Apple News and iPhone Rumors Blog

Just over six-weeks after pre-orders initially opened up, Apple on Wednesday morning began shipping the first batch of its top-of-the-line 18-core iMac Pro, which should reportedly start showing up on customers’ doorsteps by next Tuesday, February 6, MacRumors confirmed. According to... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #News

Beats By Dre has once again teamed up with lifestyle brand Undefeated with the release of new limited edition versions of the Beats Pill+ portable speaker and the BeatsX earphones. Both limited edition products sport Undefeated’s signature tiger camouflage pattern in olive, tan and black. The A... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Between the barrage of reports about dwindling sales and production cuts, it would appear that Apple is having some trouble selling its thousand-dollar iPhone X. As you’ll recall, in the months leading up to its November 3 launch, the company’s first Face ID & OLED equipped... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #News

Samsung has recently overtaken Intel as the world’s largest chip manufacturer, but the South Korean tech giant might have broader ambitions: recent reports suggest that it’s edging its way into the cryptocurrency mining industry, too. Samsung has confirmed that it has begun manufacturing App... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Apple this week seems to be taking additional steps to mitigate the so-called “Batterygate” controversy that followed its admittal of throttling older iPhones. Battery Reservations Since the iOS device throttling mechanism only kicks in when an iPhone’s battery is aging or degraded, the easiest w... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #News

February 9th is coming and you know what that means: HomePod is just around the corner. Apple’s latest music gadget is an incredibly small, six-inch-tall speaker with big sound. It boasts a seven-tweeter array and a high-excursion woofer; it also dynamically adapts to the room it’s in, using wha... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Steve Jobs, Apple’s late co-founder and former CEO, will forever be known as one of the most influential figures of our time. In his role as the head boss at Apple, Inc., Jobs was a leader, an innovator and saw the company he founded through multiple periods of trial, uncertainty, and, u... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery

Back in May, 2015, Apple filed a patent with the European Patent Office (EPO) covering a ‘multimedia-centric video headset’ – a device which, via a connected iPhone or iPad, was designed to provide users with a realistic viewing experience of live events. Nearly three-years after it’s appli... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

American broadcaster ABC News has confirmed that it’s experienced significant audience growth since joining Apple News, reports Digiday UK. But it’s calling on Apple to implement more customizable push notifications. The firm said that since enabling Apple News alerts, its added over 400,000 sub... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Numerous iPhone X owners have recently discovered they can no longer approve Family Sharing purchases using biometrics. While it’s still possible to approve purchases using Touch ID on other devices, Face ID doesn’t appear to be supported. This means Family Sharing requests for... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #iPhoneX, #News

Apple’s new iPhone X is not doing as well as the company had hoped. Recent reports suggest that demand for the device is weak, and tapering off. It seems as if the so-called “supercycle” never happened. That might be due to its high price point relative to its set of features, among o... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, isn’t so sure he can believe Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla. While Wozniak says he still loves his Tesla, he also says he no longer “believe[s] anything Elon Musk or Tesla says.” Ouch! According to CNBC these comments were made Sunday, during a Q&A ses... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

WhatsApp now supports Apple CarPlay – once the app has been updated to its latest version (2.18.20) users will see it appear automatically in their vehicle’s CarPlay apps. The number of unread messages will appear as a badge, Siri will be able to read unread messages, and users will... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Apps

Apple is delaying certain planned features for its 2018 operating systems to focus on performance and quality improvements, according to a pair of new reports. Reportedly, Apple software chief Craig Federighi announced the revised plan to employees at a closed meeting earlier this month,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

Amid the spate of recent reports suggesting iPhone X demand has tapered off, a new Wall Street Journal report not only appears to corroborate much of what we already know, but offers up a bit of additional insight into how badly Apple has been affected from a financial standpoint thus far. Since ... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AAPL, #iPhone, #iPhoneX, #News

The U.S. government is investigating whether or not Apple broke federal laws with a software update last year that throttled older iPhones. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have reportedly launched a probe that will determine whether the Cupertino tech... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #News

