Page 7 - Latest Updates on Apple iPhone
iOS 17.4: Apple to display elaborative battery health information on iPhone
Currently in beta, iOS 17.4 for iPhone shows detailed battery health information under two new option - Battery Health and Charging Optimisation. Read on for details
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Workers at Apple supplier Flex stage one-day strike, seek wage hike
The workers requested wage raises for the next three years but could not reach an amicable resolution, according to the letter
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Apple's longest-serving designer to depart company, adding to exodus
Bart Andre, who joined Apple in 1992 alongside Ive, told colleagues this month that he is retiring, according to people familiar with the matter
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Apple working on clamshell-style iPhone; foldable iPad in the works too
Apple's foldable devices are likely in their early stages of development and are not expected for mass production until next year
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Meta to let iPhone 15 Pro users upload spatial videos on Quest VR headsets
Support for spatial videos is one of the several new features coming to Meta's Quest line of virtual reality headsets on February 7. Below are the details
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Apple to open iPhone to alternative app stores, lower fees in Europe
Apple has unveiled a sweeping plan to tear down some of the competitive barriers that it has built around its lucrative iPhone franchise
Technology giant Foxconn's CEO Young Liu honoured with Padma Bhushan
The Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Taiwanese technology giant Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), Young Liu, was honoured with the Padma Bhushan on Thursday
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Apple to jump queue for TSMC's industry-first 2-nanometer chips: Report
TSMC has been increasing the production capacity in response to significant customer orders, according to a news report in Korea's DigiTimes Asia
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Death Stranding Director's Cut arriving on select Apple devices on Jan 31
The Death Stranding Director's Cut video game will bring cross-over content from Valve Corporation's HALF-LIFE series and CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077
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Apple pips Samsung to become top global smartphone brand in 2023: Report
According to IDC, Apple recorded an all-time high market share of over 20 per cent in 2023, driving it ahead of Samsung that recorded a market share of 19.4 per cent in the same year
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3nm chip to faster 5G: What analysts expect from Apple iPhone 16 series
According to 9To5Mac, citing a note by technology analyst Jeff Pu, the iPhone 16 series would feature Apple 3nm chips across all models but in different configurations and different 5G modems
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iPhone sales slump in China, volumes to decline further, says Jefferies
The iPhone maker's latest generation got off to an atypically sluggish start in China last year, which most recently expanded to a 30 per cent year-on-year decline
India fastest growing premium smartphone market globally in 2023: Report
Globally, Apple continued to be the market leader in premium segment, which is likely to capture close to one-fourth of the global smartphone market sales in 2023 - according to Counterpoint report
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iPhone hack: Chandrashekhar rebuts Washington Post, calls it 'half facts'
In a story published on December 27 in association with Amnesty the Washington Post had reported that certain journalists had been targeted with the spyware on their iPhones
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Apple to fight watch ban in court after White House declines to act
Apple had already stopped selling its Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches in its online store and US retail outlets
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Apple's iPhone design chief enlisted by Ive, Altman to work on AI devices
Tan will lead hardware engineering at the project while working at LoveFrom, the people said
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Smaller towns turn big market for Apple, account for 60% of iPhone sales
Earlier, tier-1 cities accounted for 65-70% of Apple's sales, however, this has changed in the last few years
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Motorola working to double its exports with focus on North American market
Motorola exported more than 1 million units of smartphones from India in 2022. These were manufactured locally by the contract manufacturer, Dixon Technologies
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Foxconn set to open its first iPhone assembly plant in Bengaluru in April
The key Apple supplier will create a capacity that can assemble 20 million iPhones annually at the assembly unit in Karnataka
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How will Apple, the poster boy of Make in India, deal with end of PLI?
To get more scale than envisaged and nearly double the value addition, Apple's vendors will need to replicate the model of Chinese mega-factories in India
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