Among the popular apps for your iPhone these days, WhatsApp has reached the 1 billion mark. Just like any messaging app, WhatsApp allows you to share text messages, send or receive photos, voice messages, and videos. You can also place voice calls among …
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WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, but user data may still be vulnerable
While WhatsApp did acknowledge that Apple and Google both have their own stringent safety … like fighting spam across apps, making product suggestions, and showing relevant offers and ads on Facebook.” It further goes on to say, “Facebook family of …
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‘Planet of the Apps’ was a successful disaster
If you missed it, don’t stress. It’s just a pretty undramatic, very-edited reality show about dozens of entrepreneurs, people who were trying to make careers off a business based around an app. SEE ALSO: Apple’s Instagram account reeks of desperation …
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North Bay teen spends summer teaching locals coding, developing for Apple
Moore says they started with some Lego kits that could be created and programmed using an iPad app. He says this process helped teach students basic programming skills in a simple, but rigid way. The students caught on quickly, and many of the older kids …
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Apple just shared iOS 11 beta 7 to developers
Don’t forget that the beta program is primarily targeted at developers working on app updates. I still wouldn’t recommend installing iOS 11 on the iPhone you use every day. The changes in iOS 11 will take some time to pay off for your iPhone anyway.
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New Apple App Store Regulation Causes Concern for Event App Buyers
“4.2.6 Apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service will be rejected.” This line of Apple’s new App Store Review Guidelines is causing a lot of speculation about how it will be applied to event apps. The goal of the 4.2.6 is …
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Apple updates Safari Extensions webpage with focus on Mac App Store
Along with releasing beta updates for iOS, macOS, and tvOS today, Apple has updated its Safari Extensions webpage. The redesign includes a prominent link to the extensions available in the Mac App Store, and also features the ability to install extensions …
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‘Planet of the Apps’ wasn’t a great show, but it was still a success for Apple
Planet of the Apps was a decent 10-episode series, but it’s not something that viewers will want to think about for hours like Netflix’s House of Cards or talk about with friends like Hulu’s The Handmaid Tale. It’s just a pretty undramatic, very-edited …
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All the features in Apple Maps that’ll make you not hate it
Apple Maps isn’t the first app most people are clamoring for when they’re lost on a road trip. It’s actually one of the first apps I deleted when iOS finally let you get rid of native iPhone apps. SEE ALSO: GBoard now supports YouTube and Google Maps for …
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THE END OF APPS: How Apple, Facebook, and Google are ushering in the next evolution of app experiences, and what that means for businesses
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. In 2009, Apple coined the phrase “there’s an app for that,” and within six years, its prophecy …
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Best podcast apps for iPhone & iPad
The humble podcast has come a long way since the early days of online radio shows, when people would record themselves in their bedrooms using cheap fuzzy microphones. As the popularity of podcasts increases year on year thanks to shows like Serial, we’re …
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Is the $35 Chromecast a viable Apple TV alternative for iPhone users?
Apple believes that apps are the future of television, and maybe they’re right: The Apple TV’s selection of apps and games is ever expanding, and you can tap into a wide array of streaming services and traditional network apps with ease. It makes …
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Apple-Owned Workflow App Updated With a Long List of Bug Fixes
… automation app that Apple purchased back in March of this year, was today updated to version 1.7.5, introducing a long list of bug fixes. There are fixes for a range of third-party apps like Trello, Google, Dropbox, and Evernote, along with updates to …
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Apple Updates Workflow App With Numerous Bug Fixes
Passing values like “yes” or “true” should result in the switch being turned on, but instead resulted in the switch being turned off. Other bug fixes and minor additions You can download Workflow from the App Store for free.
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Forget iOS 11 – WhatsApp may beat Apple by releasing this big new feature first
WhatsApp Payments may even come out before Apple Pay’s take wireless bank transfers … The hugely-successful chat app was originally launched in 2009 by ex-Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum. The service has gone from strength to strength …
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We Need to Talk About the iPad Pro’s App Problem
But the iPad Pro is different, right? Apple has spent nearly a decade building up a rich library of apps, and since the iPad Pro also runs iOS, it’s compatible with all of them. So what makes the iPad Pro worthy of the Pro moniker? After all, the MacBook …
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Latest iOS 11 beta contains new Maps icon featuring Apple Park, updated App Store icon
A corner of Apple’s circular office building can be seen in the top-right corner of the icon. First-party app icon updates are relatively rare for Apple, though the company consistently releases major software revisions with each new version of iOS.
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