hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week we had a ton of updates for all of
our apple devices there's news about apple still working on a folding device we still
haven't had a wwdc invite and much more this is your news update for the week of april 4th
2022 and the first thing is apple updated apple fitness plus so if you use apple fitness plus
they've sent you an email most likely and it says power through your week and they've added a bunch
of workouts and a focus on fitness after having a baby so you can go through here you'll see over
25 new workouts to keep you moving and so on so if you use fitness plus you should see that
update now now apple's supplier tsmc who makes the chipsets in many apple devices such as the
a15 bionic has said that demand for smartphones is slowing this doesn't just include apple but is
also for android phones and of course this could be due to uncertainties about what's going on
around the world as well as a saturation and small refinements and upgrades from year to year so as
iphones and other phones get more and more mature we get better and better cameras there's going to
be less and less updates so they can differentiate themselves with services and maybe software but at
this point it looks like we've reached pretty much peak maturity until maybe the overall hardware
advances to where we have much better cameras and things like that so the overall demand of buying
an expensive phone seems to have decreased it may increase in the future but right now it looks like
it's slowing a little bit now as far as the latest ipad the fifth generation ipad air i've had quite
a few people ask me if i have any creaking with it this is the latest generation and it's the base
model i bought it myself ordered it it was shipped to me and i haven't experienced any creaking in
fact you can actually flex these if you just push a little bit you don't want to do too much but you
can see it flex you can do this with an ipad pro any of the previous versions that look like this
because of their thinness you can flex them but in flexing them you don't hear any creaking i don't
have any issues when i push on the back i don't feel anything different it really is no different
than the fourth generation for me but i have heard from people that have seen this creaking issue
and i'm curious if you're experiencing it as well maybe it was just manufactured on
a different day and not as well i haven't had any issues but i did order this day one
and again it seems to be fine but let me know if you're having that issue in the comments below now
many people have been waiting for youtube to have picture in picture they allow it through premium
so if you have a premium subscription you can just play a video this is my video from yesterday
and you can have it in a little window with picture-in-picture however youtube has actually
updated youtube tv to allow this across all the platforms on iphone and ipad so if you use youtube
tv that should be updated now premium may switch to free in a little while but right now it's
currently youtube premium so hopefully they change that very soon but i just wanted to make you aware
if you weren't already now many of you have asked me to include deals within these news updates so
i have two deals today that i was able to find the first one has to do with the series 7 apple watch
the 41 millimeter is down to 329 for the base model or for the 45 millimeter it's 359 on amazon
sold directly by apple so if you had a problem with it you can bring it to apple and they'll take
a look at it and also airpods pro with magsafe are down to 174 on amazon so i'll leave a link to them
in the description they are affiliate links so you can either click those i'll get a small commission
if you don't want to use those you can just search for them on amazon as well so pretty decent deals
of course apple may be updating the airpods pro later this year but the series 7 apple watch
is pretty current again they'll probably update it sometime around september like they normally do
every single year but it's a pretty good deal at this point at least for the aluminum version of
the watch or aluminium depending on where you live now apple has also updated its policies to allow
reader apps to allow external links to their websites for account signups so prior to this
they had to do everything within the app so maybe hulu or netflix or things like that
can now provide an external link to help you manage your account without going directly
through the apple systems or their app so that's a change in their policies that's
now active for developers if they want to do that apple has a service called business
essentials that was currently only available in beta form but this past week apple updated this
and made it available to any small business with less than 500 employees as a subscription
business essentials actually allows you to manage your company's devices with features such as setup
onboarding icloud storage and apple care plus so you can see it here and this is apple's own
website on how to add users not work onboarding and so on so it's a pretty nice service if you
want to use it again you can sign up it's sort of like an icloud subscription for businesses that
allows you to manage all of this and of course you get support with applecare plus and more so it's a
pretty nice service that was only in beta form before and is available to anyone now over the
years apple has made a ton of products and apple will add three older macbooks to its obsolete list
at the end of april according to an internal memo that mac rumors obtained so if you have a macbook
air 11 inch from early 2014 a macbook air 13 inch from early 2014 or a macbook pro 13 inch from mid
2014 those will all be obsoleted at the end of this month meaning they're older devices usually
around 7 years old apple will obsolete the device and you'll no longer get updates for it apple
and other companies such as meta and possibly additional companies recently gave information
to hackers that had forged documents to make them look like they were coming from governments with
emergency data requests so these hackers would hand these documents to apple saying we need
information about different users and it looked like they were official requests from governments
this apparently was handed out we don't know how many users or what data was handed out
or who was affected specifically but apparently this impacted apple meta and some other companies
as well we still haven't heard from apple as far as wwdc typically apple will send out worldwide
developer conference invites usually at the end of the march where we'll have an event in june
that's where they go over the next version of ios and ipad os and mac os and so on and show
us all of the recent features typically it was an in-person event except for the last two years
and the website's still active so it was a virtual event the past couple of years for obvious reasons
