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
MacRumors Giveaway: Win a Leather iPhone Case From Woolnut
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Woolnut to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a leather case designed for one of Apple's newer iPhones.
Woolnut makes a whole range of cases and sleeves for Apple's iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and has iPhone cases that fit all of Apple's modern iPhones.
Slim in fit and priced affordably at 32.50 to 40 euros or $36 to $45, Woolnut's...
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Craig Federighi Talks macOS Big Sur Redesign, Siri, Default Apps and More in New Interview
Apple's software chief Craig Federighi often does a series of interviews following WWDC events, and 2020 has been no exception. Federighi was on the The Talk Show with Daring Fireball's John Gruber, and he also spoke with tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee.
In a video published today, Federighi and Brownlee discussed some of the new features in iOS 14 and answered questions from Apple fans.
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iOS 14 Lets You Add Captions to Photos
Apple's iOS 14 update adds several new features to the Photos app, including an option to add captions to images right from the iPhone, which is something that Photos users have been wanting for quite some time.
The Photos app for Mac previously supported captions through the Description field, but on the iPhone, there has been no method for adding similar information. In iOS 14, entering a...
TikTok App to Stop Accessing User Clipboards After Being Caught in the Act by iOS 14
A new feature in iOS 14 alerts users when apps read the clipboard, and it turns out some apps have been reading clipboard data excessively.
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TikTok users who upgraded to iOS 14, for example, quickly noticed constant alerts warning them that TikTok was accessing the clipboard every few seconds. After being caught, TikTok now says that it's removing the feature.
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Hands-On With the New Scribble Feature in iPadOS 14
Apple's upcoming iPadOS 14 update has many of the same features that are available in iOS 14, but there are a handful of functions that are designed specifically for the larger display and the Apple Pencil, such as Scribble.
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Scribble is one of the most notable new features in iPadOS 14, and we checked it out in our latest YouTube...
Apple Highlights More Projects Designed by Swift Student Challenge Winners
Apple hosts a Swift Student Challenge ahead of WWDC each year, tasking students with creating an innovative Swift Playgrounds project. Apple has been highlighting Swift Student Challenge winners in 2020, and today shared some of the projects students created on the Apple Developer site.
Brazilian student Henrique Conto, for example, created a three-minute Touch Bar game where players help a...
Apple Continues Store Closures Amid Covid-19 Spike, Now Shuttering 14 Locations in Florida
Apple is continuing with store closures in areas that are experiencing significant spikes in coronavirus infections, and tomorrow, 14 retail locations in Florida will be shut down.
The Galleria, The Falls, Aventura, Lincoln Road, Dadeland, Brickell City Centre, Wellington Green, Boca Raton, The Gardens Mall, Millenia, Florida Mall, Altamonte, International Plaza, and Brandon will close...
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 109 With Upcoming Safari 14 Features
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.
Safari Technology Preview release 109 is the first version built on the new Safari 14 update included in macOS Big Sur. It...
First Look: macOS Big Sur With Redesign, Safari Updates, New Messages App and More
Apple on Monday unveiled macOS Big Sur, the newest version of macOS that's going to be released in the fall. Named after Big Sur, California, renown for its scenery, the new update features a fresh, clean design along with some useful new features.
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We went hands-on with macOS Big Sur in our latest YouTube video, giving MacRumors...
Face ID and Touch ID Logins Coming to Websites With Safari Web Authentication API
Apple allows Touch ID and Face ID to be used in lieu of a password to access sensitive apps like those for banking or password management, and in the future, Face ID and Touch ID will also be able to be used for authentication purposes when logging into a website.
Apple outlines the feature in a WWDC20 engineering session called "Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the web," which covers how web...
Apple Now Letting Developers Know When Customers Request In-App Refunds to Prevent Scams
Apple is introducing a new in-app purchase server notification system that lets developers know when a customer requests and receives a refund for an in-app purchase, allowing the developer to take an appropriate action, such as revoking the purchased item.
Developers are not involved in Apple's refund process, which is handled by the company. Prior to now, when a user requested and received ...
Apple Reclosing Some Stores in Texas Amid Spiking Coronavirus Cases
Apple is closing seven retail stores located in the Houston, Texas area, as coronavirus outbreaks in the state continue to climb.
Last week, Apple shuttered stores in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with no details on when those stores might reopen.
In Texas, the following stores are closing on June 25, as noted by 9to5Mac: Highland Village, First Colony Mall,...
Apple Picks Up 'The Afterparty' Comedy Series for Apple TV+
Apple today announced that it has given a straight-to-series order for "The Afterparty," a comedy series from Chris Miller and Phil Lord.
The eight-episode series is described as a murder mystery comedy that's set at a high school reunion afterparty."The Afterparty" is a murder-mystery comedy set at a high school reunion afterparty. Each of the eight episodes will feature a retelling of the...
Apple Sharing Daily WWDC Highlights in Quick Event Recaps
Apple's digital only Worldwide Developers Conference is taking place this week. Monday was the keynote event, but Apple is hosting engineering sessions and sharing videos on the new software updates all week long.
There's quite a bit going on with the dozens of different sessions that developers can watch in the Apple Developer app or the Apple Developer website, so Apple has been providing...
Apple Revives and Refreshes Game Center in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur
Game Center, a feature for tracking game progress and connecting gamers together for multiplayer gameplay experiences, has long been a part of iOS.
Game Center achievements in Settings
The feature was added to iOS 4 in 2010 and was a key part of gaming for a few years, but Apple nixed the Game Center app in 2016 with the release of iOS 10. Game Center has stuck around since then, but as more...
Apple Offering Some Users an Extra Month of Free Apple Arcade Access
Apple today sent out emails to some former Apple Arcade subscribers, offering them another month of free access.
It's not entirely clear how many people are receiving the additional month of Apple Arcade service to try it out, but the emails may be going out to those who tried Apple Arcade for a month and then canceled it after the trial period was over.
For customers who used their free...
Apple Shares Trailer for Upcoming Apple TV+ Show 'Little Voice'
Apple TV+ show "Little Voice" is set to be released on Friday, July 10, and ahead of its debut, Apple has shared the full trailer for the series.
"Little Voice" is a coming of age drama created by J.J. Abrams, Sara Bareilles, and Jessie Nelson, and it uses original music from Bareilles.A love letter to the diverse musicality of New York starring Brittany O'Grady, Sean Teale, Colton Ryan,...
First Look: See iOS 14 in Action With Home Screen Widgets, App Library, Subtle Call Alerts and More
Apple yesterday unveiled iOS 14, the newest version of the operating system designed for the iPhone, and we thought we'd go hands on with the new software to give MacRumors readers a sneak peek at all the features.
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iOS 14 brings some useful new interface changes, including a revamped Home screen. Widgets have been redesigned, and for ...
Rosetta Won't Support x86 Virtualization Apps Running Windows
Apple yesterday announced plans to build future Macs with its own custom silicon chips, and to ease the transition away from Intel processors, Apple revived the "Rosetta" feature that allowed PowerPC apps to run on Intel processors during the PowerPC to Intel transition.
Now revived, Rosetta will allow users to run apps that contain x86_64 instructions on Apple silicon, which means...
Developers Now Able to Submit TestFlight Apps using iOS 14 SDK, Up to 100 Internal Testers Supported
Apple today informed developers that they can submit TestFlight beta builds built with Xcode 12 using the SDKs for iOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7. Apple released the Xcode 12 beta yesterday alongside betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and watchOS 7.
Developers are able to create apps to test all of the new software features ahead of when the new updates come out this fall, and ...
