Innehållsförteckning för August 2022 från Macworld UK

Are you excited about Apple possibly launching an augmented reality headset? Tim Cook sure is. You probably already figured that, since Cook has offered his thoughts on AR on several occasions. And he’s doing it again, this time on China Daily, a state-run news outlet in China. In an interview, Cook says he “could not be more excited about the opportunities in the [AR] space. Sort of stay tuned and you will see what we have to offer”. He also points out that AR development is in the “very early innings” and touted the App Store’s 14,000-plus ARKit apps. A transcript of the AR portion of the interview is posted below. You can watch the interview at fave. co/3a1idew, which focuses on China based app developers and innovation. China…

Apple faces yet another lawsuit over the notorious ‘Batterygate’ controversy, this time in the UK. The Guardian reports that consumer rights campaigner Justin Gutmann has filed a claim with the Competition Appeals Tribunal and is seeking damages of £768m. “I’m launching this case so that millions of iPhone users across the UK will receive redress for the harm suffered by Apple’s actions,” Gutmann said. “I hope dominant companies will re-evaluate their business models and refrain from this kind of conduct.” If the claim is successful, the compensation pool will be shared among owners of affected iPhones across the UK, a group believed to number 25 million. Our client @JustinGutmann has today issued a new claim against Apple for failing to make iPhone users aware of a power management tool in…

The 13in M2 MacBook Pro is here. It’s a notable product for a bunch of conflicting reasons. First and foremost, it’s the first Mac ever to ship with the M2 processor, so how it performs will give us our first glimpse into how Apple plans on advancing the Mac processor line-up from generation to generation. It’s also the only Mac laptop shipping without a MagSafe charger and the last to have a Touch Bar. So while the 13in M2 MacBook Pro is going to get attention because of the M2, it’s also worth asking the question that was on everyone’s lips at WWDC22 after it was announced: Why does this computer exist at all? THEORY 1: RECYCLING Apple loves recycling, not only when it uses recycled aluminium in its devices…

If you don’t want to wait for the next version of macOS, Ventura, which will be released to the public this autumn, it will soon be possible to download the beta version. In this article we’ll run through what you need to do to get your hands on the beta of the next version of the Mac operating system, how to install it, and what you should bear in mind if you don’t want to end up in a pickle. BETA RELEASE DATE The first version of the developer beta of Ventura arrived after the WWDC22 keynote on 6 June. It is normal for Apple to release the first beta following the keynote so that developers can start work on testing their apps. Apple released the second developer beta on…

Apple’s M2 is here. As expected, it’s a nice upgrade over the M1, but not revolutionary. There are improvements in every part of the System on Chip; the CPU, GPU, memory system, Neural Engine and media engine. Clearly, the M2 is superior to the M1, but it now begs the question: is it worth buying a Mac with the M1 Pro, M1 Max or M1 Ultra anymore? Just because the second generation of Apple silicon is here, does that mean the first generation has reached the end of the line? In general, the answer to that is going to be yes, with the differences becoming starker as you move up the performance stack. If anything, it’s those considering the M1 Pro simply to get more memory or GPU performance that…

The WWDC keynote was nearly two hours packed with awesome new features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, new Mac hardware, and even a very early sneak peek at next‑generation CarPlay. Despite the marathon keynote presentation that brought dozens of new features, there are so many changes in iOS 16 that quite a lot had to be left out. Some were covered in the iPadOS and macOS presentations – improvements to apps like Mail are coming to all devices, but here are 12 smaller iOS 16 details we think are worth pointing out. 1. SUPPORT FOR SWITCH CONTROLLERS (AND OTHERS) iOS 16 officially includes support for multiple new Bluetooth game controllers, including Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers so you’ll have even more options when you play games. This support…

You know how during the macOS section of the WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple SVP Craig Federighi talked about how the “crack product marketing team” came upon the “stunning surf” and “lush alluvial plains” of Ventura, inspiring the new name of macOS? Well apparently, they also ran into an old friend while they were out there, and decided to bring it back into the operating system. As noted by Shadowfacts, Clarus the Dogcow is back after disappearing from the Mac a long time ago. In the beta of macOS Ventura, Clarus can be seen if you open Page Set-up in an app that supports it (such as Pages) like the Clarus of old. Shadowfacts was also able to pull a high-resolution image from the Ventura code. Longtime Mac users will notice…

Price: £1,349 from fave.co/3NpqIO7 The new 13in MacBook Pro is a unique Mac laptop. It has the distinction of being the first Mac with the M2 System on a Chip (SoC), the second generation of Apple silicon for the Mac. And considering that the M1 made such a tremendous impression, the new 13in MacBook Pro has a little bit of a burden of following such a successful debut. It does leave an impression, but it’s not a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring one. Maybe that’s unfair because after all, following the originator of the Mac rebirth is a tough task. And the new 13in MacBook Pro does offer better performance than its M1 predecessor. What tempers the enthusiasm for the new 13in MacBook Pro is everything else about it – besides the M2,…

As we’ve already seen, Apple has updated the 13in MacBook Pro with an M2 chip, but nothing else has really changed compared to the M1 version. But while the new version lacks the impact of the MacBook Air, which has seen a complete redesign and gained a larger screen, should you consider buying one? DESIGN You’d be hard-pressed to tell the M1 and M2 MacBook Pro apart. Nothing has changed between the two models. It’s not that the design isn’t beautiful and practical, it’s just that it looks dated in contrast with the redesigned 2022 MacBook Air, and the 14in MacBook Pro, both of which share a similar design language. If you sit a 13in MacBook Pro down beside any of the other Mac laptops you will notice that the…

