Juli Clover
Juli is the Managing Editor at MacRumors, and has been covering Apple news and rumors since 2010. She oversees MacRumors' guides, roundups, how tos, reviews, and giveaways in addition to covering daily news. Her work is regularly highlighted on Techmeme and cited by tech publications and news sites.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
Juli Clover's Articles
Eight Privacy and Security Improvements in iOS 17: Safari, Shared Passwords, URL Tracking Removal and More
The iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 updates include a number of privacy and security improvements that make your devices safer than ever, with Apple restricting access to photos and calendar events and cutting down further on how websites track you across the web.
Private Browsing Upgrades in Safari
In Safari, Private browsing windows are now locked and require secondary authentication to unlock and...
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New Hampshire Man Pleads Guilty to Taking Huge Bribe to Ship $2M Worth of Stolen Apple Products
New Hampshire resident Guangwei "William" Wu recently pled guilty to transporting stolen Apple property valued at $2 million, according to the United States Attorney's Office in the District of New Hampshire.
Wu owned the Hai Xing Qiao shipping company in Manchester, New Hampshire. In the fall of 2022, a Hong Kong-based company purchased a range of Apple products that Wu was meant to forward ...
YouTube Working on 'Playables' Gaming Service
YouTube appears to be developing a new gaming service called "Playables," according to The Wall Street Journal. The service allows users to play games on mobile devices or desktop computers, and it is being tested with Google employees internally.
Playables appears to offer instant-play games through the YouTube website or YouTube mobile apps, offering an alternative to video content. In a...
iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite Feature Saves California Hiker
Emergency SOS via Satellite, a feature introduced with the iPhone 14 models, over the weekend saved a hiker who was injured on a trail. As reported by ABC7, Juana Reyes was hiking a remote part of the Trail Canyon Falls in the Angeles National Forest when she suffered an accident.
A part of the trail collapsed underneath her, breaking her leg. She had no cellular service, nor did the people...
HyperPack Pro Tech Backpack With Find My Integration Now Available
Popular accessory maker Hyper this week announced the launch of its HyperPack Pro backpack, which has built-in Find My functionality. Hyper has been working on the backpack since last year, launching it via a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, but it now has wide availability from the Hyper website.
The HyperPack Pro is similar in design to the Targus Cypress Hero Backpack that launched...
LG Offering Two Free Months of Apple's MLS Season Pass
LG today announced that LG Smart TV owners in the United States can sign up for two free months of Major League Soccer Season Pass using the Apple TV app, allowing access to every live Major League Soccer match, including Leagues Cup, All-Star games, and playoffs.
A compatible LG Smart TV from 2016 to 2023 is required, with customers able to sign up for the MLS Season Pass offer in the LG...
LG to Bring AirPlay to Hotel Room TVs Later This Year
LG Electronics will be one of the first TV manufacturers to support Apple's AirPlay expansion, which will see Apple bringing easy access AirPlay to hotel room TVs.
In a press release (via ZDNET), LG said that later this year, it will introduce LG Pro:Centric Smart Hotel TVs that include built-in AirPlay technology.
"This is a major advancement for in-room entertainment in the travel and...
Video: A First Look at visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro
Apple yesterday released the first ever beta of visionOS and the SDK that will allow developers to create apps for the Apple Vision Pro headset. visionOS can only be explored through Xcode right now, but we thought we'd take a hands-on look to see what we can glean about the headset experience from the operating system.
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Testing out...
Latest iOS 17 Beta Makes Haptic Touch Faster
The second beta of iOS 17 that Apple released to developers yesterday includes a setting that makes the haptic feedback feature activate faster than before, which some users may prefer.
An Accessibility option, faster haptic feedback can be activated in the Settings app by going to Accessibility > Touch > Haptic Touch. From there, the options are Fast, Default, and Slow. Toggling on Fast...
Apple Vision Pro 'Visual Search' Feature Can Identify Items, Copy Printed Text, Translate and More
The Apple Vision Pro headset's visionOS operating system includes a feature called "Visual Search," which sounds like it is similar to the Visual Look Up feature on the iPhone and the iPad.
With Visual Search, users can use the Vision Pro headset to get information about an item, detect and interact with text in the world around them, copy and paste printed text from the real world into...
Here Are All the 'Environments' You Can Experience in visionOS
With the Vision Pro headset, there is an option to activate an Environment that allows you to shut out the world around you. While Apple has mentioned Mount Hood as an Environment you can visit and use as a backdrop, there are several others.
Apple today released the first version of visionOS, which can be experienced using the latest Xcode beta, and the visionOS update has given us some...
Everything New in iOS 17 Beta 2
Apple today released the second beta of upcoming iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 updates to developers for testing purposes, and like all new betas for a major point update, the software includes a number of small tweaks and changes as Apple refines the operating systems ahead of launch. We've aggregated everything new that we've found in the second beta so far.
Update Screen
This is technically a...
Apple Releases Second Studio Display 17 Firmware Beta
Apple today released a second Studio Display 17 firmware beta, with the update coming two weeks after the release of the first beta.
All Studio Display models are able to receive firmware updates, but this firmware update is limited to Macs that are running the new macOS Sonoma operating system at the current time. Studio Display owners running macOS Sonoma can go to System Settings >...
Apple Releases First Ever visionOS Beta
Apple today introduced the first version of the visionOS software, debuting the visionOS 1.0 Developer Beta. The introduction of the beta comes as Apple has announced the launch of the visionOS software development kit (SDK) that will allow third-party developers to build apps for the Vision Pro headset.
The SDK can be accessed through Xcode 15 beta 2, and while developers do not have access ...
Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 to Developers
Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after the release of the first betas following the WWDC keynote event.
Registered developers are able to opt into the betas by opening up the Settings app, going to the Software Update section, tapping on the "Beta Updates" option, and toggling...
Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS 14 Sonoma to Developers
Apple today seeded the second beta of the recently announced macOS 14 Sonoma update to developers for testing purposes. The beta comes two weeks after the launch of the first beta that came out following the June 5 WWDC keynote event. While the beta is limited to developers at this time, Apple plans to provide a public beta later this summer.
Registered developers can download the beta...
Apple Seeds Second Beta of watchOS 10 to Developers
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming watchOS 10 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software update coming two weeks after the beta was first introduced following the June 5 WWDC keynote event.
To install the watchOS 10 update, developers will need to open the Apple Watch app, go to the Software Update section under "General" in Settings, and toggle on the...
Apple Seeds Second Beta of tvOS 17 to Developers
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming tvOS 17 beta to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after Apple introduced the first beta.
Registered developers are able to download the tvOS 17 update by opting in to the beta through the Settings app on the Apple TV. A registered developer account is required.
tvOS updates don't typically garner as much...
All of the iOS 17 CarPlay Features
Apple is introduced new functionality for almost every iPhone app and feature with iOS 17, and CarPlay hasn't been left out. We haven't seen the total overhaul of CarPlay that Apple promised last year as of yet, but there are a handful of new features that were added in iOS 17.
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SharePlay for the Music App
SharePlay works with the...
Google's Humorous New Pixel Ads Argue the iPhone Has Plateaued
Google today launched a humorous "BestPhonesForever" ad campaign that pits the latest Pixel smartphones against the iPhone, painting the iPhone as an old, outdated phone that was once great, but can no longer keep up with the younger smartphones (via 9to5Google).
There are a series of five ads. In "Plateau," the iPhone laments being 14 years old and unable to keep up with Pixel features like ...
