News & Reviews:   Apple

With the on-going coronavirus outbreak, it has also affected the business world as well which means slowing down the manufacturing process of certain products. Since so many things are "Made in China", this also includes Apple and they recently announced that all the official stores, contact centres and corporate offices will be closed until 9 February 2020.

The modern smartphone user has gotten so used to navigating around using a map software that it's not wrong to say some are hopeless without one. Recently, Apple saw fit to release a newly redesigned Maps software for all iOS users in the United States.

With 2019 over, it was only a matter of time before analysts shared the big numbers for 2019. Research organisations have provided a few interesting facts to chew on, such as how Samsung still holds the largest smartphone market share, Huawei overtaking Apple for the overall second spot, and Apple managing to snag a top spot for Q4 2019.

OPPO’s Vice President officially unveiled the first renders of their upcoming smartwatch, which could be unveiled at any moment this year. Based on the renders, the aforementioned smartwatch shows quite a bit of resemblance to the Apple Watch other than the main difference being the two buttons on the right side and a lack of a crown.

If you recall, we reported in December 2019 about the Apple iPhone 11 having a weird location tracking issue. The ultra-wideband technology was later identified as the culprit and Apple promised to release a fix for it. Well, that iOS update is out now and is available through the iPhone's settings menu.

Apple has closed one retail store in mainland China and reduced operating hours for other retail locations yesterday due to the coronavirus outbreak. Besides, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook also mentioned that the company also began to limit employees traveling to China last week.

Looking at the patent image, you are probably wondering why. But Apple may just be thinking of creating a new all-in-one (AIO) iMac, which has its display and keyboard built into a sheet of glass. As you can see, it curved off at some point to allow for space to accommodate a keyboard at the bottom part of the glass sheet. This may be the beginning of an ambitious new design from Apple.

The official Twitter of the immensely popular series called The Witcher has recently posted a tweet, stating that the song “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” is officially available on Spotify and Apple Music. For some odd reason, Spotify only has the aforementioned song listed while Apple Music seems to have to the entire album.

How well do you actually know about your smartphone’s location settings? While you thought you have turned off the location access of some apps, they might still be secretly tracking you without your acknowledgement. Earlier, a security researcher discovered the Apple iPhone 11 Pro constantly checks for location even the 'Location Services' has been disabled. To fix that, Apple is testing a new toggle for its 'Location Services' setting and it’s called 'Networking & Wireless'.

From all the YouTube ads promoting how secure are Apple’s devices (nope, not skippable), we might already get the idea that the company values privacy very much. However, what we don’t know is the tech giant actually does not have the ability to access data that is being encrypted on an iPhone. From there, they have dissapointed the President of the United States, Donald Trump, as Apple refused to decrypt the data from criminals’ iPhones to assist the government.