Apple’s next version of macOS – which we now know will be called Ventura – will launch later this year, but we already know a lot about Ventura and its new features after Apple revealed all at WWDC 2022 in June. Beta testers are able to run Ventura now, but the rest of us will have to wait until the autumn. The question is, will there be enough improvements to tempt you to upgrade from Monterey to Ventura? In this article we will run through how Ventura compares to Monterey and we will discuss the new features it will bring to your Mac. Before you get too excited about the new features coming in Ventura, a warning: your Mac may not be able to run Ventura at all, or it…

The M1 is a great chip. Essentially an ‘X’ variant of the A14 chip, it takes the iPhone and iPad processor and doubles the high-performance CPU cores, GPU cores, and memory bandwidth. The M1 chip is so good it’s equally amazing for tablets and thin-and-light laptops as it is for desktops, easily outperforming any competing chip with similar power draw and offering similar performance to processors that use at least twice as much energy. Now a year and a half later, and after delivering three more powerful variants of the M1 (M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra), it’s time for the next generation. Announced at WWDC and appearing first in the new MacBook Air and 13in MacBook Pro, the M2 is essentially the System on Chip we predicted it…

Price: £12.99 from the Mac App Store While macOS has gradually adapted features once found only in iOS and iPadOS, contextual selection tools remain trapped in the past. Select text, and you have to Control-click to have a contextual menu appear with a jumbled-up set of options to act on the text. It’s difficult to customize or organize that list. PopClip offers an iOS/iPadOS-like pop-up bar that appears whenever you make a text selection in any app. With the app dating back to 2011, it’s developed right alongside Apple’s evolution of iPhone and iPad options. PopClip includes several options by default, including searching on Google, looking up a word or phrase in the macOS Dictionary app, offering to open a URL as a link, and providing spelling suggestions. Why turn…

Apple may be bringing a new Home app to iOS 16, but it’s not all good news: the tech giant has confirmed that the iPad will no longer be able to serve as a home hub when the update arrives this autumn. When setting up an Apple-based smart home, you can pick a central hub that will remain in the home at all times: this will receive commands, send out notifications, control automations and generally tell the other components what to do. In the past, the hub could be an Apple TV, a HomePod or an iPad, but as of the launch of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 this autumn, only the HomePod and Apple TV will work. What was first spotted in the iOS footnotes by Tech Crtr (fave.co/3NIGkwF)…

Apple has opened up orders for the 13in MacBook Pro. It’s the first Mac with Apple’s next-generation M2 processors, to be followed by the redesigned MacBook Air in July. But while it may appear to be a ‘new’ device, the MacBook Pro is actually packing plenty of older features that we thought Apple had jettisoned. So should you buy one? Here’s why you may want to hold off. 1. MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE M2 MACBOOK AIR While Apple hasn’t increased the price of the M2 MacBook Pro, it’s still in an awkward spot as far as pricing goes. Starting at £1,349, it’s £100 more than the upcoming MacBook Air with a larger screen and similar processor (8-core GPU versus 10-core GPU). The MacBook Pro does come with more storage (512GB…

With the introduction of all-new 14-and 16in MacBook Pro models, Apple officially moved every laptop it sells away from Intel processors, and now Apple has moved to the second generation of its own processors with the introduction of the M2 MacBook Pro. Apple sells three MacBook Pro models: A 13in model with the M2 processor, a 14in model with either the M1 Pro or M1 Max, and a 16in model with either the M1 Pro or M1 Max. Even though the M2 is the newer processor, the M1 Pro and M1 Max processors are still superior, and rather incredible, but these laptops are about more than just a killer processor. They’re full of great features like a ProMotion HDR display and the return of beloved features like HDMI output and…

After months – if not years – of fevered theorizing over Apple’s chip road map for the Mac, this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, at last, gave us a tantalizing peek at the successor to the blockbuster M1, released a little over a year and a half ago. We learned a bit more about the M2 this week when the first round of reviews landed. The 13in MacBook Pro is identical to the M1 model on the outside but the inside is completely different thanks to Apple’s latest chip. Benchmarks show a nice speed boost of around 20 percent, a significant jump in graphics performance and a very good improvement over the already-speedy M1. But, far more excitingly, now that we’ve got a second data point to work with, we can…

When iOS 16 is released this autumn, it’s going to change the way hundreds of millions of people use their iPhones. No, there aren’t any wholesale changes to the entire iPhone interface so it’s not like you’ll suddenly have to unlearn the last 10 years of iPhone interface evolution. But there are scores of new features, some big and some rather small, that will come into play nearly every time you pick up your phone. These five features in particular will become a part of the way millions of people use their iPhones every single day. They’re so useful, or just so integrated into the basic iPhone experience, that they’re likely to quickly become a staple of the iPhone experience – the sort of thing we just come to associate…

Of all the great features coming to our iPhones this autumn with iOS 16, the most easily recognizable and ‘everyone will use this’ of them has to be the new overhauled Lock Screen. It’s all about personalization – you have lots of options to change the way it looks, and a host of widgets to add more useful info. Where it used to be that every iPhone had the same Lock Screen with different static wallpapers, with iOS 16 everyone’s screen will be personal to them. Customizing your iOS 16 Lock Screen is simple and intuitive, but there may be some nuances you miss. Here’s how you can make your Lock Screen your own. START WITH A LONG-PRESS To start customizing your Lock Screen, just long-press on it anywhere other…