Roughly one year ago, Apple announced a huge change to its Maps app, stating that the company was completely overhauling its fundamental map data. The new data would expand upon what was there, now including buildings, rivers, roads, and vegetation in a vastly more accurate and detailed form. Apple began rolling out the new mapping […]
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Apple will apparently no longer track your device’s location by its SSID or BSSID signal. The note comes on the heels of Apple’s WWDC 2019 developer session 713 titled, “Advances in Networking” revealed that iOS 13 will stop location tracking using your device’s SSID/BSSID using the CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo API. Developers have reported receiving the following email from […]
If you’re looking to resume using Apple Pay at JCPenney, it looks like the system’s back up. The retailer reinstated Apple Pay as its stores on Thursday, June 19th. JCPenney has reinstated Apple Pay at its stores, it emerged Thursday. The reactivation is said to have happened on June 19th. JCPenney stopped accepting Apple Pay and other […]
It’s not the best news you’re going to hear all day, but at least there’s a replacement program for the issue. Apple on Thursday announced a voluntary recall for owners of its 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks sold between September 2015 and February 2017. The notebooks, as cited by Apple, feature a battery issue that presents […]
You’re not going to love this. Twitter on Monday disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data being shared with a Twitter partner, even if the user had not opted in to sharing that data. The bug only affected a portion of Twitter’s iOS user base, the company says, and they’ve […]