During the early morning hours of Jan. 31, an extremely rare celestial event will take place — and it’s probably a once-in-a-lifetime event. “Super blue blood moon” may sound like a straight-to-VHS werewolf film or an apocalyptic omen, but it’s actually what many are calling the incredibly rare p... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Austrian semiconductor company AMS has posted impressive 2017 revenue statistics thanks to growing demand for its chips from phone makers.    AMS specialises in creating optical sensors that alter the brightness of smartphone screens, also known as ambient light sensors. This technology is u... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple is developing as many as three new Mac computers, each of which will feature secondary co-processors similar to the company’s custom designed T-series chip, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported this morning. Details about the models and their specifications are incredibly scant; they w... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #Rumors

President Donald Trump’s national security team is considering building a government-owned 5G network to counter the threat of Chinese spying, according to a new report. Details of the tentative plans were first published by Axios, which obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation reportedly p... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has already sold $5 million worth of its flamethrowers, based on the company’s current pre-order estimates. Let’s back up a bit. The Boring Company is an Elon Musk-headed company that, once upon a time, was focused on digging massive holes for vast underground fre... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

If you’ve followed Apple for any amount of time, you probably know that it’s difficult to score one of the company’s new products shortly after they launch. This does not seem to be the case for HomePod however.. Apple’s first smart home speaker officially became available for pre-order last Frid... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

The stakes were (and continue to be) high for Apple’s high-end iPhone X. A barrage of reports have converged on the bittersweet reality that demand for its first thousand-dollar iPhone flagship may be growing tepid.. Those analyses were corroborated this morning in a fresh report from the w... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AAPL, #iPhone, #News

Well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has several new predictions about this year’s iPhone lineup. In a research note distributed to KGI’s clients over the weekend, Kuo forecasted details for the rumored iPhone X Plus, as well as rebutted several rumors about the e... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

watchOS 4.3 has been available as a public beta for the past few days, but the wider masses will soon be able to access it; and the update brings some exciting features. One of the most popular features of previous versions of the OS was the ability to control speakers and music saved on your... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleWatch, #News

Apple is implementing a new anti-phishing Privacy icon in its upcoming iOS 11.3 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 operating systems. But other than protecting user’s privacy, the icon also has a hidden and quirky secret. Word of the Privacy icon’s existence first surfaced earlier this week, when bet... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple is stepping up its Animoji game with the release of two star-studded ad spots featuring Migos and Childish Gambino. The Animoji commercials, which Apple shared to its YouTube page on Friday, use the “Animoji karaoke” format that gained popularity after the release of the iPhone X. The two a... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhoneX, #News

While it’s still very early on and plans are always subject to change, mumblings from the rumor mill have up until this point converged around the prospect of Apple readying three new iPhone models for a fall, 2018 debut: A refreshed, 5.8-inch iPhone X successor with OLED display and Face ID A 6... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

Apple has published its environmental report for HomePod, detailing, among other things, the product’s sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmental impact. The results? HomePod is, like many of Apple’s products and services, quite environmentally friendly for a tech product. For example, ... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple has ordered a straight-to-series TV drama created by filmmaker Damien Chazelle, known for award-winning films La La Land and Whiplash. While Chazelle will reportedly write and direct every episode of the new TV series, other details about the show — like its plot and cast — are being kept s... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleTV, #News

At one point or another odds are you forgot a password and were unable to login to an online service. Don’t worry, we’ve all done it. But the hassle of resetting a forgotten password can be pretty frustrating. Just coming up with a new password takes a lot of work. Most sites require a mix ... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #HowTo

Apple’s rumored next-generation iPhone SE could arrive in time for summer this year, according to one analyst’s prediction. In that forecast, the iPhone is specifically referred to as device tailor-made for the “entry-level sector.” The so-called iPhone SE 2 would feature a glass back and wirele... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

Apple on Friday began accepting preorders for its long delayed HomePod accessory. The company’s first-ever Siri-enabled smart speaker device will officially begin shipping to early buyers on Friday, February 9, the company says. Though it’s firmly positioned as a high-end audio device, Apple’s Ho... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple has confirmed it’ll release an update that’ll give iPhone users the ability to disable the “battery saver” functionality, which is thought to slow down older models. According to a report from the BBC, the update will be available for owners of the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, SE, 7 and 7... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iOS11, #News

