StandBy will turn your iPhone into an always-on display when charging. | Image by Dan Siefert / The Verge Apple has announced StandBy — a new feature that turns the iPhone into a sort of smart display when it’s docked on its side. The company announced this new trick onstage at WWDC 2023 while debuting iOS 17, which is expected to arrive this fall. StandBy comes with iOS 17 and kicks in automatically when your iPhone is charging and on its side. It’s designed to be seen from a distance and can display the time with customizable clock faces, Apple Home controls, the weather, music controls, app smart stacks, and other features. At night, StandBy adapts the screen to lowlight,…

Macworld After months of rumors, Apple revealed the 15-inch MacBook Air during the WWDC event on 5 June 2023. Here’s everything that was revealed about the new laptop, which Apple claims is the thinnest 15-inch laptop on the market. Design 11.5mm thin3.3lbs4 colors The new Air has the same square-edged metal construction as the 13-inch MacBook Air M2, but obviously this time the chassis is a little larger to contain the 15.3-inch panel that is the star of the show. All this growth hasn’t robbed the Air of its namesake though, with Apple stating that it is a remarkably thin 11.5mm and weighs in at just 3.3 pounds. Apple claims that this makes it 40% thinner and half a pound…

Apple today at WWDC announced new AirPlay abilities coming in iOS 17, including on-device intelligence to learn your ‌AirPlay‌ preferences around the home, as well as ‌AirPlay‌ support coming to more hotel rooms. In terms of on-device intelligence, ‌AirPlay‌ can learn how and when you listen to certain content, for example by displaying an AirPlay-supporting speaker to select depending which room you're in. You'll also be able to ask Siri to start an ‌AirPlay‌ session in a much more fluid way. Apple says ‌AirPlay‌ will also be available "in select hotels" before the end of the year. More to follow...Related Roundup: iOS 17Tags: AirPlay, WWDCRelated Forum: Apple, Inc and Tech IndustryThis article, "Apple Announces New Intelligent AirPlay Features in iOS…

Apple at WWDC today announced a new MacBook Air with a 15.3-inch display that's powered by Apple's M2 processor. The new ‌MacBook Air‌ is 11.5mm thick and weighs 3 pounds, and with the ‌M2‌ chip, its 12x faster than the fastest Intel-based ‌MacBook Air‌, and is twice as fast as competing laptops, according to Apple. It includes MagSafe, and comes with two Thunderbolt 4 ports. The new ‌MacBook Air‌ has a 1080p webcam, a three-microphone array, and a six-speaker system with force canceling woofers, with immersive spatial audio. It can also last up to 18 hours on a single battery charge. Like the standard ‌MacBook Air‌, the new 15-inch model comes in four colors, including Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and…

Get ready for WWDC 2023, with a jam-packed, keynote address coming to you from Apple Park on June 6th at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. You can watch Apple’s keynote address live, right on this page, below. We will add our live notes on this page as well. The 2023 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities to continue creating the most innovative apps in the world. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS — directly from Apple Park. WWDC 2023 launches with a first look at groundbreaking updates coming to Apple platforms later this year. The keynote address will…

Get ready for WWDC 2023, with a jam-packed, keynote address coming to you from Apple Park on June 6th at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. You can watch Apple’s keynote address live, right on this page, below. We will add our live notes on this page as well. The 2023 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities to continue creating the most innovative apps in the world. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS — directly from Apple Park. WWDC 2023 launches with a first look at groundbreaking updates coming to Apple platforms later this year. The keynote address will…