Gartner’s smartphone marketshare data for the just gone holiday quarter highlights the challenge for device makers going into the world’s biggest mobile trade show which kicks off in Barcelona next week: The analyst’s data shows global smartphone sales stalled in Q4 2018, with growth of just 0.1 per cent over 2017’s holiday quarter, and 408.4 […]
View More Global smartphone growth stalled in Q4, up just 1.2% for the full year: GartnerCategory: iOS
Watch out Facebook, Google Maps on iOS now lets users track their favorite businesses, too
Google Maps for iOS will now allow users to follow their favorite businesses right in the app, the company announced today. The feature, which positions the platform as a challenger to Facebook Pages, lets users keep track of a business’s news and updates — like their sales, promotions or events, for example — through a […]
View More Watch out Facebook, Google Maps on iOS now lets users track their favorite businesses, tooApple partners with Oakland nonprofit Dream Corps on Swift coding initiative
Apple this morning announced a new partnership designed to train more people to code using its own programming language, Swift. The company says it’s now working with the Oakland-based nonprofit organization Dream Corps on the initiative, which will see Apple providing technology along with curriculum guidance, professional support and advocacy to individuals in middle and high […]
View More Apple partners with Oakland nonprofit Dream Corps on Swift coding initiativeSure looks like Trump declared a ‘national emergency’ via the Notes app
The iOS Notes app is a simple, yet powerful tool. From remembering your grocery list, to jotting down random musings while on the bus, to celebrity apologies, over the years it’s worked its way into our lives in a number of surprising ways.
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Pirated iOS apps are being distributed through Apple’s enterprise developer program
Some of the most popular iOS apps are being pirated using Apple’s very own developer program.
According to a report by Reuters, software pirates are obtaining official Apple enterprise developer certificates in order to distribute hacked versions of iOS apps such as Pokemon Go, Angry Birds, Minecraft, and Spotify.
Pirated app distributors such as TutuApp, AppValley, TweakBox, and Panda Helper offer free, hacked versions of normally paid software such as Minecraft and Angry Birds. These services also ad-free versions of Spotify’s ad-supported streaming service and a version of Pokemon Go which enables cheating on the online multiplayer platform. Read more…
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View More Pirated iOS apps are being distributed through Apple’s enterprise developer programFirefox for iOS gets persistent private browsing tabs
Firefox for iOS is getting an update today that brings a new layout for its menu and settings, as well as new organization settings in the New Tabs features to iPhone and iPad users. But more importantly, it is also introducing persistent Private Browsing tabs that allow you to keep private browsing tabs alive across […]
View More Firefox for iOS gets persistent private browsing tabsDaily Crunch: Apple’s subscription fix
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Apple’s iOS update makes it easier to get to your subscriptions Moving the Manage Subscriptions menu so that it’s just one […]
View More Daily Crunch: Apple’s subscription fixApple’s iOS update makes it easier to get to your subscriptions
Apple has made a small but important change to iOS that will allow users an easier way to manage their app subscriptions. In the latest release of the mobile operating system (iOS 12.1.4 and 12.2 beta), the company has relocated the “Manage Subscriptions” setting so it’s only one click away when you tap on your […]
View More Apple’s iOS update makes it easier to get to your subscriptionsApple comes down hard on apps that record screen activity
Apple moves quickly and wields a big stick. Well, at least when it’s pushed.
On Thursday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has instructed makers of smartphone apps that are capable of surreptitiously recording a user’s screen activit…
Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
Apple is telling app developers to remove or properly disclose their use of analytics code that allows them to record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps — or face removal from the app store, TechCrunch can confirm. In an email, an Apple spokesperson said: “Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem. Our […]
View More Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording codeApple to compensate teenager who found Group FaceTime eavesdrop bug
Apple has said it will compensate the teenager who first found a security bug in Group FaceTime that allowed users to eavesdrop before a call was picked up. The bug was initially reported to Apple by 14-year-old Grant Thompson and his mother, but the family struggled getting in contact the company before the bug was discovered elsewhere. The […]
View More Apple to compensate teenager who found Group FaceTime eavesdrop bugApple releases fix for disastrous group FaceTime bug
Better late than never.
Apple has finally released an update for iOS that fixes a serious bug in group FaceTime which allowed callers to spy on those they were calling — even if the intended recipient never answered. The update, iOS 12.1.4, was made available for download on Feb. 7 and follows shortly on the heels of two Congressional lawmakers publicly demanding answers from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the major privacy screw up.
According to Apple the update is for all iPhones newer than the 5s, the iPad Air and later iPads, as well as the iPod touch 6th generation. It mitigates what the company describes as a “logic issue [that] existed in the handling of Group FaceTime calls.” Read more…
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