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Apple introduces 6-digit passcodes in iOS 9

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Yesterday at WWDC, Apple announced and previewed iOS 9 officially for the first time. One of the most prominent changes in the security department is the introduction of six-digit passcodes in iOS 9, Apple got rid of four-digit passcodes in iOS 9. In previous versions of iOS users were required to create four-digit passcodes.

 The introduction of six-digits passcodes makes it even hard for strangers to guess your passcode and unlock your device.Still, there is an option to use the four-digit passcode. The passcode can now consist of both letters and digits, maker it even harder for strangers to guess your passcode. Definitely, a big step taken by Apple in-terms of security iOS devices.


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iOS 8.4 with Apple Music coming out on June 30

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Along the announcement of iOS 9 and other related stuff at Apple's WWDC event, yesterday Apple also announced the release date of iOS 8.4, Which is currently in beta.

 The iOS 8.4 update roll out will begin on June 30, the update will bring a new service called "Apple Music" to iPhone and iPad devices. The Apple Music service will let its users listen to the music from various artists. Nothing will be charged in the first-three month period of the music streaming service, after that $9.99 will be charged every month. While Apple has redesigned its Music App for its Music Streaming service, rather than making a new app.

 The major changes in iOS 8.4 are the internal ones, although there are few minor changes too.

 As soon as iOS 8.4 gets released, we are expecting Apple to released iOS 9 Public Beta. Though Apple hasn't yet given any date for iOS 9 Public Beta.
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In case you missed the WWDC 2015 event, You can still watch the entire keynote here

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Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) event lasted about two and a half hours, the time was enough to go into entire detail for its major to minor announcements at the event of WWDC 2015 last day. There were so many announcements. From the announcement of its new OS X El Capitan operating system, iOS 9 and watchOS, last but not the least announcement of new Apple Music streaming Service. 

Meanwhile,if you missed that event,the opening event is worth the time to watch it again, you can still avail the chance of the watching the entire event. You can watch the event by clicking on the link posted below:
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Apple debut OS X 10.11 El Capitan, For developers Today, Public Beta in July and for everyone this fall




Worldwide Developer Conference started today at 10:00am PST, Apple start the event with announcing new Mac OS X 10.11 and Apple named the new version of OS X "EI Capitan".

And Apple introduced Many new futures and many improvements in existing features and specially many gestures, Apple started with Pin Tabs and we will show you all those new features as Apple showed at WWDC

Safari Pin Tab
The feature let you anyone save the whole Tab on the left side of the tabs bar in the form of a little square at left in tabs bar, that you can just do by simply dragging the desired tab to the most left of the tabs bar

Spotlight Search

The new improved Spotlight search shown by supports the natural style of asking and its much more intelligent, As it can search for the phrases like " On which apps i worked last night " the feature is much like the search shown by facebook in past known as Graph search feature.

Mission Control with Split Screen Multitasking

Apple introduced the long-awaited feature that allow a user work on two windows simultaneously and side my side,


 when accessing the mission control or if you in normal condition just drag a window at the top of the Mac screen so it will be open in a full screen window and if just put another window on that so it will be in split-screen mode and can use the Split-screen feature.

Performance

OS X El Capitan Contain some major performance improvements. You’ll experience 1.4 times acceleration in app launching, 2x faster in snappiness, four times faster opening PDF in Preview and more.

The Metal framework that played well for iOS gaming, Apple also unveil it for OS X for more pleasurable gaming on Mac. Metal in OS X El Capitan delivers 50 percent increase in graphics performance and 40 percent greater rendering efficiency that lead to battery timing improvements.

Apple is working with Adobe, which will bring more creative apps to Mac  and Apple had already worked with EPIC that has shown its all new game with Metal frame work on WWDC game called "Fortnite".

The new version of OS X EI Capitan can be downloaded by developers right now and Apple will kick off its Pubic beta in July, And the company will officially release it this Fall.

