The yellow emoji family being demoted to a set of silhouettes is a welcome improvement đź‘Ş
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/the-family-emojis-are-now-equally-useless-for-everyone/
The Family Emojis Are Now Equally Useless For Everyone
And that's a good thing.
For too long, the many yellow family emojis have been 'close enough' as a stand-in for white families, but useless for darker skinned families wanting to represent themselves.
A change to the family emoji set has been a long time coming, and while the solution
Cupertino is known for being car-brained. Executives at Apple love their cars. So it took guts to cancel this project.
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/apple-wisely-drops-car-project/
Apple Wisely Drops Car Project
Cupertino is known for being car-brained. Executives at Apple love their cars. So it took guts to cancel this project.
I couldn't let this pass without a link. Apple has dropped its car project, and re-allocated all 2,000 people from the team. This is a smart and welcome move.
We already have the technology, why aren’t basic video privacy tools like face blur included already?
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/keep-your-face-to-yourself/
Keep Your Face To Yourself Thanks
It shouldn't be so time consuming to protect everyone else's privacy.
Video filters and effects on Snapchat and TikTok can turn us into superheroes, give us makeup and a more chiseled jaw, or rearrange our facial features. All in real time.
@bigdirtyfry You know I am that girl #fyp #hotguyedits
A way to mark people as deceased in our contacts is long overdue
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/gone-but-not-forgotten/
Gone But Not Forgotten
Death shouldn't mean deletion. When someone dies, we need a better way to memorialise them on our devices.
As an iOS and macOS user, I use the built in Contacts app for keeping track of people in my life. This means they appear in the Maps app when I type
By the time an Apple Car is released, it will look like an outdated version of the future. It's not too late to change course
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/cars-arent-the-future-why-doesnt-apple-know-this/
Cars Aren’t the Future, Why Doesn’t Apple Know This?
By the time an Apple Car is released, it will look like an outdated version of the future. It's not too late to change course.
Stranded by eSIM and iPhone 15. If you care about your phone number, choose your eSIM carrier carefully.
https://www.mobiletechjournal.com/stranded-by-esim-and-iphone-15/
Stranded by eSIM and iPhone 15
If you care about your phone number, choose your eSIM carrier carefully.
Adaptive Audio for AirPods isn't Amazing (yet?)
Upgrading to iOS17 brings a bunch of new features, including a new mode for AirPods Pro 2: Adaptive Mode. Apple describes the feature to be one that:
“Dynamically responds to your environment and cancels or allows external noise.”
In my testing over the past week, it's not quite there. Or
Name This Pet Is The Best Feature of iOS 17
Anyone with a pet has hundreds of photos of them doing the same thing. Now you can see them all in one place.
