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iOS 10 Bug Hits T-Mobile Customers on iPhone 6, SE

Are you a T-Mobile customer with an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, or iPhone SE? You might want to hold off on upgrading to iOS 10 (if you haven’t done so already). It seems a nasty bug is knocking these phones off the carrier’s network, but Apple is reportedly working on a fix.

Jet Black Apple AirPods? Yes, Please

Apple gave many iPhone fans what they wanted when they introduced “black” and “jet black” color options for the new iPhone 7, but the company’s intriguing AirPods are only available in traditional “Apple white.” As a taste of what could have been, and what may be soon, designer Martin Hajek created some renderings of jet black AirPods, which happen to look fantastic paired with their corresponding iPhone 7. Check out Martin’s site for a full set of renderings.

Apple Releases iOS 10 and watchOS 3

As expected, Apple today released the latest versions of its mobile operating systems. iOS 10 is now available for the iPhone 5 and newer, iPad mini and newer, iPad (4th generation) and newer, and the 6th generation iPod touch, while watchOS 3 is ready to go for all Apple Watch owners.

Avoid Endless Scrolling: How to Quickly Return to the Top of a Page in iOS

Have you ever scrolled all the way to the bottom of a long webpage or list on your iPhone, only to realize that you need to return to the top? You could start rapidly swiping your finger on the screen to scroll back up to the top, or you could use a handy little trick to instantly jump to the beginning. Mac Geek Gab listener Scott provides today’s Quick Tip that every iOS user should know.

Controversial Shareholder Proposal on Apple's Diversity Up for Vote at Annual Meeting

With the view that Apple's leadership is “a little bit too vanilla,” Mr. Maldonado's proposal states: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors adopt an accelerated recruitment policy requiring Apple Inc. to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors, two bodies that presently fails to adequately represent diversity (particularly Hispanic, African-American,…

Retail Head Angela Ahrendts Highest Compensated Apple Exec in 2015

Mr. Cook's total earnings are up about $1 million over 2014 and comprise a $2 million base salary, $8 million in non-equity incentives, and approximately $281,000 in other compensation. Other top Apple executives — Luca Maestri, Eddy Cue, Dan Riccio, and Bruce Sewell — all received total compensation in 2015 of approximately $25 million each, with…

How to Lock the Dock Size, Position, and Contents in OS X

Lock the Dock Position As the antithesis of our earlier tip, you can prevent changes to the position of the OS X Dock by running the following Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.Dock position-immutable -bool yes; killall Dock The first part of the command above prevents the user from changing the position of the Dock from…

Why the Older, Slower 3G Network is Sometimes Better Than 4G

Mac Geek Gab listener Andrew illustrated this advice with an example: while recently attending a busy sporting event, Andrew and others had difficultly accessing online services like Facebook and Twitter. Andrew's iPhone was successfully connected to his mobile carrier's 4G network with plenty of “dots” of signal strength, but the process of uploading or downloading…