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Sunday, April 28, 2019
How to Customize AirPods’ Double Tap Gestures, and more for 04/28/2019
AirPods are incredibly simple devices. You just put them in your ears and play the music. Because they are so small and so simple, there are no buttons on them. If you’re used to Bluetooth headphones with volume and playback buttons this can be a difficult thing to get used to. What AirPods does have is a double-tap gesture on the outside part of each AirPod. And here’s how you can change the AirPods double tap gesture to something other than calling up Siri. 
Earlier this month, Intel announced that it was shutting down its modem business right after Apple and Qualcomm announced that they have settled all their legal issues and signed a four-year patent licensing agreement. Adding insult to injury, Apple poached Intel’s lead 5G engineer in February. 
The New York Times posted a detailed report highlighting how Apple has been removing or restricting apps that provided functionality similar to Screen Time on the App Store. The report led to Zachary Robinson sending an email to Tim Cook to express his concern over the move. That email has now received a detailed reply from Phil Schiller, SVP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple. 
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Apple Using Dominant App Store Position to Crack Down on Third-Party Screen Time Apps, and more for 04/27/2019
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Ever since Apple released Screen Time as a part of iOS 12, the company has been coming down heavily on third-party apps that offer similar functionality. 
Apple Watch Series 4 took the Apple Watch to a whole new level. With a design and a much bigger screen. But Apple hasn’t done much to make use of the bigger screen. The new watchOS update is the perfect chance for Apple to bring some of the app and features which might not have made sense with the old screen size. Here is our watchOS 6 wishlist. 
It takes ten shots to get one good picture. We all seem to have internalized this rule. We take multiple pictures until we finally find that Instagram-ready angle. But once we’ve meticulously edited the photo and shared it on social media, the dopamine has done its job and we move on to the next thing. Chasing the next perfect frame. All this while, your iPhone has been collecting a collection of those 9 bad photos for every good click. It’s time to finally get rid of them all and claim back the valuable storage space. Gemini Photos is here to help. Friday, April 26, 2019
You Can Now Use SoundHound to Share Music Through Instagram Stories, and more for 04/26/2019
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SoundHound is a popular streaming platform for music fans, and now it’s getting a new way to share the songs and artists you like through Instagram. 
Intel is officially out of the smartphone modem business, which the company attributes to the settlement between Qualcomm and Apple. But it sounds like the company’s future could have been very different. 
In today’s world you can never be too careful. Give yourself the gift of peace of mind by adding some smart home security cameras to your life. The LizaTech 1080p Wi-Fi Battery IP Camera is perfect for indoors and outside surveillance, and it’s available now in the iPhone Hacks Deals Hub for just $149.99. That’s 25% off the usual MSRP of $199.99. 
A day after @onleaks posted 3D CAD renderings of the 2019 iPhone 11, he has now posted detailed 5K renders and 360-degree video of the 2019 iPhone 11 Max. 
AirPods are an Apple-first device. The work best with Apple ecosystem. Thanks to the W1/H1 chip inside them, they automatically connect with your iPhone as soon as you put them in your ears and they also pause playback when you remove one AirPod. But underneath Apple’s secret sauce lies Bluetooth technology. This means you can use them as standard Bluetooth headphones on any Android device. Here’s how to connect AirPods to Android. 
The possibility of Apple adding native mouse support to iOS 13 on the iPad Pro has got a lot of people excited. Creator Guilherme Martins Schasiepen has gone ahead and created some renders of how iOS 13 will look like on the iPad Pro with mouse support. 
Amazon is reportedly in talks to license and offer a new premium music subscription service by the end of 2019 with high definition content. This could give Amazon’s music streaming service a major advantage over Apple Music and Spotify which have been gaining millions of subscribers every quarter.
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