Craig Federighi, VP of Software Engineering at Apple, said in a recent interview that some of the child-protection features were ‘misunderstood’.
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Have you been seeing an error while trying to sign in to your iCloud or simply stuck on the load screen during a new device setup? You’re not alone. But worry no more, as the problem has now been solved. In the past 24 hours, multiple users complained about sign-in issues when setting up a new Apple device. For some users, they were unable to set up a new device such as an iPhone or iPad, while others were stuck trying to link accessories such as their Apple Watch. Apple later told some of the affected users that the iCloud system was experiencing high capacity and that the iCloud Account & Sign-in server was experiencing an issue.
Go ahead and set up the new iPhone you got as a Christmas present
Well, it appears that the problem has now been resolved after an outage that has been going on for over a day. Apple’s official System Status support page now says that the iCloud Account and Sign In issue has been resolved. A few hours ago from the time of writing this, it showed that the issue still persisted. We’ve also come across some users tweeting that the iCloud sign-in and activation issue has now vanished on their end as well.
The issue apparently started early on Christmas day when there was apparently a device activation surge that appears to have overloaded the servers. Aside from being unable to set up new devices, some users also reported that they were unable to access their data stored on the cloud service. Checking a few forums revealed that some users came across a “Verification Failed” error message. A few affected users appear to have been stuck on the setup page, while others were simply unable to access it at all.
Thankfully, the issue has now been fixed. I just verified the same on my iPad and can confirm that the iCloud system is working just fine at the moment. The experience was frustrating for many users, especially those who got an iPhone, iPad, or an Apple Watch as a festive gift, but were unable to set it up because of a failed activation process.
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The FBI is trying to get help from Apple to unlock a password-protected iPhone that belonged to the shooter of the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida
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On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the new images of the iPhone XI, the certification of the new Huawei Mate X and more
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Apple wants you to prepare for your new iPhone and has teamed up with major US carriers to offer customers 200GB of free iCloud storage.
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Unlike other chat clients and other cloud storage platforms, Apple's ecosystem didn't link one to the other for personal backups... until now.
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For now, the tool is available to Apple ID account holders in the European Union and a few other countries. Now all we have to do is wait for the data to come out and get sorted.
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iOS 11.3 is done. Barring any bugs that pop up out of nowhere, it's onto the next minor update. And there are some great features still being held back.
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iOS 11.3 is done. Barring any bugs that pop up out of nowhere, it's onto the next minor update. And there are some great features still being held back.
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iOS 11.3 is done. Barring any bugs that pop up out of nowhere, it's onto the next minor update. And there are some great features still being held back.
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One of the big features for the Apple Watch Series 3 Cellular is audio streaming direct to the watch. It's not on yet, but it will be.
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The official announcement of the iPhone 8 is definitely approaching, but if you fear its high retail costs, you might be in for some free stuff.
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If you've been paying attention to the developments coming out of the firmware of the HomePod, the iPhone 8 has pretty much been spoiled for you.
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5GB of free iCloud storage is still not ideal, but an extra 50 gigs at $0.99 a month or a whopping 2TB in exchange for $10 sounds pretty sweet.
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Apple has officially dumped the mini-phonojack — the 3.5mm headphone jack to us humans — and has elected to go Lightning only for any future audio listening.That includes EarPods with a Lightning connector and an adapter in every box to switch between Lightning and 3.5mm.Cupertino has also plopped in some Bluetooth-enabled AirPods, communicating audio wirelessly to individual earbuds. Each has an Apple-designed W1 chip to connect to your iPhone or Apple Watch and switch between them as needed and drive sound. Configurations can be backed up through iCloud. Beamforming microphones ...
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