We have some news on the jailbreak front. The Chinese Pangu team has demonstrated iOS 10 jailbreak, as well as hinted at an iOS 9.3.2 jailbreak coming soon for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Here are the details.
Apple has introduced an excellent keyboard and text entry feature that works using Continuity on iOS 10 running iPhone and tvOS 10 running Apple TV. Here are the details.
Apple has just made iOS 9.3.3 beta 4 and OS X 10.11.6 beta 4 seeds available to both developers registered on Apple Developer Program, and testers registered on Apple Public Beta Program. Alongside the latest iOS 9.3.3 and OS X 10.11.6 betas, tvOS 9.2.2 beta 4 for Apple TV 4 has also been released.
Facebook is looking to go head-to-head with Apple and Google by rolling out a new feature called Slideshow into its main iOS app.
It's time for Apple's Free App of the Week again for iPhone and iPad. The offering this time around blends the best of music and a fast action packed game all in one, usually retailing for $0.99 on the App Store. However, till this upcoming Thursday, it can be downloaded for absolutely free.
Two new Apple patents have today been made public that show a new stylus with touch sensors that allow it to tell how it is being held as well as hand-detection circuitry that could allow an iPhone to automatically move around its UI elements to cater for left- or right-handed use.
When Apple introduced the top ten major feature additions to iOS 10 as part of its recently-concluded Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2016) opening keynote, it forgot to mention one vitally important security aspect; that it had left the iOS 10 kernel entirely unencrypted for the first time in any version of iOS.
Apple promos on iOS apps are great, but they are even better when available on a productivity app instead of a game that one can easily lose interest on after a while. Today's offer is on one such title, it usually retails for $4.99 on the App Store, but can be downloaded for free right now for a limited period of time. Called TextGrabber, it's a powerful OCR translation app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. For those unfamiliar with the OCR bit, it basically allows you to quickly scan any printed material like a magazine, newspaper, or a document, and then have it translated into legible digital text that can be edited right on the iOS device.
Whenever Apple releases a beta version of a major revamp of iOS following its WWDC keynote session, there's an acceptance that developers and security researchers will take the opportunity to pull the firmware's codebase apart to see what they can find.
After seeding beta 1 of iOS 10, tvOS 10, watchOS 3 and macOS Sierra last week right after the keynote on day 1 of WWDC, Apple has now released beta 3 version of iOS 9.3.3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, tvOS 9.2.2 for Apple TV 4, and OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 for Mac to those registered on both the Apple Developer Program and Apple Public Beta Program. This year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2016) may have been all about Apple's next-generation software platforms, but let us not forget that Apple still has a job to do prior to those major software upgrades launching later this year.
