Tag: Apple

Apple updates ‘Field Test’ app on iOS 10.3!

Apple seeded the first beta of iOS 10.3 yesterday right after they released iOS 10.2.1 to the public. The field test app is a “hidden app” within iOS which can be accessed from the phone app by dialing *3001#12345#* on the dial pad.

The field test app can be used to quickly find out a lot of information about your cellular connection like the LTE Band you’re connected to, the bandwidth available etc.. Apple hasn’t updated the app for a very long time fence falling behind the curve and not showing a lot of the information the new iPhone(s) now support like carrier aggregation.

The new screenshots show that the app is now updated for the larger screens, shows a lot more information about different “carriers” of LTE bands and most importantly showing the current carrier aggregation status.

Currently the new app is only on the Intel version of the iPhone 7s’ but, it should roll out to other devices in future betas.

A bunch of Apple service are down.

After multiple reports the status page from Apple has confirmed the large outage of it’s services. Current the list of services extends to:

  • App Store
  • Mac App Store
  • Apple TV
  • Back to My Mac
  • Documents in the Cloud
  • Find my Friends
  • Find My iPhone
  • iCloud (All services)
  • iMovie Theater
  • iPhone Calls to iPad and Mac
  • iTunes in the Cloud
  • iWork for iCloud
  • Mail Drop
  • Photos
  • Volume Purchase Program

Services which are not working for us but, are not listed as “down” on the status page from Apple:

  • Apple Music

As more and more services continue to go down the page from Apple will be updated.

Many users are also facing the problem of their iOS devices showing “The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time.” – This is related to the services going down.

We’ll update this story as we learn more.

UPDATE 7:50 PM EST – Multiple service are now online. Here are the list of services still down as of now:

  • iCloud Backup
  • iCloud Drive
  • iCloud Notes
  • iCloud Web Apps
  • iWork for iCloud
  • Photos

UPDATE 10:00 PM EST – All services are now back up. They may be slow for some users.

ICYMI – Apple is now offering student discounts for Apple Music..

After Apple’s very successful launch of Apple Music, it’s music streaming service.. There were a few things that separated it from it’s competitors like Spotify.

First being the much larger library of music especially for music in languages other than English.

The second very big difference was the price, for example – both Spotify and Apple Music offer individual and family subscriptions for $9.99/mo. or $14.99/mo respectively. However Spotify offered it’s service to most college and university students for 50% off at just $4.99/mo. Apple is now matching that price and is also offering Apple Music individual subscriptions for $4.99/mo.

Both services give students access to the entire catalog. The Apple Music student prices is only for one account – no a family subscription. If are already part of a family subscription – remove yourself and then signup for a individual subscription.

NOTE: If you are connected to a family membership and decide to sign up for a student subscriptionship then you’ll end up paying both the family price and the individual price.

The student validation is done though the UNiDAYS service. To find out more about getting a student Apple Music subscriptionship go: here.

iOS 9.2.1 Release, Changelog and exploit patched list.

iOS 9.2.1 was just pushed out to users using a OTA update. The update was just pushed out with the comment:

This update contains security updates and bug fixes including a fix for an issue that could prevent the completion of app installation when using an MDM server.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/HT201222

The official list of exploits patched was just released to public domain here:

Disk Images

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1717 : Frank Graziano of Yahoo! Pentest Team

IOHIDFamily

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue existed in an IOHIDFamily API. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1719 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

IOKit

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1720 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1721 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero and Ju Zhu of Trend Micro

libxslt

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A type confusion issue existed in libxslt. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2015-7995 : puzzor

syslog

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1722 : Joshua J. Drake and Nikias Bassen of Zimperium zLabs

WebKit

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1723 : Apple

CVE-2016-1724 : Apple

CVE-2016-1725 : Apple

CVE-2016-1726 : Apple

CVE-2016-1727 : Apple

WebKit CSS

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: Websites may know if the user has visited a given link

Description: A privacy issue existed in the handling of the “a:visited button” CSS selector when evaluating the containing element’s height. This was addressed through improved validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1728 : an anonymous researcher coordinated via Joe Vennix

WebSheet

Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later

Impact: A malicious captive portal may be able to access the user’s cookies

Description: An issue existed that allowed some captive portals to read or write cookies. The issue was addressed through an isolated cookie store for all captive portals.

CVE-ID

CVE-2016-1730 : Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit of Skycure

Apple’s ugly looking $99 battery case

Apple has started selling it’s own battery case but, from what you would expect from a product made by Apple is something every stylish and high quality however, this battery case looks very unattractive use a very odd looking bump on the back which holds the battery.

The case is made out of soft-touch silicone exterior with a soft microfiber lining on the inside. Apple claims the iPhone 6S and the battery case will have an increased talk time up to 25 hours along with LTE usage up to 18 hours! Since the battery is made by Apple itself, It includes the ability for the battery status to be displayed on both the iPhone’s lock screen and the notification center. Unlike third-party battery cases this case will actually use a lightning cable to charge both the case and phone but, most of the other cases just a micro-usb cable.

The odd look of the case gives it the ability to be used with existing Lightning accessories like the lightning dock. It has been reported that the odd look of the case is to avoid patent violation from other battery case companies like Mophie.

