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A new report from Japanese blog Macotakara has claimed that the iPhone SE 2 will likely be called the iPhone 9, owing to the fact that it will feature the same chassis as that of the iPhone 8. The device is expected to feature a 4.7-inch display with bezels along with a faster A13 Bionic

Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro has been found to continuously collecting and transmitting its users location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so. Security journalist Brian Krebs wrote about this on his blog recently, with an accompanying video revealing that the new iPhone continues to collect GPS data for certain apps and

Apple is said to be planning a major change in the top-end 2021 iPhone model. If predictions made by noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo are to be believed the Cupertino, California-based company is planning to kill the Lightning port in the highest-end 2021 iPhone model. By ditching the Lightning port, Apple will make the iPhone

Apple has announced the 2019 edition of best apps and games awards for its ecosystem of devices. Spectre Camera by Lux Optics took home the award for iPhone App of the Year, while Sky: Children of the Light developed by thatgamecompany was crowned the iPhone Game of the Year. Coming to the macOS side of

Several months after confirming that manually tagging people on Google Photos will become a reality, the company is finally rolling out the feature in which users will be able to manually add in many of the faces that its algorithm misses out on. Those hoping that the feature would allow you to point at any

The return of The Crown — with new faces playing older versions of the British royal family and politicians in season 3 — was the highlight of November, as it made room for the ensemble cast to shine alongside Queen Elizabeth II. Closer to home, the millennial comedy-drama Little Things delivered a season 3 of

Apple is “taking a deeper look at how we handle disputed borders” after it referred to the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps for Russian users, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told Reuters that Apple has not made any changes to its

Luxshare Precision Industry Co. has more than tripled this year, outperforming virtually every major stock traded in the Asia Pacific and underscoring the importance of a certain Apple product the Chinese company assembles: AirPods. Commanding a 50% share of the nascent true wireless earphones market — defined by earbuds that have no wired connection between

Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief design officer who is behind the look and feel of the iPhone or iMac that you use today, has formally left Apple as his biography along with photo disappearing from Apple’s Leadership page. British-origin Ive who worked at Apple for almost 30 years in June announced to move on and

US tech giant Apple has complied with Moscow’s demands to show Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Russian territory on its apps, lawmakers said Wednesday. The Black Sea peninsula and its largest cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol are now displayed as Russian territory on Apple’s maps and weather apps when used in Russia. Crimea

Apple has made strengthening privacy protections a central part of its brand. But critics increasingly warn that the iPhone maker may be using privacy as a guise for anti-competitive behavior. The latest flare up comes after Apple made changes to its new mobile operating system that it advertised as improving privacy, but that also give

Amazon India’s Fab Phones Fest sale has kicked off today with deals and offers on several popular mobile phones. The Fab Phones Fest sale is offering up to 40 percent discount on select smartphones along with bundled offers. The sale will be open until November 29. Amazon has tied up with Axis Bank to offer

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had asked Apple Inc Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook to look into helping develop telecommunications infrastructure for 5G wireless networks in the United States. Apple is not known to have made any investments in 5G telecoms infrastructure to date and is yet to release a 5G device. The

Adobe generated a lot of high expectations when it announced that it will bring Photoshop to the iPad last year. At this year’s Adobe Max conference, the company shipped the first version of Photoshop for iPad with a set of core Photoshop features. The much-anticipated app faced backlash online, with users reporting that the app

More than 1,500 complaints of unwanted sexual approaches, many targeting children, have been made against popular social networking apps in Apple’s App Store, in contrast to what Apple prominently markets as a “safe and trusted place,” according to a Washington Post investigation. The complaints about popular social media platforms that connect strangers in video conversations,

Apple has silently removed customer reviews and ratings from its online store. The change has taken place not just in the US but also in the UK and Australia and applies to all Apple products that previously had reviews and ratings from customers. The Apple online store included the dedicated “Ratings & Reviews” section for

