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Apple Broadcasts ‘Groundbreaking’ New Safety Protocol for iMessage

Apple in the present day introduced a brand new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage known as PQ3. Apple says this “groundbreaking” and “state-of-the-art” protocol gives “intensive defenses towards even extremely refined quantum assaults.” Apple believes the PQ3 protocol’s protections “surpass these in all different broadly deployed messaging apps,” based on its weblog publish:At present we’re saying…

Six Causes to Await Subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 17

Apple’s iPhone growth roadmap runs a number of years into the longer term and the corporate is frequently working with suppliers on a number of successive iPhone fashions concurrently, which is why we typically get rumored characteristic leaks thus far forward of launch. The iPhone 17 sequence isn’t any completely different, and already we’ve got some concept of what to anticipate from Apple’s 2025 smartphone lineup. If you happen to plan to skip…

iOS 17.4 Will Add These New Options to Your iPhone

Apple final month confirmed that iOS 17.4 might be launched in March, and the replace contains a number of new options and modifications for the iPhone. Key new options in iOS 17.4 embrace main App Retailer modifications within the EU and Apple Podcasts transcripts. The replace additionally provides new emoji and contains preparations for the launch of next-generation CarPlay later this yr. Extra particulars in regards to the new…

Apple Explored These Notch and Dynamic Island Designs for iPhones

With the iPhone 14 Professional fashions in 2022, Apple launched the Dynamic Island, which might morph and increase to show system alerts, sports activities scores, and a wide range of different info. The characteristic makes the house surrounding the entrance digicam and Face ID sensors helpful in comparison with the notch on older iPhone fashions. Apple explored a wide range of concepts for the iPhone’s notch space through the years earlier than…

Apple’s OLED Roadmap: New iPad Mini, Foldable iPad Professional, and Extra

Apple is planning to launch no less than 9 new units with OLED shows throughout the iPad and MacBook product strains, based on an up to date forecast from analysis agency Omdia that units out the corporate’s plans intimately. As broadly rumored, Apple’s push to transition to OLED will apparently be jump-started by the discharge of latest 11- and 13-inch iPad Professional fashions this yr. The shows will…

Apple Launching Subsequent-Era CarPlay This 12 months With These New Options

Apple lately up to date its web site to verify that the primary car fashions with next-generation CarPlay assist will debut “in 2024.” This wording is proven on Apple’s regional web sites for the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and plenty of different international locations. The iOS 17.4 beta contains code-level references to eight new CarPlay apps:Auto Settings: This app will allow you to handle paired iPhones…

Handful of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Items Develop An identical Crack in Cowl Glass

A small variety of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners have claimed that their headsets developed a hairline crack down the center of the entrance cowl glass, regardless of having by no means been dropped or mishandled. Photograph of hairline crack in Imaginative and prescient Professional entrance glass (credit score: Reddit person Inphenite) The primary report was posted within the subreddit /r/VisionPro about 18 days in the past, and several other extra have appeared within the final…