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Apple has posted its third quarter 2022 results and somehow still managed to post record a June quarter revenue record of $83 billion. iPhone sales remained strong while Services climbed again. Apple had warned last quarter that continued supply constraints would affect revenue in the quarter and it’s clear that it had an impact, though a smaller one than feared. Stock for MacBooks and iPads have been constrained for months and those two categories saw the steepest decline, with the Mac posting a 10 percent year-over-year decline and the iPad dipping 2 percent. The usually solid Wearables, Home, and Accessories segment also dropped 8 percent. “Our June quarter results continued to demonstrate our ability to manage our business effectively despite the challenging operating environment. We set a June quarter revenue…

Along with iOS 15.6 and macOS 12.5 Monterey, Apple released watchOS 8.7 with bug fixes, performance improvements, and security updates. Since the Apple Watch Series 3 isn’t compatible with watchOS 9 this autumn, this is very likely the last update it will receive. Unlike iOS and macOS, Apple doesn’t release watchOS updates for older devices. The Apple Watch Series 3 was the last model with Apple’s older design, with a 38- or 40mm square display and few sensors. Apple still sells it, though is almost certainly to be removed or replaced in the autumn. SECURITY UPDATES The update won’t change much about the Apple Watch, but it does include more than two dozen security updates affecting all corners of the OS, from audio to the neural engine to Wi-Fi. All…

Sometimes we go astray by confusing entertainment for value. In sports, it’s a draft or (in the case of this past month in Major League Baseball) a trade deadline that provides some entertainment – who will go where? – but in the end, very little nourishment. The sound and fury you just witnessed don’t quite signify nothing, but what they signify won’t be known for months or years. This happens in business, too. I’m thinking about it because of an exchange in last week’s Apple conference call with analysts. Piper Sandler analyst Harsh Kumar asked Tim Cook if, since stock prices have crashed for a lot of companies, Apple was specifically looking to acquire companies to grow its services business. “We always look and we ask ourselves how strategic it…

Apple doesn’t make budget phones. The closest thing you can find is the iPhone SE–updated roughly every other year and starting at £419. In the Android world, there are lots of budget phones, where a brand new model is £300 or less. They’re not bad, but most people would be happier with something ‘mid-range’, and that’s where Google’s Pixel a-series phones come in. Google’s newest budget phone is the Pixel 6a, easily the most comparable thing in the Android world to the iPhone SE: it’s a mid-range phone made by the same company that makes the software ecosystem in which it operates, and with a price of £399 it costs nearly the same. Our sister site TechAdvisor reviewed the Pixel 6a (fave.co/3oznLk1) and loved it, saying it “crams in the…

A password manager can make life a great deal easier. Rather than having to remember increasingly complex login details for a myriad of apps and sites, you simply use one solitary password to access the manager app itself, which then takes care of the rest. They can also create new, complex passwords for your accounts; ones that will be far more secure than the current combination of birthdays, pets and children’s names that you might be using. We’ve gathered together a selection of the best offerings for iPhone. If you’re interested in making your iPhone browsing more secure, then check out our best VPN guide on page 48. WHAT IS A PASSWORD MANAGER? As the name suggests, these apps are a way to manage the account details for any app…

Alexis Lours, a software engineer and tech writer from France, has published a detailed analysis of the new Lockdown Mode added to iOS 16 in the third beta (fave.co/3bH1lL2). There’s good news and bad news: it will protect your iPhone from some of the most sophisticated cyberattacks in the world (such as Pegasus). But it will also massively slow down performance when browsing the web. WHAT IS LOCKDOWN MODE? Before we get into Lours’ testing, it’s worth explaining what Lockdown Mode is, and what it’s for. This is not, we’d like to stress, a feature intended for the average user. It’s an ultra-high-privacy mode for individuals who fear cyberattacks ‘from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware’. Here’s Apple’s explanation: “Lockdown Mode is an extreme, optional protection that should only be…

Price: £999 from fave.co/3vQDpvr Mark Levinson is to audio what Lamborghini, Porsche and Ferrari are to automobiles. The high-end brand, named after its legendary founder, has left an indelible mark with audio products priced in the four and five figures. The Mark Levinson team is looking to add a new – and admittedly atypical – product to that legacy: The £999 No. 5909 wireless noise-cancelling headphone. This is the first headphone model Mark Levinson has ever produced, and it’s designed for the busy professional or passionate listener. What makes this headphone special isn’t necessarily its pedigree, premium materials, onboard tech, or noise-cancelling performance (though it has all of those, too). Rather, what’s notable is the No. 5909’s voicing to the so-called Harman target curve for headphones. The result? A gorgeous…

Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who is typically quite reliable with such things, has a new report claiming that iPadOS 16 is being delayed by about a month. Citing the common “people with knowledge of the matter”, Gurman says that instead of releasing the new iPhone and iPad operating system updates at the same time, Apple will release iOS 16 in September as expected but iPadOS 16 will come in October. It’s not uncommon for macOS to follow a few weeks after iOS, but the iPad software has always updated on the same schedule as its iPhone sibling. There are several reasons for the delayed release, according to Gurman: • It would line up better with rumoured new iPad hardware (M2 iPad Pros and a new base-model iPad with a USB-C…

It’s a day with a Y in it, so Apple must be getting sued. This time, the Cupertino company stands accused of profiting heavily – and anticompetitively – by giving its own Apple Pay service preferential treatment on the iPhone platform. The class-action lawsuit was filed in US district court in Northern California last month by the law firms Hagens Berman and Sperling & Slater. It complains that Apple allows its own Apple Pay service to access the NFC chip on the iPhone, while prohibiting rival services such as Google Pay from doing the same thing. This means there is only one tap-to-pay option for iOS users. The suit further claims that Apple makes a huge amount of money each year thanks to its exclusive Apple Pay policy, which enables…

Each year, we take a look at the trajectory of Apple’s A-series silicon (which premieres in iPhones and is often used in iPads) in order to get an idea of how the next chip will perform. By combining what we know of state-of-the-art chip manufacturing and packaging processes and Apple’s past improvements, we can generally glean what’s coming from the next system-on-chip (SoC). This year, as we look ahead to the A16, making this call is harder than ever. The strongest rumours suggest that the A16 will not move forward to a major new manufacturing process node, and that it will only appear in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max – with the regular iPhone 14 models utilizing the same souped-up A15 in the iPhone 13 Pro models. What’s…

One of the most common questions we get is: is this a good time to buy an iPhone? If you need a new phone right now, then go ahead, we’re sure you’ll be happy with your purchase. If you don’t, there’s an easy rule: Apple typically releases new iPhones in September, so don’t buy a new iPhone shortly before that. Last year was no exception – Apple put the iPhone 13 series up for sale in September. So, we know what you’re thinking: Is this a good time to buy an iPhone, or can I do better if I wait? PRICING AND SPECS Released: September 2021 The iPhone 13 comes in four varieties, just like the iPhone 12 did last year: iPhone 13, 13 mini 13 Pro, and 13 Pro…

One of our favourite features of iOS 16 is the ability to edit and unsend iMessages. Just long-press a message and you can choose to edit or undo send (we show you how to edit and unsend messages here). But advocates have raised concerns that the system could be abused by bad actors – texting abuse is common among those in abusive relationships, and the ability to change or hide evidence is concerning. While Apple has not addressed these concerns publicly, some changes to the system in iOS 16 developer beta 4 seem targeted specifically at them. You used to have 15 minutes to edit or unsend a message, and edited messages would only show an ‘edited’ tag to the recipient. The new rules are as follows: • You only…

Apple’s biggest autumn release is usually the iPhone. Even when the company unveiled the very first Apple Watch at the ‘Wish we could say more’ event in September 2014, this still took a back seat to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which brought a dramatic new design and the largest screen Apple had ever put in a smartphone. But this autumn might be different. While the iPhone 14 will still be Apple’s biggest seller this holiday season, it’s shaping up to be a somewhat minor refresh. Even the iPhone 14 Pro, which is getting the lion’s share of major updates, is going to be largely an S-type upgrade on last year’s iPhone 13 Pro. In short, the iPhone 14 might not be the star of the show. Rumours have…

Price: £129 from fave.co/3A7Rt6i 1More might not have the same recognition as Sony, Bose, or Apple, but the company’s headphones have earned consistently good reviews and more than a few ‘best of’ recommendations over the past few years. The Evo true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds are their new top-of-the line model, and they seem destined to continue the company’s string of successes. You get excellent audio quality and a metal charging case that gives the Evo headphones a premium feel. The active noise cancellation is a bit more relaxed than what you’ll find in many of the other top-rated brands, but that lower intensity makes for a better listening experience when ANC is engaged. BUILD QUALITY The Evo are available in either black or white. The charging case is made of…

