Apple generate a lot of news , and it can be tough to keep up . If your brain was on other thing this hebdomad , our roundup of Apple - colligate headlines will bring you up to date .
Public betas are here!
Developers no longer have iOS 14 , iPadOS 14 and tvOS 14 to themselves : on Thursday Applerolled out the world betasfor all three , so there ’s nothing halt you from giving them a try . ( Other than reasonable worry that the buggy nature of pre - release software makes it unsuitable for your elementary devices , of course . )
If you ’d like take part , we offer detailed advice here :
Who knows , by the time you read this Apple may have found the time to release public betas for macOS Big Sur and watchOS 7 too . That 2nd one is rather exciting , since Apple has never antecedently allowed the public access to a watchOS beta .
iPhone 12 special
Explosive revelations this workweek about the upcomingiPhone 12 .
It ’s becoming increasingly clear that Apple is reconsidering the accessories bundle with the machine ; agiveaway sight , for example , shows that the company would wish to leave out the courser and hopes customers will be able-bodied to provide their own .
A big clue , however , isthis 3D renderof the telephone ’s box insert . expect closely : there is no space for a battery charger or headphone .
Perhaps most controversial of all : an analyst cypher the iPhone 12 will bemore expensive than the iPhone 11 , despite the loss of those accessories . Maybe the inclusion of 5 G and an OLED screen on the base model will console potential customers .
We ’ve also seen photoscomparing the expect 5.4 in iPhone 12 modelwith current handsets .
News in brief
Tim Cook , having agreed to face questions over Apple ’s say violation of rivalry laws , has a date to put in his diary : he’llappear before the US antitrust committeeon 27 July . His testimonial will be streamed live on YouTube .
A consortium of European advertisers havecriticised privacy features in iOS 14 . They worry that users wo n’t give their consent to be tracked .
While we ’re talking about Europeans , a number of consumer groups from that continent have demanded€60 per pretend userin recompense for the Batterygate scandal .
Anders Lundberg has write a enchanting psychoanalysis piece of music , debate that ‘ appification ’ – the chemise towards universal app development across multiple platform – represents agrave terror to the Mac . Marty Casserly , meanwhile , reason that Appleneeds to offer a touchscreen Mac .
Despite dump Intel ’s Mac processor ( after a conversion period ) , Apple is going tostick with Thunderbolt .
More big - name apps have been caught copying data point from iPhone clipboards . LinkedIninsists this was a bug , not an expected behavior , and Reddit haspromised to discontinue snooping .
Another week , another billionaire investor gain a mailboat from Apple share . This timeit ’s Warren Buffett .
Bugs and problems
The big Apple security department news recently has revolved aroundEvilQuest , a piece of Mac malware that encrypts your files then involve a ransom to unlock them . This week security researchers investigated the affair and concluded that it ’s actually thefirst Mac computer virus in over 20 years – the wonky ransomware elements appear to be a decoy for the real datum - harvesting purpose .
Multiple iPhone owner have reported abattery - drain bug in iOS 13.5.1 . The issue appears to relate to certain apps running in the background , even when they ’re not open .
Hundreds of appscrashed mysteriouslyfor about half an hour on Friday .
Security researcher Csaba Fitzl has write about a troubling episode with a Mac bug that was spotted , expose to Apple , patently patch and actuallynot fixed at all . The vulnerability allows stock accounts to read all files on the hard parkway , even if they ’re enshroud by Catalina ’s privacy tribute .
The rumour mill
iMac delivery time have slipped again , something which often indicate an imminent update . We said the same matter last month , confessedly , and nothing was foretell – but while delivery estimate in June were 2 - 3 week , we ’re now look atan astonishing 8 - 9 workweek .
letters patent activity suggests , once again , that Apple isworking on a foldable iPhone .
Not so much a rumour as an anti - rumour , this one , but here goes : respected psychoanalyst Ming - Chi Kuo says wewon’t get any new AirPodsthis year . He also thinks Apple will practice the Pro case pattern for the vanilla extract AirPods when an update does arrive .
telling computer code in iOS 14 steer atQR codification paymentscoming soon to Apple Pay .
Apple ’s apply for a patent onkeyboards with glass - capped key . The markings will be under the cap , alternatively of printed on top of it , so should n’t wear away no matter how much you typewrite .
And that ’s it for this week . Stay Appley !
