IOS Stories for 2017

Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? 177
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps To Create One User Experience 247
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy 183
Apple Buys Shazam To Boost Apple Music 36
Google Releases Tool To Help iPhone Hackers 52
Top iOS Apps of 2017: Bitmoji Beats Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook Messenger 27
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
Apple Issues Security Updates for MacOS, iOS, TvOS, WatchOS, and Safari 30
Microsoft's Edge Browser Now Generally Available For iOS, Android 140
iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later 116
Two Major Cydia Hosts Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity 90
iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' 258
Apple Could Launch Two New Full-Screen iPhones Next Year 117
iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months 133
A Huge Redesign Is Coming To Snapchat 42
An iOS 11.1 Glitch Is Replacing Vowels 123
Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone 115
If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 337
Apple To Appeal Five-Year-Long Patent Battle After $439.7 Million Loss 69
Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software To Break Phones Repaired By Independent Shops 128
Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS 162
Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? 304
Apple Doesn't Deliberately Slow Down Older Devices According To Benchmark Analysis 163
iOS 11's Misleading 'Off-ish' Setting For Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is Bad for User Security 162
Uber's iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen, Researchers Say 91
Microsoft Brings Edge To Android and IOS 127
Apple is Really Bad At Design 366
Apple Replaces Bing With Google as Search Engine For Siri and Spotlight 54
iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems 158
Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code 122
Firefox For iOS Gets Tracking Protection, Firefox Focus For Android Gets Tabs 28
Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's Control Center Doesn't Actually Turn Off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 226
iOS 11 Released 139
Apple Officially Bans Scammy Antivirus Apps From iOS App Store 51
BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices 121
Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button 570
Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play 73
Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? 188
Uber Says It'll Stop Tracking Riders After They're Dropped Off 69
AccuWeather Updates Its iOS App To Address Privacy Outcry 54
Popular Weather App AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing is Off 124
iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID 138
Hacker Claims To Have Decrypted Apple's Secure Enclave Processor Firmware 111
App Developers Should Charge More If They Want People To Buy Subscriptions, Suggests Report 50
iOS 10 Quietly Deprecated A Crucial API For VoIP and Communication Apps 122
Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier 140
YouTube Adds Mobile Chat, Because Google Doesn't Have Enough Messaging Apps 25
Are App Sizes Out of Control? 386
New iPhone To Have Tap to Wake, Attention Detection, and Virtual Home Button, Says Report 59
Microsoft's Windows Phone Keyboard For the iPhone Is Dead 42
Appocalypse Now - How iOS11 Will Kill Some Of Your Favourite iPhone Apps 177
iOS 11 Will Prevent Your iPhone From Automatically Connecting To Unreliable Wi-Fi Networks 88
Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS 285
Google Photos 3.0 Released, Bringing Smarter Sharing, Suggestions and Shared Libraries 54
Apple Releases First Public Beta Of iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad 56
Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions 271
Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store 48
Apple's App Store Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Developer Tools 13
App Store Now Requires Developers To Use Official API To Request App Ratings, Disallows Custom Prompts 34
Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store 291
Apple To Force Users To 2FA On iOS 11, macOS High Sierra 119
Apple Adds Support For FLAC Lossless Audio In iOS 11 49
Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display 93
Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 63
Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11 136
Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' 191
App Store Earnings For Developers Exceed $70 Billion; App Downloads Up 70% YoY 63
PC Market Could Return To Growth in 2019 94
Opera Says Their iOS Updates Are Still Coming - Just Slowly 36
Opera Slows Its Development On The iOS Platform 61
Facebook's Instant Articles Platform To Support Google AMP, Apple News 23
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Program Revamps the Phone Number 51
Google Launches Google Assistant On the iPhone 6
App Maker's Code Stolen in Malware Attack 73
Apple Releases macOS 10.12.5, iOS 10.3.2, watchOS 3.2.2, tvOS 10.2.1 45
Slashdot Asks: In the Wake Of Ransomware Attacks, Should Tech Companies Change Policies To Support Older OSs Indefinitely? 360
Google Maps Now Uses Street View To Show You Exactly Where To Make Turns 25
Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfortable With Its New Place In a Mobile, Apple, and Android World 73
Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product 73
What Killed Adobe Flash? 230
Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today 191
Apple Explores Using An iPhone, iPad To Power a Laptop 76
WikiLeaks' New Dump Shows How The CIA Allegedly Hacked Macs and iPhones Almost a Decade Ago 113
Hackers Claim Access To 300 Million iCloud Accounts, Demand $75,000 From Apple To Delete the Cache of Data 122
Google Maps Lets You Record Your Parking Location, Time Left At the Meter 50
MAC Address Randomization Flaws Leave Android and iOS Phones Open To Tracking 56
Apple Says It's Already Fixed Many WikiLeaks Security Issues 109
AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM 118
iPhone Owners in US Spent $40 Each on Apps in 2016 131
99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS 91
Dozens of Popular iOS Apps Vulnerable To Intercept of TLS-Protected Data 53
Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime 90
The Future of iOS is 64-Bit Only -- Apple To Stop Support For 32-Bit Apps 105
Google Open-Sources Chrome For iOS 39
Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces 489
Apple Will Finally Let Developers Respond To App Store Reviews 62
China Orders App Stores To Join Register 23
Tor Onion Browser's Creator Explains Free Version For iOS 26
Apple Could Finally Sell More Devices Than Microsoft In 2017 98
Original iPhone Prototype With iPod Click Wheel Surfaces Online 35
Fake Malware-Filled Super Mario Run Apps Take Advantage of Android Absence 34
Apple App Store Developers Earned $20 Billion in 2016, Up 40 Percent Year Over Year 26