Apple News and iPhone Rumors Blog

Since its inception, Tesla has promised that a $35,000 Model 3 would eventually become available sometime in the future. That time is now. Elon Musk announced on February 28 that Tesla will sell standard trim Model 3 sedans starting at $35,000. The company has been holding off on launching... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Cold temperatures may be the bane of foldable smartphones, since OLED panels can get brittle in cooler weather. But Apple has a solution. A patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday suggests that Apple is exploring ways to mitigate the possibility of... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #News

Apple has registered two new iPad models with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), suggesting that an Apple tablet refresh may be imminent. The regulatory filings were first spotted by MySmartPrice, who noticed model numbers for currently unreleased iPad models pop up on the BIS website:... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPad, #Rumors

The Apple Watch has long been known to be the smartwatch market dominator. Now, the latest research shows just how much of a lead it has. Apple reportedly shipped 9.2 million Apple Watch models during the last quarter of 2018, according to the latest data from Strategy Analytics.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleWatch, #News

If you’ve been using your Apple devices to consume more and more content, you may be wondering whether or not it’s a good idea to buy an Apple TV this year. An Apple TV does make it much easier to watch iTunes content on your TV, but there are a few good reasons to wait.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleTV, #Gallery, #News

Apple has been building a reputation for taking a very hardline stance to user privacy, and while the company still has its occasional setbacks, particularly in what manages to make it onto the App Store, it also pulls no punches when it comes to ensuring that anything that ends up on its... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

The tech industry has been abuzz after Samsung debuted its first foldable smartphone earlier this month, leading to the usual speculation and suggestions that Apple should do the same or risk falling behind the curve on innovation. Even legendary Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently told... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone

A month after news broke that Apple would be cutting 200 jobs from Project Titan, the company has now confirmed the layoffs to the California government. Apple disclosed the layoffs in a letter to the California Employment Development Department, as reported by The San Francisco Chronicle.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Smartphones emit radiation, and that simple fact is really concerning to a lot of people. Of course, that’s completely understandable. But the fact of the matter is that cancer-causing smartphones is a myth. There’s a lot of bad science and fear-mongering across the web... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery

Sophisticated iPhone hacking tools meant only for law enforcement are popping up on eBay for as low as $100, according to a new report. Some of the tools available for sale on the retail site include devices made by Cellebrite, an Israeli data extraction company largely rumored to be the... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

T-Mobile says it will begin launching its 5G U.S. network in the first half of the year — and it might not cost any more than currently available plans. The news comes in the wake of rumors that T-Mobile may be delaying the launch of its first 5G networks until the second half of 2019.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on one of the longstanding problems of online retail: fake reviews. On Tuesday, the FTC announced that it has brought its first ever successful case against fraudulent and paid-for reviews on retail sites. More specifically, it took action... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News

The struggle between law enforcement entities and technology companies over user data privacy is intensifying. Across the globe, technology firms are being faced with increased government efforts to create policies and pass legislation that make it easier to access user data, according to... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

While Apple has caught criticism lately for stalling in the product innovation category, the truth is that Apple actually has a lot of new and exciting products in the pipeline (they just aren’t quite ready yet). Some of these projects are bonkers, like an Apple-branded smart car and... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #Rumors

Google has denied recent rumours that Apple Music may be coming to its Google Home devices, following a reference to Apple Music found in its Home iOS app earlier this week. That discovery led to logical speculation that the streaming music service could be expanding into Google’s Home... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about “5G” recently — it’s the latest buzzword in the wireless industry as carriers begin to roll out the new technology and mobile phone makers clamour to promote new devices that support it. Despite this, however, most... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

After spending a decade transforming the smartphone industry and inventing the tablet market, Apple has been expanding its horizons for the next big transformative technologies. Rumours have abounded for years about a “secret-but-not-so-secret” car project that will likely arrive by... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Rumors