 Are satisfied with Mac OS X 10.11 upgrades?
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Apple to offer three-month free trial for its upcoming Music Streaming service

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Apple's new streaming music service called 'Apple Music', will feature three-months free trial period for new subscribers. According to our source, Apple will be offering free Music Streaming for the first three months.

 Apple hopes that the three-month trial period would be enough for users to check out its music streaming service and immerse themselves in the service. making it pretty hard for them to cancel.

When comparing Apple Music with other popular music streaming service, Spotify gives a 30-days free trial period while Apple Music offers thrice (90-days) of that 30-days of Spotify free trial period.Our source told us that, Apple will continue to offer iTunes Radio service with ads. Apple has also hired Drake and other celebrities as special guest Djs for iTunes Radio

 We are expecting, Apple to announce Apple Music at WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) on June 8 Monday. The monthly subscription price tag of Apple Music will probably be $9.99/month.
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Decorations every where in Moscone center for WWDC, No hints yet

Decorations for the Monday’s keynote event have been started, the decoration process was initiated on Tuesday, and will continue to work for the whole weekend to make arrangements for the event. These decorations are made every year for Worldwide Developers Conference, the preparations include putting up logos, signs, and banners all across Moscone West in San Francisco, where the event is about to held.


Apple had placed two Apple logos on the outside windows of Moscone West this afternoon, and the first banner which is to be placed inside was brought to completion. The very first banner was decorated with the same elements of graphic design that is shown by Apple on it's website, But the banner additionally shows the tagline of “The epicenter of change”.
We can guess about the decoration of next interior banners which are about to be placed might be according to OS X 10.11 or iOS 9, the two new operating systems that will be came out at WWDC. It is expected that perhaps their style of decoration on banners will be shown up in accordance with these new devices. OS X 10.10 was shown up on banners that were seen depicting Yosemite on Friday before the event, so the banners which are going to show the name for OS X 10.11 will be seen tomorrow.

 This is done with the inclusion of trademarked names of Apple which are of many california landmarks and locations from which some are redwood, big sur, pacific pablo, miramar, etcap, monterey and sierra, among others.

 The banners of iOS 9 are also expected to appear later in the near future, but these banners will not be giving much information to us. It is because of lack of associated name and the features which have been hidden or covered will be uncovered after the keynote event Apple will keep signs that highlight upcoming features that are about to reveal, sign post will also be additionally decorated including the metreon across the street and many other places as we reach the kickoff of the conference.

 With the details of iOS 9 and OS X 10.11, the keynote event of this year will occur with the inclusion of the launch of Apple's new music streaming service and a whole new version of iTunes radio. The Apple Watch will be focused with the debut of native apps. It is also expected that Apple might introduce a reward program for Apple pay.

 Early report about Apple has given an indication that Apple might debut it's new Apple TV set-box and a new subscription television service at WWDC, but also it was report earlier the two products are not ready for launch for the time being and thus they will not be a part of this event. For more details about what we are hoping to see at WWDC.
source : macrumors
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Apple is not showing its revamped Apple TV on WWDC


It has been officially proclaimed by Apple that have taken the decision to currently postpone the announcement of a new Apple TV at WWDC next week, this report is published by New York Times. According to report which shows what to expect announcement to except on this WWDC, the report tells that the long awaited refresh of Apple's set-top box which will not be shown this WWDC.

 John Paczowski who has good relation and association reported in march that Apple would come up with a slimmer, more powerful Apple TV with a Seperate App Store at WWDC 2015.After the report, several reports have given a new strength to the story, one of which is the NYT, which have reported that the new device will come with a redesigned remote with a built-in TouchPad.

 The report received today from the Times tells us that during the mid of may, Apple was still doubtful to reveal new Apple TV with a whole new remote control and a tool kit for developers to make native big screen Apps. But the company has announced to postpone their plans for the time being for the reason that its not the right time to unveil the product.

