There are other ways to change your iPhone screen brightness, but this one uses a triple-tap on the home button (via Settings > General > Accessibility > Zoom) to toggle between day and night brightness settings.
Even if you have no need for this particular tweak, worth watching, since you can use this approach to tie other settings to the triple click.
[VIDEO] I have to say, I was really surprised by the results here. I thought it would be much closer.
Niel Cybart does a solid job laying out the holes in the smart phone market, figuring out how Apple’s potential 4″ iPhone would help in expanding market share. Lots of great analysis here.
Read through it, then tuck this one away.
Quartz, writing about a black box you connect to a cracked open iPhone:
The hacking equipment is called IP Box, and can be found on eBay for about $200. It’s a black box that connects to an iPhone and systematically runs through every possible PIN combination to unlock it.
Can this be used to break into the San Bernardino iPhone 5c? It is running iOS 8.1.2. Jury still out on whether this technique will work on that particular version of iOS. Fascinating stuff.
Graham Spencer, writing for MacStories:
Earlier this year we set out to get a better understanding of what developers think about App Review. We wanted to hear about their positive and negative experiences with App Review, and find out how App Review could be improved. It is hard to ignore from the results we got, from a survey of 172 developers, that beneath the surface there is a simmering frustration relating to numerous aspects of App Review.
Great, long read.
Walt Mossberg, writing for Re/code:
Unlike with the iPhone hardware itself, Apple does retain the ability to decrypt most of what’s in these backups. And the company does on occasion turn their contents over to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies when a proper legal warrant or court order is presented.
The Secure Enclave is a mechanism inside your iPhone and Apple Watch, walled off from the rest of iOS, that holds the key to verifying your identity. Read the post for a short explanation of this mechanism by Apple and a link to an excellent, more detailed explanation from Mike Ash.
Really interesting explanation of the new Night Shift feature: how it works and why it’s valuable.
Mark Cuban praises Apple, brings up some interesting points.
Christian Zibreg, writing for iDownloadBlog, digs into the details of your iOS device’s ‘other’ storage.
Don’t do this.
The iPhone is one of the most successful products in history. Hard not to judge the rest of Apple’s products, from now through forever, through that lens.
If you have some videos in your Messages timeline, this is a nice way to free up space.
A new bill trying to stop the madness, introduced by someone with Computer Science and Law degrees.
The Norwegian police may have waited just a touch too long to make this decision.
Some numbers on device addiction.
Christian Zibreg, writing for iDownloadBlog, lays out a metric ton of iPhone/iPad storage saving tips.
MixPanel lays out the adoption numbers for the various iPhone models. There are still plenty of smaller screen iPhones out there, just ready for upgrades.
Doomed.
Joe Belfiore tweeted from his iPhone. Odd choice.
Neil Cybart makes the case that Apple has to plan for iPhone irrelevance.
Horace Dediu’s interesting take on Apple entering the car market, comparing that risk to the risk Apple took entering the smart phone market.
This audio interview gives you a chance to get to know Jeff Williams. He’s a well-spoken advocate for Apple’s health care efforts.
Long story short, there’s a setting in Messages called Raise to Listen that will turn on recording when you raise your phone to your ear. Read the post if you are interested in how all this works. I found it fascinating.
Some tantalizing opportunities to bridge the deep thinking power of Watson through the net and iPhone, all the way to the Apple Watch on your wrist.
Damn. That is really cool. While this is not really a practical substitute for a lightweight scale, if you’ve got a new iPhone, this is definitely worth trying.
The default iPhone backgrounds for iOS 9 are actual pictures from Mars. Read on for the details.
Rene Ritchie, writing for iMore, explains why Apple made the design decisions they did, keeping the iPhone light rather than adding more battery. Spot on.
Poison Maps is an outstanding mapping app, based on the OpenStreetMap database, with over 20 millions points of interest (POI, which is the POI in POIson). More importantly, it uses a quite clever one finger zoom/pan gesture that Apple should take a look at. There’s a video embedded in the post that shows the gesture in action.