Apple

iOS 8.4 Quietly Disables Home Sharing for Music

With one hand Apple giveth, and with the other, it rips a long-standing feature away with no warning. As part of the iOS 8.4 update that brought Apple Music, Home Sharing has been disabled for iOS devices. Home Sharing would let you stream your local iTunes library from your computer to your iDevice on the…

Stay calm, citizens: Apple Maps’ sensor-laden minivans, which have been on the road for months in some regions, are expanding to 15 new states. The full list of locations is available in some detail on Apple’s blog. I’m not saying you should start planning your elaborate prank right now, but it’s certainly a possibility. Contact…

How To Get Apple Music For Windows PC

If you went looking for Apple Music yesterday on your Windows machine, you probably got a bit confused. Where was the download? Why couldn’t you find it in your iTunes? The answer is that you needed iTunes 12.2, which wasn’t available right away. Now, it is—for OS X, and for Windows PC. Just click on…

Apple Music’s a Crushing Disappointment, But Not Because It’s Bad

What happened? By all accounts, Apple Music is a totally serviceable streaming music service. But it’s 2015. Give me more than the same old service everybody’s been offering for years. Apple Music does everything it’s supposed to: It plays music on demand for $10 per month. The app is fun to use, as Gizmodo’s Kelsey…

The New Steve Jobs Trailer Is All About Seth Rogen’s Woz

Today there’s a new trailer for the other other other Steve Jobs movie, the one starring Michael Fassbender. But this trailer gives us the first real look at Seth Rogen as Woz… and damned if I’m not going to see this movie just to watch him. Don’t get me wrong, Fassbender as Jobs is an…

How to Listen to Apple’s Beats 1 Radio Station on Android, Right Now

Your friends that use iOS and OS X have been babbling about Apple Music and Beats 1, but you use an Android phone and are feeling left out. Well, now there’s a “very unofficial” way to listen along. While the official Apple Music app won’t arrive on Android until the fall, Twitter user Benji R…

What’s The Sassiest Answer Your Digital Assistant Ever Gave You?

No, people did not suddenly become obsessed with calculus today, wanting to know the answer to an controversial math equation. Aaron Paul seems to have discovered an Easter egg on Siri that quickly tore up the internet. In a widely shared tweet, Paul urged his followers to ask Siri a question that many mathematicians believe…

How to Get Free Music for the Rest of the Summer

Apple Music is finally here! You know what that means? That means it’s time to cancel your other premium streaming services and coast through the rest of the summer on Apple’s dime. Here’s how. The process is simple, if you’re an iPhone user. (The same process will work for Android in a few months, when…

Want to try free Apple Music for three months—and avoid having Apple bill you afterwards? Here’s a simple guideto turning off the sneaky auto-renewal feature. [Wired]

Using Apple Music: Wait, Do I Like Alternative?!

When I installed iOS 8.4 on my phone today to try Apple Music, I couldn’t find the iTunes icon. Anywhere. What had happened? Was it a glitch? Then I realized I had hidden the iTunes app in a drawer of Apple apps I never use, alongside Tips and Mail. I found it eventually, but it…

Apple Will Pay $450 Million for Conspiring to Fix Ebook Pricing 

Apple violated federal antitrust law in a conspiracy with five book publishers to fix ebook prices, according to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ended a long-running legal battle with a big blow to Apple, calling its ebooks price-fixing scheme “the supreme evil of antitrust.” Apple is a dominant force in so…

Apple’s Beats 1 Radio Just Started Its Never-Ending Transmission

This morning saw the launch of iOS 8.4, and with it Apple Music. And even if you’re not a Taylor Swift fan, there’s still some joy to be had in the world: the Beats 1 radio station, DJed by Zane Lowe and free for everyone with an Apple ID, started its broadcast at 12PM Eastern.…

Hands-On With Apple’s OS X El Capitan: Tiny Tweaks Make a Big Difference

After the visual overhaul Apple gave to Yosemite, it’s perhaps no surprise that this year’s desktop and laptop refresh is altogether more muted. This is a step rather than a leap forward, but there are still a lot of little improvements that are worth the upgrade. I’ve been working with OS X El Capitan for…

Apple Music Is Here—Go Try It Now

Today, Apple is pushing out the latest update to iOS, and in this 8.4 version iPhones users will get some brand new Apple bloat Apple features, chief among them being the long-time-coming Apple Music streaming service. Yep. This is the Beats-powered, star-studded, Taylor Swift-yielding music service we’ve all been waiting for. It’s the supposed Spotify…

AppleCare Now Covers Worn-Out Batteries

Built-in batteries mean a built-in expiry date for gadgets: lithium-ion batteries slowly lose their ability to hold charge over time, eventually dying an ignominious death, and rendering your expensive gizmo useless — unless, that is, you’ve got AppleCare. In a small change to the policy for AppleCare for Mac spotted by MacRumors, Apple will now…

Apple Wants to Make a Way to Share Files With High Fives

Remember how fun Bump was in the early days of iPhones? Probably not because it was silly and kind of dumb, but based on a new Apple patent application, you could soon be exchanging any kind of data with any type of gesture, from hugs to high fives—and it actually makes sense. The very adorable…

Apple has told Buzzfeed that Apple Music will work with Sonos devices by the end of 2015.

Force Touch is Reportedly Coming to iPhone

Ahoy, an Apple rumor! Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg Business Apple has begun production on an iPhone model equipped with Force Touch, the same haptic feedback feature that made its debut this year in the Apple Watch and the company’s new MacBook. The introduction of Force Touch to iPhone is being hailed by some as Apple’s…

Are There Any Sites or Apps You Refuse To Use on Principle?

Many people avoid using the ride-sharing service Uber because of the company’s questionable policies, which can lead to events like multiple lawsuits, violent protests and attacks on cars carrying Courtney Love. What service do you stay away from on moral grounds? https://gizmodo.com/paris-taxi-drivers-burn-cars-in-violent-anti-uber-riot-1713865212 I recall proudly talking up my Android phone and Windows laptop, back in…

Apple Is Wrong to Pull Historical Games Featuring the Confederate Flag

The Confederate flag is a garbage flag that represents garbage ideas. But in an effort to purge the world of those garbage ideas, some companies are too quick to pull out the banhammer. Here’s one recent example: Apple has begun banning some games that feature the Confederate flag–even if that game is about the Civil…