hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week had news about the upcoming iphone 14
and more about what to expect as well as maybe we'll see usbc finally based off some rules in
the eu and much more this is your news update for the week of april 25th 2022
and the first thing is this morning there's actually been a couple outages for apple across
different apps and services so the app store in particular so maybe you're on an app if you scroll
to the bottom you typically will have app privacy information this all of a sudden disappeared for
many users now it does seem to be back at the time of this video but earlier today it wasn't showing
up also if you go to apple's status website or system status website it does say it's still an
issue so if i refresh here you'll see it says two current issues the other issue actually has
to do with apple music so apple music still may be affected if you're having issues with that that's
why so whether that be lyrics not showing up for some people or just problems altogether it does
seem to be an issue that apple's working on now also if you have an apple watch series 6 and it
just shows a black display maybe it's just showing a black display not working at all apple launched
a repo repair program this past week to fix those issues now it's specific to the forty millimeter
version of the apple watch series six that was released between april 2021 and september 2021
it doesn't affect all series six apple watches and you can check the actual status of that
and i'll link this in the description but you can check the status of that by going to the
apple watch series 6 service program for blank screen issue and inputting the serial number
if it matches apple will take care of this for you and you can just follow the instructions here and
go through the service process and they'll fix that for you but i just want to make you aware
if you're having that issue with a series 6 apple watch tony fidel known as one of the co-creators
of the original ipod at apple recently posted a prototype on twitter of what it looked like
early on and you can see here he said these plastic models are truly the first ipods around
may or june of 2001 we 3d printed and machined these prototypes of the first gen ipod during
the mechanical and industrial design process they were just shells but they were important
first of all i didn't know there were 3d printers capable of this early in 2001 but this is always
great to see early versions of what apple was working on how it sort of looked from
the very start also in case you haven't heard elon musk has actually bought twitter earlier
in the day elon musk tweeted i hope that even my worst critics remain on twitter because that is
what free speech means and that was the first indication that twitter may have accepted his
offer and there was a bunch of news about that and then later twitter announced that
they accepted his offer so what this means as far as the future of twitter is hard to say but i'm
curious what you think about it in the comments below however since this is a controversial topic
please be respectful of one another as most of you are anyway but i'd love to hear your opinion on
this the apple store online is now selling two new hydrate spark water bottles that has apple health
integrated the base of the water bottle lights up to remind you to drink and can also measure how
much water you drink and relay that back to your health app the plastic version comes in at 59.99
while the steel version is 79.99 so if that's something you want to regularly monitor it seems a
bit expensive to me for a water bottle but let me know what you think about it in the comments below
now also with all the different apple deals and things people have been asking me asking me to
publish it seems like there's a continual deal on airpods pro so i'll link those in the description
but it seems like airpods pro and airpods have regular deals on amazon it is an affiliate link
so i'll get a little bit of money for that if you don't want to use the link you can just search for
it on amazon as well but they do typically have those deals and maybe we'll see some airpods later
on but as far as airpods pro go there's some great deals on those right now apple fitness plus also
added some new workouts for international dance day on april 29th so international dance day i've
mentioned this before there's some get into groove with dance there's some new workouts as well
and also you can earn a limited edition award on the 29th by doing a 20 minute dance workout
so that's available in a few days or so and they usually update these regularly so they'll probably
have something next month as well apple released two new videos on youtube recently and you'll
see them here it says shot on iphone 13 pro it's called poached and then there's also the making
of poached i thought this was pretty impressive as this is the person that created jiro dreams of
sushi and that's one of my favorite sort of food documentaries and this is also shot completely
with an iphone on this poached video so be sure to check this out it's about five minutes long
and then the making of it is another three minutes long but it's really impressive that they used the
iphone the entire time for this so i thought i'd share that the european union's digital
markets act will apparently be forcing apple to make imessage interoperate with other messaging
platforms so that could mean android different messaging apps maybe whatsapp telegram and others
and maybe even across windows so apple would have to open that up as well as third-party app stores
i've talked about that in the past and it looks like they're getting closer to being forced to do
that in the european union apple would also have to make changes to facetime siri and browsers as
well according to mac rumors who saw a leaked version of the document this is not yet law but
the initial revision of it was approved in march and is expected to take effect in october the eu
is also very close to approving legislation to force devices to use usbc so devices such as the
iphone maybe iphone 14 future airpods cases and anything that's not super small as that's the only
exception so again this past wednesday the law was voted in favor of and if approved by next month it
would take effect it means apple would be forced to switch to that so we would switch to maybe
usb-c on all our iphones i would definitely welcome that personally as we have it on ipad and
mac and bringing it to iphone and airpods while could be painful right away it would be nice to be
able to use one cable across all our iphones and maybe any other devices whether that be a windows
laptop an android phone or something else so i would definitely welcome it myself but again let
me know what you think of it in the comments below if you have apple cash apple cash is apparently
being rebranded from discover to visa and it will soon have a new logo showing that transition
a few images have been updated on apple's cash website and we've seen those images in ios code
