Rene Ritchie

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For the vast, vast majority of apps and workflows — the vast majority of people — not only won’t a 5 GB RAM limit on iPad Pro apps ever be an honest-to-Jobs, actual, real-world type problem, but odds are you won’t even notice it. Much less be irked by it. At least if people didn’t publish first, research second… or never. Which irks me, obviously.

For some very specific apps, though, you absolutely will notice. iPad apps like Procreate that can benefit from more layers, which do indeed require more RAM.

It’s for those very specific types of iPad apps that Apple’s adding this very specific new entitlement. So they can check system resources, see how much extra memory is currently available, and then request and get more of that memory to use.

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Side-loading on iOS — on iPhone and iPad — is back in the news thanks to Apple's new white paper on the risks and dangers, because of the pressure they're facing from U.S., E.U., and... nerds like me and you. Here's what's going on!

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Universal Control. Your Mac runs your iPad. Your Mac runs… your other Mac. It’s just… Total. Ecosystem. Escalation. And this is how it works…

Time was, if you slid your iPad up next to your Mac, and you wanted to control it, you had to reach over and do it directly… tap, type, swipe… Like an animal. 

Now, with the upcoming macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15, you can just take it over with Universal Control.

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YouTube is just now going to start rolling out support for picture-in-picture in the official app. But with one giant catch:

It’s only rolling out to people in the U.S., Americans, those of the States United. If you want to use it outside America, you know, in the other 96% of the known world, you have to pay for YouTube Premium. Which just makes all the kind of sense that doesn’t.

Now, that is in line with what YouTube has previously done on Android. Live free and PiP Hard in America, pay to PiP Play everywhere else.

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Apple’s new Private Relay. Part of iCloud+. The not a geo-hop, not a corporate tunnel, not-a-VPN.... that will soon be protecting your IP… and identity online. But what does any of that even mean?

What Private Relay will do, what it’s designed to do, is encrypt all your connections, including any legacy connections not using https, to obfuscate your real IP address, and to prevent anyone, even Apple, from knowing both who you are and where you’re connecting to on the web.

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One month later and reviews of Apple's all-new, all-colorful, all-custom silicon 24-inch M1 iMac are still coming in. Then... there's this!

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Apple's Kevin Lynch, VP of Technology, and Deidre Caldbeck, Product Marketing, chat with us about their histories with Apple Watch and Health, new features like ID cards and keys, how they decide on new features, how they made Assistive Touch for Watch, bringing Mobility to iPhone, the visual representation and security of Health information, security vs sharing, and the future of Apple Health!

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Beats Studio Buds. Black. White. Red. Active Noise Cancelation and Transparency Mode. Small, medium, and large tips. Physical buttons. Full-on, native iOS *AND*… and Android Support. 8 hours of battery in the buds, 16 more in the USB-C charge case. No H1. No Lightning. No head-tracking. No stems. No inductive charging. But — $149.

So, are they better than AirPods?

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While all recent Macs are getting new macOS 12 'Monterey' features like Universal Control, AirPlay to Mac, Shortcuts (in AppKit!), redesigned Safari, and ecosystem features like SharePlay, Quick Notes, Spatial Audio, iCloud+, and more, Intel Macs aren't getting some Apple silicon-dependant features like Live Text, system-wide Translation, Portrait Mode in FaceTime, and Apple Earth. And that's making some people hella mad!

So, what's the deal?

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I'd just posted my WWDC 2021 iOS 15 for iPhone keynote reaction video when you all started commenting — raging in the comments! — about iPadOS 15. So, I scrapped the video I was working on about that and, instead of talking about my thoughts, I decided I should listen to you and answer your questions and concerns.

I asked you why you were angry or disappointed about iPadOS 15 — what *specifically* you were angry/disappointed about — and you let me know!

And here are the answers!

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