Dennis Sellers

<p class="">I find the default grid view that shows all your apps in watchOS 7 to be too cluttered. If you go, you can change it to the list view, in which apps are always arranged in alphabetical order.</p>

<p class="">Future Apple Watches, iPhones could detect pollen levels, air quality, even poison gas in the air as evidenced by a newly granted Apple patent (number 10,788,308) for “particulate matter sensors for portable devices.</p>

<p class="">On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today </em>posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are this week’s picks.</p>

<p class="">Apple has released a new macOS Mojave Supplemental Update, which includes the security content of Safari 14. It replaces macOS Mojave Security Update 2020-005, pulled this week because of glitches with system sluggishness, slow boot times, high fan speeds, memory problems, and more.</p>

<p class="">Apple has <a href="https://www.apple.com/leadership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">updated its leadership page</a>, adding Greg Joswiak, who is taking over for Phil Schiller as Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. ‌Schiller‌ is now listed as "Apple Fellow.”</p>

<p class="">Apple has posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZBGKxqvMI">a trailer</a> for The Snoopy Show, which is coming to the Apple TV streaming service in February. The show will celebrate 70 years of Peanuts.</p>

<p class="">Oprah Winfrey is hosting in-depth conversations with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author Isabel Wilkerson about her latest book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” exclusively on Apple TV+.</p>

<p class=""><a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/slash-quest/id1459918347"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Slash Quest!</span></a> is this week's addition to <a href="https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/">Apple Arcade</a>, Apple’s US$4.99/month or $49.99/year game streaming service that has over 120 games,. It's available for the the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac.</p>

<p class="">Global consumer spending in mobile apps hit US$29.3 billion and installs climbed to 36.5 billion across the Apple App Store and Google Play in the third quarter, according to preliminary Sensor Tower <a href="https://sensortower.com/solutions/store-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Store Intelligence</a> estimates.</p>

Apple will announce its fourth fiscal quarter results on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. (Eastern). You’ll be able to...

<p class=""><em>Tiny World</em>, a documentary narrated by Paul Rudd, debuts today on Apple TV+, Apple’s streaming service.</p>

<p class="">Future Mac laptops and iPads could be powered by hydrogen fuel cells as evidenced by a newly granted Apple patent (number 10,790,561) dubbed “portable computing device for external fuel cell control.”</p>

<p class="">Home Screen pages can display widgets that are customized for work, travel, sports, entertainment, and other areas of interest. However, with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7, you can delete the default Apple apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch for the first time.</p>

<p class="">Apple has filed for another patent (number 20200310121) for a “head-mounted display system” — in other words, the rumored “Apple Glasses,” an augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed reality head-mounted display (HMD).</p>

<p class="">OWC has introduced the new <a href="https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OWC Thunderbolt Hub</a>. For the first time, it expands the number of Thunderbolt ports available on a Thunderbolt 4 computer.</p>