It appears that the App Store on iOS devices has been experiencing an issue causing missing ratings and reviews over the past day or so. The problem was alerted to us by MacRumors reader Robin van Doorn, who noticed that his apps Centraal Beheer and Run Trainer suddenly have around 1,000 fewer ratings displayed in the App Store. Other developers have acknowledged the glitch on Twitter, although not every developer is affected. While some developers have seen their ratings count return to normal, others have tweeted about the issue within the past few hours: Hey there seems to be a bug with the number of ratings displayed for all apps (it’s been showing a much lower number than the actual for a couple days).— Kyle Richey (@ConquerApathy) Bug on the Apple App Store? Half the number of ratings in the search results vs when on the app listing?
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— Ryan Murton (@ryanmurton) Hoping this is just a temporary glitch but my apps lost 50% of their overnight. Go fix it Apple, thanks 😅😑— Edouard Barbier 👨🏻💻📲 (@barbieredouard) The unexplained drop in App Store ratings, first reported by the blog, is visible in the App Store Connect dashboard for some developers. A few users have shared screenshots of a discrepancy between the number of ratings displayed in App Store search results and specific app listings as well. It's not entirely clear if the issue is limited to certain regions or other parameters, but hopefully Apple resolves the issue for everyone soon. Forbes a variety of smartphone face-recognition systems with a 3d printed head modeled after the author's head. The head was printed at Backface in Birmingham, U.K., where I was ushered into a dome-like studio containing 50 cameras.
Together, they combine to take a single shot that makes up a full 3D image. The final model took a few days to generate at the cost of just over £300.
With it, the author tested it out against four Android smartphones and the iPhone X. All Android phones tested were able to be unlocked with the fake 3d printed head.
If you're an Android customer, though, look away from your screen now. We tested four of the hottest handsets running Google's operating systems and Apple's iPhone to see how easy it'd be to break into them. We did it with a 3D-printed head.
All of the Androids opened with the fake. Apple's phone, however, was impenetrable.The Android phones tested included the LG G7 ThinQ, Samsung S9, Samsung Note 8 and OnePlus 6. It's been long known that many implementations of facial recognition amongst Android phones have been less secure than Apple's Face ID system. Some of those face recognition systems have been with simple photographs.
Apple's Face ID, however, also includes IR depth mapping and attention awareness technology. The attention awareness alone may be enough to explain the inability for a static 3d printed head to unlock the iPhone X. That said, the iPhone X's Face ID in the past with more sophisticated printed 3d heads. Apple Music can now be streamed on Amazon Echo speakers via Alexa in the United States, a few days. As spotted by, it is now possible to link Apple Music with your Amazon account in the and use Alexa voice commands to control playback of songs, playlists, and Beats 1 on Apple Music on Amazon Echo speakers. To access this feature, simply use a voice command such as 'Alexa, play music by Ed Sheeran on Apple Music' or 'Alexa, play today's hits on Apple Music.' Apple Music can also be set as the default music service in the Alexa app, so that 'Apple Music' does not need to be specified each time.
Other streaming music services supported on Echo speakers include Spotify, Deezer, Vevo, SiriusXM, Tidal, and Pandora. Apple and Amazon, with Amazon saying it is 'committed to offering great music providers to our customers,' and referring to Apple Music as 'one of the most popular music services.' Apple Music playback on Amazon Echo speakers is currently limited to the United States. In one of the bigger deals for Apple's upcoming streaming TV service, reports today that the Cupertino company has made a deal with DHX Media to produce all-new 'Peanuts' content that will be exclusive to Apple. Image via Variety/Peanuts Worldwide LLC Under the deal, DHX and its subsidiary Peanuts Worldwide will develop and produce the original series, specials, and shorts, while Apple will release it on its streaming service. One such project will be a Peanuts short featuring astronaut Snoopy that will be themed around STEM education, which Apple has long supported.
It's unclear what else will be coming to Apple's service from the Peanuts characters, and the report makes no mention of Apple gaining the rights to existing Peanuts content. The franchise dates back to 1950, when Charles M. Schulz created the Peanuts comic strip, which has now grown into a larger media franchise of TV specials, feature films, short films, merchandise, and more. News of content acquired by Apple for its streaming service has been increasing lately, and in the past few weeks we've heard about,.
Previous rumors suggested Apple's TV service would launch around March 2019, but now Variety reports that the debut will be sometime in the second half of 2019. SplashData published its this week, sourced from more than five million passwords leaked on the internet this year. Like previous years, 2018 saw numerous high-profile data leaks, but many people have continued to use easily guessable passwords for their online accounts. The new password autofill feature in iOS 12 For the fifth consecutive year, '123456' and 'password' are the.
New entries on the list include '111111', 'sunshine', 'princess', '666666', '654321', and 'donald' at number 23. SplashData CEO Morgan Slain discussed the list: 'Hackers have great success using celebrity names, terms from pop culture and sports, and simple keyboard patterns to break into accounts online because they know so many people are using those easy-to-remember combinations.'
