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Apple Code Hints That Bigger iPhones and iPads Are On The Way

Yesterday, Apple pushed out a beta for its latest suite of developer tools, Xcode 6. And inside, there’s new functionality that hints at iPads and iPhones of varying screen sizes and resolutions. It’s just the latest evidence that new hardware is on the way soon. The Xcode development environment allows you to set the model…

Everything Apple Didn’t Announce At WWDC

At its annual developer-palooza yesterday, Apple trotted out a lot of new goodies. A new iOS! A new OS X! But they also didn’t announce a whole lot of stuff we expected to see. Here’s what was missing, and our best guess at why. Apple TV SDK Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that an Apple…

AirPlay Won’t Need a Wi-Fi Connection in iOS 8

iOS 8 will support “peer-to-peer AirPlay discovery and playback,” which means that you won’t need to be connected to a wireless network to use AirPlay. That’s a really nice evolution of Apple’s wireless media streaming protocol The tidbit was discovered buried within the enterprise section of Apple’s iOS 8 preview. As written, the new peer-to-peer…

How To Try Out Mac OS X Yosemite Before Everyone Else

Now that you’ve digested everything that’s new in OS X Yosemite, you’re probably itching to try it out for yourself. The good news is that Apple’s happy for you to do so: for the first time since Cheetah in 2000, non-developers have the opportunity to give an upcoming operating system a test run. For free.…

Tonight’s a Great Night to Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley

Another year, another Apple WWDC keynote without Steve Jobs. Though it’s been three years since the Apple cofounder’s death, few can help but wonder what Steve would’ve thought of the latest products. (Spoiler: He probably had a hand in designing them so he probably liked them.) But instead of letting your head get too lost…

Hands On with Three of the Coolest Tricks in iOS 8

The beta version of iOS 8 is finally here, and with it comes a whole slew of new features. Among the big ones are a health-tracking app, HomeKit, and the OS X-integrating Handoff, but the real beauty lies in the little things. Of course, there’s still plenty of beta-style kinks to work out, and we’ve…

Two of the Best iOS 8 Features Apple Didn’t Talk About

There’s plenty of great new stuff coming in iOS 8. You’ll be able to remote control your phone from your computer to send text messages. There’s soon to be an army of new keyboard options. It’s a brave new world. But Apple didn’t even mention some of the best new features on stage. There are…

Here’s How Microsoft Imagined the Smart Home of the Future In 1999

Early rumors may have hinted that Apple had a fully integrated smart home up its sleeve. But after today’s WWDC, we know that’s not the case. And it’s unclear what developers are going to do with Apple’s HomeKit, a piecemeal tease that implies you’ll soon be able to control your smart toaster with your iPhone.…

​Everything Apple Tried to Kill Today at WWDC

Today at WWDC, Apple announced a huge batch of products aimed straight at the heart existing companies and apps. Here are just a few of the things that are feeling a spinning beachball target on their backs. Dropbox iCloud has never been a hugely appealing cloud storage option, that’s at least partially because Dropbox and…

WWDC 2014 Roundup: Everything Apple Announced Today

Today’s keynote marked day one of Apple’s giant developer love fest, and while we didn’t actually get any new hardware, Tim Cook and co. tossed a whole mess of long-awaited goodies to their legion of loyal followers. So in case you didn’t happen to spend the afternoon glued to your screen, these are the best…

How to Get iOS 8 Right Now

You could (and probably should) wait for the wide release this fall before downloading iOS 8. But if you absolutely can’t wait, here’s how to get Apple’s brand new iOS 8 beta on your phone right now. Before you do anything, backup your device. It’s a good idea anyway before updating, and considering how temperamental…

The Future of Apple Design Is Hidden Inside OS X Yosemite

Today at WWDC, Apple gave OS X a design overhaul that’s just as huge as its namesake. Yosemite is bright, sharp, and flat as hell. But while OS X now looks more like iOS, iOS and OS X are also more alike than ever. Apple is finally—finally—establishing a consistent design language across its platforms. OS…

Sorry, But Your iPhone 4 Just Became Obsolete

At Monday’s WWDC keynote, Apple announced a flurry of fun new features. With OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, your Mac and iPhone are closer than ever, opening the door to the Future of Computing. Too bad iPhone 4 users won’t get to enjoy any of it—and neither will anyone with an even older phone.…

Touch ID is now going to be a lot more usable—Apple announced that in iOS 8, it works alongside third-party apps. So for example, if you wanted to log into Mint or another finance app, you just use your fingerprint, rather than having to remember a password.

iOS 8 Finally Lets You Install Any Damn Keyboard You Want

Many prayers were answered on Monday, when Apple announced that iOS 8 would support third party keyboards. That means you folks complaining that Swype doesn’t work on iPhone, don’t need to complain anymore. This, in addition to the new native keyboard functionality means that typing on iOS device just got a lot better. It is…

Apple’s HomeKit Is an iPhone-Powered Universe of Gadgets

Instead of jumping head first into the smart home market by allowing iOS users to (finally) control all of their connected appliances and devices from a single app, Apple has instead decided to tip-toe through the connected home’s front door with a new API feature called HomeKit that ensures everything can be securely connected wirelessly,…

Yep, iOS Is Getting Widgets

Apple has finally made its Notification Center functional. Now, you can include info- and function-packed widgets right in your Notifications screen. The new widget functions are part of iOS’s new, overall extensibility, but here, your apps have been molded into Notification Center-friendly form. For instance, if you have the eBay app, you’ll be able to…

iOS Health: All the Important Data About Your Body in One Place

Apple just pulled back the curtain on a new native app called Health at WWDC. Yes, this is the same health tracking app we heard about a few months ago. And yes, you can buy a variety of compatible fitness tracking devices at the Apple Store. Health does more than count your steps, though. Health…

Group chats are the worst, but Apple is making them a little less bad in iOS 8, by giving you the ability to leave them. Thank god!

iOS Is Finally Getting a New, Smarter Keyboard

One of our biggest frustrations with iOS devices has been the less-than-stellar stock keyboard. iOS 8 fixes that with Quicktype, a predictive, content-sensitive keyboard with multiple layouts that learns the phrases you use most and fills them in. It’s about ducking time. Update: Thanks to Extensions, iOS 8 also supports third-party keyboard apps (like Swype)…