for a little while so apparently they're going to be branding apple cash with a visa logo now
where before it really didn't have a logo which i appreciated so it's something that's
an unfortunate change but may help at different locations to make it easier to pay with if you're
a fan of mac os server and you've been using it for any amount of time unfortunately apple
officially discontinued it as of april 21st 2022 apple updated a support document stating customers
can continue to download it but it will not be supported any longer so that's a bit unfortunate
something i've used in the past and if you use that version of the os it's not available any
longer but i think mac os monterey has quite a few tools in it you could use similarly
but let me know if it's something you use and if you're disappointed by this news
when it comes to the iphone 13 it appears that iphone 13 mini is quite rare it apparently makes
up only three percent of all iphone sales in the march quarter according to consumer research
intelligence partners so the iphone 13 mini is something that's just not selling very well
that makes a lot of sense for some people for others this is the best phone apple's ever made so
let me know if the 13 mini is something you use personally what you think of it and are you a bit
disappointed that apple's not going to be making it with the iphone 14 models now when it comes
to future ios updates this week i would be very surprised if we don't have an ios 15.4.2 or some
other public release it's completely possible that apple does not release something this
week but it seems very likely since usually when they stop signing a previous version of ios
will have an update within two to three weeks this would be the third week since they stopped signing
ios 15.4 that means you can no longer downgrade to it so if we don't have an update this week it'd be
surprising but apple has been very random with their releases lately so it's possible we don't
see that also we're waiting for the next version of ios 15.5 betas with beta 3. now apple typically
is on a two week cycle with the first one to three betas and usually between beta two and
beta three or beta three and beta four it switches to a one week cycle this changes from time to time
so if we see a beta three this week we can expect regular betas every week until the final release
if we don't see a beta this week then i would expect one next week in the first week of may
with then switching to two releases weekly with a final release around wwdc in june along with ios
16 beta 1. so expect all of those things as far as those updates go apple is planning to increase
the iphone 13 pro and iphone 13 pro max production for the second quarter by up to 10 million units
according to those in the supply chain iphone 13 pro and pro max are in very high demand
and it seems that apple needs to make much more of them there were recent lockdowns and things
across the world in the supply chain and that slowed down production so maybe they're just
making up for lost time there now when it comes to the iphone 14 it appears that the next version of
the iphone could have a new purple color for the pro models there was a recent leak on weibo that
has since been removed that claimed to reveal all of the colors of the upcoming iphone 14 pro models
and the new exclusive color to the pro models was a new purple color now rumors in the past have
gotten this very wrong where they thought we would have an orange and different colors there and we
had sierra blue but it looks like purple could be in the plans for the next iphone mark german this
past week and his power on newsletter has also said that the regular iphone 14 and 14 max will
not have the new 48 megapixel camera that will be in just the pro models also he said it would only
have the a15 cpu instead of the 16 which would be reserved for the pro model specifically this is
something we haven't seen every year year to year but the a15 is powerful enough that it makes sense
maybe in the regular models we have an a15 and in the pro models we have an even faster processor
i know quite a few people wouldn't like this but due to recent supply constraints and more
that could make a lot of sense for the next few years according to quoming iphone 14 models are
all said to be getting upgraded front cameras with autofocus and a wider f 1.9 aperture
that makes a lot of sense we haven't seen the front camera upgraded in quite some time
and additional autofocus and a wider aperture to let in more light makes a lot of sense that would
be a great upgrade and i hope this is something that we actually see also last week we heard that
apple watch may gain satellite connectivity for emergency situations and it appears this feature
is being planned to roll out to iphones as soon as this year now it may come a little bit later
or it could be very soon but something like that maybe you're hiking in the forest somewhere and
it's difficult to reach you you don't have a sell signal that sort of emergency backup would
be something that i think most people would welcome if it was available so hopefully we
see something like that in the near future analyst ming chi quo has also said that the first iphones
to support the under the display face id will be the iphone 16 pro models in a couple years
prior to this it was thought we could see it even earlier with the iphone 15 but apparently
apple tends to keep similar technologies for a few years where we might have that sort of pill
and hole punch camera and then we'll have that for a couple years and then maybe an under the display
feature later on so that could be something we see only in a couple years from now not just one
year from now mark german this week has said that apple is also working on an m3 version of the imac
as apple is typically a few years ahead of what we see in the public and he also said those wanting
an imac pro will have to wait as apple is still working on it but it's not coming anytime soon
apple is also working closer with samsung this time around to help manufacture some of its
future apple silicon starting with the m2 samsung already supplies some of the components but then
the chips are ultimately manufactured by tsmc and tsmc who's been manufacturing them for a while
is working on the next chips where currently we're at three nanometers coming up soon and
then they're moving down to two nanometers so they're already prepping that for the next future
versions of the mac or the iphone chips that leads to better efficiency better heat and much more so
that's something that's just kind of mind-blowing to see that we've come down from five nanometers
to three and then to two so we'll have to see what we can get with that when we see those
in a few years so there's a ton of news this past week now if there's anything different
you'd like me to cover in these videos i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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