Welcome to the brand new dwelling for Apple Breakfast! When you’re a reader of Macworld’s UK website, you’ll acknowledge this column that can now seem on Macworld.com each Saturday. When you’re new, that is our weekly assortment of all of the Apple information you missed this week, in a helpful bite-sized roundup. We name it Apple Breakfast as a result of we expect it goes nice with a morning cup of espresso or tea, nevertheless it’s cool if you wish to give it a learn throughout lunch or dinner hours too.
Spring is within the air
This text is being written whereas looking on a scene of the bleakest wintry desolation: gloom, ice, naked bushes. At instances like this it could possibly soothe the soul to suppose forward to hotter days – which is helpful, as a result of a lot of this week has been spent speculating about Apple’s preparations for its customary spring occasion, and the ever-growing backlog of unreleased merchandise we count on to be introduced.
We started with indications, through “dependable sources in China”, that the brand new iPad Air would make an look within the spring, adopted by predictions that it might be accompanied by one thing known as the “iPhone SE+ 5G”. Not terribly snappy, as names go, however a launch that may gladden many hearts. Apple has registered new iPadOS and iOS gadgets with the Eurasian Financial Fee, too, which often means one thing’s about to launch.
Sadly, such pleasing information might arrive slightly later than standard. Apple typically chooses March because the second to come back out of winter hibernation, as we noticed in 2011 and 2012, then 2015 and 2016, and at last in 2018 and 2019. Sometimes, as we noticed in 2021, it waits till April. However this yr we might have to attend till Might. Why? as a result of the brand new iPhone SE – I’m sorry, the iPhone SE+ 5G – may not come out of manufacturing till then.
However cheer up: perhaps Apple will announce the iPad Air (and perhaps some new AirPods Professional, and who is aware of, maybe a brand new iMac) at an occasion in March, then slip out the iPhone SE in a press launch a month or so later… though that may most likely imply the brand new SE is simply too boring to benefit its personal occasion.
Now flip up the heating, placed on a second pair of socks, and suppose heat ideas. There’s solely 99 days till Might.
Information in short
The stress continues to construct on Apple’s management of the App Retailer. After lately (and reluctantly) permitting app builders in South Korea to make use of different cost techniques, the corporate this week supplied the same concession within the Netherlands – though just for makers of relationship apps particularly. It’s not but clear if Apple’s transfer will likely be sufficient to mollify Dutch authorities, that are at the moment contemplating their response.
Google is incorrect. Apple’s iMessage is definitely a failure, reckons Jason Snell.
Samsung, which primarily based a whole advertising and marketing technique round notches being silly, has made a pill with a notch. It’s wonderful how usually Samsung does this type of factor: that is the third article on Macworld with a headline starting with the 4 magic phrases: “After mocking Apple, Samsung…”
So the Mac isn’t doomed to fail anymore? Who’d a thunk it, wonders the Macalope.
Roman Loyola rounds up 5 iPhone options the Mac wants proper now.
Sorry switchers, Apple will provide you with loads much less to your Android trade-in now.
Apple has an AirTag drawback, says Michael Simon. Right here’s resolve it.
Within the newest episode of the Macworld Podcast, we discuss what the app retailer does proper and what it will get oh-so-very incorrect, and what we as prospects must do to get essentially the most out of it.
You would possibly suppose Apple is engaged on a folding iPhone, however Samuel Nyberg isn’t fooled.
Apple has gained again high spot within the smartphone market, regardless of extensively reported inventory issues final quarter.
Craig Grannell rounds up the 40 most interesting iPhone video games that don’t value something. That’s proper: nothing. They don’t value a bean! They have to be mad!
Software program, bugs & different points
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On the finish of final week, we reported on a bug in Safari 15 that would lead to your searching historical past and Google ID being leaked; it was so severe that we instructed wanting into different browsers. Nicely, there’s excellent news: Apple is fixing it.
Customers are complaining about flickering pixels after they use Apple’s Thunderbolt Show with M1 Macs. Sadly the show is assessed as Classic, which implies Apple is unlikely to repair the issue.
You possibly can run macOS on the newest Intel Alder Lake chips. When you dare.
Apple is often excellent at persuading cellular customers to replace their gadgets to the most recent variations of iOS and iPadOS – however this yr the adoption numbers are approach down. We discover a number of the the explanation why.
The rumor mill
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A brand new model of the Mac Professional featured an upgraded M1 Max chipset will likely be launched this yr, in keeping with the dependable leaker Dylan DKT.
A cheaper 14-inch MacBook Professional with an M2 chip may land quickly.
Apple has patented Again To The Future-style self-lacing footwear. To which we’ve got two questions: how quickly and why?
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