Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with information about
a march apple event and then that we might not have one as well as foldable iphone news
ios 15 information and more and so this is the news update for the week of February 21st
2021 and so the first thing is for the first time in quite some time about four years according to
gartner apple overtook sales when it comes to phones against samsung so iphone has long
been against samsung as far as some of the leaders and apparently apple has overtaken
them in their overall sales of the iphones in the last quarter of 2020. so i thought that was
kind of interesting news we haven't seen that in a while so that's good news if you're an apple user
and the next thing has to do with some small news about apple maps so if you use apple maps
and you're in the united arab emirates you'll now have access to turn by turn
navigation so if you go into maps so now you have access to turn by turn navigation like this
but you won't have speed limits or lane guidance unfortunately maybe a little bit later
and there's still no public transit information but at least you have turn by turn and in my
use of apple maps i've actually found that it's quite good and in sometimes better than google
maps when it comes to newer locations it seems to be updated more quickly at least in my use
now the apple event that many people including myself mentioned last week that supposedly would
happen around march 16th according to ihack 2 pro and then later confirmed by mark german has
said that it will not be happening on the 16th now that doesn't mean we won't have an event
later in the month but on the calendar generally last year on the 16th which is a few weeks away
we could see maybe some product announcements but don't expect an actual event last year apple
actually introduced the ipads pro a magic keyboard and the macbook air via press releases in march so
maybe we'll see something similar to that or maybe we won't but at this point it looks like there's
no event on the 16th maybe something a little bit later with some new ipads pro maybe new airpods
as well i'll talk about those in a moment now also mark german said don't expect air tags on march 16
either however no one is confirming whether or not we'll have those later in the month
so we can locate our devices with air tags the code is still in ios 14.4 and 14.5 so i guess
we'll just have to wait and see when it comes to that now when it comes to the iphone there's some
news about that as well and the first thing is if you have an iphone apple apparently will no longer
have to replace the entire device if you crack the back glass according to an internal memo according
to mac rumors apple will now have the ability to swap parts of the device instead of the entire
device costing you a lot more so according to mac rumors they said genius bars and apple authorized
service providers will have a new iphone rear system part available to them that consists
of the rear enclosure the iphone itself of course its components except the display and rear cameras
would not be included however it would have the battery the logic board the taptic engine
face id and anything else that's needed so they'll have different parts available so they could swap
existing parts more quickly i personally would just like to have them swap the whole device since
it's sealed at the factory but it looks like they won't have to do that now when it comes to iphone
13 patently apple has found a new patent for a variable refresh rate display that can adjust not
only from 60 hertz to 120 but also 180 and up to 240 hertz so it would have a variable refresh rate
that can go all the way from 60 to 240 and there's something new about it the apple
found the reason to patent so apparently there's a patent and it's looking more and more likely that
we'll have a variable refresh rate display with iphone 13 or 12s or whatever apple calls this
also iphone 13 due to those adjustments is said to be bringing in always on display
now according to some this is a hardware feature and unfortunately we may not see this with say
future versions of ios but rather because the hardware is different and can vary the refresh
rates it could save power just like it does on the apple watch with its variable refresh rate so it
dims when you put your wrist down and sort of goes to sleep into a very low hurts mode to save power
with an always on display it makes sense that apple would have this but it'll be unfortunate to
not have it on all phones and it'll be a reason to upgrade i suppose now according to another patent
by patently apple there's also dual screen iphones that have been patented by apple now whether that
means a foldable phone or just a screen on the back maybe a little notification here or maybe
relating to a clamshell phone where it could fold and have a display in the corner and then your
foldable display inside is hard to say but apple has a patent for that nonetheless and also omdia
has said that apple is still working on a foldable phone that it would be about 7.3 to 7.6 inches
it'll be an oled display with maybe even apple pencil support so maybe we'll have apple pencil
support on that foldable iphone which would make it more like an ipad and seems to make more sense
than maybe on an iphone but also according to digitimes lg is working closely with apple to
make this display so many people had suspected it would be samsung and it still could be samsung but
maybe lg has something a little bit different that they don't or maybe they just have excess capacity
that samsung doesn't but either way this may not launch until 2023 so it could be quite some time
before we see a foldable phone but apple's at least working on it whether it be clamshell
like this where it would fold or be more like samsung's where it folds this way it's hard to
