Apple introduces new features in iOS 13

With Apple’s incoming software update — iOS 13 — you may never have to see “unknown caller” pop up on your iPhone again.

Image credit – iFixit A couple of years ago, Apple came under fire when it was discovered that they had been throttling their iPhones. The official reason was that Apple slowed down iPhones with aging batteries to prevent it from crashing, but many weren’t too thrilled that they weren’t at least given the option. Apple later made changes to help users better understand and identify their iPhone’s battery health, and in iOS 13, it appears that Apple has introduced a new battery management system that is expected to help slow the rate of decay of an iPhone’s battery. The company does not go i…

New features in iPadOS will see the tablet range move closer than ever to the desktop Mac counterpart, but here’s one we didn’t see coming: mouse support.

We knew Apple would make major changes to iOS on the iPad, but we didn’t think the company would take things a step further and announce iPadOS. (Not until Apple quietly let the news slip ahead of its WWDC keynote, anyway.) Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, says the process of using the iPad has become a “truly distinct” experience, one that requires special attention beyond that which goes into phone-centric versions of iOS. Needless to say, iPads stand to gain a lot when this new software becomes available later this year. Rather than dig into every single feature that…

Apple announced iPadOS 13 yesterday, a rebranded version of the iPad variant of iOS. Along with the new features that were announced, there was one big …

Another WWDC, another set of apps, products, and services that may have just been “Sherlocked” by Apple. The term, used as a colloquial way to refer to when Apple builds a native feature that effectively renders a third-party app or product useless, comes up every year as the company grows its OS offerings and introduces new capabilities worthy of your 30 or so minutes to update. So what did Apple try to get rid of, or at least borrow from, this year? While not every single item here will be considered dead by the time Apple rolls out iOS 13 and macOS Catalina by the fall, at the very least…

A whole bunch of upgrades are coming with the new iOS 13, including a dark mode, lots of small updates to native apps, swipeable texting in Messages (hello …

The WWDC keynote delivered exciting news for every Apple user, but for photographers of all stripes, Monday was their jackpot. Professional photographers and filmmakers finally got a new Mac Pro that can handle ambitious workflows. Operating system updates due out this fall for Mac, iPhone and iPad will bring a slew of new features for editing and organizing. The iPad will be an even more capable tool in the field and changes to the iPhone camera should tamp down those worries that Apple was falling behind the likes of Huawei, Samsung and Google. And we’re not even talking about the new har…

Don’t have time to watch a two-hour presentation? Here’s a full breakdown of Apple’s announcements.

On Monday, Apple finally unveiled iOS 13. The new mobile OS brings a veritable bounty of new features, the most flashy of which might be a system-wide dark mode for your iPhone. That’s right, you can enable dark mode on your iPhone, making everything more pleasing to the eye in low-light situations. If you have an iPhone, you can definitely use dark mode when it launches later this year, right? Well, not exactly. Apple buried a juicy little nugget in the fine print of its iOS 13 press release on Monday: it will only work on the iPhone 6S and beyond. For the first time, the iPhone 6 has been…

If there is something that Apple gets right, it would be with their software updates. This is because the company tends to support its devices for as long as possible, versus Android in which your mileage may vary from brand to brand, but typically you get about two years worth of updates. With the announcement of iOS 13, we’re sure some are probably wondering if their iPhone is compatible with the update. According to Apple, as long as you have the iPhone SE or newer, then you should be able to update to iOS 13 when the update is released later in the year, possibly alongside the 2019 iPho…

In recent years, Apple’s vision for the iPad has always been clear. Its tablet isn’t trying to be a Mac or a Windows PC. But it’s also not content with being something fundamentally less useful and versatile. Particularly in its high-end iPad Pro variant, the device sheds the several decades of cruft built up by other platforms in favor of an experience that’s more streamlined and modern–but not dumbed-down. However, people who want to push the iPad to its limits–like me–have had to be patient. Apple has turned the vision into reality in fits and starts, and the iPad has sometimes felt like…

WWDC 2019 had a lot to announce, and here’s a few fun and weird things that you probably missed.

