News & Reviews:   Apple

If you're ever feeling nostalgic for the iPod, you can now turn your iPhone into one using an app. According to The Verge, the Rewound app is a music player that you can download from the Apple App Store and it comes with plenty of downloadable skins. Among them, there's one that will give you that classic iPod look.

If you’ve been following our Apple iPhone rumours recently, you must know that the iPhone SE is reportedly making its comeback in 2020. However, we found out from a Japanese source saying that the Apple iPhone SE 2 will be named as iPhone 9, and it will sport an A13 Bionic chip. The rumour struck us as a surprise as well but its explanation makes total sense, let’s find out!

Apple had an event earlier today, but it was not a launch event for any new product. It was a special event held to appraise the standout app developers in 2019. You can see it as the Grammys, but for the apps. There are many visual-appealing apps and games being crowned as the best for this year, let’s find out what they are!

It’s almost the end of 2019 and smartphones rumours for 2020 are everywhere. We’ve heard Apple was going to release three 5G smartphones in the coming year, but now we have the latest rumour predicted by JP Morgan analyst, Samik Chatterjee. He said that there will be four 5G iPhones instead and all of them will be having OLED displays.

Intel has completed the sale of its mobile modem business to Apple, allowing the USA's number one tech company to take over and benefit. The deal was signed back in July 2019 and was a considered a multi-billion dollar loss for Intel despite its 1 billion USD (~RM4.17 billion) valuation, according to a Reuters report.

Snapchat recently released a new filter on their app, which shows how you would look like if you were several years older. By older, I meant by at least 30 to 50 years older to the point grey hairs as well as a moustache might show up.

In light of the various reports on vape injuries and death in the United States, Apple recently removed around 181 vaping apps on their Apple App Store and will no longer approve such apps in the future based on their updated guidelines. Not only that, but it seems that the aforementioned guidelines also prohibits any apps that encourage the consumption of tobacco, illegal drugs, or even excessive amounts of alcohol as well.

It seems that Apple’s iPhones are required to support e-wallets other than their very own Apple Pay, based on a court ruling in Germany that was passed very recently. The court ruling required all “operators of electronic money infrastructure” to allow e-wallet integration, at a reasonable fee which means that you could use your Apple device to make payments even without Apple Pay.

Just recently, Apple officially unveiled the 16-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pro from RM12199 and RM10499 respectively. In terms of the tech specs,  it comes equipped with a 9th generation Intel Core i9 processor, up to 16GB of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM and 1TB of SSD storage.

In this short announcement, there is now a new update from Apple regarding the apps closing in the background bug issue that was rampant in the previous iOS update. Now with iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2, this will be the fix for the bug so Apple users shouldn't be experiencing such a quick app shut down while multitasking and others.