Apple has introduced a bunch of accessibility features to help differently-abled people operate an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple Watch. Plus, it’s launching a customer care service in the US, the UK, and France calledSignTime to get assistance with Apple Products in sign language. The company has developed a new algorithm for WatchOS to let you operate the Apple Watch with gestures such as pinch and fist clench. Apple says that the accelerometer and gyroscope in the Watch work with the heart rate sensors to identify these different movements....

Apple has been granted its request for a preliminary injunction against several stores operating in the United States that are emulating Apple’s retail aesthetic, reportsComputerworld. Several of those retailers have also been issued a temporary restraining order. The initial complaint was filed on July 25th that named a variety of company names and individuals including Samuel Chuang, the representative named for two of the stores, Fun Zone and Apple Story....

Apatent filingdiscovered byApple Patentpoints to an improvement to Apple’s oleophobic coating process that helps its devices reject skin oils. The new process seems to be a more efficient way of applying the coating to device glass, making the coating more effective. We don’t report on too many patents filed by Apple here at TNW, because many times the products and processes described therein are years from appearing, if ever. This patent seems to be a bit different however, in that it is an improvement to a process that Apple developed several years ago to help prevent fingerprinting on their devices and the filing date of February 2011 seems to jive with a process that may be used for an iPhone due out later this year....

Apple is working with prominent App Store developers to help them comply with the new rules regarding in-app purchasing of content, reportsMacworld. Sources told the publication that Apple will still be enforcing the changes to in-app content purchasing that will give Apple a 30% slice of purchases made via any app in the App Store. The company is, however, helping developers to make sure that their apps are ready. The section of Apple’s App Store policies that is causing all of the ruckus is section 11....

Apple has been annoyingly secretive about the possible development of its own Apple Car. But is it building a dream team to make that happen? Certainly. As Bloombergreports, the tech giant has hired Christofer “CJ” Moore,who’s been working as the director for Tesla’s Autopilot software since 2019, and who’s been with the company since 2014 — hinting at the attempt to develop self-driving tech. And that’s only the latest addition....