The splintering of the iPad-specific “iPadOS” from the iPhone’s “iOS” is due to it being a “truly distinct experience” separate from the company’s other platforms, according to Apple’s Craig Federighi in a post-WWDC keynote interview. Among the announcements relating to its operating systems, Apple revealed it was making a major change to iOS that would refine its purpose. Rather than continuing to combine iPhone and iPad under one operating system, Apple launched iPadOS as its own version just for the tablet line, offering more features than iOS that take advantage of the bigger screen siz…

The WWDC Keynote happened yesterday, and Apple introduced all the new iOS 13 features in its full glory. Many of these new features are already there on the …

One of the most surprising things to come out of WWDC is arguably iPadOS. Until just a few hours before the event, there was very little evidence of its existence. Sure, Apple has been making iOS on iPads, especially iPad Pros, more and more capable but few probably expected it would come out with a slightly modified and dedicated version of iOS for larger screens. More than just confirming Apple’s vision for its iPad line, iPadOS also reinforces the opportunity that Google and other Android device makers had with Android tablets and how they squandered that chance to beat Apple to this mar…

Apple has been claiming for years that you can use an iPad Pro to get real work done… as long as you don’t think you need a mouse for work, because up until …

Dark mode is (finally) here on iPhone and iPad! Here’s how to activate it. Dark mode has made its way to the iPhone and iPad in iOS 13 and iPadOS. Turning it on causes your device’s system apps and interface elements, such as notifications and widgets, to adopt a darker hue, ranging from dark gray to pitch black. Activating it is fairly simple, but there are a couple of ways of doing it. Because iOS and iPadOS are, for all intents and purposes, the same operating system, the process is the same on both iPhone and iPad. – How to activate dark mode on iPhone and iPad with Control Center – How…

With iPadOS, Apple tablets could finally have software that empowers them to replace laptops.

The iPad can now use a mouse for input. You can point, click, drag, and scroll, just like you can on the Mac. Here’s how to set it up.

The WWDC 2019 keynote came packed with exciting announcements. As in past years, I ended up with four pages of drawings in my notebook. I sketched out the biggest new features coming to tvOS 13, iOS 13, macOS Catalina and watchOS 6. And then there’s the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR. As seen in my first sketchnote, above, tvOS 13 adds multi-user support and support for Xbox One and PlayStation DualShock 4 game controllers for Apple Arcade. Meanwhile, watchOS 6 will bring an App Store directly to the Apple Watch, a new Noise app, and a new Cycle tracking app for women. For a quick visual…

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off just yesterday with a tonne of hardware and software announcements. Here are the ones …

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The Worldwide Developers Conference showcased iPadOS, the new stand-alone operating system for iPads. It will look much the same as its iOS counterpart, …

Dark mode is coming to the iPhone. At the WWDC developers conference in San Jose Monday, Apple software engineering senior vice president Craig Federighi showed off the black background setting. “iOS now lives in the dark,” he said. When iOS 13 rolls out to phones in the fall dark mode can switch on for many built-in Apple apps like notes, calendar, maps, and photos. Messaging and the sharing screen will also darken, along with widgets. Apple Music in dark mode might actually entice users from the already-dark competitor music streaming app Spotify. Dark notes. Image: apple screengrab Liste…

Apple announced a mountain of new software updates during its two-hour WWDC keynote on Monday. Highlights included dark mode for iOS 13, a “Sign in with Apple” feature that’s clearly shade at Facebook and Google, an App Store and menstrual cycle tracking for Apple Watches, and the death of iTunes. Oh, and of course, the ridiculously powerful and pricey new “cheese grater” Mac Pro. There’s enough shiny new stuff to satisfy any Apple geek, but the one announcement that’s got me the most excited is iPadOS, which will make the iPad more computer-like than before so that I can actually get “real…

In addition to iOS 13 and iPadOS, Apple also introduced watchOS 6 and tvOS 13 for the Apple Watch and Apple TV. Check out the new features.

