In the News – iPhone J.D.

As I experienced hoped, we are beginning to see extra builders choose advantage of Apple’s Dwell Functions functionality so that notifications can update them selves to supply beneficial information.  I saw a good case in point the other day when I used the ParkMobile application that I reviewed in 2016.  This app lets you fork out the “meter” for avenue parking in New Orleans and quite a few other towns.  After I paid out for parking, ParkMobile set a notification on my lock screen with a countdown timer exhibiting me specifically how a great deal time I experienced remaining on my parking spot, in addition other facts these as the range of the zone the place I parked.  This meant that when I was using care of issues, I could just glance at my Iphone monitor to straight away see how a lot time I had still left, without having needing to unlock the Iphone and open an app.  The aspect even worked when my always-on display screen activated and the monitor dimmed, though to protect ability, in this method the notification only displays the number of minutes left with out updating the seconds.  Bravo to ParkMobile for this unbelievably helpful implementation of Apple’s Stay Activities attribute.  And now, the news of note from the earlier week:

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• If you use Apple Songs, you can now get gain of the Apple Music Replay aspect to see your preferred tunes, albums, and many others. from 2022.  Lawyer John Voorhees of MacStories has the facts.  It operates great unless you enable your teenager use your iMac to participate in movie online games even though he listens to audio by way of iTunes without logging out of your account, in which circumstance you will uncover that all of “your” top music from the 12 months are tracks and artists that you have by no means listened to of.  Ahem.

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• A few weeks ago, I talked about reviews that specified roller coasters ended up triggering crash detection alerts on the Iphone 14.  As Felipe Espósito of 9to5Mac clarifies, this 7 days, Apple unveiled iOS 16.1.2 to make improvements to the crash detection attribute on the Apple iphone 14 models.  I am confident that the huge number of Apple iphone 14 designs now in use has supplied Apple a lot of data to review about how to increase the attribute.

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• Andrew Liszewski of Gizmodo studies that Belkin introduced an AirPods Cleansing Package, which include earwax softener, to get your AirPods (but not the AirPods Professional) searching and sounding good as new.  The package is only $14.99.  Appears like a great stocking stuffer, and not a poor current for yourself.

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• Probability Miller of 9to5Mac predicts that the next generation AirPods Pro (my assessment) ($229 on Amazon) could be the most well known gift this holiday break year.  I absolutely like mine.

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• As a result of numerous statements that Elon Musk built on Twitter this week, it looks like there could be a dispute on the horizon in between Apple and Twitter.  Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac reports that Elon Musk satisfied with Tim Cook on the Apple Campus this week, and with any luck , they ended up in a position to iron matters out.

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• I take into account a password manager to be critical, but developers of password manager applications need to have to be additional cautious about the safety of their individual solutions.  Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac stories that LastPass was breached back in August, and it was acquired this 7 days that attackers had been in a position to obtain some purchaser info.  I have been employing 1Password for numerous a long time, and this has not happened to them.  I’m not indicating that some thing similar could not materialize to 1Password tomorrow in theory, but the point that it hasn’t transpired presents me further belief in that products.

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• If you you should not have an Apple Card credit history card still, there is a promotion running right now the place new prospects can get 5% Everyday Hard cash back on buys concerning now on Xmas.

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• This 7 days, the Application Keep recognized some of the greatest applications of the 12 months.  I was thrilled to see that GoodNotes was regarded as the iPad Application of the Year.  GoodNotes is a wonderful application that I use in my legislation follow and in my private daily life just about every single day—a great way to use an Apple Pencil to publish notes on an iPad.

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• In an posting for Macworld, Jason Snell discusses the incredibly handy Common Management feature.

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• In an short article for 6 Hues, Jason Snell reports that even if you only have accessibility to iManage—such as when you are on an plane making use of the totally free Internet aspect that only supports textual content messages—you can continue to acquire force notifications.  As a end result, apps like Flighty can give you authentic-time flight updates even if you are in the air.

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• Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac testimonials the Eve Out of doors Cam, a HomeKit-compatible digicam with a floodlight.

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• If you have an Apple Check out Extremely and you like to dive underwater, you’ll want to verify out the new Oceanic+ dive laptop app that came out this week.  The app is no cost, but you can shell out to increase distinctive characteristics.  The Apple site has a quite in-depth look at the Oceanic+ application.

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• If you have been working with a tiny handheld unit for as long as I have, then you almost certainly utilized a Palm or PalmPilot yrs back.  Jason Scott creates a new on line emulation, obtainable at the Web Archive, that allows you run previous Palm software package once again.  Actively playing Solitare Pack from Stand Alone, Inc. on my Iphone as it emulated a PalmPilot produced me come to feel like I was in the late 1990s once again.

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• And at last, Apple released a online video this week known as The Greatest that demonstrates off some great Apple iphone, iPad, Apple Check out, and Mac accessibility attributes these types of as Doorway Detection, Voice Handle, Sound Recognition, and Siri.  The movie does a nice career of demonstrating how empowering these attributes can be.  Also intriguing is the exact same video clip with audio descriptions.

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