Apple released an update to its Developer Forums today with two improvements. There’s now an enhanced search along with a way to monitor threads and receive an email each time you get a reply. Apple noted the two updates on its Developer website today: Last June ahead of WWDC 2020, Apple introduced an overhaul to its Developer Forums. Here’s how we described the changes when they launched last year: The Apple Developer Forums are a great place to connect with fellow developers and Apple engineers as you give and receive help on development topics....

Apple has not yet finalized deals with movie studios for 4K content, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal. The clock is ticking as Apple readies a 4K Apple TV unveiling for September 12, and naturally the company wants to announce a sizeable 4K content ecosystem to back it. It appears the studios are pushing back on pricing. Whereas Apple wants to sell 4K movies for $20, the same price it sells many new release HD movies at, studios are demanding an additional $5-$10 premium per sale....

The latest watchOS beta, 4.3.1, introduces a new alert when launching original watchOS 1 WatchKit applications, hinting that such apps may be dropped entirely in watchOS 5. Back when the initial round of betas released for iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, and macOS 10.13.5, it was interesting to note that we didn’t see a watchOS 4.4 beta, but rather a watchOS 4.3.1 beta, which suggested that this was a minor release to the Apple Watch software platform....

Apple Watch fall detection enabled emergency services in Germany to go to the aid of an 80-year-old woman who fell in her apartment. The Apple Watch detected her fall and called 112, the emergency number in Germany … Munich’s fire department reported the event. The good news in this case was that the woman was not injured, just shaken by the fall, and her son was able to take care of her once the paramedics had finished checking her over....

Following the expanded launch of Apple Pay in Singapore this week, TechCrunch spoke with Apple VP Jennifer Bailey about Apple Pay’s roadmap. The Apple executive said the company wants to bring Apple Pay to every significant market in which it operates with particular focus on rapid expansion in Europe and Asia. Apple Pay is currently available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Singapore and Australia. Apple has already said the mobile payments service will reach Hong Kong soon …...

Update: Tim Cook has now tweeted about the logo change, being made globally. [tweet https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/671793179767672834 align=’center’] Apple is lending its usual support to World AIDS Day, turning its store logos red and promoting (PRODUCT)RED items on its homepage (below). The company also notes its own role in fundraising for the charity, which works to eradicate AIDS within a generation. A number of special (RED) versions of Apple products are featured on the RED....

Apple is keen to get the TV app in front of as many eyeballs as possible with opportunities to sell customers on recurring subscriptions, whether that is through reselling channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz or attracting subscribers to its collection of original content TV shows and movies through Apple TV+. To get the app on the Fire Stick, search for “Apple TV” in the app store or use Alexa and ask “Alexa, find the Apple TV app”....

At the special ‘Spring Forward’ event in the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Tim Cook has taken the stage and announced some important changes to Apple TV. Apple’s digital media player has now been discounted to 69 dollars, which is cheaper by $30 from the previous $99 selling price. This move shows that Apple is feeling cornered by competition. To stimulate the purchase of the device, Apple has partnered with HBO for the HBO NOW service which will be available exclusively in the U....

Apple Watch comes with a stopwatch app built into it, which saves you time from grabbing your iPhone, opening up the Clock app and pressing the Stopwatch tab. There are several different ways to open up Stopwatch on the Apple Watch. You can open the app by tapping on the orange icon with a complete white circle on the home screen, use Siri to open Stopwatch by pressing and holding on the Digital Crown, hands free by saying “Hey Siri open Stopwatch,” or depending on which watch face you are using from the Stopwatch complication on the watch....

In December, Apple launched a new iPhone 0% financing option for Apple Card users. During the company’s Q2 2020 earnings call today, Tim Cook teased that Apple is working on something similar for its other products. Cook was asked about Apple’s plans for new financing programs by a Bank of America analyst during the earnings call. The Apple CEO explained that Apple is working on a similar financing option for its other products, and that we can expect to see something announced “shortly....

