Among its new gestures: You now need to swipe upward to get back to the home screen. You swipe downward from the upper-right corner to access Control Center. For Siri, you press and hold the phone’s side button. For the… Read More ›
iPhone
Who do you trust?
Really not sure I trust Carphone Warehouse to deliver even though on the order it said the following which looked good, but the ‘from’ word is strangely placed- And then it said this- To me, there is a sense that… Read More ›
Easy to steal iPhone passwords
He says it’s possible for criminals to programme apps to run certain code only after Apple has approved it for a spot in the App Store, and that the scheme works because iOS has “trained” users to automatically enter their… Read More ›
iPhone 8 photo quality
Over the last week I’ve been away in the Bahamas, putting the iPhone 8 Plus camera through its paces. Often on trips like this, I take my DSLR in case I end up using any pictures for the newspaper, but… Read More ›
Portrait Lighting
Such a clever feature.
The iPhone SE.X
I was playing around with my iPhone 7 yesterday and my colleague at work remarked on the difference in size to his iPhone SE. It was only when I placed his SE on top of my 7 that I realised… Read More ›
The truth about whether Apple really does slow down old phones
The truth is far more complicated, and doesn’t involved Apple slowing down phones to try and make you buy new ones. The reason people think so is probably the result of a number of things: the fact that Apple releases… Read More ›
iPhone 8 “Are you insane?!?” and The Red Dot
I have been flip flopping around the iPhone 8 for a little while and after spending some time with it, not much was needed, I came to the conclusion that 99% of people should avoid it. While inspecting the iPhone… Read More ›
Glass backs
Why oh why do the iPhones 8 have glass backs?
farewell 32-bit iOS apps…
Well, we knew this day was coming… with the release of iOS11, Apple is dropping support for 32-bit apps. I can’t blame them, entirely – eventually a company should probably decide to drop the technical weight of supporting everything forever…. Read More ›
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