iOS 11 Hands-on, HomePod First Impressions, iMac and MacBook Reviews - MacRumors

Brought to you by: Hands-On With iOS 11: New Control Center, Redesigned App Store, Files App and More iOS 11 brings a host of changes to Apple's mobile operating system, and we've put together a quick hands-on video showing off a few them. Also check out our coverage on details such as the customizable Control Center, tweaks to AirPods controls, new screen effects in Messages, a new share sheet to make it easy to create custom Apple Watch faces from images, and more. The update will also complete Apple's transition away from supporting older 32-bit apps. The last several iOS 10 releases have been warning users that these apps will stop working with future iOS release, and as of the first iOS 11 beta these older apps won't even launch.   Read Full Article Sponsored Stories Pocket Informant Launches Informant 5.1 With New Date Picker and watchOS App This week, Pocket Informant is announcing the release of Informant 5.1—an excellent app for managing your busy personal and professional life. Informant is a cross-platform planner app that combines your Calendar, Tasks, Projects, and Notes into a single app. Informant is one of the easiest calendar apps to set up because it accesses all of your native Apple data, and the 30-day calendar view is much more effective than the default Apple calendar. The project management feature in Informant surpasses the native reminders app with features such as sub-tasks, and start AND end dates. Pocket Informant has won numerous awards for creating top-ranked apps in the App Store since 2008, and Informant 5 is another hit. For almost two decades, more than a million people have trusted Pocket Informant as their go-to organizer for mobile devices. See for yourself. Try Informant today! Informant is free to download with a premium subscription or one-time payment available for iPhone and iPad, and a macOS version is also available. You can try a free 2-week trial of the full version of the app by configuring the optional Informant Sync service. Visit Sponsor Popular Stories Jun 08, 2017 HomePod First Listen Impressions: 'Incredible' Audio With Bass-Heavy Sound That Easily Beats Echo Apple's $350 HomePod speaker doesn't launch until December, but following its debut at WWDC, Apple gave a few members of the press a chance to spend time listening to it in a quieter setting. With an upward-firing woofer and seven tweeters around the base of the HomePod, reviewers noted consistent sound throughout the room with "incredible" sound quality and rich, deep bass. In Engadget's view, the HomePod's sound blew away both a Sonos PLAY:3 and an Amazon Echo.   Read Full Article iMac and MacBook Early Reviews: Iterative Updates With Welcome Performance Boosts Following their introductions on Monday, Apple handed out review units of both the updated iMac and MacBook models to select member of the press. The early reviews of these units point to largely iterative updates with some nice improvements such as the inclusion of the second-generation butterfly keys on the MacBook's keyboard and the faster iMac internals and improved display making for a better and smoother user experience.   Read Full Article 2017 MacBook Pro is Up to 20% Faster Than Last Year's Model in Benchmarks Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro came out just eight months ago, but on Monday Apple upgraded it to Intel's Kaby Lake family of processors, and between faster speeds and other performance tweaks, benchmarks are showing performance improvements of up to 20%. Real-world improvements will likely be smaller, but still, it's a nice upgrade and a welcome change to see Apple accelerating its adoption of Intel's processors as they are released.   Read Full Article Apple to Phase Out 32-Bit Mac Apps Starting in January 2018 iOS 11 will see Apple drop support for older 32-bit apps on its mobile platform this fall, but the same change is also coming to the Mac next year, as macOS High Sierra will be the last version of macOS to support 32-bit Mac apps. Beginning in January 2018, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store will have to be 64-bit, and by June 2018 all submitted updates for existing apps will also have to be 64-bit.   Read Full Article Watch the Season Premiere of Apple's New 'Planet of the Apps' Series Apple is continuing its push into video content, this week launching its "Planet of the Apps" show on Apple Music, with the premiere episode also available on the web for a limited time. The show sees app developers pitching their ideas to Gary Vaynerchuk, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, and will.i.am. for a chance to receive mentoring and the possibility of up to $10 million in funding at the conclusion of the season.   Read Full Article

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