Google is a powerful tool that lets almost anyone with an internet connection access what’s essentially the entirety of human knowledge. But there’s actually more to Google searches than what you see at first glance. Usually, Google is just the curator of other websites,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery

Smartphone users demand great battery life from their devices, but the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop takes that idea to another level entirely. You see, this “smartphone” packs a ridiculous 18,000mAh battery. Smartphone is in quotations in the previous sentence because it may be... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech

Apple’s international panel of judges has officially named the winners of the company’s Shot on iPhone Challenge. The top 10 winning photos were captured on a range of iPhone models (even older ones) by users spread across the globe. The Cupertino tech giant will highlight the... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #iPhone, #News

Google may just have leaked that Apple Music support is coming to its Google Home ecosystem of devices. More specifically, the Mountain View tech giant made a small change tucked away in the latest update to its Google Home iOS app. First spotted by a MacRumors reader, the update could hint... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Rumors

Samsung broke new ground with the announcement of the first foldable smartphone from a major manufacturer: the Galaxy Fold. As a concept, the Galaxy Fold is a gutsy, innovative, and just-plain-cool device. But as a consumer product, in its current form, it makes absolutely zero sense. For... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Last year, Apple surprised many in the financial industry when it entered into a partnership with Goldman Sachs. The behemoth Wall Street investment giant has traditionally been better known for catering to billionaire stock brokers and investment bankers than consumer financing, making it a... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

The Apple Watch has broken new ground in health and fitness over the years, and particularly in the area of heart health, where the wearable has been repeatedly credited with actually saving lives, most commonly by early detection of potentially serious medical conditions such as atrial... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #AppleWatch, #Rumors

Code found in the iOS 12.2 beta last week hinted that Apple may be working to tweak the options available to developers for handling in-app subscriptions, with a new API that would allow developers to offer discounts and other incentives to encourage users to renew their existing subscriptions,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

If you use the internet at all, there’s undoubtedly at least one company making money off of your data. Virtually every thing you do online is probably making some company make money. Shouldn’t you get paid for it? That’s the concept behind the so-called data dividend.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News

Your GPS devices may stop working this coming April 6 because the date will roll back to zero. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the situation is basically the same as the “millennium bug” behind the infamous Y2K scare. Thankfully, no one is hyping the GPS bug to an... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News

Shortcuts, which debuted way back in June 2018, is arguably one of the best things to happen to iOS and Siri in a long time. That’s why it’s a shame more people aren’t using it. For whatever reason, Shortcuts didn’t blow up the way many people expected it to. Maybe... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #iOS12, #News

Since the iPhone debuted in 2008, the smartphone has been Apple’s flagship product. The company has been all-iPhone, all the time. But that status quo doesn’t appear to be all that sustainable, based on current conditions. And we’re already seeing the first signs of an... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #Rumors

Like Steve Jobs before him, Apple CEO Tim Cook has a publicly listed e-mail address which receives thousands of messages each day. While every once in a while, a lucky Apple fan may actually receive a response from Apple’s Chief Executive, many of the emails that land in the seemingly... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple News has surged in popularity over the past year, but while many publishers are finding that traffic from the service is surpassing that from giants like Facebook and Google, they’re still struggling to figure out how to best make money from it. In an interview with Digiday,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Facebook has been at the centre of so many privacy controversies over the years that nobody should have any reason to believe that what they do on the social media network, or through any of its apps, is in any way private. What’s more surprising, however, is that despite Apple’s... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Have you ever wished that you could run Windows 95 on your iPhone? No? Well, a Swedish developer made that idea a reality anyway. This is, of course, assuming that you know what Windows 95 is. Basically, it was the operating system many of us used back in the 90s — long before iOS and... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #iPhone, #News

MacBooks are high-end computers that generally “just work.” However, over time, users might begin to notice their laptop starting to slow down, function oddly, or maybe exhibit battery drainage. Luckily, there’s a simple trick (most MacBook users have never tried) that can... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #HowTo, #Mac

