iPad & iPhone User

Momentous news from the US, where Apple has reportedly agreed to pay between $310m and $500m to millions of customers affected by the so-called Batterygate iPhone problem. Class-action lawsuits in the US accused Apple of deliberately slowing down old

Apple has announced that it miss its forecasted revenue guidance for the second fiscal quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic. The company had projected revenue for the quarter between $63 and $67 billion, and gross margin between 38 and 39

March is often the time that Apple will make its first big announcements of the year, but they tend to be less cookie-cutter than WWDC or Apple’s annual September shindig. In 2019, we got a Services-focused event that introduced Apple Arcade, Apple C

With iPadOS 13, Apple made it easier to take the iPad seriously as a laptop replacement. Suddenly, that ‘What’s a computer’ ad didn’t sound quite as wacky as it did the year before. But Apple could do a little better. iPadOS 13 revealed an Apple tha

While last year’s annual spring Apple event was entirely devoted to services, this year’s show appears to be shaping up to bring a torrent of new hardware. We already knew about the new budget successor to the iPhone SE (which may be called the iPhon

Once upon a time, and not very long ago at that, you could use a Magic Mouse 2 with an iPad so long as you were running iPadOS 13. It worked well enough – for a while, anyway. But lately readers have been telling me that their Magic Mouse 2 no longer

With three months to go before the fireworks of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, the dribs and drabs of the company’s plans for this year’s big announcements are shaping up inside of Cupertino, and inevitably, word of one or two of thos

If there’s one Android feature iPhone users have universally longed to have, it’s the ability to pick new default apps. On iOS, it’s Apple’s way or the highway when it comes to apps like Safari and Mail, but a new report from Bloomberg offers hope th

While Apple’s iOS system is pretty secure, there are ways to make sure your iPhone is as safe from hackers as it can be. If you have concerns about the safety of your private data, sensitive information including website logins, email addresses, text

Some people think iPhones never get viruses; in fact they do – but it’s very rare. Rather than an a virus, it’s more likely that you’re seeing a misbehaving advert in an app you use regularly, triggering behaviour that is intended to convince you tha

A password manager can make life a great deal easier. Rather than having to remember increasingly complex login details for a myriad of apps and sites, you simply use one solitary password to access the manager app itself, which then takes care of th

Millions of users have their online accounts compromised every day. Password lists are traded on the dark web, and bad actors use automated processes to try them against lots of accounts and services. Sophisticated phishing attacks attempt to trick y

Buckle up, because we’re poised for another battle on digital security. The FBI has reputedly asked for Apple’s help unlocking phones belonging of the alleged shooter from the Pensacola air base incident last year. Apple, for its part, claims it has

Facebook, Microsoft and Google have now cancelled major conferences in the face of the spread of the coronavirus. Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, usually takes place in early June – and all eyes will now turn to Apple to see how the compan

Qualcomm’s latest 5G modem isn’t the leap that the X55 was last year, but it might be more important. While the Snapdragon X60 5G Modem-RF System touts a slew of technical and practical enhancements to take full advantage of the next-generation netwo

Apple’s big push into services this year was doomed for disaster – at least if you considered Apple News+ representative of what was to come back in March 2019. Many of the problems I hated back then remain central to the experience: the mishmash of

I‘ve spent the past week wearing Apple’s new AirPods Pro. Not a week straight, I mean, but pretty consistently in all the places where I would usually use one of my other myriad sets of headphones. In looking at the AirPods Pro as a product, I think

When I first read the report in The Information last month fave.co/2VXgwpl that Apple was developing a Smart Keyboard Folio with a trackpad, I was intrigued. It’s been a while since there was an iPad rumour of any substance, and with a refresh suppos