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Misbehaving iMessage and a potential fix

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 15th, 2012)

If you repeatedly have a problem receiving iMessages on your iPhone, then you should try this fix from Brian X. Chen of the New York Times. In a recent Gadgetwise column, Chen explains how he missed appointments because his iMessages were often delayed. He complained on Twitter and was ...

Study: 87% of iPhone 4S owners use Siri monthly

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2012)

Parks Associates surveyed 482 iPhone 4S owners and found that 87 percent of respondents use voice assistant Siri at least once a month. Most people (55 percent) are satisfied with the service and use it to make phone calls and send text messages. About a third of users, however, are not using ...

whited00r gives older iPhones iOS5 features

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 19th, 2012)

Apple devices age well, so well that there are still people using the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. When we think of those phones, we think "classic hardware with older software," but it doesn't have to be that way. For Apple fans with these now classic handsets, there's whited00r, a ...

iTunes U graduates into separate iOS app

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 19th, 2012)

Announced today at Apple's education event, iTunes U -- a long-standing feature of the iTunes Store -- is now a separate application (universal) for iOS devices running iOS 5. Since 2006, iTunes U has been a way to electronically distribute class lectures. Both Berkeley and Stanford have ...

Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers

by Chris Rawson (Jan 9th, 2012)

Apple has released the third beta of iOS 5.1 to developers. iOS 5.1 beta 2 was released nearly a month ago, but now that the holiday lull is out of the way it's probably not going to take that long before the next beta comes out. The beta is available both through over-the-air download and a ...

iPhone alarms work fine on 1/1 and 1/2, if you update iOS

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2012)

There's two possible explanations for why Engadget's tipline was heating up this morning with emailed complaints about iPhone alarms not going off as scheduled on New Year's Day (first reported last year and fixed in iOS 5), but we haven't heard a peep about the problem. Explanation #1: The ...

iMessages reportedly still sent to stolen iPhones (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 20th, 2011)

Update: Daring Fireball pointed to this recommendation from Jesse Hollington: set a SIM PIN code, which will prevent your phone from registering with the cellular network after a reset or a SIM swap until/unless the PIN is entered. Be extremely careful, however, as the iPhone settings UI can be ...

iPhone 4S-specific iOS build is for "No SIM Card Installed" errors

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 19th, 2011)

Last Thursday Apple quietly issued a new build of iOS 5.0.1 specifically for the iPhone 4S. There were no release notes issued with the new build and users who had already installed and earlier build of 5.0.1 on their iPhone 4S couldn't update to the new one without restoring their iPhone. The ...

Apple to improve Notification Center with fresh talent

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 14th, 2011)

Apple is looking outside its ranks and hiring a college student to help revise its iOS notification system. This isn't any college student. The new hire is Jan-Michael Cart, the whizkid who created a clever mocked up Notification Center redesign and then posted it to YouTube. Cart will join ...

On UI inconsistency in iOS 5

by Chris Rawson (Dec 6th, 2011)

A while back, designer Jake Marsh commented on an inconsistency in Apple's use of linen textures in iOS 5 (hat tip to Daring Fireball). In both OS X Lion and iOS 5, the linen texture is "underneath" other UI elements in almost every instance. In Lion, linen textures lie beneath the Mission ...

Use iFaith v1.4 to downgrade to iOS 5.0

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 5th, 2011)

The jailbreakers among you are probably anxiously awaiting the first untethered iOS 5 jailbreak promised by pod2g and MuscleNerd. However, if you've upgraded to iOS 5.0.1, you'll be out of luck because the first untethered jailbreak will be for iOS 5.0 only. Nothing later. In iOS 4 and ...

German regulators seek details on Apple's use of Carrier IQ

by Steven Sande (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Apple has already made a statement on the company's use of Carrier IQ, saying that "We stopped supporting Carrier IQ [a piece of software that tracks user activity] with iOS 5 in most of our products, and we're going to remove it completely in a future software update." Apparently that's not good ...

Carrier IQ references found in iOS 5, probably benign (updated with Apple statement)

by Erica Sadun (Nov 30th, 2011)

The Interwebs have been abuzz over the last 24 hours about Carrier IQ on Android smart phones, allegedly logging user activity including keystrokes. TUAW can confirm that Carrier IQ appears to be included on iOS 5, but that its purpose is most likely benign. iOS virtuoso chpwn discovered Carrier ...

Daily Update for November 30, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 30th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Chronic Dev team releases C-Dev Reporter tool

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 28th, 2011)

As noted by RedmondPie the Chronic Dev Team, the people behind the GreenPois0n jailbreaking tool, have released a beta of a new tool which aims to circumvent iOS crash reports being sent to Apple and instead funnels them to the Chronic Dev Team. The tool, called C-Dev Reporter, aims to notify ...