Cult of Mac: news on page 220

Whether you’re addicted to Twitter, obsessed with Fortnite or wasting the day away on Netflix, you can kill hours on your iPhone without ever doing anything useful or productive. Instead of mindlessly

Some iOS 11 users are having trouble accessing the App Store and Apple Music, according to online reports. The services have been unusable for over a day for a number of users who are yet to upgrade

Apple has apologized for its FaceTime bug, and assured customers that an iOS software update is coming next week to fix it. The FaceTime flaw allowed users to see and hear individuals before they

The higher the quality of video gets, the harder it is to make the files work on the variety of devices we use. That’s because all kinds of new formats, codecs and other standards create compatibility

The U.K. government has an idea for getting around the thorny issue of tech companies creating a backdoor for encrypted services: just let government agents be able to listen in on encrypted

This week on The CultCast: A new report details what’s (probably) next for Apple’s 2019 and 2020 iPhones. Plus: Apple plans Netflix-for-games subscription service (with Alex E. Heath!); it’s not just

During good times, Apple’s record-breaking share buyback has been credited with helping with a stock market boom. Something weird happened in December, however. When Apple’s stock price was tumbling

Samsung may have accidentally given us an early glimpse at its first foldable phone — weeks before it gets its official unveiling. A foldable device appears in a one-minute teaser posted and then

Nintendo has confirmed that Dr. Mario will be its next franchise to make the leap to mobile. Dr. Mario World is scheduled for a worldwide release in “early summer” on Android and iOS. It will be

I’m still blown away that the developers of Rome: Total War for iOS were able to take the classic PC strategy game and translate it almost perfectly to Apple’s touch-based mobile operating system.

Having apparently proved its point, Apple has restored its access to enterprise certificates for both Facebook and Google, essentially un-breaking their internal apps. In a statement to the New York

Puma is the latest brand to announce a self-lacing, AI-powered athletic shoe that will adjust with swipe gestures or apps for iPhone or Apple Watch. Puma unveiled the Fi – short for Fit Intelligence –

Google’s internal apps have been completely disabled from running on iPhone’s and iPads today by Apple. The move comes one day after Facebook’s internal apps suffered the same fate when Apple revoked

Did you know that you can switch the Calendar’s time picker to show one-minute increments, instead of five-minute segments? (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

Apple developed a design for a MacBook keyboard that’s slim, lightweight, silent and can’t possibly have problems with grit in the keys. That’s because it consists of a sheet of glass with raised

Gabrielle Reilly purchased Apple AirPods because there were no wires for her mischievous cat to chew up. But AirPods came with a new risk of loss from slipping out of her ears. So Reilly, a paralegal

iPad shipments grew by double digits last quarter, giving Apple its best holiday period for tablet sales since 2015. Shipments of slates and 2-in-1s had dropped earlier in the year, but analysts

Remember the iLoud? It’s a fantastic portable Bluetooth speaker that can also be used as a kind of crappy audio interface to plug guitars into iPads. Well, iLoud-maker IK Multimedia finally come up

The most iconic Apple store in the world is finally getting ready to reopen its doors. Apple’s glass cube store on Fifth Avenue in New York City has been temporarily closed for over two years, but

Qualcomm is revving up its legal battle with Apple. In a new court filing in Munich, Qualcomm demanded “significant fines” be put on the iPhone-maker for not complying with a previous court order.