iOS 9.3 Beta With Night Shift Mode, OS X 10.11.4 Beta, Elon Musk on Apple Car, iPhone 7 and "5e" Rumors - MacRumors

Apple Seeds First iOS 9.3 Beta With Night Shift, New Quick Actions, Improvements to Apple News, Notes, CarPlay and Health Apple this week surprised everyone with a full set of new beta releases, led by iOS 9.3. Due for public release in the spring, iOS 9.3 is a significant mid-cycle update for Apple's mobile operating system that introduces a number of new features including a new Night Shift mode to reduce the sleep-disrupting blue tint of bright displays late in the day (be sure to check out our how-to!), new Quick Actions on some of Apple's home screen app icons, and improvements to News, Notes, CarPlay, Health, and more. The update also brings a host of improvements for the education market, making it easier for students to share iPads and for teachers and admins to manage those devices. Be sure to check out our video walkthroughs of iOS 9.3 and the new tvOS 9.2 beta for all of the latest details. A watchOS 2.2 update has also been provided to developers, but changes there appear to be fairly minor so far.   Read Full Article Popular Stories Jan 15, 2016 Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Beta With Live Photos Support in Messages While iOS 9.3 was the star of this week's beta releases, Apple also pushed out an OS X 10.11.4 beta that's a bit lower profile. It includes support for a couple of parallel features to iOS 9.3 like password-protected Notes, and perhaps most notably support for viewing Live Photos received via the Messages app. iOS 9.2.1 and OS X 10.11.3 remain in testing as well, and those should be seeing public releases in the coming weeks as Apple continues to refine the much more significant iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4 releases for a spring launch.   Read Full Article Elon Musk Says Apple's Electric Car Project is an 'Open Secret' Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week stated in an interview with the BBC that Apple's electric car project is an "open secret" among those in the industry. Musk notes it's "pretty hard to hide" a project of that scale considering the number of people Apple is hiring for it. Just last week, we discovered Apple has registered several car-related domain names, including apple.car, apple.cars, and apple.auto. While Apple could be registering those domains for CarPlay-related reasons or simply to protect itself from those looking to grab the names for themselves, the move certainly set off a fresh round of speculation.   Read Full Article iPhone 7 May Ship With Lightning-Connected EarPods, New Wireless Earphones Also Under Development Rumors about the iPhone 7 continue to escalate, with a new report indicating the device will indeed lack a standard headphone jack and instead ship with Lightning-equipped EarPods. Apple is also said to be working on a set of wireless earphones (perhaps the AirPods trademark we discovered?) that would be sold separately. A separate rumor claims the iPhone 7 will support wireless charging and that the device will be "waterproof", in line with some earlier reports.   Read Full Article New 4-Inch 'iPhone 5e' Could Feature A8 Chip, 1GB of RAM, Apple Pay and VoLTE Calling Rumors of a new 4-inch iPhone have been circulating for some time, and while recently they appear to have been consolidating around an "iPhone 6c" device that would approximate the specs of an iPhone 6s but with a smaller display, a new rumor calls the device an "iPhone 5e" and suggests it will be much more like an upgraded iPhone 5s. According to the report, it will include an A8 chip with 1 GB RAM and support for features like Apple Pay and Voice over LTE. Another report claims the device's body will be similar enough to the iPhone 5s that many accessories will work on both devices.   Read Full Article Apple Prevented Volkswagen From Exhibiting Wireless CarPlay at CES Wireless CarPlay was supposed to be a feature introduced as part of iOS 9, but we've yet to see any actual support for the feature from any car manufacturers. According to a Volkswagen representative, the carmaker hoped to show off the feature at CES last week, but Apple requested that Volkswagen refrain, with Apple likely seeking to control a more complete demo and release at some point. In other CarPlay news besides the slew of new announcements from auto manufacturers and aftermarket audio equipment companies at CES, the feature was named "Technology of the Year" by Autoblog. Apple has also released an updated list of CarPlay-compatible car models, now numbering over 100 from the 2016 and 2017 model years.   Read Full Article

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