iOS

A survey found that iOS 11’s “Do Not Disturb While Driving” feature has made the roadways a safer place for motorists, as it prevents them from being distracted by their smartphones. The survey was conducted by the insurance company, EverQuote.  ( Pau Barrena | AFP/Getty Images ) A recent report …

Fortnite Mobile sees Epic launching its flagship online shooter on iOS devices, with a Fortnite Android release slated to be launching later in 2018. In this complete Fortnite Mobile guide, we’ll be walking you through how to download Fortnite Mobile, how to play Fortnite on iOS devices such as iPhone …

Facebook’s latest privacy scandal came courtesy of a personality quiz app whose data was sold to a third party. What about other apps? What do they collect, and with whom do they share that information? Should a free flashlight app have access to your calendar or contacts? A new report …

Drafts 5 has launched, the sequel to Drafts 4, and you may be a little confused as too what it actually new. Should you upgrade, for example? After all, it’s just the same old note-creating app with a lick of paint, right? Well, the definitive answer to that is “Hmmm, …

Video: Microsoft hits “human milestone” with Chinese-to-English machine translator. Fans of Microsoft’s Translator app no longer need an internet connection to benefit from its neural machine language translations. Instead of relying solely on cloud processing for the neural machine translations, mobile users can download a handful of language packs through …

Netflix today added a slew of 30-second video trailers to its iOS app, after limited testing of the feature since early March. Optimized for mobile, the trailers ape the look of Snapchat and Instagram Stories, appearing as circular icons on the app’s main screen and playing back in a vertical …

Since launching Things 3 last summer, the task management app has received several significant updates like Siri integration and the recently introduced Mail to Things feature. Things 3.5, the latest release, continues the update cycle with a release packed with new capabilities and improvements including ‘Copy & Paste Magic’, an enhanced …

Ordinary folk may be confused by title, takedown demand suggests Oracle supremo … Larry Ellison Oracle, claims developer Zhongmin Steven Guo, has demanded that Apple remove an app he created because it contains the trademarked term “JavaScript.” The app in question, published by Guo’s Tyanya Software LLC – which appears …

When Apple first announced its ARKit developer platform, one of the examples it gave was an image that showed someone playing Dejarik, a holographic board game from the Star Wars universe. The game has been available in an augmented reality experience on the iOS “Star Wars: Jedi Challenges” app [Direct …

Apple’s U.S. customers installed 45 new iPhone apps in 2017, a growth of 10 percent over last year, while Services revenue from In-App Purchases and Subscriptions expanded by 23 percent–driven by games, music and video streaming and dating services. And overall, Apple’s U.S. App Store customers drove significantly higher revenue …