Apple just unveiled an interesting new option for the new iMacs and Mac minis that it is calling “Fusion Drive”. Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller described it as a combination of storage and software, and it provides a 128GB SDD and 1TB or 3TB HDD melded into a single volume for faster read-and-writes and better performance. Apple explained the drive stores core OS X apps on SSD, while documents and other media are stored on HDD (depending on what you use most)....

Apple today has made small change to its eGPU support document. The company has updated the page to reflect official support for the Sonnet Radeon RX 560 eGFX Breakaway, the first RX 560 eGPU to be officially supported. During the beta testing period of macOS 10.13.4, Apple said the AMD RX 560 was supported for macOS eGPUs. Once the public release was made available last March, however, Apple revised its supported list to omit the RX 560....

As one source at a flagship Apple Store said, “we’re told to treat launch day as if there will be no walk-in stock.” That doesn’t necessarily mean there will be absolutely zero Apple Watch units to buy at launch if you don’t have a reservation, just that the specific Apple Watch variant a person wants will be far harder to come by at launch than some previous iPhone models. Of course, inventory will vary depending on the store’s location, including state and country, with China expected to have larger stock allocations....

Apple already unveiled the all-new Apple Watch Series 5 and new Apple Watch Studio experience, and now we’re collecting even more tidbits about this year’s flagship Apple Watch. While it wasn’t mentioned in the keynote, the new Apple Watch Series 5 indeed runs on a new Apple S5 chip inside: 64-bit dual-core S5 processor, up to 2x faster than S3 processor (includes W3 wireless chip) Apple Watch bands now include purchasable gold options including leather straps, something we haven’t seen since the original Edition...

That didn’t take long… Bloomberg reports that two Tampa, Florida-based iPhone customers have sued Apple over the controversial iPhone location tracking issue. The customers claim that Apple is secretly recording the whereabouts of iPhone and iPad users. Steve Jobs is going to love this one… “We take issue specifically with the notion that Apple is now basically tracking people everywhere they go,” Aaron Mayer, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said today in a telephone interview....

OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will focus on various “power-user” enhancements and take core features from iOS, according to our sources. Unlike operating system updates such as OS X Leopard and OS X Lion, OS X 10.9 will likely not be an overhauled approach to how the operating system feels and functions. The new operating system includes major enhancements to the Finder application such as tags and tabbed browsing modes....

Apple keeps pushing Apple TV+, which is about to complete its first year since its launch in November 2019. The company signed a $70 million deal earlier this year to premiere the “Greyhound” film starring Tom Hanks, and now Apple TV+ has acquired the movie rights to “Cherry” with Tom Holland and Ciara Bravo for $40 million. First reported by Deadline, Apple now has the worldwide rights to premiere Cherry, the first film directed by the brothers Anthony and Joe Russo since their work on Avengers: Endgame....

Fans of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet will appreciate knowing that the Apple Original will receive a post-pandemic bonus episode ahead of the season 2 premiere. This comes after the popular “Quarantine” episode from a year ago… As reported by Deadline, Apple TV+ is preparing a bonus episode of Mythic Quest. The “Everlight” episode is launching April 16 on the streaming platform, following the special “Mythic Quest: Quarantine” episode of last year....

Apple this evening has started rolling out an update to its Apple Support app on iOS that adds a host of new features. The update brings the app to version 1.1 and introduces new features such as rich notifications, additional country support, and more. First off, the update adds support for scheduling repairs at participating Apple Authorized Service Providers. This includes non-Apple stores that are capable of performing certified repairs. Additionally, the update has added support for making Genius Bar reservations in China, Hong Kong, Macao, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates....

In the era of digital Watches, especially smartwatches, the screen lighting up in the middle of the night, or at a movie theater can become very fatiguing and annoying. Luckily, with Apple Watch, there’s a feature called Theater Mode that disables the raise to wake feature on the Apple Watch, preventing accidental screen awakenings. Follow along as we guide you through how to use Theater Mode on your Apple Watch....