Some thoughts on the latest iOS 9 adoption figures.
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Apple can’t decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters
Glenn Fleishman digs into the technology that makes iOS hard to crack, what elements are encrypted, beyond anyone’s reach.
Half court shot, Live Photo
Stephen Curry is a man of few words. He lets his graceful arcing shot do his speaking for him. That’s some Live Photo.
How to get a refund for an iPhone, iPad, or Mac app from Apple
Bookmark and pass along.
Lean lets you trim the Live from your Live Photos
Lean is a simple app that lets you scan through a list of your Live Photos, trim out the video, leave the stills, save you precious space on your iPhone.
Getting the most from your iPhone battery
Allyson Kazmucha, writing for The App Factor, lays out an excellent series of tips that will help extend your battery life.
Facebook, checking your battery, and a wish list item
Benjamin Mayo lays out the issues Facebook is now fixing, I talk you through checking your battery usage, and point out there’s no easy way to search iOS for specific Settings
The story behind that mysterious eye emoji in iOS
Wired lays out the details. Interesting how they figured this out.
Dialing a phone number with your Apple Watch, tell Siri who your spouse is
In this post, I tell you some ways to dial a number with your Apple Watch and show you how to tell Siri who your spouse is.
iOS 9 hits 61% adoption rate
Two things:
- iOS 9 hit an adoption rate of 61%
- iOS 8 or newer hit an adoption rate of 91%
All the new emoji
From Emojipedia, here are all the new emoji that shipped with iOS 9.1. Apple now has all the emoji.
How long my iPhone and Apple Watch updates took to install
There are updates available for iOS (9.1) and watchOS (2.0.1). I just got done installing both, timed the installs, figure that might be useful info to have. Read on for the numbers.
Some Facebook iPhone battery tips
Ally Kazmucha, writing for The App Factor, walks through the various settings that can impact Facebook’s drain on your iPhone battery.
Apple tells U.S. judge ‘impossible’ to unlock new iPhones
Nate Raymond, writing for Reuters:
Apple Inc told a U.S. judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be “impossible” with devices using its latest operating system, but the company has the “technical ability” to help law enforcement unlock older phones.
Magic Keyboard, the ultimate guide
Rene Ritchie, writing for iMore, pulled together a nice collection of details on Apple’s new Magic Keyboard.
Apple bans over 250 apps that secretly accessed users’ personal info
Nick Statt, writing for The Verge:
Apple today removed more than 250 apps from its App Store that were using software from a Chinese advertising company that secretly accessed and stored users’ personal information.
Read on for more detail.
When a dev dies, their apps should live on
If the developer of your favorite app stops paying for their developer account, when Apple cancels the account, do the apps immediately get pulled from the app store? Does Apple have a policy that covers this?
Updated list of iOS Safari content blockers
More work over the weekend, adding new Safari content blockers, updating the codes for each listing and the footnotes at the bottom of the list.
How to unenroll from Apple’s OS X or iOS beta program
Here’s how to unenroll from an iOS or OS X beta program. Read the post for reasons why.
Background data and battery usage of Facebook’s iOS app
Facebook. Grrr.
An iOS 9 Safari content blocker study
Carlos Oliveira pulled together a pretty thorough study, comparing a variety of Safari content blockers, 16 in all.
A list of all the other things iCloud syncs
Check out David Chartier’s list of things iCloud syncs between devices. Be sure to let him know if you notice anything missing from the list.
Battery life, load times, and actually giving a shit about your customers
Matt Galligan, writing for Medium, on Facebook being the primary point of battery drain on his brand new iPhone 6s Plus.
Sharing Live Photos with pretty much everyone
Some helpful tips on sharing Live Photos on iOS 9 devices and on social media.
Significant update to content blocker list
A while back, I started a master list of Safari content blockers (at least the ones I found). Over the weekend, Carlos Oliveira and I banged around a few ideas and Carlos edited the list, adding 2 codes to each entry. One code indicates whether a content blocker is free, the second code indicates whether the content blocker supports an editable white list (turn off blocking for specific sites).
Please take a look at the list, ping me if you spot any errors or missing blockers. The link remains the same.
Overcast 2.0 brings Smart Speed to streaming
If you listen to podcasts, read this review to learn why Overcast’s Smart Speed is such a killer feature.
Now there’s a Fantastical Apple Watch complication
I’ve been waiting for this one: A Fantastic complication for my Apple Watch. And a bunch of other new stuff, to boot.
On Apple’s Perceptio acquisition
The Perceptio acquisition is a big show of Apple’s commitment to privacy and, potentially, a huge step forward for the Photos app at the heart of your iOS device.
Apple’s official statement on the YiSpecter iOS malware
Earlier today, we posted about a report from Palo Alto Networks about YiSpector, iOS malware that was said to attack non-jailbroken iOS devices.
We reached out to Apple for comment. Read on for their response.
YiSpecter: New iOS malware attacks non-jailbroken devices
This has the potential to be a real mess, but the sense I get is that this is something Apple can detect and eliminate with more stringent review controls.