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POKMON GOs
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NEWS
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15 iOS 11 Beta
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27 iPhone 8 details we learned from leak
34 Apples risky balancing act with the next iPhone
41 Three features Apples HomePod needs
46 Update to iOS 10.3.3 now
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OPINION
N
o new iPhone, no problem for Apples bottom
line. The company just reported its third
quarter results for fiscal year 2017 and theyre
awfully good: $8.7 billion profit, or $1.67 per share,
onrevenueof $45.4billion.
That breaks down to 41 million iPhones, a slight
increase from the third quarter of 2016, when Apple
moved more than a little more than 40 million
E
very 90 days theres a new Apple financial
quarter, a new raft of federally-mandated
financialdisclosures, and another hour-long
conference call that lets us hear Apple CEO Tim
Cook (and CFO Luca Maestri) take questions from
inquisitiveWall Street analysts.
Earlier this summer Apple announced its quarterly
earnings and followed it up with that exciting phone
A
pple has removed the iPod nano and iPod shuffle
from its website, signalling that the company
has discontinued the two portable audio players.
The iPod line-up now consists only of the iPod touch.
Today, we are simplifying our iPod line-up with two
models of iPod touch now with double the capacity
starting at 199 and we are discontinuing the iPod
shuffle and iPod nano, Apple said in a statement.
iOS 11 beta
Price: Free
Download from: tinyurl.com/pffuwnz
A
t WWDC 2017, Apple showed off its new iOS 11
operating system. It wont officially launch until
the autumn probably September but in the
meantime weve been able to put the beta through its
paces. Read on for our thoughts.
Interface
Apple continues its gentle evolution of the iOS interface
theres no radical system-wide redesign like we saw in
iOS 7, but a variety of tweaks and improvements.
Control Centre
Apple has made significant changes to the Control
Centre, introduced in iOS 7 but in recent years suffering
from feature creep. The two-screen format of the iOS
10Control Centre feels like an unnecessary pain (there
are so few controls on the second screen, and several
ofthe front-page controls are so large, that it could
surely have been condensed into one), and a betrayal
ofthe simple, quick-settings purpose of the feature.
In iOS 11 Control Centre gets a new look, for a
start.Instead of a light grey solid pane with controls
onthe top, the entire screen blurs out and the
individual elements sit on top in their own near-black
rounded rectangles. Its hard to say if this is better
or worse, aesthetically, but its at least different. It
feelsfresh while remaining consistent with Apples
post-iOS 7 design language.
More significantly, Control Centre is now a
single-page affair, so youll no longer try to adjust
the brightness slider and accidentally switch to the
secondpage. This is a good thing.
There are new options in Control Centre, such as
anifty screen recording function and a Mobile Data
on/off toggle. And it uses 3D Touch (or long-press,
on an iPad or older iPhone) to allow quick access to
more settings and features. Hard-press the clock/
alarmbutton, for instance, and gives you quick
New features
A huge number of new features have been unveiled
foriOS 11; here are the highlights.
Siri improvements
Siri has a new, supposedly more natural-sounding male
and female voice, as well as a new visual interface.
Apple also added new features to Siri including
theability to translate what you say
into German, French, Italian, Chinese
or Spanish, with further languages
beingadded soon. It also works
betterwith Apple Music to help
suggest songs youmight like.
Siri is also becoming more
intelligent in iOS 11. It will now
use on-device learning to discover
more aboutyou, and therefore
improve suggestions when youre in
particular apps. For example, if youre
lookingat a particular place or topic
in Safari, Siri can suggest related
words and items in Mail, Messages
and other apps. Additionally,
although Apple didnt talk about it
during the keynote, youll be able to
Music
A new AirPlay protocol brings lots of new features for
speakers including multiroom support, and theres
anAirPlay 2 audio DPI for developers. Youll also now
be able to see what your friends have been listening
to in Apple Music thanks to new public profiles. Plus,
Verdict
Were cautiously optimistic about this update. The
new features are appealing the new dock and drag-
and-drop interface tweaks seem particularly useful for
multitasking, the camera changes will be very popular
and AR seems fun if niche and, well, itll be free.
DavidPrice and Lewis Painter
iPhone 8 details we
learned from leak
Its like the iPhone 4 all over again. Michael Simon reports
I
f you were following Apple back in 2010, you
remember the infamous iPhone 4 leak. The handset
that introduced the world to FaceTime, the Retina
display, and a stunning design that lives on to this day
in the iPhone SE was plastered all over Gizmodo some
4. AR is a big deal
Apple is killing it when it comes to augmented reality.
