Apple Watch With Haptic Buttons, Memoji vs. AR Emoji, WWDC Scholar Experiences - MacRumors

Brought to you by: Future Apple Watch to Adopt Solid State Buttons With Haptic Feedback According to a new report, Apple is developing new Apple Watch models with solid-state digital crown and side buttons that don't actually move, instead using haptics to simulate a click for user feedback. It's unclear, however, whether the change will make it into 2018 Apple Watch models or if it will be held until next year's update. In other Apple Watch news, Apple is facing a class action lawsuit claiming that all models suffer from defects that can cause the display to "crack, shatter, or detach from the body of the watch, through no fault of the wearer." We've seen the occasional broken display due to accidental damage or even a defective battery that has swollen, but it's harder to prove that displays are breaking for other reasons.   Read Full Article Sponsored Stories A New Calendar Alternative for macOS & iOS, Informant Informant, a wildly popular calendar and task app for iOS, is now available on the Mac App Store. Informant is a 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. The 30-day calendar view shows more information about each appointment than the native Apple calendar, while the project management feature in Informant enhances the native Reminders app function with features such as sub-tasks, and start AND end dates. Pocket Informant has won numerous awards as a top-ranked iOS calendar app since 2008. For almost two decades, more than a million people have trusted Pocket Informant as their go-to organizer for mobile devices. Now known as simply “Informant”, it is an excellent app for managing your busy personal and professional life and is available for iOS and macOS. Visit Sponsor Popular Stories Jun 14, 2018 Apple's New Memoji vs. Samsung's AR Emoji One of the most fun new features of iOS 12 is support for Memoji, a new type of Animoji that can be customized to look just like a cartoonish version of you, more or less. The feature has drawn comparisons to Samsung's AR Emoji introduced a few months ago for the Galaxy S9, but the visual styles are quite different so we took a look at both in one of our latest videos. We like how Samsung's AR Emoji feature will scan your face to provide a starting point for customizing your character, but AR Emoji's attempt at appearing somewhat lifelike comes off as rather creepy. Apple's Memoji are a bit more cartoonish, which we think is a better way to go. And Apple's TrueDepth camera with 3D capabilities and new tongue and wink detection in iOS 12 lets Memoji be more expressive.   Read Full Article A Week in the Life of WWDC 2018 Scholarship Winners As part of WWDC, Apple offers 350 scholarships to students at accredited schools and STEM organizations, with applicants required to submit short interactive scenes in a Swift playground along with written materials. We spoke to a number of this year's winners, who shared their unique experiences from their week in San Jose, including highlights such as a visit to Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park to meet Tim Cook.   Read Full Article Apple Identifies Limited Hardware Issue With 2017 13" MacBook Pro Models With Function Keys Apple recently distributed a memo to service providers disclosing an issue with some 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro models without Touch Bar that could require both the solid state drive and the logic board to be replaced when either component fails. Apple hasn't disclosed exactly what the problem is, but it's possible that fixing the issue is what caused a brief period of shipping delays just prior to WWDC for those models in particular. The delays gave some people hope that updated hardware might be coming at the keynote, but it wasn't to be.   Read Full Article Apple Previews Redesigned Books App Coming in iOS 12 As part of iOS 12, Apple is rolling out a major redesign for its iBooks app, which is now known simply as Books. Centered around a new tab organization system, the new Books app makes it easy to keep track of what you're reading at the moment, as well as your full library including a handy visual timeline to see what books you've finished and when. Finally, separate tabs help you find books and audiobooks available through Apple's storefront.   Read Full Article

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