Ahead of the public release of tvOS 13, beta testers have noticed that the Apple Arcade app on the Apple TV is now live. Apple’s subscription service for new and original games debuted last week as part of iOS 13. Apple Arcade will launch on iPad today with the release of iPadOS and iOS 13.1. tvOS 13 is also launching soon. Apple Arcade will feature around 100 games by the end of the year....

iOS 9 introduces Apple News, which replaces Newsstand as the default way to read news publications and blog content on the iPad and iPhone. Apple is automatically including many famous partners automatically with smaller publications having to request inclusion. We explained how to submit to Apple News a few days ago. Now, it seems Apple has begun the approval process for these submissions. It has started sending out emails to let people know they have been accepted into Apple News....

Last month Apple confirmed that it would soon beef up encryption for iCloud email following a report detailing security flaws in major email services. While Apple previously encrypted emails sent between its own iCloud customers, now the company has enabled encryption for emails in transit between iCloud and third-party services for me.com and mac.com email addresses. The change is documented on Google’s transparency website that shows the percentage of emails encrypted in transit for both inbound and outbound email exchanges (pictured below):...

Apple has begun seeding its next OS X Mountain Lion update, OS X 10.8.4, to AppleSeed testers. Apple will likely begin seeding this to registered OS X developers soon… Apple does not specify what the update includes, but it is likely focused on bug fixes and performance improvements like most OS X maintenance releases. Apple asks developers to focus on WiFi, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. The first 10.8.4 beta is build number 12E27....

Apple just announced at WWDC 2021 that it is bringing Safari web browser extensions to its mobile devices. With iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, iPhone and iPad will have access to the same web extensions available in Safari for Mac. Web browser extensions are used to add more features to a browser, with things like ad blockers, VPNs, password managers, and much more. Previously restricted to Safari on the Mac, web browser extensions are now coming to Safari on the iPhone and iPad with iOS 15....

According to several sources, the Catholic Church Pope, Pope Francis, is meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook today for a private discussion. The exact agenda for the meeting is unknown, but ‘Signor Timothy Donald Cook’ is booked in for 11.30 as shown in the photo. The meetup is likely related to visits the Pope has been receiving from other tech giants. Francis met Eric Schmidt, Alphabet (Google’s) chairman last week. It could just be a cordial exchange of greetings....

Apple today updated its Investor Relations webpage to announced that CFO Luca Maestri will speak at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference tomorrow afternoon. Maestri is expected to speak around 1:20PT/4:20ET and there will be a live audio stream of the speech. Tim Cook has attended the Technology and Internet Conference in the past, which takes place every year and is put on by Goldman Sachs. Maestri’s appearance at the conference comes following Apple’s record earnings report for Q1 2017....

After earlier reports claiming that Apple was planning to open a new office of sorts in Hyderabad, India, today the company has confirmed to local publications that it will indeed expand in the area with a new development office planned for later this year. Apple’s statement via a report from The Economic Times is below: The project itself will see Apple invest around $25 million and, according to the report from The Economic Times, employ around 4,500 people during construction....

The company is expected to unveil its new iPhones — or at least the 4.7-inch version, probably an iWatch, rollout of iOS and Mac OS X Yosemite among other things at the event. The venue choice is interesting. The company usually holds its event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco or its campus, but this time it has picked Flint Center — a place where its corporate headquarters are located....

Apple hasn’t often made appearances at the Black Hat hacker conference, but this year Cupertino is Thinking Different™ about security. Head of Apple security, Ivan Krstic, today said the company would pay huge (up to $200K) bug bounties to invited researchers who find and report vulnerabilities in certain Apple software. A quick breakdown of max. payments: Secure boot firmware: $200,000 Extraction of confidential material protected by the Secure Enclave Processor: $100,000 Execution of arbitrary code w/kernel privs: $50,000 Unauthorized access to iCloud account data on Apple Servers: $50,000 Access from a sandboxed process to user data outside of that sandbox: $25,000 Earlier this year, the FBI paid out under $1M to extract the data from the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone....

