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A pparently, the supply chain issues that affected production during the last holiday season were much ado about nothing. Apple has reported a staggering $123.9 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2022, with substantial year-over-year growth in nearly every category, including a record $71.6bn in iPhone sales alone. All product categories except the iPad were up year over year, with the Mac, Services and Wearables all posting record numbers. Here’s how the quarter breaks down, with the year-over-year growth in brackets: iPhone: $71.6 billion (9 per cent) Mac: $10.9 billion (25 per cent) Wearables: $14.7 billion (13 per cent) Services: $19.6 billion (24 per cent) The iPad, on the other hand, was down about 14 per cent to $7.3 billion. Apple began selling the iPad mini and…

As we’ve already reported (see page 4), Apple has announced an astounding $123.9 billion revenue for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2022 (the period ending 31 December). Nearly every category and geographic segment set records and the iPhone grew to a staggering $71.6 billion, more than some full quarters. On the other end of the spectrum, Peloton announced in January it was suspending production of its iconic bikes as demand for the pricey piece of exercise equipment waned. The company’s stock took a tumble as a result and analysts naturally began speculating about Peloton’s future, including possible suitors. As you’d expect, Apple’s name came up. It’s not the first time Apple’s name has come up as a potential buyer for a highprofile company, and usually, it’s just bluster.…

As expected, Apple has followed the release of iOS 15.3 with the beta-testing releases for iOS 15.4 (and associated operating systems like iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS). We’re still waiting on a couple of significant iOS 15 features that are supposed to be released this spring, and this beta finally brings the first look at Universal Control (together with the macOS 12.3 beta). It’s hoped that, over the course of the beta testing releases, these features will show up in iOS 15.4, but Apple may still delay them further. NEW FEATURES Universal Control The iPadOS 15.4 beta finally brings Universal Control, which was supposed to release last autumn, but was delayed until spring 2022. The feature, which lets you drag and drop files between the iPad and Mac (or different Macs)…

We don’t all have a new iPhone 13 with giant batteries. Many of us are using older iPhones with aging batteries that always seem to be in the red. Fortunately, there are several ways to save battery life built right into iOS that take mere seconds to try out. Here are 10 ways to help your iPhone last as long as possible. 1. GO AHEAD AND REBOOT The sure-fire Mac fix works for your iPhone too. Restarting your iPhone periodically can give your battery life a lift by killing background processes that could be draining precious juice. All you need to do is press and hold the volume up button on the left and the power button on the right (or hold the power button of your iPhone has a…

When Apple finally released AirTags last April, it was a welcome new accessory to the line-up. After years of rumours, an official Apple tracker was finally available to for the items in our life that didn’t have a chip in them – keys, backpacks, purses, anything. Our biggest issue on launch day was that the key tag holder cost as much as the AirTag itself. But almost immediately, AirTags started making headlines for all the wrong reasons. First there were fears over the battery compartment, which is relatively easy to open and could pose a choking hazard for small children. Apple responded with a warning on its website to keep AirTags away from children and will likely tweak the design in future versions. The more pressing issues are related to…

Price: £59 from fave.co/3HmBqmh We’ve all been there. You’re busy playing a game on your phone (right by a power outlet, of course) and you’re thinking, “How is anyone going to know I’m a gamer if my phone isn’t blasting RGB lighting out the back? How can I expect someone walking by to realize I’ve spent hundreds of pounds on predatory micro-transactions and in-app purchases if my phone doesn’t sound like a jet engine?” Finally, you need suffer no longer. Razer has got your back… or rather, your iPhone’s back, with its Phone Cooler Chroma. A product well-built but so ill-conceived on every level that it makes me mad just to know it exists. This is a solution in search of a problem; a product that is both expensive and…

Shazam has become ubiquitous with IDing that song you hear on the radio, but you might not know that Apple actually owns the service now. And It’s built right into your iPhone without needing to download the app. You can find it in the Control Centre on any iPhone running iOS 14 or later. To set it up, head over to the Settings app, then tap the Control Centre tab to see all of the Controls you can add. Scroll down to Music Recognition, tap the “+” symbol, and exit. That will add a new button to the Control Centre with the Shazam logo. Then when you hear a song that you want to identity, all you need to do is open the Control Centre (which you can speed up…