Mophie patent #9,172,070

Apple is getting a lot of hate for the ugly design of the battery case but, if you would like to get a first-party battery case then this is your only option as of now.. It’s available in two colors, Black and White and is available for $99.

Apple already has 11 Million users!

It’s been just a month since Apple Music launched to public and and it has already gotten 11 Million trail users with 2 million of them with the $14.99 per month family plan, company executives told USA TODAY.

We’re thrilled with the numbers so far, says Eddy Cue

Apple Music costs $9.99 for individuals and $14.99 in a family plan for up-to 6 people! Apple Music has more than 30 Million on-demand and offline available songs along with human-created playlists and live radio ad-free! Everybody get a 3 month trail which automatically get’s renewed into a paid plan . This is if you don’t turn off the auto-renew option or cancel before the trail ends.
Apple would already have more members then Spotify if everyone moved over to the paid plan.

WWDC 2015 is a thing! June from 8th to the 12th!

Like all the past years Apple is having a event for it’s developers. This year it’s from June 8th to June 12th. Like every year we should expect everything that’s coming from Apple in the following year.

We are also expecting some new hardware refreshes like a new Apple TV.

The Event will be live on the Apple website along with being rebroadcasted by major news sources.

There is not much to say until we get closer to the dates. We will definitely have a video right after the event so stay tuned!

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Download and Watch the Apple March Event “Spring Foward” in HD!

A few weeks ago Apple has it’s “Spring Forward” event and it was live streamed on Apple website. You can watch the stream in HD below and download it for FREE!

REMEMBER: DO NOT REBROADCAST THIS EVENT WITHOUT APPLE’S PERMISSION.

Video hot-linked from Apple.

Download link

Use the “Save link as” or similar option to download the video.

REMEMBER: DO NOT REBROADCAST THIS EVENT WITHOUT APPLE’S PERMISSION.

iOS 8.2 is out with a App Store for the Apple Watch!

Just this morning Apple sent out the iOS 8.2 update it’s users and it includes a “Apple Watch” app that allows you to pair your phone to your watch and download apps for the watch!

Currently the “App Store” tab is “Coming Soon”! Other then that you have a explore tab – Which has a bunch of promotion videos of the Apple Watch. The most important tab is the “My Watch” tab. When you are connected to the internet and you Bluetooth is on you can connect to your watch by pointing that camera at it or by choosing the watch from the list.

The “Apple Watch” app can’t be deleted just the “Apple Store” and the “iTunes Store”.

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Apple Watch – Android Wear for your iPhone!

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We expected Apple to only release the Apple Watch at this event but, instead we also saw a new Macbook.

The Apple Watch does a lot of the same things as any Android Wear watch but, just with a bunch of gestures. One of these gestures include the swipe up from the watch face to bring up “Glances” which are “cards” from apps that you choose from you iPhone so you get the information quickly.
Just like an Android Wear watch it can (for example) bring up your boarding pass when you are near an airport or you are close to the time of departure. An Apple Watch can also run apps and with Apple Pay, pay for items wireless using your watch.
Just like any other smart watch you can receive any notifications on your watch and reply to text or answer phone calls. Since that watch is so small it doesn’t have a keyboard so you can reply to a message using the default commands or using Siri.

As far as the watch face itself goes it’s quite customization – you can download themes from ones that look like traditional watch to a Mickey Mouse theme. You can customize all of these watch faces. For example – With the Mickey Mouse watch  phase you change the weather in the top-right corner to anything you want like the date. The customizability is different from theme to another and in some cases you can customize a lot of stuff and in some you can only customize one or two things.

The watch physically only has two button – A digital crown and a button. The digital crown which didn’t look like the best thing in the world when they announced the watch is actually not that bad. You can use it scroll smoothing through stuff your is not always in the way and click it go to the apps page or the watch face. The second button is a quick launch button that takes you to your favorite contact and you can scroll thought them to text or call them. From this menu you will see a “doodle” if the person also has a Apple Watch and with that you can send them a animated doodle from your Watch to their’s and it will show up on their screen just like the way you drew it. You can also double tap the quick launch button to jump into Apple Pay and choose what you want to pay with.

There were rumors circulation of the Apple Watch not having great battery life and everybody was really skeptical when Tim Cook came on stage and said that the Apple Watch will have a 18 Hour battery life using a power reserve technology.

If you want the buy the Apple Watch then it’s going to about double the cost of most Android Wear watches and since Apple has never allowed third party manufacturers to create an apple product you only have three models of the Apple Watch you can buy now.

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The Apple Watch Sport – Which is the cheapest watch in the lineup. It’s available in a lot of bands and colors and in two sizes (38 mm. and 42 mm.). The watch is $349 (38 mm) or $399 (42 mm).

The Apple Watch – This is the second “inexpensive” watch. It is more premium then the Sport and has way more premium bands and more colors. This is also available in 38 mm. and 42 mm. sizes. The watch is $549 (38 mm) or $599 (42 mm).

The Apple Watch Edition – This is model is for the really serious people who want to make a fashion statement. It’s in limited quantity, colors and sizes. Most of these watches are made out of Gold (at-least the case) and start at just $10,000! No it’s not a miss print – It STARTS at 10K!

 

You can look at all of these watches here

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