Jason Cross

1 day ago | macworld.com | Jason Cross

May 15 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Apple always uses the occasion to highlight some of the new accessibility features coming to iPhones and Macs. This year, Apple’s got another announcement to share: three new Sound Therapy playlists on Apple Music available now. The South Therapy experience consists of three playlists—Focus, Relax, and Sleep—that play music from UMG artists including Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, and others.

2 days ago | macworld.com | Jason Cross

Finally, an Apple Intelligence feature we can all get behind! Instead of more generative features of questionable quality, Apple reportedly plans to use AI to help us all get longer battery life, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While it’s likely to be promoted as part of Apple’s “Apple Intelligence” platform, this is the kind of data-analysis AI that we’ve seen on iPhones for years already, rather than the generative AI that has been met with mixed reviews, to put it charitably.

5 days ago | macworld.com | Jason Cross

We don’t have iPhones with Bluetooth 6 yet—in fact, only a couple second-tier Android phones even claim to support it so far. But that’s not stopping the Bluetooth group, which is keeping with its twice-a-year cadence and announcing the Bluetooth 6.1 spec.

1 week ago | macworld.com | Roman Loyola |MICHAEL SIMON |Jason Cross

iCloud, Apple TV+, Apple Music, these are just some of the parts to Apple’s Services, which have become a bigger and bigger part of the Apple ecosystem. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we discuss the state of these services—what they mean to Apple, but most importantly, what they mean to you. This is episode 933 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. Click on the links below for more information on what was discussed on the show.

1 week ago | macworld.com | Jason Cross

AI-based search options may be coming to Safari across Apple’s platforms. At least, that’s what Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior VP of services, testified in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet Inc. The lawsuit is over Google’s monopoly over search and whether it broke antitrust law. One of the ways it was said to have done this is by paying Apple to maintain its position as the default search engine in Safari (realistically, the only web browser for over a billion iPhone users).