The top 10 most popular passwords of 2018: 1) 123456 2) password 3) 123456789 4) 12345678 5) 12345 6) 111111 7) 1234567 8) sunshine 9) qwerty 10) iloveyou Higher up the list, popular passwords include people's names like 'daniel', 'hannah', and 'thomas'; pop culture references like 'solo', 'tigger', and 'lakers'; random items like 'cookie' and 'banana'; birth years like '1990' and '1991'; and simple phrases like 'whatever' and 'test'. As Slain explained, using super-simple phrases like these for any account online is a bad idea because it's so easy to guess what they are. “Our hope by publishing this list each year is to convince people to take steps to protect themselves online,” says Slain. “It’s a real head-scratcher that with all the risks known, and with so many highly publicized hacks such as Marriott and the National Republican Congressional Committee, that people continue putting themselves at such risk year-after-year.” In total, SplashData estimated that almost 10 percent of people have used at least one of the top 25 worst passwords on this year's list, and nearly 3 percent of people have used the worst password at one time, '123456'. Most of the five million passwords that were leaked and evaluated for the report came from users in North America and Western Europe. To help users stay safe, SplashData said that their passwords should be no shorter than twelve characters and have mixed types of characters in each one. Every log-in should have a different password, and investing in a password management app to store everything, generate random new passwords, and automatically log into websites is always a good idea.
Apple itself introduced a new in iOS 12 this year, making it easy to connect to third-party password apps and fill out your passwords throughout iOS. If you haven't tried it out yet, check out our to find out how it works. IPhone XR demand has been lower than expected, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has slashed his overall iPhone shipment forecast by 20 percent for the first quarter of 2019.
He now expects Apple to move 38-42 million iPhones in the quarter, down from his original estimate of 47-52 million. Kuo, in a research note with TF International Securities, obtained by MacRumors: We have reduced our 1Q19 iPhone shipment estimation by 20% to 38–42mn units (vs. Our previous forecast of 47–52mn): We cut the 1Q19 iPhone shipment estimation again for the following reasons. (1) Lower-than-expected XR demand.
We have reduced our 1Q19 XR shipment estimation to 15–20mn units vs. Our previous forecast of 20–25mn units. (2) The increase in orders of legacy iPhone models cannot offset the decline of XR and XS series shipments because of the low season impact.Apple reported sales of, which corresponds with the second quarter of Apple's fiscal year, so as few as 38 million units in the first quarter of 2019 would be a significant year-over-year decline. For the iPhone XR in particular, Kuo has revised his shipment estimate to 15-20 million for the first quarter, down from 20-25 million. Kuo estimates annual iPhone shipments will fall between 205 million and 210 million in 2018, and based on that, forecasts that annual iPhone shipments in 2019 will decline up to 10 percent to a range of 188 million to 194 million. This would fall below Wall Street's consensus estimate of around 212 million units in 2019. While this news paints a pessimistic outlook for the iPhone, declining unit sales will likely be at least partially offset by the rising average selling price of iPhones.
Apple's latest iPhone lineup is its most expensive yet, with the $349 iPhone SE discontinued and the. Kuo: We believe that the iPhone ASP could at least keep growing YoY until 3Q19, and it will offset the YoY shipment decline. However, most suppliers will face growth challenges due to iPhone shipment decline. We believe that specific suppliers can grow, thanks to the component price increase or the ability to obtain new orders, but the visibility of the beneficiary list will not be clear until 1Q19 because some spec and order allocations of 2H19 new iPhone models are not confirmed yet.Apple will in its quarterly earnings reports going forward, so investors will have to look towards iPhone revenue to determine how well the handset is selling. If unit sales are particularly bad, then a rising average selling price might not be enough to hide the weakness.
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Apple has been aggressively marketing its latest iPhones. On its website, for example, the iPhone XR and iPhone XS take up the entire homepage with advertised starting prices of $449 and $699 respectively. However, each have an asterisk that leads to fine print that says pricing is based on an iPhone 7 Plus trade-in. Apple's earnings results for the first quarter of 2019 will likely be released in May, so we're still some time away from real numbers. In a court filing related to the ongoing dispute with Qualcomm that has resulted in a, Apple this week warned that upholding the ban would cause 'truly irreparable harm' to Apple, other companies, and consumers if Apple is forced to withdraw its devices from the market,.
The ban would cost Apple millions of dollars a day and affect both the Chinese government and consumers, the company added, noting it has created 5 million jobs in China across the supply chain and third-party software developers. The Chinese government 'may suffer hundreds of thousands of tax losses' from the iPhone ban because of lost taxes from sales of the devices, the company also said, citing estimates of 50 million units sold in the country in 2017. 'Apple and many other companies, consumers, and government will suffer truly irreparable harm,' the company said in the filing.As a result, Apple says the ban would force Apple to settle with Qualcomm, a move that would lead the entire mobile phone industry to 'relapse into the previous unreasonable charging mode and pay high licensing fees.' Apple and Qualcomm have been locked in a patent battle over chip-related license fees, but the current issue instead stems from separate patents that cover allowing users to 'adjust and reformat the size and appearance of photos' and 'managing applications using a touch screen when viewing and navigating apps.' Qualcomm earlier this week won an import ban on iPhone 6s through iPhone X models, although Apple has argued the ban does not apply to devices running iOS 12, so it has continued sales for the time being.