Apple’s latest and greatest version of iOS landed last night. The first ever developer beta of iOS 13 went live last night, and unlike like the previous releases, …

At first look, iPadOS — Apple’s new operating system designed specifically for the iPad — doesn’t seem to have added so much. If you discount the iOS 13 features that the iPad shares with the iPhone, the iPadOS extras look rather pedestrian. But these small changes show a big change of direction for the iPad. Apple is turning it into a new kind of mobile computer, instead of a big iPhone. Imagine that you saw somebody roll a rock a few feet away from another rock. Maybe it crests a small bump in the grass. But then, when you take a step away, you see that the rock is now perched on the edge…

Despite packing a ton of new features, Apple also included some performance improvements in iOS 13. The company managed to reduce the app download …

Apple is bringing a slew of new keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS. Here are the ones we know about so far. Since the iPad has started to branch off from the iPhone in terms of what it can do with a larger screen, Apple has decided to rebrand iOS on the iPad to iPadOS. We have a guide on everything you need to know about iPadOS, but one of the coolest features are the new keyboard shortcuts with physical keyboards. Apple stated that there are around 30 new keyboard shortcuts total in Safari, and here are the ones that they revealed in the keynote: – Use default font size in Reader (Cmd + 0) – Ope…

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 ― Apple has been pushing the iPad Pro as a viable computer replacement. With each iteration of iOS, they have added more features …

To say Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote was jam-packed would be an understatement. Apple offered its usual previews of the next versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, but it also broke some new ground. The iPad now has its own operating system, for starters. There were also meaningful updates to the HomePod and a new privacy-focused sign-in. And of course, there’s the not-so-small matter of the redesigned Mac Pro — Apple has finally shown its long-in-the-making workstation. It’s a lot to take in. Never fear, though, as we’ve boiled things down to a short video that gives you the gist of Apple’…

The iPad now has its own operating system, as announced by Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last night. iPadOS is a spinoff of iOS (for …

Apple has announced that soon you’ll be able to plug thumb drives, external disk drives, and SD cards directly into your iPad. The functionality, which was announced onstage at WWDC 2019, will be particularly useful for photographs, allowing you to import photos into an app like Lightroom directly from your camera’s SD card without having to use a Siri Shortcut. The functionality is coming with Apple’s new operating system for the iPad called iPadOS, which also includes an improved Files app that will make files easier to manage once they’re on the tablet. If you want to transfer it onward …

Apple has long insisted that iPads represent its vision for the future of computing, but they’ve always lacked one key feature that made them less than ideal for actual work: proper file management. You could never officially download files within Safari on the iPad, nor could you use iOS’s Files app to create local folders on the iPad you could save things into. Thankfully, with the advent of iPadOS, neither of those are problems anymore. Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, spent some time on stage extolling the virtues of a download manager for Safari, but little has bee…

Amid yesterday’s packed WWDC keynote, where iOS 13, iPadOS, the new Mac Pro, and more were announced, Apple also shared a few exciting updates …

Spam and robocalls are an annoying and worsening problem. Apple knows this and is adding a powerful new feature to iOS 13 that will block them. While.

Apple on Tuesday elaborated on mouse support in iOS 13 and iPadOS, saying both USB and Bluetooth devices will be recognized by the operating systems.

