Macworld Apple has announced what’s coming in iPadOS 17. Widgets – Widgets will make the home screen much more powerful. Customised Lock Screen – Personalise the iPad lock screen. Tap and hold to choose wallpaper options. If you choose a Live Photo they synthesise additional frames to create a slow mo effect. These seem to be influenced by the Apple Watch faces. Live Activities – from the Lock Screen you can keep track of a food order, travel plans and a timer, for example. You can even keep track of multiple timers! Health app – first time on iPadOS. Take advantage of larger screen. All data synced from all your devices. HealthKit comes to iPad. PDFs – Changes to how…

Macworld It’s not long now until Apple should be revealing the latest iteration of iPadOS to the world. Here’s all we know so far about potential release dates, new features and which models will be able to run the software. It’s everything you need to know about iPadOS 17. iPadOS 17 release date: When will iPadOS 17 come out? There’s no official date from Apple as yet, but it does have a pretty reliable history of releasing software versions around the same time each year, as you can see from the dates below. iPadOS 16: October 24, 2022iPadOS 15: September 20, 2021iPadOS 14: September 16, 2020iPadOS 13: September 24, 2019 With the exception of the last version, which was thought…

Colombia’s Q1 2023 smartphone shipments fell 9% YoY, but Apple’s iPhone showed remarkable resiliency with a 60% YoY increase in shipment volume, doubling iPhone’s share of the country’s smartphone market from 3% to 6%. iPhone 14 Andres Silva for Counterpoint Research: Colombia’s Q1 2023 smartphone shipments fell 9% YoY. Its worst quarterly volume since Q1 2020, according to the latest report from Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service. The country’s quarterly shipments were hurt by weakened demand resulting from rising inflation and political uncertainties. Overall, smartphone shipments in the LATAM region are on the decline, falling 9% YoY in Q1 2023. Commenting on the market trend, Principal Analyst Tina Lu said, “The ongoing market concentration shows which brands are better positioned,…

Macworld Apple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. This resource will list all the Apple TV+ content you can watch today, grouped into: TV shows, limited series, and movies. There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s $6.99-a-month service. If you want to know what’s on the way, check out our list of upcoming Apple TV+ shows and movies. Updated 05/12/23: Documentary film STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie and drama series City on Fire are now streaming. u003cbru003eMentioned IN THIS story Apple TV 4K (2022, 3. Gen.)…

Macworld Apple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. This resource will list all the Apple TV+ content you can watch today, grouped into: TV shows, limited series, and movies. There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s $6.99-a-month service. If you want to know what’s on the way, check out our list of upcoming Apple TV+ shows and movies. Updated 05/05/23: Season 2 of children’s animated series Harriet the Spy and the post-apocalyptic thriller Silo are now streaming. u003cbru003eMentioned IN THIS story Apple TV 4K (2022, 3. Gen.)…

Macworld It’s a big moment when Apple unveils a new version of iOS at WWDC each summer. After all, this software is running on a billion-odd iPhones and can fundamentally change the way they all behave: iOS updates add new features, correct flaws and UI issues, improve reliability (hopefully), and generally enhance the iPhone experience. All this without costing a penny to install. In 2023, rumormongers would have us believe, the new features part of that equation will be relatively minor, with development work on the company’s mixed-reality headset apparently costing so many engineer hours that the iOS 17 project had to be scaled back. Multiple pundits have warned that, while some smaller new features will be included, there won’t…