While its ARKit platform was only just released
at WWDC in June, developers have already made
some truly amazing things with it, and its clear that
Apple has big plans for AR. But it will be the iPhone
8 that fully unlocks its potential. Weve already
read rumours of a 3D laser system and a depth-
sensing camera, but Troughton-Smith also spotted a
curious reference toARFaceAnchor in the HomePod
firmware. Thissuggests that there will be specific AR
featurestailored for the iPhone 8.
A
s there always are at this time of year, there are
lots of rumours out there about what the next
iPhone will be. This year were hearing that
Apple is going to release a high-priced, next-generation
phone in addition to the expected iPhone 8 models. The
Why buy the rest when you can buy the best?
The iPhone is Apples most important product, by far.
iPhone revenue made up 63 percent of overall Apple
revenue during its last financial quarter. The risk Apple
takes in monkeying with theiPhoneproduct mix is that
it will do somethingto suppressiPhone sales.
Its worth asking the question, then: If Apple
released minor iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus updates
and simultaneously released a sent-from-the-future
iPhone Pro with a bunch of great new features for a
high price, what would you do? Somepeople will buy
that expensive cool phone, tobe sure no matter how
Apple prices that device,I suspect theyll sell them as
fast as they can make them. But if youre ready for an
upgrade and either cant get one of those high-end
iPhonesor simply dont want to spend that much ona
phone, then what?
I
ts pretty clear that the HomePod was one of the star
attractions of this years WWDC. For a product that had
little in the way of actual stage time (and even less
in terms of what was demonstrated to journalists) and
wont ship for several months yet, it certainly grabbed
a lot of the airtime directly following the event. And in
that, it follows in the merry tradition of products like
theoriginal iPhone and the iPad.
WYSIWYG
First off, let me say that Im a firm believer that
with Apple what you see is generally what you get.
So the rumours that the HomePod might contain
some significant hitherto unseen functionality,
like a replacement for the AirPort Extreme, seem
to meentirely fanciful. There may be small
implementation details or features that we havent
seen yet, but what Apple is selling is a high-quality
networked speaker with Siri built-in. Anything more
than that is pure conjecture.
Thats not nothing. As Sonos has proved, theresa
market for high-quality networked speakers. If theres
room in that market, its largelybecause as popular
as Sonos is among a certain class of people, it doesnt
have the brandreach that Apple does.
Plus, that dedication to music and audio is
something that runs deep in Apples product line. Yes,
the iPod Hi-Fi might not have been a big hit inits day,
but I know a few people who still have them, and the
complaints certainly arent about the sound quality
Questioning Siri
The HomePod sweet spot is exactly where Apple thinks
it is: combining the features of a Sonos and a smart
speaker like the Amazon Echo or Google Home. The
company is right that nobody has managed to put both
of those things together yet as an owner of multiple
Echos, a Google Home, and a couple Sonos speakers,
I wholeheartedly agree that it would be great to
streamline that setup into a single convenient package.
Just as when Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone was
awidescreen iPod, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a
breakthrough Internet communicator in a single device,
virtual-assistant-powered speakers and great networked
speakers should really be oneand the same.
But those smarts are where the biggest risk comes
in. Theres certainly been a perception that Siri has
been slower to advance, especially as competition from
Amazon and Google has becomestronger. A recent
report suggests that consumers are using Siri lessoften;
i
OS users should update immediately to version 10.3.3
to eliminate the risk of a Wi-Fi-based exploit that can
be carried out by an attacker in proximity to a device
or potentially through a compromised Wi-Fi router
without any interaction from the user at all.
In the iOS 10.3.3 update, Apple patched a bug that
arises from how three models of Broadcom wireless
chips, which Apple uses in iOS hardware, processes
data. The chips are designed for smartphones and
tablets, and arent used in Macs or other full-featured
Y
ou probably already know how to search the
web from Safaris address bar on your iPhone, or
which button enables the handy Reader mode.
But for every Safari feature you think youve mastered,
another is hiding in plain sight. For example, theres an
easy way to search the current page in Safari, as well as
customize how Reader mode looks and feels. Read on
for more of our favourite Safari tips.
Master Pokmon
Gos latest features
Andrew Hayward looks at the games competitive overhaul
P
okmon Go is just over a year old, and while
Niantic was celebrating the smash mobile games
first birthday with hat-wearing Pikachu sightings
in the game, there was also a big functional addition to
the game: Raid Battles and the rebuilt Gym system.
The Raid Battles hatch powerful Pokmon at Gyms
throughout the game for limited-time showdowns and
Ready to Raid
If you live near any Gyms and
youve played Pokmon Go over
the past several days, then youve
probably already seen some Raid
Battles on the map. They pop up
every so often on Gyms, and youll
either see an egg or a Pokmon at
the top of the beacon, both with
a timer below. If theres an egg,
that means a Raid Battle will begin
as soon as the timer hits zero. If
theres already a Pokmon up top,
however, that means you have a
limited amount of time left (less
than an hour) to take part in that
battle before it finishes up.
