Apple announceda ton of devicesat its ‘Spring Loaded event’. But what the company kept for footnotes was the fact that the iOS 14.5 update is rolling out next week. The much-anticipated update — which brings multiple useful additions, such as unlocking your device while wearing a mask — will hit users on April 30. Here are some best features of the upcoming update: Face ID will work with masks Advanced ad-tracking prevention This is perhaps iOS 14....

iOS 14: A guide to the best new features and settings Making room Let’s get started with how you an install the new software on your phone. As I’m sure you’ve come to expect from an update, you’re going to need to clear some space on your phone. Luckily, Apple’s settings has made it fairly easy to get rid of some extraneous stuff in a hurry. For example, if you’re not particularly attached to your old messages, you can delete them and free up some space....

Users are reporting serious battery life problems after upgrading their Apple devices to last week’s iOS 4.3 release. The bug seems to be affecting all devices running the software, including the iPhone and iPad. Drops of 15-20% have been observed occurring after using the device for only a few minutes. There’s some speculation that the new Safari JavaScript engine is consuming more power or that increased usage of application multitasking is to blame, but many reports are indicating that the issue still occurs when Safari is not in use and no apps are running....

Apple has released the iOS 4.3.4 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. This update should be available to you now just by plugging your device into iTunes and mashing the check for updates button. This patchfixesthe PDF vulnerability that allows for JailbreakMe.com to jailbreak these devices. This means that if you’re the owner of a jailbroken device and wish to keep it that way, you should not update....

Apple has today released thelatest version of the iOS 5 beta, bringing along a host of bug fixes and some new features. One of those new features, as detailed by Chris Oldroyd over atTiPB, is a new gesture system that is part of iOS 5’s Accessibility features. The gesture system is a control panel, enabled inside AssistiveTouch that allows you to assign gestures to the functions of all of the existing hardware buttons, thereby removing any need, aside from emergencies, for the home, power or volume buttons on the iPhone and iPad....