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Following lengthy campaigning, negotiations and delays, the EU has finally approved a ruling that could see the iPhone forced to adopt the USB-C standard by autumn 2024. Negotiators have reached a provisional agreement on amendments to the Radio Equipment Directive that will make USB-C the common charging port for all mobile phones in the EU, along with laptops, tablets, digital cameras, handheld games consoles, e-readers and other portable electronic devices. Apple has yet to respond to the news, but the timing of the ruling may play into its hands. Ming-Chi Kuo claimed last month that the company was already planning to switch from Lightning to USB-C, and would do so in 2023. In other words, the iPhone 14 could be the last Lightning iPhone. We’ll know more when Apple unveils its new…

Raise a glass for the iPod, a line of devices that revolutionized portable music more than two decades ago. Apple has announced that the iPod touch will no longer be produced. The current model, introduced in 2019, will still be sold while supplies last. It starts at £199 for 32GB. The iPod touch was the last of the iPod line – essentially an iPhone SE with an A10 processor and no cellular connectivity. It was an iPod in name, but Music was just one of the many apps filling the home screen. The iPod has a long history, transforming the company when it debuted in 2001. At the time, it was the rare Apple product that wasn’t a Mac – though it did need one to transfer music. The iPod was initially…

It might not be all that surprising or alarming that researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany have discovered a new vulnerability that could be used to deliver malware to your iPhone. What’s unique about this vulnerability is that it can be accessed when an iPhone is turned off. This vulnerability requires a jailbroken iPhone, so it’s nothing to worry about right now for a vast majority of iPhone users. But as Ars Technica points out, the theoretical risk could become a real one as hackers discover security flaws that could allow this vulnerability to be exploited, so it needs to be addressed by Apple. The researchers made a video that summarizes the exploit, but in a nutshell, the issue involves the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip and the Find My feature…

The first foldable iPhone may be years away, but Apple is already thinking of ways to set it apart from its competitors. According to the latest rumours, that also applies to the parts that don’t fold. Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple may turn to E Ink technology for the foldable phone’s outside display in an effort to conserve power. Most foldables utilize a standard OLED display for their socalled ‘cover screen’, which operates like a normal smartphone for tasks that don’t need a bigger screen. For example, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 has a 6.23in outer OLED display with a 120Hz variable refresh rate. Apple is testing E Ink’s Electronic Paper Display (EPD) for future foldable device’s cover screen & tablet-like applications. The colour EPD has the potential to…

A head of this year’s WWDC, Apple announced a set of accessibility features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac that it says will be coming “later this year”. The software features are for ‘users with disabilities to navigate, connect, and get the most out of Apple products’. Apple did not announce how the new accessibility features will be rolled out, though they’re likely to be part of the next crop of operating systems. Here are the new features coming to Apple devices. DOOR DETECTION The iPhone and iPad’s Magnifier app will get a new Detection Mode feature that supports Door Detection, which will help users locate doors and provide information about the door itself (such as numbers, symbols or signs), if it is open or closed, and how the door can be…

Apple announced its big yearly operating system updates in its WWDC keynote. No platform is bigger, or more important to Apple and its users, than the iPhone and thus no OS update is more important than iOS. After a successful reception to iOS 15 in 2021, iOS 16 was expected to add plenty of new features, and didn’t disappoint. In this article we spill the beans on everything you need to know about iOS 16 and how it’s going to affect your iPhone experience. RELEASE DATE iOS 16 was unveiled and demonstrated at WWDC on 6 June. We expect it to be released to the public in September 2022. But this is speculation; Apple has so far said only that it will launch in the autumn. Last year iOS 15 arrived on Monday…