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iPhone bug opens up stranger's life to the world

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 1st, 2012)

Gizmodo has raised awareness a serious problem regarding an iMessage bug that, under the wrong circumstances, might result in your messages being seen by others, or you seeing someone else's messages. It's not a new issue; Ars Technica reported on it in December with stolen iPhones, and the problem ...

Australia's Telstra working to fix iPhone 4S network dropouts

by Chris Rawson (Dec 8th, 2011)

Australian telco Telstra is currently working with Apple to resolve bizarre coverage dropouts on the iPhone 4S, according to ZDNet. For a couple of months, iPhone 4S users on Telstra's network have reported that the iPhone will randomly lose signal and drop to "Searching..." for about a minute ...

Some iPhone 4S users report SIM card issues

by Chris Rawson (Nov 17th, 2011)

Some iPhone 4S owners have been experiencing a peculiar situation where the device stops recognizing their SIM cards. Users have been reporting that they receive error messages on the iPhone 4S stating that they either have no SIM card installed or their SIM is invalid. Rebooting the handset ...

Apple seeds iOS 5.0.1 Beta 2 to developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 4th, 2011)

Coming roughly two days after releasing the first iOS 5.0.1 beta, Apple has pushed a second version of the beta to developers, presumably as the company works to correct battery issues with devices running iOS 5. MacRumors states this version is build 9A404 and is available as an over-the-air ...

Apple promises fix for iOS 5 battery issues, releases iOS 5.0.1 beta

by Chris Rawson (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Apple has just confirmed with All Things Digital that it is aware of the battery issues some iPhone owners have noticed under iOS 5 and is working on a fix. "A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting ...

iOS 5 and the TUAW iPhone app

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 29th, 2011)

As those of you using the free TUAW iPhone app in iOS 5 have already seen, there are a few issues with it; missing buttons, some broken functionality, et cetera. While we were expecting that the AOL team handling mobile development for us & all our sister sites would have an update ready ...

iOS 5 features: Changes in Music app for iPad

by Chris Rawson (Oct 12th, 2011)

With iOS 5, the iPad's Music app has been completely overhauled. The first clue is in the name; rather than being called the "iPod" app, complete with an increasingly anachronistic classic iPod icon, it's been re-branded as the same "Music" app the iPod touch has had since day one. However, the ...

Apple releases iMac Graphic Firmware Update 3.0 to address hanging graphics

by Chris Rawson (Aug 24th, 2011)

Apple has released iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0 to address graphical hanging issues that some people were reporting on iMacs. After upgrading to Lion, many users had reported their iMacs were locking up entirely after playing certain kinds of videos, requiring them to reboot in order to regain ...

Baffling inconsistencies in OS X Lion Multi-Touch

by Chris Rawson (Aug 2nd, 2011)

OS X Lion's new Multi-Touch gestures have switched things up more than any previous version of OS X, and they're brought a lot of confusion with them. While "natural" scrolling is the most obvious change and the one that takes the most getting used to (unless you disable it), other ...

OS X Lion Bug: Safari guzzling massive amounts of RAM

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

After installing OS X Lion last week, one of the things I've noticed is that Safari tends to run away with enormous amounts of RAM over time. A subprocess called "Safari Web Content" will sometimes use over a gigabyte of RAM. Since my Mac maxes out at 4 GB, and since it's a rare day that I'm ...

Lion bug: Some iMacs locking up after playing video

by Chris Rawson (Jul 24th, 2011)

Over the past few days, quite a few iMac owners have told us they're experiencing systemwide freezes after watching videos. Likewise, Apple's support forums are full of iMac owners experiencing the same issue. Although the bug is difficult to reproduce reliably, it's not confined to any one ...

A few nasty gotchas in Lion

by Mel Martin (Jul 21st, 2011)

Any major system update always has a few bugs and surprises, and Lion is no exception. There are two bugs that hit me directly -- one in Mail, and the other in working with network attached storage (NAS) devices. Let me hit NAS first. I have a pretty old Buffalo Linkstation that I use to back ...

Dropbox security bug temporarily allowed logins without authentication

by Chris Rawson (Jun 20th, 2011)

Earlier today, a code update to Dropbox introduced a bug that temporarily allowed access to users' accounts and files without authentication via the company's web interface. For approximately four hours, from the time that Dropbox made the changes until the service's developers were able to ...

iOS Home Sharing bug found while using multiple Macs

by David Winograd (Apr 15th, 2011)

iOS 4.3 brought us Home Sharing, which allows you to share iTunes libraries on up to five authorized computers on the same network and also have them show up on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. But if you have more than one Mac with a library to share, you may be in the same boat I found myself ...

Mac OS X 10.6.7 supplemental update for 13" MacBook Air

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2011)

Apple has released a "supplemental update" to OS X version 10.6.7 specifically for the 13" MacBook Air model released late last year. The update reportedly fixes an issue that made the devices "unresponsive when using iTunes," and it clocks in at a tiny 461 KB. As always, the updates are ...