Macworld iOS is at the heart of the iPhone experience. It’s the operating system on which everything else sits, while also delivering plenty of features and dedicated apps built by Apple itself. If you’ve ever wondered about when versions came out, how you can check the one you’re currently using, or how to update to the latest iteration, we have the answers. Here’s our whistlestop tour of iOS. iOS version history iOS made its debut in 2007 alongside the first iPhone. Although, when Steve Jobs held the little device aloft revealing it to the world for the first time, it wasn’t running iOS 1. Instead, it was reported by Apple to be powered by OS X, the software for the…
Christian Selig is Apollo’s lone developer and at the center of the fight taking over Reddit. | Image: Christian Selig ‘Reddit has plugged its ears and refuses to listen to anybody but themselves. And I think there’s some very minor concessions that they can make to make people a lot happier.’ Christian Selig did not mean to be the face of a revolution. All the Canadian developer wanted, really, was to be able to keep working on his app. But that app, a Reddit client called Apollo, has become the central figure in an all-out platform war. The short version of a long history goes like this: in April, Reddit announced new terms for its API, the tool through which…
With iOS 17, adult users will have access to expanded nudity protection features that are currently provided to children using iMessage. | Illustration: The Verge Apple’s Communication Safety feature for iPhone — designed to protect children from viewing nude images over iMessage — is being expanded to cover adult users in addition to video content and other communication methods. Announced during the WWDC event on Monday, the protections will arrive with iOS 17 later this year with all image and video processing happening right on the device itself to ensure everything is kept private, even from Apple. The Communication Safety in Messages feature uses on-device machine learning to automatically blur nude images in iMessages before a child can view them.…
With the skills we need for our careers and side hustles changing all the time, staying ahead of the curve is the key to success. Whether you’re looking to enhance your professional skills or explore new hobbies, online learning is the way to fit it into your busy schedule, and StackSkills Unlimited is one of […] (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)
There’s an issue with Twitter that’s popped up for users recently around deleted tweets not staying deleted. While it’s not clear how widespread the bug is at this point, it might be worth double-checking your Twitter account if you’ve deleted tweets or retweets that you were expecting to remain that way. more… The post Twitter bug sees deleted tweets resurrected for some users appeared first on 9to5Mac.
There’s an issue with Twitter that’s popped up for users recently around deleted tweets not staying deleted. While it’s not clear how widespread the bug is at this point, it might be worth double-checking your Twitter account if you’ve deleted tweets or retweets that you were expecting to remain that way. more… The post Twitter bug sees deleted tweets resurrected for some users appeared first on 9to5Mac.
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