Apple Guides Archive
22 Sep 2015
Hands On With the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus
Hands On With the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus The “S” year is always a tricky one for Apple. The company has to show that a phone that looks exactly like last year’s model is new, revolutionary, different, and the best ever. And from the outside, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus do look exactly like
22 Sep 2015
Pay Just Pennies For Brand-New Electronics
Pay Just Pennies For Brand-New Electronics Well, the deals are still out there, and many are scooping them up from a new online auction website called QuiBids that’s figured out how to sell all the must-have products for prices that are so jaw dropping, you’ll find them hard to believe. QuiBids’ product selection runs from
22 Sep 2015
Apple iOS 9
Apple iOS 9 Sometimes Apple completely reinvents a product, but often the company sticks to a winning formula. iOS 9, the newest operating system for iPhones and iPads, is part of a pattern. Following the complete visual overhaul of iOS 7, iOS 8 smoothed out some lingering bugs and fleshed out the OS with new
22 Sep 2015
Found an iOS 9 security flaw? You could earn $1m — but not from Apple
Found an iOS 9 security flaw? You could earn $1m — but not from Apple Security firm Zerodium has announced a $1 million bounty for vulnerabilities found in iOS 9 that will allow a non-jailbroken device to be compromised and controlled remotely. The company is looking for an exploit that can be deployed through
17 Sep 2015
iOS 9 review: Apple finally focuses on stability and smarts
iOS 9 review: Apple finally focuses on stability and smarts Two years on from the biggest design overhaul of iOS, Apple has finally started to iron out the kinks. iOS 7 was notorious for being unstable at launch and many people struggled to get iOS 8 onto their phones, because it was such a huge download.
16 Sep 2015
You can’t track down your lost iPhone using an Android device
You can’t track down your lost iPhone using an Android device If you’ve misplaced your iPhone and only have an Android device to track it down with, you’re sadly out of luck. It turns out that iCloud.com, where Apple’s Find My iPhone feature is available, doesn’t support Android browsers, including the default app as
16 Sep 2015
Want iOS 9? Here’s what time you can download it today
Want iOS 9? Here’s what time you can download it today Today is the day. Apple enthusiasts get to experience iOS 9 for the first time (unless you had early access). The only thing is, it’s not going to be available the second you wake up, so here’s a handy list that indicates the
15 Sep 2015
Apple says iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are on track to be its best-selling models yet
Apple says iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are on track to be its best-selling models yet Apple only updates its iPhone design every two years, so the intermediate ‘S’ models are normally not received quite as enthusiastically, despite their upgraded processing power. It looks like that may not be the case with the new 6s
11 Sep 2015
Apple ‘blew it’ — The Apple Pencil (stylus) is here
Apple ‘blew it’ — The Apple Pencil (stylus) is here Steve Jobs always severely derided the idea of a stylus: His thought was that if you saw a stylus, then Apple ‘blew it’ — because styluses are klutzy and people lose them. But … Steve also famously told his successor Tim Cook not to waste
10 Sep 2015
These are the new emoji in iOS 9.1
These are the new emoji in iOS 9.1 That’s right, we’re getting even more emoji. Apple has included the new emoji from the latest Unicode specificationas part of a special iOS 9.1 beta uploaded for developers today. So many have been added that it’s a little hard to tell what’s new and what isn’t. Here’s what