 Apple is additionally making efforts to reach deals with content providers for the 
subscription of TV Streaming service, To make the set-up box unique. A report form times reveals that the major points in dealings failed was they didn't reach on a point and have resulted in incongruity on price due to the rights of streaming and technology.

 Dont get to worry Just Apple TV is down but other upgrade are coming just 4 Days later. It has been reported by The Times that Apple is has many improvements for iOS and OS X, a new tool kit through which developers will be able to create native Watch OS Apps and a new music streaming service. Apple's WWDC keynote will begin at 10:00am PST Monday on 8th of June.

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Apple looking to bring Apple Maps to other platforms

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Lately, Apple posted a job listing on its official website, the listing suggests that Apple probably wants to bring Apple Maps to the web, where users of other platforms other than iPhones,Macs and iPads can have the privilege of using the mapping service. By doing this, the number of users using Apple Maps will also be increased  by a significant amount.

 The job listing went up live sometime in May. The job is offered for a "Maps JavaScript Engineer", who would develop Apple Maps for the web. The job listing was noticed on Tuesday by Benedict Evans.
We know that Apple is working hard for the improvement of its Mapping service and it must also be working to introduce Apple Maps on other platforms. It's likely to happen that Apple will announce details as early as next week at WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference).

Source: Apple
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Moscone Center Getting ready for WWDC 2015 on this monday

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Apple is all prepared to show its Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 on this Monday, WWDC will start with a Keynote Event at 10:00a.m in San Francisco, Apple had started giving Moscone Center the WWDC look.

 As this morning, workers start sticking the traditional Apple Stickers outside the Moscone Center, was also preparing to hung the WWDC banner in lobby at Moscone West. In upcoming hours we will be able to see the Banners design for WWDC 2015 which may show the tagline of "The epicenter of Change". Apple will take this whole week to decorate the Moscone Center for WWDC 2015.

 Most of the time the banner Place at the Center hints at the sign and logos to be used in the upcoming iOS and OS X  and sometimes also shed lights on some feature, But the type of banner that could reveal something aren't exposed until the end of the week. The banners that were relevant to iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 were hung two days before the WWDC Keynote.

 This WWDC keynote will unveil iOS 9 and OS X10.11 and whole new iTunes Radio, new Music streaming service, new Apple TV Set-Up box and Apple Pay reward pogram and much more.

Are you excited for WWDC 2015 ?

 Source: MacRumors
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Apple to Live stream WWDC Keynote 2015


Apple TV today was updated by Apple and readed the Event Channel, The channel where Apple usually broadcast the WWDC Keynote, The Worldwide Developer Conference will be Live Streamed on Monday 8th of June at 10:00Am the local time of Moscone, as helding in Moscone.

 Apple's website is not yet updated with the WWDC Event, But soon it will be updated. Only iOS and Mac user will be able to watch live Event, But AppleControll will liveblog the event so that everyone could stay in touch.

 Apple's 2015 World Wide Developers Conference is going to be the interesting one as we are expecting to see a new revamped streaming music service, a whole new version of iTunes Radio and a whole new Apple TV set-up box and OS X 11.0 and the most awaited iOS 9. We are also expecting some new features, Apple Pay and HomeKit announcement.

 Are you excited for WWDC 2015?

 Source: MacRumors

 Source: MacRumors
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Apple reportedly looking to sign Drake, David Guetta and Pharrell as iTunes Radio Guest DJs

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According to certain reports, Apple has been in talks with Drake, Pharrell Williams and David Guetta as guest DJs for its revamped iTunes Radio. According to the report published by the New York post, Apple continues to reach and agreement with record labels for Apple Music and wants to offer a three-month free trial period for the $10-a-month music streaming service. 

Apparently, Apple Music will be a combination of best features of other music services like Pandora, Youtube and Spotify. Apple Music will include music and video streaming, pages of artists, there will also be a YouTube-lije sharing portion called Apple Connect and a revamped version of iTunes Radio. Apple also wanted to feature lyrics as part of its service, but Apple does not want to pay extra money to record labels for the feature. 