At the time of writing, anyone
with a player level of 5 or higher Raid Battles pop up on
Gyms all around the map
can take part in Raid Battles, and
Pokmon Prep
In any case, whether youre playing solo or with an
assembled group, its worth doing a little bit of prep
before each battle. Youll have two minutes to pick your
ideal line-up of six Pokmon, as well as lavish them with
any healing or revival items you might have.
When choosing your line-up, its worth considering
which Pokmon are the best counters to the boss
monster the ones that will do the most damage,
not necessarily just
your Pokmon with
the highest CP ratings.
In this case, we can
turn to the hive mind
for help: hardcore
Pokmon Go resource
site The Silph Road
has a full listing of the
best counter Pokmon
on its Subreddit; its
worth keeping that page
bookmarked on your
iPhone, or maybe copy
down the critical info
into Notes.
Once the two
minutes have passed
Youll all fight in unison and everyone is ready,
during Raid Battles
its time to battle. These
battles are much like the familiar Gym fights, albeit now
with all of your other comrades encircling the boss.
Youll tap for basic attacks, hold down a finger for a
special attack, and swipe in either direction to dodge
and youll have 180 seconds to collectively take down
the boss. The time limit can be a killer: Ive done solo
Raids in which my six Pokmon might have eventually
been able to take down the boss, but I ran out of time
because its such a slow grind on your own.
Should you succeed, youll get a nice bounty of XP as
a result, along with special items like the Golden Razz
Berry, Rare Candy, and Fast and Charged TM (technical
machines) used to teach your Pokmon new moves.
Youll also get a small stack of Premier Balls, which are
white with red markings. And then youll need to use
the Premier Balls to try and capture a weakened version
of the Raid Boss you just pummelled. You can use
candy to help your cause, but only the Premier Balls are
available to try and capture the Pokmon and if you
run out of those balls before it is captured, then itll flee
and youll leave empty-handed. That could be pretty
crushing after a hard-won battle, especially since rarer
Pokmon are found in some Raids.
Thats the gist of Raid Battles for now. Well
probablysee additional Pokmon types added as Raid
Bosses over time, and surely well get the promised
level five Battles at some point.
i
Tunes is great at storing all your music and
other media, but only if you let it. If, like one
correspondent,you have a number of hard drives
withold iTunes Media folders, you need to do some
work to consolidate them. In other news, iTunes has
changed the way you delete files from your library,
butnot from the cloud. And if iTunes displays a
sessionexpired dialog, heres how to fix it.
EXPIRED SESSION
last email address you used to sign in. You may also
need to deauthorizing your device; again, the Account
menu, Authorizations > Deauthorize this computer.
In this case, the first solution solved the
correspondents problem.
BREAK UP iTUNES
CLOUDY MUSIC
iTUNES CONFUSION
1. Wi-Fi Assist
A quick one worth checking before we move on to
more difficult or inconvenient solutions. When Apple
introduced iOS 9 some users found that their Mobile
Data (or Cellular Data if you are in the US) was being
gobbled up more rapidly than before. It turned out that
the reason for this was Apples new Wi-Fi Assist feature,
which utilises the mobile network if your Wi-Fi is flaky.
8. Photo Stream
Photo Stream was the main
culprit when we started to
regularly hit our data allowance
back in the summer of 2013,
having signed up to a friends
feed, and started sharing
one of our own. Even though
the serviceclaimed it would
automatically upload new
photos and send them to
all of your iCloud devices
when connected to Wi-Fi,
we weregetting sent photos
fromour friends Photo
Streamover 3G.
Luckily things have got
better since then. The iOS
7 update bought the ability
to manage Photo Sharing. You could turn off iCloud
Photo Sharing(at Settings > Photo & Camera),
which would stop your phone from downloading
imagesfromotherpeoples shared photo streams
thatyou subscribeto (you can still download them
onyour Macor another device).
When Apple launched iCloud Photo Library, we
wereconcerned that it could also gobble up iPhone
mobile data, but the Upload to My Photo Stream
indicates that it is via Wi-Fi only.
One way to make absolutely sure that Photo doesnt
use your cellular connection is to go to Settings >
Mobile Data and switch the slider beside Photos to off.
to the Apple Watch app to set this up. Those apps that
appear under Include on the Notifications Centre tab
may be using data to alert you to changes. If you really
dont need to be told that your friend has replied to
your post on Facebook turn Notification Centre off by
tapping Facebook, and switching the slider to off.