If your New Year’s resolution was to get more exercise, then the new Apple Fitness+ features – Collections and Time to Run – are just what you need. Apple is also releasing the third iteration of its Time to Walk series. Collections are a set of workouts and meditations that Apple says “will provide users with an entirely new way to get motivated”. Collections draw from the nearly 2,000 workouts and meditations in Fitness+. The following Collections are available: • 30-Day Core Challenge• Improve Your Posture with Pilates• Perfect Your Yoga Balance Poses • Run Your First 5K• Strengthen Your Back, Stretch Your Hips• Wind Down for a Better Bedtime Time to Run is basically a runner’s version of Time to Walk, where each episode is, according to Apple, “focused…

I t’s not often that we get to peek behind the aluminium and glass curtain around Apple Park, but besides occasions like the annual Worldwide Developers Conference and the handful of press events, we’re assured that four times a year CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will sit down to talk about the company’s most recent financial quarter and even field some questions from industry analysts. And, if we’re lucky, there’s an opportunity to get a few breadcrumbs about what the Apple brass are thinking about. Sometimes, admittedly, it takes a little bit of reading between the lines – these people are extremely disciplined when it comes to secrets. But there are still titbits to be gleaned from what’s coming down the pike, even if Tim Cook doesn’t want…

Contactless payments have ramped up in the age of the pandemic, but to make Apple Pay work businesses still need clunky hardware to process transactions. According to a new report, that could soon be a thing of the past. According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple will soon let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware or attachments. The report says Apple will use NFC to turn the iPhone into a ‘payment terminal’ for tap-to-pay credit cards and other iPhones with Apple Pay set up. It’s not clear from the report if Apple will also accept Google Pay and Samsung Pay through the system, but it’s unlikely. Gurman says the new payment system is the result of Apple’s $100 million acquisition of Mobeewave in 2020.…

If you’re looking for a new iPad, there are a lot of choices. Apple sells more iPads than Macs these days and the differences between them aren’t all that obvious. They all support the Apple Pencil, most work with the Magic Keyboard, and they all run the same iPadOS. Yet when you dig deeper, you can find several significant differences in terms of power, size, storage, and, most importantly, price, that will make your buying decision a little easier. So let us help you pick the right iPad for how you work, play, and everything in between. FOR MOST PEOPLE, EVEN POWER USERS: iPAD AIR Price: £579 from fave.co/35ODQc4 Visually, you have to look very carefully to notice that the new iPad Air isn’t an iPad Pro: the angular, nearly…

Price: £199 from fave.co/3gbvgK5 Apple just started selling a new AirPods Pro model that is cheaper, sounds a little better, fits a lot better, and even has physical buttons and comes in several colours. They even cost less. Only Apple did all this under its other headphone brand, Beats, with the new Fit Pro. While these don’t have everything the AirPod Pro do (wireless charging is absent), they are better in most ways and for most people. Simply put, if you think you might want to buy AirPods Pro, you should buy these instead. In fact, those considering the 3rd-generation AirPods might even want to spend a little more for these. ANYTHING YOU CAN DO… Apple purchased Beats back in 2014, and within a few years it was making Beats…

I ’m sure this sounds familiar: You’re trying to install the latest iOS 15 release, back up and upgrade to a new iPhone, or download that cool app your friend told you about, and your iPhone says the storage is full. You’ve already deleted every app you don’t think you need, and there’s still not enough space. So you open Settings, tap General, then iPhone Storage and, sure enough, your iPhone is full. Worst of all, a huge chunk of it is just listed as ‘Other’. What’s that supposed to mean? How do you get rid of it? The Other storage section is mysterious and confusing, and there’s no one answer that works for everyone, but hopefully this guide will help you deal with this problem. HOW TO VIEW YOUR…