Regardless of your platform, Google Photos is one of the best options available for backing up and storing your photos. However, on iPhones and iPads, the app has always felt crippled by iOS. With the debut of iOS 13, the sync issues Google Photos has faced may finally be over with thanks to a new background tasks API. iOS 13 adds a new background tasks API to the platform which allows apps to schedule activities to run in the background without forcing users to open the app and let it run in the foreground. If you’ve ever spent time on an iPhone, you’re probably familiar with how much of a…

iOS 13, which is now available to anyone with a developer account, packs quite a few new features, some of which were shown off during Apple’s keynote, as well as plenty of additional changes that Apple made to its iPhone operating system that were never addressed on the stage. One of them concerns Wi-Fi and Bluetooth management, and we’ve got great news for you: Apple fixed one of the most annoying things about Wi-Fi in iOS. As it is right now in iOS 12, you have to go to the Settings apps and tap on Wi-Fi to find a new wireless network (though 3D Touch on the Settings app will get you the…

Apple’s iOS 13 is officially here. We take a look at the top features, especially for India and what users need to keep in mind. Apple’s iOS 13 was made official last night at the WWDC conference in San Jose, California and many of the features were exactly what leaks predicted, though the company also managed to surprise with some announcements. Dark Mode, which was long awaited made an appearance, along with improvements to the Camera and Photos apps, enhanced privacy for iPhone users and more Indian languages in iOS 13. Apple has a long list when it comes to features for iOS 13, but we o…

Apple has finally developed a separate operating system for iPads. At WWDC, the company announced that in addition to iOS 13, iPad users and developers will soon have the new iPadOS to play around with, complete with a bunch of tablet-optimized features. It’ll be available this fall alongside iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina. First and foremost, iPadOS has a new home-screen design with a tighter grid of icons where users can swipe over and pin widgets to the home screen. The tablet OS also sports more advanced Split View and multitasking features, allowing users to work with multiple a…

Apple showed off iOS 13 at WWDC 2019, its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. We saw a suite of exciting new features, including a system-wide dark mode for the first time. While Apple confirmed the public release of its latest mobile OS won’t be available until the fall, you don’t need to wait until then. In fact, you can get your hands on iOS 13 right now. There’s no hacking or illegal downloading that’s required to gain early access to iOS 13. Instead, all we’re doing here is jumping on board the beta program for the software. Apple invites beta testers to download and use pre-releas…

By josh norem At today’s WWDC keynote in San Jose, Apple showed off some new tricks it has taught its mobile OS, due to arrive in the fall when new phones …

If you’ve used an iPad, you know that they’re missing a lot of critical features people use on computers. Support for mice and external storage devices, a proper …

Ever since the first iPhone, Apple’s devices have been known for speed. But with chipsets from Qualcomm etc. achieving faster and more efficient performance levels, the Cupertino-based company somewhat lost that edge. Every Android phone today may not beat iPhones on benchmarks, but many do, while others are dangerously close. For instance, the OnePlus 7 Pro has been known to beat an iPhone XS on Geekbench’s multi-core tests. This makes a certain section of Apple’s announcements at yesterday’s WWDC 2019 (Worldwide Developers Conference 2019) quite important. While announcing iOS 13, Apple’s…

iPads could be getting mouse capabilities. Among its many WWDC announcements, Apple is reportedly also adding mouse support to the iPad . A video appearing to show a mouse working on an iPad was tweeted out by Steve Troughton-Smith, an app developer, on Monday afternoon. “I am confirming that it works when plugging a Magic Trackpad in over USB,” he tweeted, adding: “You can indeed have multiple USB drives plugged into iPad at once.” “Mouse support also works on iPhone and iPod Touch!” he tweeted late Monday. Another user said the iPad also works with a Bluetooth mouse, and a further tweet s…

Apple’s iOS 12 release is currently installed on 85% of all iPhones, iPads, and iPods. The software has been installed on more devices than any other release …

One of the rumored iOS 13 features was support for mouse input as an Accessibility option. While Apple didn’t mention it on stage, iPadOS 13 does indeed support mouse input as an AssistiveTouch option. Mouse input in iPadOS 13 works much like you would expect it to, especially when you consider that it is an AssistiveTouch feature. The mouse cursor resembles other Assistive Touch input options, simulating a finger over the interface. Mouse input on the iPad works with USB mice connected to the iPad’s Lightning or USB-C port. This includes Apple’s Magic Trackpad, allowing you to navigate thr…

