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According to new figures from Canalys, via MacRumors, Apple has once again taken the lead in the global wearable brand market, largely as a result of the very strong Apple Watch shipments in this year’s third quarter. Canalys’ data shows that Apple shipped 3.9 million units in Q3 of this year...

AppleInsider reports today that YouTube, which is owned by Google, has told customers that it is currently looking into a bug in its iOS app that is leading to very heavy battery drain on both iPads and iPhones, even when the app is running in the background. YouTube announced that it is...

Niantic, the company behind the record-breaking Pokémon Go phenomenon, has announced that it has teamed up with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to develop Harry Potter: Wizard’s Unite, an augmented reality game inspired by J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. The game will use similar...

Over the past week or so many people have been complaining about a strange auto-correct bug that has affected some iOS 11 users that sees QuickType and autocorrect replacing the letter i with a symbol that combines Unicode symbol 0049 and symbol FE0F. This ends up looking like a capital A with...

Bloomberg has yet another Apple scoop today, with Mark Gurman reporting that Apple’s work on its augmented reality headset project continues apace. So much so, in fact, that it is planning on having the technology completed by 2019, ready for launch in 2020. Bloomberg’s source says that Apple...

9to5 Mac reports that just as the iPhone X starts to roll out around the world, Apple has reported its Q4 2017 results, which include iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus sales, but not iPhone X sales. The figures are impressive, with Apple reporting $52.6b in revenue and $10.7b in profit, with sales of...

While Apple’s forthcoming AirPower charging mat is not due to launch until 2018, a Polish website, X-Kom, may just have leaked details about the mat’s pricing, writes AppleInsider. According to Polish news site ThinkApple, which originally spotted the possible leak, the Polish retailer’s website...

AppleInsider reports that iOS 11.1 has today been released to the public following a month of beta testing. Aside from the 70 new emojis introduced in the update, including new food types, animals, and mythical creatures, there are lots of other improvements to expect. Among the bug fixes...

AppleInsider write that Australian company Cochlear has today launched the first fruits of its partnership with Apple, a hearing implant sound processor called the Nucleus 7. The new implant, which is the world’s first Made for iPhone sound processor, was designed by Cochlear and Apple to...

9to5 Mac reports that Amazon has today announced its new Alexa Cloud Cam security camera and Amazon Key service, which is designed to work in tandem with certain smart locks to let Amazon couriers gain entry into your home and leave packages inside your house. Amazon Key works by sending a...

Great news from Nintendo today, with 9to5 Mac reporting that the company has announced that Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be coming to iOS next month as a free-to-play game where you get to run your own campsite and personalise it in typically cute Animal Crossing style. Here’s how Nintendo...

AppleInsider reports today on the fact that for some users, iOS 11 is still causing battery-life issues with their devices. As AppleInsider notes, despite three sub-point updates, the Apple support forums are still full of complaints about iOS 11 in terms of sluggishness, crashing, and battery...

AppleInsider reports that the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has today approved a new $573 million contract to add support for contactless payment methods, including Apple Pay on iPhone and Apple Watch, to the subway turnstiles. The intention is to eventually replace...

Niantic has just announced Pokémon Go’s second annual Halloween trick-or-treat extravaganza, which starts today and runs until November 2. During this time there will be many more spooky Pokémon around than usual to catch, including Gastly, Drowzee, Cubone, and more. Even better, Sableye...

AppleInsider reports that Delta airlines is said to be moving its staff over from Windows devices to iOS, with flight attendants having their Nokia Lumia 1520 phablets replaced with iPhone 7 Plus models early next year. Pilots will also be getting 10.5-inch iPad Pro models in place of their...

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and HBO Global Licensing have today launched Game of Thrones: Conquest worldwide for iOS and iPad. The free-to-play MMO strategy game was developed by Turbine and is based on the award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones. The game gives players the chance...

While there hasn’t been much news about Apple’s rumoured self-driving car project lately, it seems that the project is still continuing, with The Verge reporting today that a self-driving car expert, MacCallister Higgins, has tweeted out a picture of what he says is Apple’s “Project Titan” out...

MacRumors reports today that Apple has continued to expand one of the most popular features of its Maps app by adding indoor maps for eight more airports in the United States. The newly added airports include O’Hare International and Midway International in Chicago; McCarran International in...

AppleInsider reports today on a post on Apple’s Machine Learning blog that details exactly what happens when you use the “Hey Siri” command with your iOS device. In particular, the blog post explains the role of the detector, which is a speech recognizer that is always listening out for the...

9to5 Mac reports today on a rather unusual Google Maps iOS update, which included the addition of a “mini cupcakes” distance measurement for how many calories are burned when you walk a particular distance. It certainly looks like a fun and cute way of letting people know just how many calories...