Apple is continuing to add to its team of machine learning experts in Cupertino. TechCrunch reports that Apple has acquired Tuplejump, which describes itself as a service that “presents all your data in a familiar format” on their now-removed website. An Apple spokesperson gave TC the usual non-denial confirmation regarding the acquisition: The report notes that Tuplejump is based in part in India as well as the United States and doesn’t disclose the terms of the acquisition....

As shutdowns caused by COVID-19 remain in place, Apple has committed to paying its contractors. The Wall Street Journal reports that initially, some contractors were told their jobs would be suspended without pay during the shutdown, but Apple has clarified that position. As the report explains, Apple employs “hundreds of contractors who work as janitors, bus drivers and perform other functions on its campus.” According to janitors and union representatives, Apple told employees that they would “lose wages and health-care benefits” during the shutdown....

Thanks to Hyper for sponsoring our Apple October 30th event coverage! Get 25% off the new HyperDrive USB-C Hubs for MacBook & MacBook Pro. Read on for all the latest… For a summary of what we expect to see today: [Update: Event details, iPad mini 5, and Mac models] October Apple expectations: Redesigned iPad Pro, Mac lineup refresh, iPhone XR, more Apple has already taken its online store offline ahead of the event start which means we should see new products posted as soon as the event wraps up:...

In a new interview, Bob Borchers, Apple’s VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, and Sebastien Marineau-Mes, VP, Intelligent System Experience at Apple, talked about iPadOS 15 and everything new with iPad’s operating system. TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino was able to talk with these two Apple executives about the company’s new choices on iPadOS 15. Before WWDC21, for example, users were expecting iPadOS 15 to unleash the M1 iPad Pro’s full potential. Although the conference brought improvements to the iPads overall, some users were expecting more....

Apple is facing a Dutch antitrust investigation into whether it favors its own apps over those of rival developers. It looks likely to have an initial focus on Apple Music and Apple News, but will probably extend to other app categories, and may also include Google’s Play store. Spotify has already filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Apple Music has an unfair advantage over Spotify, and today’s report references that and says that ‘apps for news media’ is another focus …...

With Apple widely believed to be planning to drop the headphone socket in the iPhone 7 in favor of Lightning-connected and wireless headphones, a patent application published today describes how a single set of headphones could switch smoothly between wired and wireless modes without any interruption of playback. There’s of course nothing new in headphones that support both wired and wireless use – many Bluetooth headphones come supplied with a plug-in audio cable that allow them to fall back to wired use if they run low on battery power or you just want the higher quality a wired connection typically delivers....

Apple Card arrived yesterday with a limited invite-only launch. Now a new study from J.D. Power has taken a look at how consumers feel about Apple Card ahead of its full rollout this month, and the firm believes it should be a “hit.” As it explained its latest survey, J.D. Power noted some of the challenges Apple is facing with its new credit card including the market having record high customer satisfaction rates with only 11% of customers switching their primary credit card so far this year....

Do you receive payments with Apple Cash on your iPhone or iPad but want to change it to require you to manually accept payments? Read on below… When receiving payments from others in iMessage via Apple Cash you can do so automatically or manually. Setting Apple Cash payments to manual acceptance may offer peace of mind if you would like to verify incoming payments before they are deposited into your bank account....

Apple today finally released iOS 14.5 to the public, which comes with the long-awaited App Tracking Transparency feature. With this new option available in the iOS settings, users can opt-out of being tracked by third-party apps across other apps and websites. To further highlight this new feature, the company has now shared a new video explaining how App Tracking Transparency works. The two-minute video explains that apps often ask for access to data such as your location, health information, and photos in order to work....

Apple has formally appealed the Department of Justice’s ebooks antitrust case, via the Associated Press. Previously, Apple has only officially complained about the power of the appointed monitor — now they are asking for the entire case to be re-evaluated. Apple claims it was ignorant of any inter-publisher price fixing and that Apple setup iBooks through legal arrangements without knowledge of any behind-the-scenes collusion. Apple said that the ruling is a “radical departure” from modern antitrust law....