with an investigation into a complaint filed by Latin America e-commerce giant MercadoLibre.
In this year 2024, I've added one app and two games to my daily iPhone experience. I've started using iCatcher! as my podcast player, and I don't think I've exhausted all the features for my daily audio entertainment routine yet. Among the features that I do use: the podcast priority system allows me to listen to the more newsy podcasts (such as Connected, The Town) first, while I can go through the other podcasts at a more leisurely pace; the category feature allows me to tag podcasts so that I can find shows easily; and the download and streaming options that can be applied on a global as well as individual podcast basis allow me to decide which show I am willing to spend my mobile data on.
The two games that has been added to my daily roster: Lex.games and Wheel of Fortune Daily. Nice diversions for my lunch hour.
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