say but they could be working on something like that now according to mark german reverse wireless
charging is not coming to an iphone anytime soon we have that ability on samsung phones but iphones
don't have it however according to fcc filings all the iphone 12 lineup phones have the ability
to reverse wireless charge so it's kind of strange that we don't have the option even if it's there
maybe we're waiting for new mag safe accessories for say air pods for example but we don't have
the ability to have it and we may not have it for quite some time so that's sort of unfortunate but
it does look like apple is working on a battery pack of some kind based on code found in ios 14.5
so for those of you that really want a battery pack apple did come out with some interesting
accessories like this for the iphone where you take the iphone out put it back in and
now we have a sleeve for the iphone i have another video on this specifically but you've
got the sleeve and this is an odd accessory so why not have an accessory with a battery pack that's
magsafe capable that will allow it to charge your phone just like magsafe where it adheres to
the back maybe magnetically whether it's a case or not i'm not sure but it would be nice to have that
option in the future for a battery pack so 14.5 appears to reference some sort of battery pack
hopefully we'll see something like that now as far as when to expect ios 14.5 beta 3 well i would say
as soon as tomorrow if we're on a one-week cycle or it could be the following week if we're still
on a two-week cycle based on what apple's done year over year they've had up to seven
betas at some points so we could see more betas but then based off ios 14.4 we could have a public
release this week as well with ios 14.5 since 14.4 only had two beta releases so right now apple's
schedule seems to be a little bit different than what we've had in the past so hopefully we'll see
something soon but i would expect some sort of beta or maybe even a public release this week but
at this point things are up in the air and not really similar to what they've done in previous
years with ios 13 ios 12 ios 11 any of those if you look back at what they've done this year is
not anything like that so don't expect public releases the same way i suppose at this point
even though they stopped signing ios 14.3 it's been more than two weeks and generally we would
have a public release by now so i would expect something soon but there's no guarantee at this
point since it seems apple has changed whatever sort of release schedule they had in the past
now as far as ios 15 ihack 2 pro which seems to be fairly accurate with some of these leaks when
it comes to ios specifically has said to expect a new lock screen new control center with ios 15
as well as more interactive widgets and maybe some different sizes according to some tweets and
possibly split view for multitasking now whether or not we see this is hard to say it's some of
it i've said i'd like to see in ios 15. i would like to see a redesigned control center i actually
prefer the older style where they slid up from the bottom and sort of covered part of the screen
however the newer version is a little bit more functional since ios 12 or so
but i prefer the older one a little bit more myself but in general i think we'll see at
least some modifications to that and always on display on the lock screen makes sense as well as
more interactive widgets where we can interact with these a little bit better seems to make a
lot of sense so hopefully we'll have something that's a little bit better with ios 15 as far
as that goes now 52 audio has given us a recent leak of what appears to be airpods 3 so they're
similar to airpods pro in a way but they're also different in that they don't have removable tips
at the end or noise cancellation at least what it looks like from these pictures so it looks
like the case is a little bit smaller and it also may maintain the touch controls that we have on
the airpods pro where you can press and hold the change between transparency or noise cancellation
instead we can use it for changing music tracks things like that and we'll have something like
that fairly soon it looks like these match what other people have leaked before and they match
what other people have said before to expect with the next airpods so i would look forward to those
now i did want to show you one other thing as well from antonio de rosa i showed you a concept last
week of his apple glasses but he made this concept showing what an apple cryptocurrency wallet could
look like so it would be a really interesting sleek wallet if cryptocurrency takes off to be
the main way of paying for things it could look something like this so i thought maybe it would
be something interesting that you would enjoy he makes a lot of great concepts so i'll link him in
the description so if you want to check out the other works he's had as well but let me know if
you think apple should do their own cryptocurrency and what you think an apple wallet would look like
and finally apple has released a new security website updating how all of their security works
so apple platform security you've got a table of contents here that talks about everything
from encryption and data protection to app security and helps you understand how they
do things how their hardware is secure and more so i'll link that in the description as well if
you want to check that out but it's got a lot of information about security how they do it how you
should secure your apps as well and so that's it for this week with the news a lot of information
about upcoming iphones and i'm really looking forward to the next version of ios and hopefully
ios 14.5 soon if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the
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