Samsung this week confirmed that its Galaxy S9 flagship will be unveiled on February 25, 2018. In a Tweet published to the official Samsung Mobile Twitter account, the South Korean company not only confirmed the date and timing of its spring, 2018 ‘Unpacked’ event, but it went on to tease some of... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

It’s almost the end of the month, and among other things, that means that Netflix is going to add a slew of new titles to its streaming library. The list is pretty impressive, and it includes both a slew of Netflix originals and some old favorites in a wide range of genres Fans of Quentin T... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Outside of Charleston, West Virginia police are actively searching for a suspect that shot a man who was ultimately saved by his iPhone. Anthony Kaufman planned to sell a $1,200 custom computer in the parking lot of Lakewood Elementary School in St. Albans at 10:40 p.m. on Wednesday. Beforehand,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone7, #News

Apple has expanded its number of self-driving cars in California in an effort to catch up to its competition, according to a new report. The Cupertino tech giant’s fleet has gone from just three vehicles last April, to 27 as of early 2018, according to DMV records cited in a Bloomberg report on T... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Along with the features previewed yesterday as part of its upcoming iOS 11.3 software update, it was discovered that Apple [curiously] dropped ‘i’ from the moniker of its popular ‘iBooks’ digital bookstore — ostensibly making ‘Books’ the new e-books storefront. The compa... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple on Thursday was awarded a patent that could hint at future control options for the Apple Watch’s Digital Crown, specifically the addition of a Force Touch-like control mechanism. The Digital Crown, of course, is the small wheel-like button on the side of Apple’s flagship wearable. Acc... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleWatch, #Rumors

Apple has confirmed it’s to open its first store in South Korea this weekend, giving Korean customers the ability to try products before buying. The store will open in Garosugil on Saturday at 10am, and Apple said it’ll bring its “products, in-store programming and services together for South Kor... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

A string of code buried within the first iOS 11.3 beta seems to corroborate previous rumors of a next-generation iPad Pro with slim bezels and Face ID. Specifically, there are strings in the beta that refer to a “modern iPad,” according to iHelpBR editor Filipe Espósito. That’s no... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPad, #Rumors

Admittedly, we spend a lot of time using the Internet — but how much of that time is actually spent on a laptop or desktop? It’s much less than you think: anymore, the people’s device of choice is actually a smartphone like an iPhone or a tablet like an iPad. As of 2016, Internet us... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iOS11

While the positive health benefits of living vegan are plentiful, it can be difficult at times to navigate certain aspects of the diet. Even simple tasks, like locating vegan restaurants, recipes, or determining if something is indeed vegan or not, can frustrate the determined among us. Luckily,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Apps

Researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience have officially cloned a [really cute] pair of long-tailed macaque monkeys, Reuters news reported on Wednesday. The scientific milestone was achieved, interestingly enough, using a decades-old technique known as somatic... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Apple is combating phishing on its operating systems with the planned addition of a small icon to identify first-party information requests. Basically, the company is introducing a new Privacy icon that will appear when Apple — rather than a malicious third-party — is asking for your login det... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iOS11, #iPhone, #News

Apple will soon begin its phase-out of 32-bit applications on Macs, beginning with the upcoming macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update, which is currently in its beta testing phase. After downloading and installing the first beta version of macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, users will be greeted with a... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #News

Apple’s new iPad Pro commercial seems to imagine a world where computers are obsolete — and, of course, it’s sparking quite a bit of anger. The ad spot seems innocuous enough at first glance. A young child spends her day hanging out with friends and working on school projects in a fairly hip Amer... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPad, #News

Apple took additional steps this week to protect Mac users from Meltdown and Spectre, two recently disclosed and serious security vulnerabilities. On Tuesday, alongside the rollout of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, Apple released two new security updates for older versions of the Mac operating... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #News

Apple on Wednesday previewed its upcoming iOS 11.3 software update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, showcasing a number of features including new Animoji characters, battery management tools, ARKit updates and more, coming later this spring. Press the Right Arrow to Browse 6 New Features Coming... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #iOS11, #News