Category: Apple

Brian Stucki:

Text replacement syncing is completely broken. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it will only sync back old snippets that you have deleted. Sometimes the sync will work one direction, but not the other. Every time I ask about this on Twitter, it brings a strong response of similar experiences.

Even though I know it’s broken, I decided to get scientific about it.

Two things: First, this is incredible work; click through and see all the work that went into this. Second, Apple really should fix this feature.

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The Mac has had a stressful time over the past few years.

The professional portion of its user base has been wondering about the future as the Mac Pro grew older and less relevant and notebooks got thinner and lighter.

However, as 2017 unfolded, the company has made a routine out of voicing its love and commitment for the Mac. The iMac Pro and the future-but-not-here-quite-yet-and-oh-God-please-have-card-slots Mac Pro that Casey Liss is super excited about are both part of that message.

I’d argue that the newest release of macOS is part of it, too.

As he was introducing High Sierra and making yet another weed joke at this year’s WWDC, Apple software boss and international Dad Model Craig Federighi said:

We wanted to spend this year perfecting [the Mac].

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High Sierra is all about deep technologies that provide a powerful platform for future innovations on the Mac.

And we couldn’t help ourselves, so we also added some refinements.

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After setting up my new Apple Watch today, I was greeted by this message on my fully-updated iMac, running macOS 10.12.6:

Auto Unlock does work with my Series 3 Watch on my MacBook Pro running High Sierra.

Perhaps the updated hardware in the new Apple Watch makes this all more complicated, and wasn’t able to update Sierra to support things correctly.

With High Sierra due out Monday, I have to guess that LTE Watches won’t ever unlock Sierra machines.

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Buzzfeed has posted a great video looking behind the scenes at how Apple prepares for an iPhone launch. It’s fascinating and a rare look behind the curtain.

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Apple has published a new support page explaining the ins and outs of these updated standards in the iTunes Store:

You can buy or rent movies from the iTunes Store in high-definition (HD) or 4K resolution formats. These videos might also feature high dynamic range (HDR) or Dolby Vision.

When you buy or rent a movie from the iTunes Store, it automatically plays in the highest-quality format available for the device on which you’re watching it.

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If I wasn’t already Mayor of Dongletown with my HyperDrive, I’d be all over this.

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Apple Watch Series 3 reviews are in and it’s not great news for those of us who have been excited about (and preordered) LTE models.

The promise of this product is clear. Leave your iPhone behind, but still be accessible, as John Gruber writes:

Apple turned Apple Watch into a goddamn cell phone, without making the device thicker or heavier, and it still lasts all day.

That promise hasn’t quite been met, as Lauren Goode writes. Her first review unit behaved so erratically, Apple replaced it:

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Federico Vitcci has done it again:

With iOS 11, Apple’s iPad vision feels resolute again. Multitasking is blending with multitouch, giving drag and drop a new purpose; the Mac’s best features – from file management to the dock – have been rethought, simplified, and extended specifically for iOS. The iPad’s mission is to reimagine the very concept of a portable computer by empowering a new generation of users to do their best work wherever they are, whenever they want.

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Lance Ulanoff at Mashable sat down with Phil Schiller and Johny Srouji to discuss Apple’s new chip that powers the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. It’s a great read, and shows just how far in advance the company is working to ship products like these new phones.

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Apple PR, in a quote to David Pogue:

People were handling the device for stage demo ahead of time and didn’t realize Face ID was trying to authenticate their face. After failing a number of times, because they weren’t Craig, the iPhone did what it was designed to do, which was to require his passcode.

Told you it was something silly.

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Face ID is made possible by a whole range of technology that Apple packed into the notch that defines the look of the iPhone X:

Face ID, like Touch ID before it, stores its information in the device’s Secure Enclave. It is never synced to iCloud servers or included in iOS backups.

Until last year, Touch ID was an iOS-only affair, but that changed with the Touch Bar, which brought a Touch ID sensor to the Mac for the first time.

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Alex Guyot has a great, in-depth overview of all three new iPhones over on MacStories.

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