While I was visiting over New Year’s my sister recently picked out a Google Pixel 2 to replace her three-year-old Samsung phone with a cracked screen. I have an iPhone 6s and had no plans to get a new phone until next fall, but I was curious to do some more research on the Pixel 2 when I got home. I … [Read more...]
October 10th: Apple Workshop – iOS 11
Apple has released iOS 11 for its new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, and it can run on iPhones going all the way back to the iPhone 5s. You'll certainly notice the difference in the revamped Control Center and a new Files app, but the biggest changes are reserved for the iPads. It brings multitasking to a new … [Read more...]
October 11th: Apple Workshop – iOS 10
Apple has released iOS 10 not just for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, but also for their iPhone models going back to the iPhone 5 and iPads back to the iPad 4, plus all iPad mini models except the original iPad mini. We'll learn what's new. For example, what happened to slide to unlock that we had gotten … [Read more...]
September 13th: Apple Workshop
Apple will be announcing new iPhone models and a probable Apple Watch 2 on September 7. What will the new iPhone model be called? Will it really lose a headphone jack? What's this about a dual-lens camera? A lot of interesting things to discuss at our September 13 meeting. … [Read more...]
June 2016 Apple Workshop Notes – WWDC
In June we covered Apple’s announcements at their World Wide Developers Conference. Apple revealed their plans for their fall updates to iOS, macOS (replacing the name OS X), watchOS, and tvOS. The next operating system (OS) to run on the Mac, succeeding OS X El Capitan, will be called macOS … [Read more...]
May 10th: Apple Workshop
We didn't get to it last month so we'll try again with Apple CarPlay. If your car supports it, plugging in your iPhone displays some car-friendly apps on your car’s touchscreen. It enables Siri for voice control, gives you directions with Apple Maps, plays your music, podcasts, and provides access … [Read more...]
Don’t Set Your iPhone Back to 1970, No Matter What
Don’t Set Your iPhone Back to 1970, No Matter What … [Read more...]
October 13th: Apple Workshop
Apple has released iOS 9 for iPhones and iPads, so we'll go over the new features. There are new and updated built-in apps such as the new News app. Notes has gotten a major upgrade and Maps now has transit directions. Passbook has now become Apple Wallet. There are also new multitasking options on … [Read more...]
September 8th: Apple Workshop
Our August break is over and Apple has been busy preparing for a big announcement on Wednesday, September 9th, the day after our meeting. It'll be fun to go over the rumors as we are expecting for starters a new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. But Apple has reserved a much larger venue reserved for this … [Read more...]
Apple Monthly Workshop Notes – June 2015
Mac OS X El Capitan, iOS 9 In June we discussed the announcements that Apple made the day before at their World Wide Developers Conference. They announced the new features of the next version of iOS (iOS 9) and OS X (10.11), and their newest operating system watchOS 2, which will be an update for … [Read more...]