Cult of Mac reports that New Yorker James Green from Brooklyn has his Apple Watch to thank for saving his life by detecting a pulmonary embolism. Twenty-eight-year-old Green says that he bought his Apple Watch because he’s a serial data-tracker and bought it to use it for the notifications and...

9to5 Mac reports that according to new data from Kantar, iOS has seen its market share growth increase year-on-year in August in seven of the nine biggest markets that Kantar is monitoring. The most notable exception to the rule is the UK, which saw a two-point fall as the result of a big...

MacRumors reports today on a new survey from Piper Jaffray as part of its semiannual U.S. teen survey. According to Piper Jaffray’s figures, 78% of those teens surveyed own an iPhone, which represents an increase of 2% from the spring 2017 survey. Also, 82% of teens surveyed said that their next...

Following on from recent news that Apple is working on a way of measuring blood pressure using the Apple Watch, AppleInsider today has news of a patent application that has just been made public that reveals that Apple is working on automatic blood pressure monitoring technology. The new...

If you’re finding that you can’t connect to Facebook or Instagram, don’t worry, it’s not just you, as Mashable, along with many other news outlets, is reporting that both Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, are down worldwide. When you try to connect, you’ll simply see a sad...

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, via 9to5 Mac, Apple has just signed a deal with Steven Spielberg to make new content. “The tech giant has struck a deal with Mr. Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Comcast Corp.’s CMCSA -0.36% NBCUniversal television production unit to make...

According to CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey, as reported by AppleInsider, the number of Apple products in active use in the US has increased to 2.6 products per household, up from 1.6 in 2012, with 64 % of all Americans now owning an Apple product. The in-depth figures even break down the...

MacRumors reports that, just as Apple’s engineering chief, Craig Federighi, promised, the 3D Touch App Switcher gesture has reappeared in iOS 11.1 Beta 2. It appears that the feature was “intentionally removed” for the iOS 1 beta testing process, and was still missing when iOS 11 first...

MacRumors reports that Apple design chief Jony Ive gave a big interview to The New Yorker editor David Remnick onstage at TechFest 2017 in New York. In a wide-ranging discussion, Ive touched on many subjects, including his philosophy of design, what it was like working with Steve Jobs, the...

9to5 Mac reports that hundreds of new emoji are coming to iOS 11.1 beta 2 some time next week, “including more emotive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters, clothing options, food types, animals, mythical creatures and more.” Aside from iOS 11.1, which should be available to all by the end...

MacRumors reports today that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published an article that is critical of the redesign of Apple’s Control Centre in iOS 11, stating that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth toggles are misleading and compromise the security of the user. According to the EFF, the...

9to5 Mac reports today on news from Patently Apple that Apple has applied for a patent for a system that can measure a person’s blood pressure using just an Apple Watch with a band containing a special sensor. Currently, it is only possible to take a person’s blood pressure by using an...

It looks like we could soon be getting the choice of a new browser to use on iOS, with Phone Arena reporting that Microsoft could be about to port its Edge browser to iOS and Android. The sources say that Microsoft Edge will be appearing on mobile platforms before the end of 2017. The same...

YouTube has today updated its iOS app with a new sharing feature whereby you can much more easily share YouTube videos directly via the Messages app, writes 9to5 Mac. Prior to today’s update, when you sent someone a YouTube video in Messages, they’d have to click on a link in order to view the...

MacRumors reports that Apple has today released another iOS 11 update with iOS 11.0.2, which is designed to fix, among other things, the crackling iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus earpiece that some users have been experiencing when making phone calls and FaceTime calls. Up until today’s update, the...

In an exclusive report today, TechCrunch reveals that it has heard from multiple sources that Apple has acquired a small French startup firm called Regaind. When Apple was asked by TechCrunch to comment on the acquisition, it sort-of confirmed it (ish) in a typically tight-lipped statement...

Warner Bros. Entertainment’s Middle-earth: Shadow of War arrived in the App Store today for iPhone and iPad. The free-to-play strategy RPG continues Talion’s journey through Mordor and unites Middle-earth’s most renowned Champions with the most fearsome of Orcs, who team up in a bid to vanquish...

9to5 Mac reports that based on a footnote on its Apple Watch Series 1 webpage, Apple could be planning to launch its person-to-person payment system, Apple Pay Cash, at the end of October (the footnote reads, “Coming in late October”). Having announced Apple Pay Cash at WWDC in June, it was...

Macworld reports that Apple has today released iOS 11.0.1, which is a typical post-release update that features various “bug fixes and improvements for your iPhone and iPad” to quote Apple’s release notes. While Apple did not mention any specific bugs that the update fixes, Ars Technica reports...

9to5 Mac reports that Nintendo is hoping to revive interest in Super Mario Run with a huge new update that includes a new world, as well as a temporary 50% price cut. Due on September 29, the update includes World Star, a new world that features nine new levels, as well as support for playing...