Be ruthless with the apps that are alerting you to
changes, although if you then end up checking them
every five minutes it may be a false economy.
H
ave you ever wished you could share your
iPhones cellular connection with Wi-Fi-only
devices nearby, such as a laptop or iPad? Youre
in luck: its easy to set up an iPhone as a portable Wi-Fi
hotspot, opening up its web connection to anyone who
is close enough has the password. Heres how.
The benefits
Lets say youre travelling with your iPhone and
MacBook or a Wi-Fi-only iPad and want to do some
work. At this point youve got two options: do the work
on the larger-screen devices, but without being able
to connect to any online resources; or go online and
bestuck with a smaller screen.
Turning your iPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot gives you
a handy third option, allowing the laptop and tablet
to piggyback on the phones web connection. Wi-Fi
hotspots are great for working on the go.
Its easy to do, but you may wish to speak to your
phone carrier first or at least check your contracts
terms and conditions; somenetworks prefer you not
to do this and may charge you extra (or cap your data
allowance) if theyspot you setting up a hotspot.
And while were talking about data allowances,
thisis another thing to bear in mind: if you have a
limited allowance you should only use the Wi-Fi
hotspot for a short amount of time.
Create a hotspot
A Wi-Fi hotspot turns the iPhone into a Wi-Fi router,
much like the one in your home. The iPhone connects
to the Internet using its 3G/4G cellular data connection,
and then broadcasts this via a Wi-Fi connection that
your Mac, or other device, can connect to.
Heres how to set up an iPhone Wi-Fi hotspot:
Dangers
What if someone tries to hijack your connection,
burning through your data connection and/or accessing
dodgy sites and content?
You should be okay, because the iPhone hotspot
is password-protected. (All the more reason not to
choose the word password or something else thats
I
f youre like me (and many of you are), you have
twoApple IDs for historical reasons that you
continueto use. Until the mythical future date
at which Apple updates its back-end systems to
achieve the glory obtained only decades ago by most
businesses that manage accounts to allow merging
Apples 2FA system protects your account from someone who has obtained your password
If you dont have a Mac, you can use your iOS device,
and log out of your iCloud-linked Apple ID and log into
your purchased-linked one, and then follow the steps
under Password & Security to enable 2FA. That can mess
with your synced events and contacts, so if you have
a spare iOS device on which you can set this up, its
much better. In the most extreme case, you could back
up your iOS device, wipe it and set it up fresh with your
purchase-linked Apple ID, enable 2FA, and then erase it
and restore it from the backup.
macOS 10.13 High Sierra and iOS 11 wont work
with two-step verification if you have it enabled, but
according to email sent out by Apple right after its June
6 developer event keynote to anyone with two-step
verification enabled, upgrading to iOS 11 or High Sierra
betas will automatically upgrade the account to 2FA.
However, it doesnt explain what happens for those of
us with separate iCloud and Store accounts.
I
f you, like me, were wondering when the iPads
salesfree fall would come to an end, we may now
have an answer. Earlier this week, Apple released
its latest financial results, including the first quarter
of sales growth for the companys tablet in more
thanthree years.
Arresting the tablets decline, though, didnt
necessarily mean blockbuster sales. Apple moved 10.7
million iPads in the most recent quarter, but thats still
Go Pro
Meanwhile, the iPad Pro aims to be living up to its
name. Effects of the new iPad Pros sales may not have
fully felt in the most recent quarter, which ended 1
July just a couple weeks after the new Pros started
shipping. But Id argue that the new 10.5in iPad Pro
is positioned to appeal both to those new customers
looking for the most powerful tablet around, as well as
consumers looking to upgrade from older models. (I can
speak to the latter especially, as I traded in my iPad Air
2 for a 10.5in iPad Pro, with no regrets.)
The increase of the screen size, though it didnt
satisfy all who had hoped for an even higher-resolution
display, is a major factor. Setting aside the 12.9in Pro,
which presents an entirely different set of trade-offs,
theres been no change in the size of the standard
Mini-mized
Speaking of different screen sizes, you might have
noticed one particular Apple product getting none of
the love: the iPad mini. Though Apple is still selling
the iPad mini 4, its become the tablet only for those
that prize small size above everything else: its both
more expensive than the fifth-generation iPad and less
powerful. Spec-wise, its about the same as the iPod
touch, albeit with an option for cellular data.
It may be that Apple is biding its time on the iPad
mini, leaving it to sit around like the iPod touch or the
Mac mini, to be updated sporadically. At the moment,
both use the A8 processor that also runs the Apple
TV and the upcoming HomePod, so its clear Apple
can produce those chips at scale and probably for a
good price. But the iPad mini has never been a winner
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