Verizon is preparing a 30-city rollout of its true 5G service in the United States by the end of 2019, according to a new report. The carriers’ CEO, Hans Vestberg, revealed the launch in an investors’ meeting on Friday morning, according to The Verge. And while he confirmed that... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News

Apple’s annual iPhone releases typically come in two flavors. There are the groundbreaking years, and then there are “S” years that only see routine and incremental upgrades. Just think of the iPhone 6s’ release compared to the iPhone X. It’s hard to say whether... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #iPhone, #Rumors

The Eastern District of Texas has become a happy hunting ground for patent trolls over the years, and it appears that Apple may have finally decided that it’s had enough of giving them the home field advantage in the many patent fights that the company finds itself the target... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Rumors

Apple’s plans to transition its Mac lineup to its own in-house ARM chips as soon as next year appears to be on track, according to industry insiders, although it’s still unclear how smooth the changeover will be. A new report from Axios yesterday added weight to the rumours that... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #Rumors

Ever since it was revealed earlier this year that Apple would miss its revenue guideline due largely to declining iPhone sales in China, Apple has been looking for ways to increase the demand for its newest iPhone models among Chinese consumers. Earlier this month, it was reported that Apple... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

We know that a modular Mac Pro is coming, but we don’t know what it could look like. But now, a new report is possibly shedding a bit more light on its design. YouTube channel Tailosive Tech has released a new video with a slew of alleged details about the upcoming Mac Pro refresh,... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #Rumors

It isn’t clear whether an “Apple Car” is actually coming. But if or when it does, the Apple Car may actually end up being a van. That’s right. Apple has reportedly designed its own self-driving electric van, sources familiar with the vehicle’s development told... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Rumors

For the most part, AirPods just work. In fact, they’re specifically designed to connect and function seamlessly with other Apple products. But, as with any device, you may run into bugs or other issues that prevent AirPods from working properly. As an example, some users report that... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #HowTo

Samsung unveiled a handful of new devices at its Unpacked event on Wednesday. While the company broke some new ground, it also shamelessly took a cue from Apple. In addition to the premium Galaxy S10 devices, Samsung also debuted the Galaxy S10e. It’s a device that compromises on... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #iPhone, #iPhoneXR, #News

Samsung’s Unpacked event made quite the splash in San Francisco, where the company introduced an array of new devices they’ll be releasing over the course of the year. There were expected reveals like the latest versions of their flagship smartphones, as well as some... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Gallery, #News

It’s not big news that Apple’s iPhone has been suffering declining sales over the past few months, and although the trio of 2018 iPhone X-series models are still going strong, numerous analysts have estimated that Apple’s growth in the smartphone market is rapidly declining.... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

Apple is on track for its plans to release a credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs this year, a move that was reported last spring after Apple entered into a financing partnership with the banking and investment group. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company plans... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

The fact that Apple has ambitions for a self-driving car may be the company’s worst-kept secret, but while it’s clear Apple is working on something relative to autonomous vehicles, conflicting rumours and numerous changes in direction over the years have often made it difficult for... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #News

When John Pfaff found a Apple IIe computer that had been sitting in his parents’ attic for 30 years, he didn’t expect it to still be in working order. But it was. What followed was undoubtedly a nostalgia trip for Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University. And if you had an Apple... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #News

Apple is considering giving a preview of its upcoming modular Mac Pro at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to a new report. That particular tidbit was buried in a Bloomberg report that was otherwise focused on a rumored combined App Store for Mac and iOS apps (an... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #Mac, #News

The first truly foldable flagship is finally here. Samsung officially on Wednesday announced its premium folding smartphone: the Galaxy Fold. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, which the company showed off at its Unpacked event in San Francisco, is a device with a 4.6-inch display when folded. But... View on iDropNews - Apple Rumors #FastTech, #News