Apple is expected to announce its music streaming service on June 8 at WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference), which is to be held in San Francisco. The music streaming service is literally based on the beats music which Apple acquired last year.

Source: 9to5Mac
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Proactive could appear in iOS 9 with augmented reality maps


There could be a notable progress in the features of iOS 9 regarding Apple’s siri and search features may specifically be expanded, This has provided the potential to Apple to appear as a rival for Google’s feature riched voice-based search component Google now, According to the information provided in the report. Apple will be engaged in the working on a iOS initiative called ‘’Proactive’’ in which it has unified and integrated features like Siri, maps, contacts, calendar, passbook and other third party apps into spotlight search to make it better.
Proactive will show its result according to its functioning as a search feature that is build into iOS, it may be approached either from the top of screen home screen as spotlight or from left of the home screen. Due to benefits obtained from Apple and developments in spotsetter and cue, proactive has been given the place of life style managing tool.
According to most of the information, proactive might consist on a dedicated search bar which is very much like the spotlight. It is designed in a way to become familiar to iOS users it also has the ability to give us more options for e-mail, content, apps, music, and also providing easily reachable information for the assistance to iOS users so that they will be able to navigate through their everyday routine activities.

 "For example, if a user has a flight listed in her Calendar application and a boarding pass stored in Passbook, a bubble within the new Proactive screen will appear around flight time to provide quick access to the boarding pass. If a user has a calendar appointment coming up, a map view could appear with an estimated arrival time, directions, and a time to leave indicator based on traffic. Proactive will also be able to trigger push notifications to help the user avoid missing calendar events. Even with these new notifications, however, the existing Notification Center apparently isn't likely to see major changes."

 Proactive has the capability to combine with other third party apps to form a whole and according to the using habits of the user, it will gradually learn which app to show on the  screen. The aim is to provide a quick access. If a person checks his e-mail daily after waking up, then the e-mail app will already displayed when he wakes up. The phone app pop up will be presented by the person who makes a phone call daily at a fixed time. It will appear with different restaurant suggestions and ratings which are nearby at the time of dinner.

 Another significant feature of proactive is the display of Map, it assist people in their daily life to navigate and fast reach to routes and information about the place will also be provided, maps are gaining transit routing features in IOS 9 and it may be improved and a new appearance will be given to it, In addition is a view for local listings and also a feature named ''Browse Around Me''

 It has not been confirmed about this new improved and increased reality feature if it is ready for iOS 9, it will provide information about a certain location, the user just have to hold his iPhone and point it at a location on the street.If you point it to a restaurant it will show the menu of the restaurant, if you will point it to a street it will give outline about each store  and information about the businesses located there. At the same time, ''Browse Around Me'', is a much simpler feature that may show the surrounding local points of intrigue and interest on the map.

 Apple's recently coming proactive feature will unify with other third-party apps, and also in iOS 9, developed might be able to reach a limited Siri API named ''Breadcrumb''. This simple feature will be able to allow the proactive and Siri access will not be allowed because of privacy matters.

Today's report has given a warning the mentioned features may not reach into IOS 9, these may be introduced as the scaled-down enhancement that will appear with improvement.


Source: Macrumors
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Apple to Announce Apple Pay Rewards Program at WWDC


Apple to reveal new Reward Program for Apple Pay at Worldwide Developers Conference on 8th of June, Told by New York times in news showing payment upgrades of Apple and Google, The reports tells that Apple will reveal detail on WWDC next month.

 We know some detail about the Reward Program of Apple Pay that Apple will reveal on WWDC, The program will reward users who will use Apple Pay for a purchase.

 "But analysts have noted that a missing piece from Apple Pay was a rewards program to keep users returning to participating merchants. People familiar with Apple Pay said that next month, Apple will announce such a program offering perks to consumers who make purchases with the service, though they declined to reveal details."

