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It seems like every time we get a new version of iOS, someone finds some way to get around the passcode and into parts of the device. This time around, Youtube user videosdebarraquito shows off a simple Siri exploit that grants access to photos and contacts. This time around, some obnoxious user can get into your phone’s Photos app via the Contacts screen.

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Apple is speeding up development on its electric car project, reports The Wall Street Journal, giving it a "committed project" label and targeting 2019 as a prospective shipping date. To facilitate a faster launch, Apple will be greatly expanding the number of people working on the car. The go-ahead came after the company spent more than a year investigating the feasibility of an

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The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have a 12-megapixel back camera that can record 4K videos. Faced with a shortage of sperm donors, Chinese sperm banks have a new marketing ploy: They're advertising iPhones in exchange for donations. Well, sort of. The going rate for donations seems to hover between 5,000 yuan (US$785.68) and 6,000 yuan (US$942.82), which is enough to cover the US$649 needed

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What color fish are you getting? Ahead of the September 25 launch of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the new devices are beginning to show up in shipping warehouses as Apple prepares to deliver them to pre-order customers around the world. With more people having access to the devices before launch, there are bound to be a few image leaks, and today, some photos of both the outer packaging of the

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Apple has published a new support document on its website that outlines a fix for users experiencing an unresponsive "Slide to Upgrade" screen after updating to iOS 9 (via iPhoneHacks). The issue has affected a growing number of users on the Apple Support Communities,. Apple recommends restoring your device from an iTunes backup to resolve the problem. 1. Connect your

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Upgrading your iPhone might be both, exciting and intimidating. It is exciting because it feels refreshing and new without costing anything. Intimidating because you may start wondering if you would like the old system better or if you would LOSE all your personal files!! Well, according to Apple’s new operating system, the iOS 9, you must make sure you back

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When I saw that all the letters on all the tiny buttons on the new iOS 9 keyboard were set to lowercase by default, my eyes almost fell out of their sockets and were like this close to smear sliding down my iPhone’s screen and splatting on the ground. That lowercase keyboard just looks wrong. The change was made to better differentiate when the caps lock/shift button is on, which,

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This single feature may make upgrading to iOS 9 worth the effort. About 10 times every day some “Unknown” person calls my phone, and fearing an untimely/uncomfortable/tedious/unnecessary conversation, I often don’t pick up. They often don’t leave voicemail, so I’m left to wonder if I just refused a call from somebody important. Apple’s new iOS 9 mobile operating system 

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There are quite a few major changes in iOS 9, like split-screen multitasking for the iPad, improvements to search and Siri, under-the-hood performance boosts, and revamped apps, but there are also dozens if not hundreds of lesser-known tweaks and refinements that make the iOS 9 experience better than ever before. We've had a lot of hands-on time with iOS 9, so we've rounded up a list of the

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watchOS is the operating system that runs on the Apple Watch, powering its fitness tracking capabilities, apps, communication features, time-keeping abilities, and more. Apple plans to push regular updates to fix watchOS bugs, refine performance, and introduce new features, and the release of watchOS 2 alongside iOS 9 later today is a major uprade for the platform. (Update: Apple has&

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Let’s face it. Smartphone battery life tends to suck a bit. Depending on what kind of phone you have you it may suck a bit more or a bit less, but it’s never exactly great. Daily charging is the reality that most of us have to contend with, and while there are all kinds of hugely promising battery innovations on the horizon involving things likehydrogen, aluminium, and solar&

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According to Tim Cook, Apple is "looking at" letting consumers get rid of default iPhone apps that are rarely used. These are the ones you almost always hide away in a folder the minute you set up your new iPhone: Compass, Stocks, Podcasts, Tips, etc. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Cook acknowledged that customers want this option, but in the same breath he also dashed any

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IMAGE: DUSTIN DRANKOSKI BY CHRISTINA WARREN5 DAYS AGO Analysis As we count down to Apple's big iPhone event on Wednesday, the tech universe is abuzz in what new devices and features Apple will unveil to the public. All the leaks making their way to the public about the new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus sound great with one exception: Device storage. If rumors are to be

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Apple CEO Tim Cook waves during the Apple event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. IMAGE: ERIC RISBERG/ASSOCIATED PRESS BY KARISSA BELL2 HOURS AGO Siri just keeps getting smarter. A new feature in iOS 9 will let you to train Siri so the assistant will only respond to your voice saying "Hey, Siri." The new voice recognition feature

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Tim Cook in his understated colors. IMAGE: PAUL SAKUMA/ASSOCIATED PRESS BY PATRICK KULP1 DAY AGO Silicon Valley stars are famous for their intentionally mundane wardrobes. Tech idols like Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Jobs have created a conviction in tech culture that the more time you spend dressing yourself every morning, the less time you spend changing the world. Even President Obama is&

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A study by Brandwatch says that Twitter users used the #AppleEvent hashtag more than 217,000 times around Apple’s big product announcement event yesterday, and that the tweets came fastest when Microsoft took the stage during the event. The moment when the most #AppleEvent tweets appeared was when Microsoft’s VP of Office products Kirk Koenigsbauer took

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Image Credit: Apple's Livestream Lots of Apple news today! Incremental iPhone improvements, a gigantic new iPad, a less-creepy name for a new feature, a top-to-bottom-wow-hell-yes Apple TV revamp, and a bland musical performance that nobody ever watches. As always, it’s all faster, brighter, lighter, cooler, costlier, more colorful, and mostly

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They're here! They're finally here! All aboard the Hype Train If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've been subjected to a trillion iPhone rumours over the past year. It's going to be made from unbreakable sapphire and liquid metal, they said. It's going to have a 1000MP camera and make you look like David Gandy, they cried. Well, none of those things are true, but

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Last month, rumors and photos of a battery that looked very similar to an iPhone battery suggested that the iPhone 6's battery capacity would be lower than the iPhone 6's. Today at Apple's "Hey Siri" event, a video that showed off 3D Touch revealed the iPhone 6's battery capacity. In the video the iPhone 6s is dismantled and viewers can see that the battery is marked "

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In a footnote to its big new product reveal, Apple announced a new iPhone Upgrade Program that looks very enticing. Extra emphasis on the word “looks” because some basic math reveals that the Apple’s new deal is not necessarily all that good. Here’s Apple’s description of the new upgrade program: Exclusively at Apple’s retail stores in the US, customers can choose their

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Following the conclusion of today’s iPhone-centric event in San Francisco, Apple has seeded the first betas of iOS 9.1 and Apple tvOS to developers. The betas were seeded alongside the iOS 9 Golden Master and the OS X 10.11 Golden Master. All of the beta software is available for download immediately from the Apple Developer Center. tvOS, just announced today, is the operating

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Apple today seeded the golden master (GM) version of watchOS 2 to developers, which is the version of watchOS 2 that will be released to the public on September 16 alongside iOS 9. watchOS 2 requires iOS 9 and can be downloaded over-the-air through the Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General --> Software Update. Today's golden master release follows five developer betas of

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Apple today seeded the golden master (GM) version of iOS 9 to developers. The golden master represents the final version of iOS 9 that will be released to the public on September 16, two days ahead of the official launch of the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus. The update is available through Apple's over-the-air updating mechanism on iOS devices and it can also be downloaded through the Apple

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At today's media event in San Francisco, Apple confirmed two previous rumors by announcing a new line of Apple Watch Sport band colors alongside a new array of metal finishes for the Sport line. Although they were touched on briefly, the new Sport bands were said to be part of a "Fall collection" and will portray softer and darker colors than the bright, neon line of Sport bands

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