Apple’s latest iOS 9.3 beta hits public availability

Apple’s getting into the home stretch of development for iOS 9.3, and a couple days back we saw the company release its latest beta build for the developer community. That’s well and good for them, but what about the rest of us? Well, a final 9.3 release is probably still a few weeks away, but with the arrival of iOS 9 last year, Apple created a public beta program for its users to take advantage of. ...

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Apple’s new iOS 9.3 beta 3 release is out with Verizon WiFi calling

The Apple beta machine is hard at work cranking out new releases, and just like clockwork going back the past month now, every two weeks we’ve been seeing the distribution of a new iOS 9.3 beta. The company’s still not quite to the point where it’s ready for the big 9.3 public release, but today we see it get one step closer with the release of iOS 9.3 beta 3, landing alongside tvOS 9.2 beta 3 and watchOS 2.2 ...

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Apple continues to tweak Night Shift mode in new iOS 9.3 beta 2

Two weeks back, Apple gave developers their first look at the upcoming 9.3 release of iOS, and maybe most notable among the new features it delivered was a mode for adjusting screen color temperature in the hopes of offering more comfortable late-night usage: Night Shift. Apple’s been continuing to refine things behind the scenes since that early release, and today we see the company see its second ...

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Apple offers temporary workaround for iPhone 6s battery status bug, permanent fix incoming

Aside from new 3D Touch shortcuts, more Siri languages, better Apple Pay – Wallet interaction, and the adoption of a cool Night Shift mode for smart screen color adjustment in low-light conditions, iOS 9.3 should bring a fair share of your typical bug patches to the table as soon as it’s ready to move out of beta.Of course, the ninth major version of Cupertino’s ...

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Flux publicly asks for Apple’s blessing on iOS in the wake of Night Shift’s debut

Nothing can be truly original in this day and age as far as technology goes, on both the hardware and software fronts, but that still doesn’t make Apple’s treatment of acclaimed sleep-improving app Flux very fair.Flux, alternatively spelled f.lux, is currently available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux, while on iOS, it was never accepted in the official App Store, also being forced out of the Xcode-enabled side loading channel after an unusual wave of initial popularity.Cupertino is now cooking up its own Flux, which will likely be baked into

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More features to 3D Touch on iOS 9.3

If you want to take a stab at doing more on your phone in 2016, make sure you have an iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus, first of all. It has 3D Touch. Rimshot aside, iOS is getting another point upgrade and we now know more about what goodies are going into the bump.Since we mentioned it first, 3D Touch menus will be available for the Weather, Settings, Compass, Health (“Don’t worry, I’m a medic”), App ...

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It’s new-beta day for Apple devs: iOS 9.3, watchOS 2.2, tvOS 9.2, and more

Apple’s still working away at preparing iOS 9.2.1 for a formal release, after getting its first beta out a little under a month ago, but a company as large as Apple doesn’t just have one build in the pipeline: as we wait for 9.2.1, today Apple’s getting started on iOS 9.3, seeing the first beta to devs along with betas of El Capitan 10.11.4, tvOS 9.2, and watchOS 2.2.What’s new? Well there are a bunch of app updates, including improved Apple Watch support in Health, ...

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