Screenshot: Apple Apple made some really big announcements about the future of all its products during its annual Worldwide developer Conference on Monday — WWDC, for short — but one of the biggest has to be the fact that iPads now have their own operating system, iPadOS. Instead of using iOS, the same software used on the iPhone, the iPad will be able to go its own way. Based on the presentation, that will allow it better follow a path that splits the difference between a phone and a laptop, making a viable alternative to a home computer for basic tasks like typing and browsing the web. In…

References to a Tile-like tracking accessory have been found in iOS 13 beta 1. Developer Steve Moser found an asset package for a device called Tag1,1 in the …

Code uncovered by an iOS developer appears to support rumors that that Apple’s Find My app will support an unannounced Tile-like tracking device. “Tag1,1” is listed as a device in first-generation beta code for Find My, Steve Moser noted on Tuesday. Apple only uses “1,1” to designate a product as the first of its kind. Other strings in the code include “DEVICE_OR_ITEM_ENTER_MESSAGE_LEGEND” and “DEVICE_OR_ITEM_ENTER_PHONE_NUMBER_LEGEND.” Traditionally, Find My’s predecessors have only been used to track first-party hardware like iPhones, iPads, and AirPods. An April report correctly predicte…

At WWDC 2019, Apple announced that when it rolls out iOS 13 to iPhones this fall, one of the most exciting new features will be Dark mode. Like the Dark mode …

There are a bunch of iOS 13 beta problems plaguing iPhone users. This guide takes you through what you need to know about them.

While it’s designed for those who have trouble touching the display, the mouse support feature in iPadOS works surprisingly well.

Apple has at long last answered the hopes and dreams of people hoping for mouse support on iPad. With the new iPadOS, you’ll be able to hook up a USB mouse or the likes of Apple’s Magic Trackpad, as iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith discovered once the developer beta went live. Hello mouse support on iOS 13! It’s an AssistiveTouch feature, and works with USB mice. @viticci nailed this pic.twitter.com/nj6xGAKSg0 — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 3, 2019 At least for the time being, mouse support is available as an AssistiveTouch accessibility feature. It’s not clear as yet wh…

The new iOS 13. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Apple took the wraps off its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13, on Monday at its annual WWDC conference in San Jose, California. In addition to a refreshed design, iOS 13 features a Dark Mode option for the interface, a refreshed Photos app, and more customization options for Memoji. iOS gets revamped every year and launches when its newest phones hit the market. As such, it will likely debut on the upcoming iPhone 11, and roll out to older-model iPhones this fall as a free update. Though iOS 13 brings plenty of new options to the iP…

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I had some brief time actually using an iPad Pro running iPadOS yesterday, and one of the first things I did was open up a Safari tab Apple had waiting for me: a Google Doc. Google Docs has long been a huge problem on the iPad, for two reasons. First, Google’s own iPad app is god-awful and the company seems hell-bent on not updating it to work better. Second, Google Docs in Safari on the iPad right now redirects you to that app even if you “Request Desktop Site.” On iPadOS, however, Google Docs in Safari seems great. Admittedly, I only spent about five minutes pokin…

Things got a little more complicated for iPad updates yesterday. No longer will the iPad run the same operating system as the iPhone. Instead, iPad OS (or iPadOS in Apple’s styling) has been introduced. But will your current iPad be able to run the new update? iPad OS has been brought in because Apple wants to add ever-more laptop-like use cases to iPad. It’s introduced a new home screen, for example as well as the ability to handle multiple documents from the same app. – More on iPadOS You can also mark up more documents and webpages with Apple Pencil, handle files more like a Mac and Safa…

– Apple announced a bunch of big new updates coming to the iPhone camera and photos apps in iOS 13 during WWDC 2019. – The camera app in iOS 13 brings a new portrait lighting mode, and you can now adjust the intensity of the lighting effects in existing portrait modes, too. – The photos app in iOS 13 comes with loads of new improvements for photo and video editing, as well as major improvements in how your photos and videos are organized. – Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Apple announced several new updates, improvements, and features coming in iOS 13, the latest vers…

