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Calendar support may be coming to HomePod with iOS 11.4 update
HomePod will be picking up support for the stock Calendar app with iOS 11.4.
Apple researching exchangeable backplates that could extend Apple Watch battery life
Apple Watch could use special backplates to help extend its battery life.
How to turn off your HomePod microphone and stop it from always listening in on you
There is no physical switch to mute the HomePod microphone. However, by using the Home app or just by asking the speaker, you can turn off the always-on "Hey Siri" ability of your HomePod and HomePod mini. This tutorial shows you how to do that.
Apple researching an AirPods charging case that’s also a wireless speaker
Apple may be working on an AirPods charging case that’s also a wireless speaker.
AirPort Express no longer appearing as an AirPlay 2 target on the latest iOS 11.4 beta
Looks like AirPort Express may not be getting a suspected AirPlay 2 upgrade after all.
Apple to address HomePod ring marks with a new material
A future HomePod iteration should not leave ring marks on treated wood furniture.
Questionable report claims Apple has lowered HomePod orders
A report Thursday alleged that HomePod sales have been lackluster thus far.
AirPort Express will apparently gain AirPlay 2 speaker support
Developers and public beta testers who installed the iOS 11.4 beta are noticing that Apple's AirPort Express wireless base station is showing up in the Home app as AirPlay 2 speakers.
RealCC improves Control Center’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles
Control Center’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles don’t entirely disable their corresponding wireless radios on iOS 11, but instead limit their capabilities such that system processes like AirDrop and Instant Hotspot, among others, continue working.
If you wish that iOS 11’s Control Center-based Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles worked as you’d expect them to, then you might be interested in a new free jailbreak tweak called RealCC by iOS developer Jake James.
iOS 11.4 beta hands-on: AirPlay 2, Messages in iCloud, HomePod stereo pairing & more
Apple yesterday seeded first developer-only betas of iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4 and watchOS 4.3.1, with the iOS and tvOS betas reinstating a pair of missing features that we were promised at WWDC back last summer: AirPlay 2 and Messages in iCloud.