In an effort to expand its victory, Qualcomm is now in the ban. Update 8:30 PM: Apple says it will push a software update to iPhone users in China early next week that the company says should address the patent-related issues,. “Based on the iPhone models we offer today in China, we believe we are in compliance,” Apple said. “Early next week we will deliver a software update for iPhone users in China addressing the minor functionality of the two patents at issue in the case.” Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts. Apple today that its Apple Music Connect social platform for artists is in the process of shutting down, suffering the, the company's previous social network for music removed from iTunes in October 2012.
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In a letter shared with artists via, Apple said artists will no longer be able to post to Connect as of today, with the feature now removed from artist pages and the 'For You' tab in Apple Music. Apple says all previously uploaded Connect content will remain searchable in Apple Music until May 24, 2019: We've made a few changes to Apple Music that we'd like to tell you about. We're always looking for ways to enhance our focus on artists and help them better connect to fans. So we've given Artist Pages an all-new design and added new, personalized Artist Radio.
Today we're streamlining music discovery by removing Connect posts from Artist Pages and For You. This means you'll no longer be able to post to Connect as of December 13, 2018, but all previously uploaded content will still be searchable until May 24, 2019. You can still create Artist Playlists with the latest version of Apple Music. We're also excited about the latest beta of Apple Music for Artists, which gives you everything you need to understand your music's impact across Apple Music, as well as valuable audience insights. You can even upload your own photo to use on your Artist Page. Sign up for free today.
Thank you for helping us make Apple Music a vibrant community for artists and fans.Connect had its own tab in Apple Music when the app first launched in 2015, but its presence was later reduced to a section in the 'For You' tab. Apple has reportedly given a straight-to-series order for a show starring Jennifer Garner and executive produced by J.J.
Image Credit: Jordan Strauss/Shutterstock via Variety 'My Glory Was I Had Such Friends,' based on the 2017 memoir of the same name by Amy Silverstein, will follow a group of women who supported Silverstein as she waited for a second life-saving heart transplant, according to. The series reunites Garner and Abrams, who worked together on the ABC show 'Alias' between 2001 and 2006. Garner starred in the drama series, which was created by Abrams and produced by his company Bad Robot Productions and what was then called Touchstone Television, now known as ABC Studios under Disney. Bad Robot Productions will also produce this series in association with Warner Bros. Television, as part of a deal between the companies.
Garner most recently starred in the HBO series 'Camping,' and she also starred in the 2017 film 'The Tribes of Palos Verdes,' according to the report. She is also known for her work in films like 'Dallas Buyers Club,' '13 Going on 30,' and 'Juno.'
Abrams and Bad Robot have previously produced shows like 'Lost,' 'Fringe,' 'Person of Interest,' and the ongoing HBO series 'Westworld.' Abrams is also known for films like 'Super 8,' 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' and the 'Star Trek,' 'Mission: Impossible,' and 'Cloverfield' franchises, the report adds. 'My Glory Was I Had Such Friends' will be one of expected to be distributed through Apple's rumored streaming video service, which will reportedly launch in. Abrams is also for Apple. While it is a common belief that iPhones have become thinner and thinner over the years, when Apple could be keeping them the same size and including larger and longer-lasting batteries, the opposite is true in reality.
Apple still doesn't offer a full online web player for Apple Music, but this week software engineer shared a, allowing Apple Music subscribers to get access to their full library and other Apple Music features on the web. The web player can be found at, and to see your Apple Music library you can click 'log in' in the bottom left corner of the screen. The player then provides an Apple authentication pop-up, where you'll have to log into your Apple ID and let the web player access Apple Music, media library, and listening activity for your account.
Afterwards, you'll be able to see normal Apple Music tabs like Search, Browse, For You, and Library. In Library, you can access your Recently Added items, Artists, Albums, Songs, and Playlists. To play a song, simply click on it and the player will update at the bottom with an image of the album, playback controls, and track scrubber. At the bottom right corner are settings for the bitrate, up next, and volume. If you hover over a song, you can also click on the ellipsis icon to select it to play next or play later in your up next queue.
On macOS and Safari, keyboard controls for play/pause will also directly control the web player. There are a few limitations to the web player, like not being able to specifically customize the order of up next, the Browse tab is pared down, and Radio options don't exist, but otherwise the site is a solid and well-built realization of Apple Music. Additionally, the web player will load with an optimized layout for mobile web. Apple was believed to be potentially over the summer, but as of yet nothing has come to fruition from the company.