Joe Maring / Digital Trends As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) inches closer, the chatter around the company’s AI work has taken a feverish turn. In a year when smartphone and computing brands have focused solely on AI niceties, Apple has been uncharacteristically silent around the AI hype — eliciting concern about the brand missing … Read more
We’ve all heard of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, but what’s all the fuss about this Bixby character? Yet another voice assistant that’s built into smartphones and tablets, Bixby is Samsung’s virtual assistant. If you own something with the ‘Galaxy’ sub-label, you can use Samsung’s digitized companion to do all kinds of things. Like its … Read more
Apple wants AI tech on its iPhones – and is reportedly in talks with two of its rivals and a Chinese internet giant to make it happen. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is in early discussions with Baidu – the go-to search engine in China – to bring its generative AI model, the … Read more
With iOS 17.4, Apple released new emojis, a host of major changes to how the App Store works in the European Union, and transcripts for the Apple Podcasts app. It also released an update to Siri that allows the voice assistant to read incoming messages in multiple languages. Up until now, Siri could only read … Read more
One of the best parts about owning an Apple computer is the massive ecosystem of superb Mac apps it gives you access to. There are apps available to Mac users no matter what you are looking for, whether that’s productivity, photo and video editors, security suites, and more. You can get them from Apple’s own … Read more
Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends A new year means new software updates. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, iOS 18 could be the “biggest” update for iOS in quite some time, though this is something we tend to hear every year. I’m not sure any iOS update has been as big as the jump from iOS … Read more
Did you get a new iPhone or switch carriers? Then it’s time to set up your voicemail! Fortunately, setting up voicemail and visual voicemail on an iPhone is a straightforward process, and can be done in a few easy steps. This process should work on most modern iPhones, right up to the iPhone 15 and … Read more
While it has its detractors, Siri is still a popular virtual assistant for folks with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch — and that’s not simply because it’s built into those devices. Siri may not be able to answer all of your queries, but it still has many useful features. It can play your favorite … Read more
Music and podcast-loving owners of the best iPhones will likely know of one eternal battle: the clash of Apple Music vs Spotify. One feels exclusive and powerful for iOS users, at least in its name, but the other has mainstream appeal and gets name-dropped on the regular. But which is more fun to use, will … Read more
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, has lived in the shadow of Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa for a while. But recently, it proved more useful to me than any of its rivals by helping me out of an impossibly difficult situation. What Siri did was listen and, crucially, hear, — which … Read more
