By Lauren Beach
Staff Writer Apple has released the new iOS 12 updates on September 17, 2018. The Update is to add features to Apple devices. Apple has yearly updates, along with smaller updates throughout the year for fixing bugs and security. It appears in settings under general, as long as you have an Iphone SE and newer you can update your phone. Many people are excited for the new sticker feature. While texting you can send photos, now you can add stickers to your photos adding more emotion. There are also apps that you can download to your phone, adding other cool stickers. People are using it a lot already. Apple also released new Animoji features, Which are only available for the Iphone X and newer. They added 4 new characters, t. rex, ghost, tiger, and koala. They also released a brand-new feature called Memoji, this allows you to have an Animoji with your personality and mood. You can also record for up to 30 seconds. Later this fall, Apple is releasing a new feature allowing users to facetime with up to 32 people. Apple did change the layout of facetime making it more modern and fuller screen. Everyone is excited to be able to facetime with so many people. You can facetime with all of your friends in one call!! “The new facetime will be awesome when it comes out," Eliza Appleyard says. The notifications are grouped together now. Your lock screen will be more organized with the groups of each notification, you can click on it to show more and click again to only see one. This makes it easier to see what's important at a glance. One of the most helpful features is Screen Time. Parents who may want to limit the time their children spend on their phones are now able to. A local mom states “My kids spend too much time on their devices, I want them to be off and spend more time with our family.” You can see how long you have been on your phone, and you can click on your bar that shows you what you've done that day and you will see more information on what you've been on and how long. Apple also released a measuring app. The app allows you to measure anything virtually. It uses the camera and adds instructions. “I think the measuring app is useful because you can measure things without a ruler, but it is bad because you can only measure close things and it takes a long time,” Amalie Odegaard explains. By Kaylee Dunleavy
Staff Writer On september 12 Apple announced that they were taking another leap in the area of iphones. The new iphone Xs and the Xr have now been released for pre-order on the apple technology website. Since the new phones are so similar to the previous iphone X there are mixed emotions surrounding this breakthrough in technology. Apple has launched the new phones on september 12 2018. Both of the new iphones have two different sizes the Xs is 5.8 in and the Xr is 6.1 in. Apple inc operations has said “ This is the smartest, most powerful chip in a iphone”. “No oher phone is like iphone." The iphone Xs has a new neral engine and performance controller meaning that the new phone is 50% faster in graphic performance 15% faster in performance cores and 50% slower in power usage. This database is the exact same to the iphone Xr, so what's the difference the main difference is the size in the two iphones. Another big difference is the liquid retina in the Xr is and advanced LCD this allows the screen goes all the way into the corners. When did this all happen? The phones were launched on september 12th the Xr is going to be open for preorder on october 19th 2018. Doesn't it seem like the iphone X was launched just yesterday well pretty much the iphone X was launched on November 3 2017. It's been a little more than a year since the X was launchd. Apple has been keeping pretty bussy. All of apple phones including the Xr and Xs have been developed in U.S.A California. Most of the manufacturing happens in China while the rest of it takes place in Germany. The new phones are so similar to the last iphone X that some people are sceptical of why it is being manufactured. A LJHS student explains to me that “ I think that apple should wait to gets better phone and not spend money on other similar phones because its a waste of resources." Another student believes that apple “ needs to grow their business… but they have been really rapid firing phones over the past few years”. Apple seems to be making new models every few months! They launched the iphone 8 on september 2ed 2017, Iphone X on November 3 2017 and now the iphone Xs on september 12 2018 and the Xr October 19 2018. No one knows when apple will drop their next phone is it next year or next month. |
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