Apple WWDC 2019

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  Apple soups up Logic Pro X ahead of Mac Pro launch

  TechCrunch - Brian Heater

  When it announced the long-awaited Mac Pro relaunch onstage at WWDC last week, Apple settled on creative pro software as the best way to illustrate the desktop’s power. Along with Final Cut, Logic was one of the centerpieces of that introduction. Today the company issued the update to Logic Pro X …

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  NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  NFC — the technology that helps power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro’s tappable stickers — is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13, due out this fall. Instead of only allowing iPhone apps to read NFC tags, apps will be able to write directly …

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  Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive to user privacy

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  When people bring their own devices to work or school, they don’t want IT administrators to manage the entire device. But until now, Apple only offered two ways for IT to manage its iOS devices: either device enrollments, which offered device-wide management capabilities to admins or those same …

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  Apple puts accessibility features front and center

  TechCrunch - Steven Aquino

  Although the meat of Apple’s accessibility news from WWDC has been covered, there still are other items announced that have relevancy to accessibility as well. Here, then, are some thoughts on Apple’s less-headlining announcements that I believe are most interesting from a disability point of …

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  Answers to your burning questions about how ‘Sign in with Apple’ works

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers must implement the company’s new single sign-on solution, Sign in with Apple, wherever they already offer another third-party sign-on system. Apple’s decision …

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  With iOS 13, Apple locks out apps from accessing users’ private notes in Contacts

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  Apple is closing a loophole that allowed app developers to access users’ potentially sensitive and private data. With the launch of iOS 13, apps that request access to users’ Contacts will no longer be able to read the data in the “Notes” field of those address book entries. For years, security …