Apple acquires small startups for their technology at a rate of one per every few weeks, TechCrunch reported Thursday, citing a report earlier today by Israeli newspaper Calcalist.
Learn how to use the hidden QuickTake feature in the iPhone's built-in Camera app to record video without switching out of Photo mode and never miss a moment.
Learn how to check which apps are using your camera or microphone on iPhone, iPad, and Mac to enhance your privacy and security.
Check out this quick tip to improve the performance of your iPhone camera by prioritizing faster shooting when you rapidly press the shutter button.
Learn how to stop your iPhone from flipping selfies and instead save un-mirrored originals that match exactly what you see in the Camera app's viewfinder.
As plenty of workers are telecommuting during COVID-19 pandemic, iDB has taken it upon itself to highlight some of the technologies and accessories that make remote work as enjoyable as humanly possible. In these challenging times, video conferencing has become the definite solution for keeping in touch not only with work colleagues but family and friend, too.
When iOS & iPadOS 14 are released this Fall, the software updates will introduce a bevy of useful new features to the iPhone and iPad platforms. Perhaps one of the most intriguing features that seemed to slip under the radar are the new privacy-centric indicator dots that appear the top of the display when an app or service begins accessing your handset’s camera, location, or microphone.
This particular feature was so highly sought after that even the Android community quickly developed a way to port this feature to their handsets. Unfortunately for those running iOS & iPadOS 13 or earlier, a similar solution wasn’t available – at least not until now, thanks to a new and free jailbreak tweak release dubbed Quorra by iOS developer Lightmann.
According to a new report from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, future iPhone models coming in 2022 will feature greater optical zoom than the current iPhones' 2x optical zoom by switching to a periscope telephoto lens design, which bends the light 90 degrees rathe than using a series of prisms and mirrors like the current iPhone lenses.
Learn how to deactivate the camera shutter sound on your iPhone so you can take pictures quietly, without disturbing others.
It’s easy to send someone a freshly-captured photograph via the iPhone’s Messages app all thanks to a dedicated button located just to the left of the text input field. Upon capturing a photograph this way and sending it, iOS automatically saves a copy of that photograph to the Camera Roll so that the user can reference it later on.
Apple had good intentions here no doubt, but in many cases, we find ourselves navigating to the Photos app after capturing and sending a photograph in the Messages app to delete it from our Camera Roll afterward. I can personally relate to this particular dilemma, and that’s one reason why I’m excited to share the likes of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Don’tSaveMessagePhotos by iOS developer lint.
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next iPhone to be released later this year will improve photography quality by utilizing "high-end" lens arrays in the rear camera.
Out of the four upcoming new iPhone 12 smartphones, the two high-end Pro models are apparently capable of recording video in 4K resolution at 120 or 240 frames per second (FPS).