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Apple today emailed customers who have purchased a standard AppleCare plan for their Apple TV devices to let them know that coverage has been extended from two years to three years. Customers who purchased ‌AppleCare‌ for the ‌Apple TV‌ will be now receiving a total of three years of coverage based on the date that they original bought the plan. ‌AppleCare‌ for ‌Apple TV‌ end dates will be automatically adjusted. In the…

Apple today released a new version of Safari 14.1 for macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave users, with the update introducing fixes for two WebKit vulnerabilities that were patched in macOS Big Sur yesterday. Apple’s support document for the updated Safari release confirms that it addresses the same WebKit memory corruption issue and an integer overflow bug for users of older versions of macOS. Both of these vulnerabilities may have been actively exploited,…

Apple’s legal battle with Epic Games is continuing on, and during the second day of the trial, ‌Epic Games‌’ CEO Tim Sweeney continued his testimony against Apple. Sweeney was grilled by Apple’s lawyers, and made several points seemingly favorable to Apple. In addition to mentioning how he prefers Apple’s iPhone and values Apple’s privacy policies that he’s aiming to dismantle, Sweeney confirmed that Apple’s 30 percent cut is also the “most prevalent…

The highly-anticipated Epic Games vs. Apple trial kicked off today in a federal court in Oakland, California, with lawyers for both companies delivering opening remarks before District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Lawyers for Epic Games attempted to paint the App Store as anti-competitive and monopolistic, noting that developers are forced to use Apple’s in-app purchase system, and thus pay Apple a 30% commission on sales. (The rate drops to 15% for subscriptions…

Following today’s release of iOS 14.5.1 and last week’s release of iOS 14.5, Apple has stopped signing iOS 14.4.2, the previously available version of iOS 14 released on March 26. With iOS 14.4.2 no longer being signed, it is not possible to downgrade to iOS 14.4.2 from iOS 14.5 or iOS 14.5.1 if you’ve already updated your iPhone or iPad. Apple routinely stops signing older versions of software updates after new releases…

Apple’s Podcasts platform is experiencing an “outage” for some users, according to the company’s system status page. “Users are experiencing a problem with this service,” wrote Apple. “We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available.” Apple says the undisclosed problem began on April 29. Only some users are affected by the outage, according to Apple. No further details were provided, and Apple has declined to comment at…

Beginning on Monday, Twitter will enable anyone with at least 600 followers on its platform to host Spaces, its version of the audio room network Clubhouse. Announced via a blog post, Twitter says that its decision to open up the functionality to users with at least 600 followers came following feedback from Twitter users and the community. Spaces originally launched last year, but so far only certain Twitter users have had access…

Apple is working to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in a note to investors that was seen by MacRumors. Based on our latest industry survey, we forecast that Apple will likely launch a foldable ‌iPhone‌ with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, with SDC as the exclusive display supplier and Samsung Foundry as the exclusive DDI…

As a way to convince users to enable tracking across other apps and websites, Facebook is deploying the tactic of telling users that they must enable tracking as part of the App Tracking Transparency framework in iOS 14.5 if they want to help and keep Facebook and Instagram “free of charge.” ATT or App Tracking Transparency is the newest privacy feature to come to iPhone and iPad devices as part of the…

iFixit has shared the first of its two-part series in tearing down Apple’s AirTag item tracker, revealing that Apple had to make impressive design decisions to achieve its small design, including rethinking the speaker layout. For comparison, iFixit compared Apple’s AirTag to the Tile Mate and the Samsung Galaxy SmartTag. Compared to the competition, AirTag is the smallest in size, with the most internal space used to house the battery itself. One…