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United Airlines Adds Support for Apple iPhone Live Activities and Dynamic Island – Here’s What It Does
United Airlines announced that its smartphone app for the Apple iPhone will support Live Activities and the new feature that is available on top-of-the-line iPhones.
The move makes the Chicago-based carrier the first airline in the United States to do so.
“Live Activities puts all the flight information you need right at your fingertip,” said Linda Jojo, the airline’s chief customer officer.
United’s use of Live Activities will allow travelers to track flight …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – May 13: CDC Sets Indoor Ventilation Target to Prevent Covid, States Sunset Exposure Notification Apps
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,158th day of the pandemic. Today is also Tulip Day, a holiday that occurs annually on May 13.
Tulip Day is intended promote the start of the cut tulip flower season. Each year, as spring brings the promise of a new life with blooming buds and flowers, many people across the …
Apple iCloud Services Starts to Come Back Online After Multi-Hour Outage
Apple iCloud services such as iCloud Mail, Find My, and iCloud Calendar began to come back online in the late evening after an outage that lasted several hours and impacted millions of users.
Apple confirmed the outage and said that the issues have now been fixed.
In a statement on its status page, Apple said that “some users were affected,” adding that “the service may have been slow or unavailable.”
The outage also …
Review: Ordering a Pizza from Domino’s With Apple CarPlay’s New Pizza Functionality
Regular readers of these pages know the basics around the Apple CarPlay infotainment system that was introduced with great fanfare at the 2014 Geneva International Motor Show, so going forward, we’re going to delve into specific new features and functionality without rehashing the basics.
CarPlay has many uses beyond navigation, entertainment, news and messages. A driver can find a nearby EV charger with apps such as ChargePoint and PlugShare and find …
Apple Rolls Out Enhanced Maps in 6 Additional Countries Including Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia
Apple’s upgrade to its Maps app, a makeover that includes more accurate details such as trees and grass, exact building shapes, parking lots, sports facilities, and parking lots, has been added to six Central European countries, namely Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia.
The new version of Maps is now available in over two dozen countries and territories as well as all 50 U.S. states.
The move to an …
Apple Customers Resort to Using Windows After Weather App Is (Once Again) Down
Some Apple users will be forced to use windows, namely the kind made of glass, so they can look outside and see if it is sunny or raining, since that information may not be available via the Apple Weather app.
Indeed, the Apple Weather app has not been having a good week.
The third reported instance of a Weather app outage showed that the service was wonky for some users Thursday afternoon.
“Some …
Apple Music Classic: First Look and Review
If you’re a classical music lover, music streaming services such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Apple Music have left you wanting. That is up until now.
Apple Music Classical is scheduled to launch on Tuesday but we were able to get an early look at the app prior to launch.
Classical music lovers have long had to contend with streaming services that are designed with the contemporary music categories of “song” …
