Month Archives: August 2021

Apple previews controversial ‘Expanded Protections for Children’ (updated)

Apple makes some changes to the Instant Transfer feature of Apple Cash

Apple’s first retail store in India delayed due to COVID pandemic

Patent trolling’: Apple seeks to nullify new claim by patent holdings firm Traxcell

Notable apps and updates: August 6

News items you should check out: August 6

New Apple Pay promo involves back-to-school offers

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Apple patent filing involves ‘data encryption for emergency response’ on an iPhone

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Apple wants you to be able to select text (or at least text fields) with your eyes

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AWT Deal: the Smart TV LED Backlight

Data Pop lets you add some ‘pop’ to Final Cut Pro projects

‘Little Voice’ is the first Apple TV+ series canceled by Apple

Apple TV+’s ‘Physical’ renewed for a second season

News items you should check out: August 5

Notable apps and updates: August 5

Patent trollin’: Atlpass sues Apple over iPhone security features

Apple lands rights (and franchise hopes) to spy film, ‘Argylle,’ for Apple TV+

Apple’s Mac laptop sales grow 21% year-over-year in quarter one

Tim Cook is eighth on list of highest paid CEOs and executives in 2020

Award-winning musical, ‘Come From Away,’ coming to Apple TV+

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Not surprisingly, Amazon continues to dominate smart speaker sales

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Amberlight 2: Lifetime Subscription (Mac & Windows)

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Apple looks for ways to improve auto-focus on iPhones, iPads

Apple patent is for representing, recording a virtual object in a real environment

App Spotlight: Duplicate, a copy and paste tool for macOS

Brendan Fraser joins cast of Apple TV+’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

MasterChef: Let’s Cook and Layton’s Mystery Journey coming to Apple Arcade

More cast members announced for Apple TV+’s ‘Emancipation’

News items you should check out: August 4

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Apple wants Macs, iPhones, iPads to be able to use multiple screens to display 3D content

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Meshforce M3 Mesh WiFi System deal from AWT

Dating app for the ‘COVID-19 unvaccinated’ booted from the Apple App Store

Reelgood: Season 2 of ‘Ted Lasso’ starts with 4.6% of weekend streaming

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Future iPhones may replace notches and holes with ‘adjustable display windows’

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Student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch expand to Canada and more U.S. universities

Trailer for season two of Apple TV+’s ‘Truth Be Told’ debuts

Apple launches three graphics card models for the Mac Pro

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Apple offering standalone Magic Keyboards with Touch ID

The 36th Annual Imagen Awards honor Apple TV+ with eight nominations

8.4

Escape Motion’s Rebelle is a fun watercolor, acrylic painting app for the Mac

Apple surveying Chinese users about iPad mini screen size preferences

Belgium, South African banks add support for Apple Pay

Notable apps and updates: August 3

Apple’s iPhone sales grow 15.7% year-over-year in Europe

Patent lawsuit against Apple over the Apple Watch heart sensor tech will continue

Apple TV+’s ‘Emancipation’ temporarily suspends filming due to COVID

Unreleased Macs, Apple Watches show up in new Economic Commission database

Apple rises in Fortune Global 500 list for both revenue and profit

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Apple patent filing involves ‘focusing on virtual and augmented reality systems’

You can send text messages with Siri on your iPhone or iPad; here’s how