Apple’s enhancements to its venerable iPad family of tablets didn’t end up with the brand new iPadOS that introduces plenty of features that aid multitasking, …

At its annual developer event today, Apple unveiled a host of updates that will be coming to the iPad in the near future. The tablet is getting its own dedicated operating system, called iPadOS, nine years into its existence, which will bring with it a host of new file-management and multitasking capabilities that’ll make it feel more like using a computer. But there’s one thing the iPad, especially the iPad Pro, which has been marketed as a PC replacement, has been missing: support for the mouse. Apple introduced a stylus called the Pencil in 2015 with the introduction of the original iPad…

The mobile hotspot built into the iPhone gets some real improvements in iOS 13. iPads can connect automatically and stay connected even when asleep. In addition, Apple upgraded some of iOS 13’s other Wi-Fi capabilities, including making the Control Center more useful. Persistent personal hotspot In iOS 12, an iPad can only connect to an iPhone’s Personal Hotspot manually. The user has to go into Settings to make the connection. That changes in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. Apple promises the tablet can “automatically connect to your nearby iPhone personal hotspot when there’s no internet connection…

In macOS Catalina, you’ve got a new way to view your connected iPhone or iPad (no more iTunes). If you’re installing iOS 13, the steps are a little different. If you’re trying to install the developer beta for iOS 13, you’ll have probably noticed by now that it isn’t available as an over-the-air install at this time (no button to Install Profile). This means, you have to install it as a Restore Image file instead. It also means you need to either install the developer beta of macOS Catalina or the beta of Xcode 11. If you chose the former (Catalina or bust!), its a slightly different set of…

A few months ago, 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo reported that Apple is working on a new Tile-like item tracker accessory for tracking the location of belongings through the new merged Find My app. The report said the “tag” would be paired to a user’s iCloud account and rely on proximity to an iPhone. Tile next to placeholder image for Apple’s item tracker in iOS 13 via 9to5Mac Like the Tile, users would be able to receive notifications when their device gets too far away from the tag. To avoid false triggers, it would be possible to set a list of common locations to be ignored like a work offic…

There are a lot of cool things coming in iPadOS, but here are the most important ones! At WWDC 2019, Apple did something a bit unexpected, but not surprising: they’ve rebranded iOS for iPad as iPadOS. Due to the iPad having a larger screen than an iPhone or iPod touch, there were so many features in iOS that were only available on iPad devices. So today, they’ve officially separated the two from each other, which is a huge deal. We’ve mentioned the most important features in iOS 13, but since iPadOS is a separate entity with iPad-specific features, we need to cover those as well. – Multiple…

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference – WWDC or Worldwide Developer Conference – this week in San Jose, California. As is the case with most developer conferences, it started with a long keynote on Monday. Where Apple’s executives and team leads, announced a ton of new software (and some new hardware). There was something that caught a lot of Android users eyes though, and that was iPadOS. Since the iPad launched in April 2010, it has run on iOS (which was originally iPhone OS until the iPad came). That kind of restricted what it could do, since it was essentially running the sam…

Apple has announced iPadOS at WWDC 2019, and that means a whole new bunch of practical, fun, and funky updates for your favorite iPad. Want to know all about iPadOS and it’s latest and greatest features? iMore’s got’cha covered (as always). What’s new with iPadOS? The first thing you’ll notice on your iPad is a tighter grid of icons for more tools on your home screen. You can also now pin widgets right on the home screen, and using slide over, you can pick up reminders and other applications and drag them over to the side of your screen. Drag up from the bottom of your screen to easily fan …

Learn about the best new features in iOS 13 for iPhone. Right from the new Dark mode to the improved privacy controls.

iPadOS 13 adds mouse support for the Apple iPad and it is an accessibility feature. But there is one more thing you should know about.

