After spending two weeks using the beta versions of watchOS 10, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and tvOS 17, we discuss our experiences and highlight our favorite new features from each of the updates on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos ‌watchOS 10‌ is a major update for the Apple Watch, overhauling its entire user interface. The update refocuses the Apple Watch around a scrollable view of widgets, remaps the buttons, and rearranges the Home Screen of apps. Almost all of Apple's stock apps have received complete redesigns centered around a vertically scrollable view of pages. The update also brings Time in Daylight tracking to Apple Health and adds…

Australia’s prime minister has echoed the advice of cybersecurity professionals, in recommending that you turn off your iPhone for five minutes every night. No, it’s not so you can reduce your daily Screen Time to 23 hours and 55 minutes, but to stop any spyware that may be running in the background on your device … more… The post Turn off your iPhone for five minutes – Australian PM echoes cybersecurity advice appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’ve got an active Google account — or especially if you’ve got one you haven’t used in a while — you’ve probably got more apps and services hooked up to your account than you realize. There are all those places where you’ve “signed in with Google,” all those browser extensions you’ve given permissions to, all those add-ons that you’ve installed on top of Gmail and Google Drive, and so on. While it’s always a good idea to be selective and cautious in choosing which apps and sites get these privileges, there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with using your Google account instead of an email address and password combination or in giving another app…

Previously reserved only for Apple's own iMovie video app, Cinematic Mode in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma will let third-party apps change focus after a video has been shot.With Cinematic Mode, filmmakers can decide who to focus on after they've already shot the sceneCinematic Mode is the tool that lets a filmmaker perform changes that would previously have meant reshooting a scene. With a tap, they can decide to focus on a background actor instead of the foreground for instance. Read more...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple has changed the widgets landscape. No longer do widgets have to be hidden offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel. Now they live right on your desktop – and they're interactive, too. It's worth noting from the off that widgets can still be parked in Notification Center, but now they can also be dragged out onto the desktop. The first widget can be placed anywhere, then Apple provides placement guidance for subsequent widgets by displaying a widget-shaped outline, indicating where they can be snapped into position in relation to the others. Alternatively, if you right-click on an empty space on the desktop, the menu that appears includes a new "Edit Widgets..." option. Selecting this…

With iPhone 13, Apple introduced a new feature called “Cinematic mode,” which applies the same idea as Portrait Mode to videos, resulting in a blurred background similar to the effect achieved by professional cameras. Until now, the only way to edit Cinematic videos is using Apple Photos, iMovie, or Final Cut. But this changes with iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. more… The post iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma to let users edit Cinematic videos with third-party apps appeared first on 9to5Mac.