but you can see all the different information here you can download the apple developer app and
see more there typically they'll detail new things such as ios 16. so we're waiting for those invites
maybe apple's just holding off because they're having people come back to work in a hybrid
situation very soon and maybe they're just waiting for that to see if they're going to
have it in person this year or not but either way we should see those invites very soon with
an event typically in june normally within the second week of june we'll have an event
usually around the 6th or 7th and then we'll see all of those different versions and then we'll
get our first beta such as ios 16 beta 1 mac os 13 beta 1 ipad and so on with apple watch and more so
maybe we'll get that along with maybe some new hardware with mac pro
but we're waiting for those invites i would expect them soon but this is again uncharted territory
that we've been seeing lately with apple we don't know exactly when they're going to set them send
them out now this past week we did have a bunch of updates for our iphone so ipad and ios 15.4.1 as
well as homepod and tv os 15.4.1 mac os 12.3.1 and watchos 8.5.1 we had all of those updates which
were to patch some security issues and small bugs but this coming week i do expect ios 15.5 now in
the past or the past couple of weeks we typically would see an update right after a public update
maybe the event in march we would see another beta start right away this year we haven't seen
that so far and many people have said is this the end of ios 15 are we going to see any more of this
and a lot of people were even speculating ios 15 is done apple's focusing on ios 16 and we're not
going to see another update however based off a recent twitter post by apple software updates it
looks like craig federich responded to this so i wanted to share that with you now i did reach out
directly to apple software updates and ask where they got this email from and they actually said
they sent it directly and then craig responded to them so he was asking about future ios 15 updates
craig responded saying sure there are more updates of ios 15 in the works no need to get impatient
glad that you're looking forward to wwdc craig so it looks like all of those things are pretty much
confirmed at this point since that's the head of software development or software at apple
we should see ios 15.5 now the question is whether or not we see it this week or maybe next week or
within the next few weeks so maybe we'll see it as soon as tomorrow or wednesday we've been expecting
that for the past few weeks but again we're in uncharted territory and it could be a few weeks
from now we just don't know at this point but as soon as we see beta 1 i'll be sure to let
you know now with future iphones we have some additional news with iphone 14. now some people
were expecting this to be very soon typically we won't see iphone 14 until september but apple is
ramping up production now as they have to make millions and millions of these devices
so what they'll do is get the sort of overall design and specifications finalized and then
they'll start making them maybe in a month or two from now or we could get closer to september or so
and they'll start creating them then either way the overall design has been done for a while it
seems now in a recent post from weibo there was a user called phishing8 who posted specifications
for the upcoming iphone 14 camera system many have said to expect a 48 megapixel sensor maybe with 8k
video and it appears the sensor will be even larger than the current sensor by 21
so this year we gained a larger sensor that allows more light with a larger megapixel count you would
want to allow more light to be captured by the sensor so a larger sensor also makes sense so
that seems to make a lot of sense hopefully we'll get some amazing images and video from it and
we'll have to wait and see but it looks like we're going to get that as well as a thicker camera bump
based off the latest renders so where some people said in the past it was going to be flat it could
be even thicker to accommodate the larger sensor so again we don't really know 100 the overall
dimensions but we should know pretty soon for those of you looking forward to apple adding a
fingerprint under the display it looks like that's not going to happen anytime soon according to a
recent post by cuoming qi he said that we thought we could have one soon but it appears there's no
plans until at least 2024 or 2025 if ever so to have one under the display that works really well
it looks like apple's sticking with face id for now especially if they can get rid of the notch
put it under the display with the recent technology with display so it looks unlikely that
we're going to get any sort of touch id under the screen i would love to see one on the side with
the power sleep wake button though just maybe for different use to have both would be great
but either way it looks like it may not be anytime soon now apple is still working on
folding devices recent patents have shown this and apple is apparently testing a folding device with
a nine inch display according to ming chi quo however apple is not set to introduce a public
version of a folding device until at least 2025 so maybe an ipad that folds maybe macbooks are
suspected at this point or maybe a whole lineup of folding devices the elec this week also said that
apple's working with lg to develop foldable displays for future ipads and notebooks so
we definitely could see some innovation in the future folding displays would be great on an ipad
where you could have a phone maybe where it scrolls into the device like samsung is planning
something along those lines but right now we just don't have any additional information about that
other than the apple's working on it also we keep hearing more and more about an upcoming macbook
air redesign it seems every week we hear more from different people such as digitimes this week mark
german previously and they all say the second half of 2022 is when we could see the new macbook air
with new colors a new redesign and even the m2 processor so it looks like all of those things
are set for later this year instead of march like many had suspected originally so i do look forward
to a macbook air redesign but exactly what it has as far as the display whether or not it's a
white bezel or not we don't really know 100 but it does look like it's planned for later this year so
again usually around the november october november time frame is when they release max but if they
do that this year that's when i would expect it if it's in the second half if not it could be earlier
as well and apple of course can always change this so that's everything as far as this week's updates
if there's anything you'd like to see specifically in these weekly news updates let me know in the
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