When you receive an iMessage from an unknown party, how does Messages identify that person for you if they’re not already in your contacts? Apple has a back channel in its proprietary multimedia texting system that transmits your name and image to the recipient based on settings you can control. In iOS/iPadOS, go to Settings > Messages > Share Name and Photo; in macOS, open Messages and go to Messages > Preferences > General. You can start by enabling or disabling sharing your name and profile image: use the Name and Photo Sharing switch in iOS/iPadOS and the Share Name and Photo checkbox in macOS. When disabled, these items aren’t shared with people you message for the first time; anyone who previously received them and stored them will retain that…

Iran out of ways to summarize Apple’s quarterly results a while ago. When they’re all records, alltime greats, rolling up numbers so big it’s hard for the human brain to quantify them, what can you say? My wife comes home on days Apple releases its quarterly results and asks me, “So, how’s Apple?” And I respond with some variation of, “Apple’s just fine.” Here’s the news about Apple’s fiscal first quarter of 2022, covering the holiday season of 2021. So many of Apple’s arrows are pointing up that, due to issues with the global supply chain, they’ve run out of arrows. Apple’s just fine. EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN So, most revenue in a quarter ever. Biggest profit ever. But if you’re looking for places to find a weakness in…

After about a month of development, Apple has released iOS 15.3 to the public. According to Apple’s support site, iOS 15.3 “includes bug fixes and security updates for your iPhone and is recommended for all users”. That sort of language is usually reserved for point releases (as in the iOS 15.2.1 update that landed earlier this month), so it’s strange for Apple to push a major update with no user-facing features, especially since some announced features still need to arrive. Apple pushed digital ID cards to 2022 after the feature failed to appear in any of the iOS 15 updates in 2021, iCloud+ Private Relay is still in beta, and we’re still waiting for iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 to get Universal Control. Among the known fixes in iOS 15.3…

If you happen to be reading this story on a BlackBerry phone, your device is officially obsolete. The company has announced that BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 is no longer be available, and warns that “devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality”. The end comes almost exactly 15 years after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco – and back on 7 January, 2007, few people would have believed that BlackBerry would suffer such a fate. At the time, BlackBerry was one of the leading names in smartphones and approaching 10 per cent market share, a number that would grow…

In celebration of Black History Month, Apple has launched several initiatives designed to spotlight Black businesses and innovation, including a special edition Braided Solo Loop band a groundbreaking new watch face designed using 2D ray tracing. The Apple Watch Black Unity Braided Solo Loop is a black band with red and green speckles throughout to symbolize the colours of the Pan-African flag. It is available now on Apple.com for £99 and is available now. Also available is a new Unity Lights face designed using 2D ray tracing, which Apple says has never before implemented for a watch face. The analogue face “simulates the light and shadow falling across it and the movement of the clock hands simultaneously reveal and hide the light, changing dynamically throughout the day”. It can be…

There’s no doubt that AirPods are a popular purchase. But if you’re thinking about picking up a pair of AirPods Pro for yourself or a loved one to get that sweet noise-cancelling goodness, you should consider another of Apple’s earbuds instead: the newer Beats Fit Pro. Here’s why you should go with the AirPods Pro’s sibling instead. 1. YOU GIVE UP ALMOST NONE OF THE FEATURES Yes: Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Yes: Transparency mode Yes: Easy one-touch pairing Yes: Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking Yes: IPX4 sweat and water resistance Yes: Hands-free “Hey, Siri” Yes: Auto-switching to Apple devices No: Wireless charging Simply put, the Beats Fit Pro have all the things that make AirPods Pro special, and the easiest and most user-friendly choice for Apple users, with the…

If you’ve been using iOS 15 for a while, you probably stumbled upon the return of the magnifying glass for selecting text that you want to edit. What you might not know is that there’s an even cooler way to get the cursor exactly where you want it to go. While you would normally tap within the text you want to change to position the cursor where you want, it doesn’t always end up in the right place. We’ve lost track of how many times we tapped, pressed, slid, tapped, slid, and tapped again only to land two characters away from the one we wanted to delete. Tap again and we still miss it. But then we learned this trick built right into the keyboard. You don’t even need to…