 We are receiving the rumors for Apple Pay Reward Program before it was launched in 2014, In September a report told that Apple is working on a pilot program which make Apple to work with third-party retailers to make loyalty program for Apple Pay.

 Some other rumors Also hit its attach with the iAd, delivering some special ads through iBeacons and Bluetooth LE with free coupons or a little discount, But it's still not confirm that how Apple's Reward Program will actually work when it's ready for launch.

 The CurrentC the Apple Pay competitor comes with pre-integrated Reward Program that works with Loyalty cards and discount for merchants. CurrentC says their Reward feature is the only one in the market and its challenging. With the upcoming feature Apple will be able to compete with the reward giving payment companies like CurrentC.

 We are sure Apple could Also reveal more feature for Apple Pay at WWDC at 8th of June, But we are expecting the Launch of Apple Pay in other countries like Canada, And Canada will be the first country outside the United States.

 Do you want Apple Pay in Canada?

 Source: Macrumors
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Apple sending invites for WWDC 2015, will held on 8 June


Invites for Worldwide Developers Conference being sent today by Apple to media invites, it will start on 8th of June to 12 June at Moscone west in San Francisco. Apple WWDC is most importantly for developers, but on first day Apple provide with a Keynote event which is mainly covered by Media. The invites confirms that the keynote event will be held on Monday, 8th of June from 10 a.m. PST to 12 p.m PST.

 This year keynote is exciting then the usual as rumored that Apple is going to launch new streaming service based on the existing beats service and Apple will start a new TeleVision streaming service, A new set-up box with Siri and App store is expected to be seen in WWDC.

 And of course, we will see the new version of iOS and OS X. The performance improve and bug fixes, Transit Maps routing information and Split Screen Multitasking is expected to be seen in new iOS 9 and OS X 11. OS X 11 is reported to have Control Center and Both the Platforms are rumored to get San Francisco Font.

 Apple sent invites for journalists and for developers the tickets was already sold in April which costed $1,599.

After sending invites Apple Also updated its WWDC App before the 2015 WWDC event and added support for Apple Watch. According to notes released with the app, with the new Apple Watch portion of the app, listen to audio, users can add sessions to Calendar and give feedback on session videos right from their wrists.

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iOS 9 to came out with Force touch support, enhanced iMessage, more keyboards option and Apple Pay Canada



iOS 9 most important upcoming features includes Split-screen multitasking for iPad, a new application for HomeKit, New font for whole OS, Mass transit direction service maps and major performance, quality and security improvements. Sources also telling for more tweaks in iOS 9. Some words on most important upcoming features are down below:

 Force Touch
It's confirmed that new iPhone 6S will feature a Force Touch Screen along with haptic feedback and this will be a leading feature, Just to work with the new hardware Apple has added the Capabilities to work with Force Touch to iOS 9 and developers are also working to bring Force Touch capabilities to the App Store Applications.

 The Force Touch functionality will be similar as in Force Touch TrackPad used in MacBook and MacBook Pro and it will be used in Maps and Calender and etc. The Force Touch display will also be a Haptic display which will allow users to feel their input physically.

 Keyboard
Apple is also working to update iOS keyboard in iOS 9 and they had produces many design of different colors, Layouts and designs and one the prototype is said to be the keyboard which includes more editing options in Potrait mode. Also working on improvements in Quicktype keyboard.

 Apple Pay for Canada
The rumors told that Canada will the first country for Apple Pay after United States and that launch requirements will be included in iOS 9 PassBook Application includes the necessary foundation to support banks, credit/debit cards, and credit unions in Canada. Apple will launch Apple Pay in Canada as soon as they end up with Bank agreements.Apple is working to bring Apple Pay to China.

 iMessage
As already we have told that iOS 9 will Also include some upgrade for iMessages and the one reported feature is that it will provide the read receipt in Group Chat and receipt on contact by contact basis, that will allow users to customize on which conatct to use the read receipt and on which not to use. Apple has also removed GameCentre from iOS 9 as its not seen in the build.

Source: 9to5Mac
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