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Apple releases ninth developer beta of watchOS 6

Apple is now on its ninth round of milestone operating system betas, but proceeding in a more restrained fashion, providing developers with access just to the ninth build of watchOS 6.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 1

Walk, run or wheel on Aug. 25 for the Grand Canyon award

Those who walk, hike, run, or complete a wheelchair workout of at least three miles on August 25th can earn a unique, hiking-based award in the latest Apple Watch Activity Challenge celebrating the Grand Canyon's 100th anniversary.

Amber Neely 6 years ago 8

Apple's expanded bug bounty program covers all operating systems, payouts up to $1M, special iPhones, more

Apple is opening its bug bounty program to cover all of its operating systems, with the company expanding and improving the scheme to pay researchers for finding bugs in macOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and iCloud, along with the current payouts for iOS issues. Also new are special iPhones that will help select researchers surface vulnerabilities.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 8

Fourth watchOS 6 developer beta joins fourth public betas of iOS 13, iPadOS, tvOS 13

One day after releasing the developer counterparts, Apple has issued its fourth public beta builds of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and tvOS 13, along with the fourth developer beta of watchOS 6.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 4

Apple's watchOS 5.3 is now available

Apple has released watchOS 5.3 on Monday, one week after the developer beta went live.

Amber Neely 6 years ago 11

Newly discovered Bluetooth exploit tracks iOS, macOS devices

Researchers have identified a flaw in the Bluetooth communication protocol that may expose iOS, macOS, and Microsoft users to device tracking.

Amber Neely 6 years ago 26

Apple previews 'holding hands,' other emoji updates planned for this fall

Using World Emoji Day as the excuse, Apple on Tuesday previewed some of the emoji it will be adding to iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS in supporting Unicode 12.0.

Roger Fingas 6 years ago 23

Apple distributes seventh iOS 12.4, sixth watchOS 5.3 developer betas

Continuing the current testing round from yesterday's macOS 10.14.6 build, Apple has issued more builds to developers, this time a seventh build of iOS 12.4 and a sixth build of watchOS 5.3.

Malcolm Owen 6 years ago 3

Apple seeds fourth developer beta of macOS 10.15 Catalina

Apple on Tuesday has issued its fourth of developer beta for macOS 10.15 Catalina, with new developer releases of iOS 13 and the others still waiting in the wings.

Roger Fingas 6 years ago 7

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