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By Mahit Huilgol on Jun 26, 2020 02:48 pm Apple announced that iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur will support encrypted DNS communication at a developer conference. Unencrypted DNS communication takes place using plain text and anyone in your WiFi network or even ISP can snoop on your web traffic. In other words, anyone between your device and resolver will be able to intercept DNS queries in Normal DNS. Continue reading →
By Asif Shaik on Jun 26, 2020 12:59 pm Apple has opened up its smartphone walled garden a bit with iOS 14, allowing people to place widgets alongside apps, hide home screen pages, play videos outside of apps via PiP, and offering SMS filtering. It even started allowing users to set third-party email and web browser apps as system defaults, but the company is going slow. But that might change in the future versions of iOS. Continue reading →
By Asif Shaik on Jun 26, 2020 11:34 am Microsoft, which aimed at competing with Apple Stores with its own retail stores, has announced that it is shutting down all its retail stores in the US and around the globe. The company said in a press release that it will focus on its online stores and that it has no plans to lay off its retail store employees. Continue reading →
By Rajesh Pandey on Jun 26, 2020 10:48 am With iOS 14, Apple has finally added support for widgets on the iPhone’s home screen allowing users to place them anywhere they want. While Apple had added widgets support on the iPad’s home screen with iPadOS 13 in 2019 itself, it limited them to the Today view on the home screen. In iPadOS 14 , the company has not made any improvements to its widgets implementation meaning users cannot place widgets anywhere on the home screen like they can on the iPhone. Continue reading →
By Rajesh Pandey on Jun 26, 2020 07:32 am There have been quite a few leaks claiming that Apple could potentially end up using 120Hz high refresh rate OLED panels on the iPhone 12 Pro lineup. However, all the reports so far had claimed that the plans were not yet finalized by the Cupertino company. A new leak today claims that Apple has indeed decided to go with 120Hz ProMotion OLED panels on the iPhone 12 Pro series. Continue reading →
By Rajesh Pandey on Jun 25, 2020 11:33 pm A relatively minor but important change that Apple has introduced in iOS 14 is that users are alerted whenever an application reads clipboard data. This change has revealed that a number of iOS apps are constantly scrapping clipboard data including TikTok. Continue reading →