Apple and Sir Jony Ive have finally split, with the two parties agreeing to end the $100m consulting agreement signed in 2019. According to The New York Times, the parting was a mutual decision. Apple executives had begun to question the expense of the agreement and the departure of several in-house designers to Ive’s LoveFrom company, the paper reports, while Ive had grown frustrated at not being able to freely work with other clients. The arrangement prohibited LoveFrom from ‘taking on work that Apple found competitive’. This brings to a close a 30-year association between Ive and the Cupertino company, which he joined in 1992. Some of Apple’s most iconic products, including the iPhone, the Apple Watch, the iMac and many other high-profile products have Ive’s fingerprints all over them.…

Inflation runs rampant. Threats of recession loom. And last month Apple strolled right in, whistling a happy tune, turning in yet another record set of financial results. The company set a fiscal third-quarter revenue record, with $83 billion in receipts, up 2 percent from 2021. But look deeper, and you’ll see that this was an unusual quarter for Apple. The company was battered by a ‘cocktail of headwinds’, to quote Apple CFO Luca Maestri using a metaphor that wasn’t just mixed, but shaken and stirred. Mac sales were down, wearables took a beating, and even the seemingly invincible Services line showed some softness. And yet, it was a pretty good quarter, considering. I realize that the word ‘considering’ is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but it’s true.…

It’s been strongly rumoured for a while now that the launch of the iPhone 14 Pro this autumn will finally see Apple’s smartphone line gain the always-on screen functionality that’s been available on Android for years. But a discovery in the wallpapers in iOS 16 means we now know how that feature will behave – and it’s looking like Apple is taking it up a notch. After browsing through the internal files of iOS 16’s fourth beta, 9to5Mac was able to recreate the way wallpapers will transition between normal and ‘Sleep’ modes on the iPhone 14 Pro. Whereas Android devices with alway-son displays tend to switch off wallpapers entirely in their idle version and show a black background, the 14 Pro will do something a little more fun, and far…

I come here not to bury the iPhone mini but to praise it. If reports are true, the iPhone 13 mini will be the last of its line, replaced by a larger iPhone 14 Max this autumn. And as someone who owns and loves an iPhone 13 mini, this makes me sad – sad enough to hold onto my iPhone 13 mini for another year. It seems that not enough people share my love for the iPhone 13 mini for Apple to update it for the iPhone 14 generation. No matter: The iPhone 13 mini is a great device. So great, in fact, that I suspect we haven’t seen the end of its design yet. IN PRAISE OF THE LITTLE GUY There’s no denying it: people love big phones. The…

You’ve been able to dictate text to your iPhone instead of typing for a very long time, and over the years it has occasionally gotten better. But with iOS 16, the dictation features are taking a huge step forward in usability – so much so that you might actually start using it all the time. As long as you have an iPhone with an A12 Bionic chip or better (that’s an iPhone XS), you’ll be able to seamlessly talk and type or edit, which makes the entire dictation ‘workflow’ a lot smoother. Automatic punctuation can add commas, full stops, and question marks. And you can add emoji via voice, too. Here’s how to make the most of these awesome new dictation features to speed up your typing. JUST TAP THE…

Ever since their debut, one of AirPods’ biggest selling points has been their simplicity and ease of use. Open the case near your iPhone and a card pops up, tap Connect, and you’re ready to listen. Pop them out of the case and into your ears and you’re ready to answer calls, listen to music, and watch videos. Take a bud out of your ear and the music automatically pauses. But the fact that they’re so easy to use means that millions of AirPods owners are probably unaware of some of their more advanced features and settings. They may not have ever thought to even look for them! Here are five features you may have never known your AirPods can do. (And most of these also work on Beats Fit…

Apple’s MagSafe technology presents a more efficient way of wirelessly charging compatible iPhones. MagSafe is the ring of magnets around the iPhone 12 and 13’s internal charging coil, which senses compatible accessories and magnetically snaps securely into place with the right accessories. It is supported by all models of iPhone 12 and 13. It allows certified and compatible accessories to magnetically clamp to the back of the iPhone, creating a strong and less wasteful connection. MagSafe charging can be twice as fast as standard Qi wireless charging for a number of reasons. First, it supports 15-watt iPhone charging, compared to the usual 7.5 watts from a Qi charger; note, though, that this is 12 watts for the iPhone 12/13 mini. Standard non-MagSafe magnetic chargers – also known as MagSafe-compatible wireless…