77 posts tagged ‘iOS 17’
HEY Calendar Rejected From the App Store
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David Heinemeier Hansson: We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! David Heinemeier Hansson (Hacker News, 9to5Mac): Apple didn’t even bother to give us a reason this time! I mean, at least they’re not saying it’s definitive (yet??), but it’s just so fucking tiring to […]
Taxatio Rejected From the App Store
Jesse Squires: Taxatio is a universal app for iOS and macOS. I submitted the same update (version 1.3.0) for both platforms on December 30. The iOS app was accepted within a few hours, which was excellent. However, the macOS update was delayed for a ridiculous reason, after waiting to be reviewed for three entire days.It […]
Beeper and the Centurion Lounge
John Gruber: Here’s the analogy I’ve been thinking best applies. American Express operates Centurion Lounges at a few dozen airports around the world, exclusively for the use of their Platinum Card holders. Other premium credit cards offer similar access to other lounges. If you have an American Express Platinum Card, you just show up, show […]
Crashing iPhones With a Flipper Zero
Dan Goodin (via Bruce Schneier): To van der Ham’s surprise and chagrin, the same debilitating stream of pop-ups hit again on the afternoon commute home, not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of other passengers in the same train car. He then noticed that one of the same passengers nearby had also been present […]
Apple Music Replay’s Broken Record
Joe Rosensteel: The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”. You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes before it - are largely glorified markup viewers, but for whatever reason, the Music app still can’t display Apple […]
Beeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations
Juli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has been using its own Mac servers to provide that information to Apple, but that resulted in thousands of Beeper users having the […]
WeChat’s HotspotHelper Entitlement
Yingyu (via Hacker News): Since the introduction of iOS 9 in 2015, Apple has included an API call named “HotspotHelper,” enabling developers to request a capability for their apps to assist the system in connecting to WiFi access points.[…]The real cause for concern arises from the fact that, with access to such information, apps can […]
iOS 17 Autocorrect
Juli Clover: The machine learning technology that Apple is using for autocorrect has been improved in iOS 17. Apple says it has adopted a “transformer language model,” that will better personalize autocorrect to each user. It is able to learn your personal preferences and word choices to be more useful to you.After using iOS 17 […]