Apple used its worldwide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, Calif. Monday to preview the next major versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems. In addition to announcing that it would replace iTunes with 3 dedicated media apps, Apple also showed off a bunch of new products and features. Among the announcements, 3 stood out in particular: iPadOS, dark mode and sign in with Apple. iPadOS One of the more notable changes in Apple’s mobile strategy is that the company split its mobile operating systems, and is now developing iPadOS as a separate system for its iPad products. The …

The brand-new seventh-generation iPod Touch is now available for purchase at Amazon and Apple.

Analysts have been quick to offer diverse reactions to Apple’s WWDC 2019 announcements, though generally agreeing that the company put a focus on unique software upgrades and helping out app developers. JPMorgan Apple’s emphasis was on “further extending its competitive differentiation over other consumer device OEMs with an emphasis on its software leadership,” claimed JPMorgan’s Samik Chatterjee. The analyst highlighted privacy features in iOS 13 such as “Sign in With Apple,” and the creation of iPadOS, shifting away from giving iPads “second hand features of the iPhone.” Chatterjee also …

iOS 13 is a whopper of a release, and you’re probably wondering if your device will be able to run it. Like iOS 12, iOS 13 supports a good range of devices.

Apple launched major versions of its operating system last night. Along with splitting up the OS that powers its iPhones and iPads, the company also introduced …

Apple’s next version of the iPhone operating system will contain a few new features aimed at giving users greater control over their data privacy. Announced on …

Apple’s Craig Federighi introduced iPadOS at WWDC 2019. James Martin/CNET This time last year, the iPad — and tablets in general — faced an uncertain future after years of declining interest from consumers. But in the past 18 months, Apple refreshed its low-end iPads and redesigned its high-end iPad Pros, prompting consumers to buy so many tablets that Apple saw its strongest iPad growth in six years during the first three months of 2019. And with iPadOS, new software specifically designed for the tablet introduced in 2010 and famously called a “magical” device by then-CEO Steve Jobs, Ap…

Apple is looking to combat pesky spam callers in iOS 13 with a new Siri-powered feature that weeds out and silences calls from unknown numbers, sending them directly to voicemail. Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi onstage at WWDC 2019. Word of the optional setting is secreted away deep within Apple’s iOS 13 feature preview webpage, published after the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday. Aptly named “Silence unknown callers,” the feature protects users from spammers, an increasing nuisance to cellphone owners in the U.S. and beyond. A bane for many, s…

iPads are getting more and more like Macs. Stephen Shankland/CNET With the upcoming iPadOS, you’ll be able to plug external drives and SD cards into your iPad the way you already can with your Mac or Windows PC. “iPadOS … supports external drives, allowing users to easily plug in USB drives, SD cards or log into an SMB file server, all from within the Files app,” Apple said in a statement Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference, aka WWDC, in San Jose, California. The new feature reflects how much closer iPads and Macs are becoming. iPads and Macs remain separate product lines, but wi…

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. At last, Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote is over. While we configure a Mac Pro, you can look back at everything the company unveiled, including iOS 13, iPadOS, macOS Catalina and even Microsoft’s AR Minecraft game. Can we borrow $37,000?Apple finally reveals the new Mac Pro Surprise — the successor to that beautifully designed trashcan that Apple introduced in 2013 is here, and it looks a lot like the old cheese-grater-style tower. There’s a new Intel Xeon processor on board that has up to 28 cores, and it supports up to 1.5 TB of RAM. As far as expansion, t…

When Apple announces its newest operating systems each year at WWDC, the sheer amount of information the company throws at you can be overwhelming. In iOS 13 alone is a laundry list of new apps and features, performance and UI improvements, and revamped experiences across Apple’s flagship mobile OS. Here are the most interesting new features and additions coming in iOS 13 this fall, from augmented reality and video editing to an arsenal of privacy-focused tools, and beyond. This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

A question which many are going to ask in the coming months: can I downgrade watchOS 6 to watchOS 5 on Apple Watch?

Why lug an expensive notebook around, when an equally expensive iPad can do the exact same job? On paper, the idea was solid but in practice it was an …