Apple on Wednesday abruptly cancelled the world premiere of The Banker over unspecified concerns, just one day before the film was due to close a major Los Angeles festival. The movie, starring Samuel L Jackson, is based on the true story of two black businessmen who hired a working-class white man to front their empire and

Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple defended their business practices in responses to detailed questions by lawmakers conducting an inquiry into antitrust issues in the tech sector. The answers, released Tuesday by the House subcommittee overseeing the probe, come as antitrust scrutiny of the companies has escalated rapidly, with federal and state enforcers opening formal investigations

Apple has pushed iOS 13.2.3 and iPadOS 13.2.3 for all compatible iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices. The new iOS and iPadOS updates, which both come within a couple of weeks after the debut of their last iterations, primarily fix software glitches on Apple devices. The iOS 13.2.3 and iPadOS 13.2.3 updates resolve issues exist

Microsoft is pulling the plug on its Cortana mobile app for both Android and iOS devices in regions such as the UK, Canada, Australia and several other countries. Beginning January 31, Microsoft will no longer support the digital assistant app in the above-mentioned countries, it said in three regional support notes. When asked if the

TikTok is testing the ability to add links in bios as well as social commerce URLs in videos. The testing is being conducted via few influencers in the US, and this could be its first move to help users (and brands) make monetised content on the app. Currently, the only way TikTok influencers can make

Apple on Friday said it is banning vaping-related apps from its App Store due to concerns that e-cigarette use can damage lungs or even kill people. Apple vets what is allowed on the shelves of its virtual shop that serves as the sole outlet for apps available to its popular mobile devices, including some 900

Epic Games, the team behind the successful battle royale game Fortnite, has officially launched Battle Breakers, a tactical, hero collecting role-playing game available on PC, iOS and Android. Speaking of Android, you can download Battle Breakers from Samsung’s Galaxy Store or if you have a smartphone from some other brand then you can get this

It was a sense of foreboding that prompted Gloria Fuentes to delete several apps from her phone ahead of an Apple store appointment last week in Bakersfield, California. Fuentes scrubbed her device of all social media, financial and banking apps before getting her screen repaired November 4 – and intended to delete all of her photos,

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook are expected to tour facilities in Texas where Apple products are made as soon as next week to showcase companies that keep jobs in America, according to two people familiar with the matter. The trip, which has not yet been announced, would highlight Cook’s strong relationship with

Apple’s A13 Bionic SoC powering the iPhone 11 series has widened the performance gap between the new iPhone models and the latest Snapdragon 855-powered Android flagships. After proving its mettle in benchmark tests, the Apple A13 Bionic SoC inside the iPhone 11 Pro Max has emerged as the winner in a synthetic app speed test

Apple Pay has attracted regulatory scrutiny as a result of several expressions of concern about the US tech giant’s mobile payment service, Europe’s antitrust chief said on Thursday. Margrethe Vestager’s comments come after an EU questionnaire, seen by Reuters late last month, showed EU regulators had asked online merchants whether they had been told to

Apple has confirmed that it has greenlit second seasons of three of its TV+ original series: the Jason Momoa-starrer post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama See, the Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore’s Joel Kinnaman-starrer alt-history sci-fi drama For All Mankind, and the Hailee Steinfeld-starrer historical coming-of-age comedy Dickinson. That means all of its launch adult-oriented dramas —

WhatsApp is resulting in a battery draining issue on iPhone devices, multiple users have reported on social media. The user reports suggest that the issue has come in the limelight after the Facebook-owned company released WhatsApp for iPhone version 2.19.112 earlier this week. Alongside iPhone users, some Android users have complained about the similar battery

iPhone 11 Pro Max’s cameras have finally been put through the paces by DxOMark, and to put it simply, the outcome was not all too surprising. The iPhone 11 Pro Max achieved a net score of 117 points for its rear camera output, which places it jointly at second place with the Samsung Galaxy Note