Top Stories: New Music Icon on iOS 14, iPhone 12 Rumors, Face ID Macs, macOS Big Sur Favorite Features

Read below and watch our video above to see more of this week’s top stories.

Everything new in iOS 14 Beta 3: new music icon, clock widget, and more

Apple continues its beta release cycle for its next major OS updates, and this week saw the third set of developer beta releases for iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14.

The third beta version of iOS 14 introduces some interesting changes, including a surprising one that sees the Music app icon change back to a red and white color theme of white and multicolour seen since Apple Music launched in iOS 8.4.

Be sure to click to see our overview of everything new we found in the third beta, and if you’re a member of the public beta program, there is now an equivalent iOS 14 update available to you.

Apple’s 5G 2020 iPhones will support Sub-6GHz and mmWave, but that could change in 2021

5G is the big buzzword for smartphone technology these days, and it has two flavors: mmWave 5G that offers the fastest speeds but has a short range and is only suitable for dense urban environments, and 5G sub-6GHz that It is not as fast but offers much broader coverage.

The launch of Apple’s iPhone 12 line later this year is said to include support for both 5G technologies, but a new report says that in 2021 Apple may introduce some iPhone models that only support one of the technologies, depending on which one. be the most frequent in specific markets

In other iPhone 12 news, we have once again heard that new models may not be available until the October / November period, we have seen a new battery leak that could shed some light on the capabilities of each iPhone 12 model. And we’ve seen some new photos of a white braided Lightning to USB-C cable that could come with the iPhone 12.

Leaker suggests new Apple products are ‘ready to ship’ amid rumors of Intel-based iMac update

WWDC came and went without any significant new hardware releases, but a frequent leaker has cryptically claimed that some new products are “ready to ship.”

We don’t know exactly what products these are, but we’ve been waiting for an update for the iMac, and there have been other rumors that an updated Apple TV is ready to go. Other product rumors have included a smaller, cheaper HomePod, new over-the-ear headphones, and AirTags item trackers.

MacOS 11 Big Sur Best Features: Control Center, Safari Updates, Notification Review, Design Changes and more

macOS Big Sur is a major update to Apple’s Mac platform, bringing not just a host of new and updated features, but also a design overhaul.

In one of our most recent videos, we took a look at some of our favorite features in Big Sur, including the new Control Center, a revamped Notification Center, updates for Safari, improvements to Messages, and more.

Code in macOS Big Sur suggests Face ID may be coming to Mac

Apple’s Face ID feature that allows you to unlock a device with a face scan is limited to iPhone and iPad at this time, but the code found in the latest beta version of macOS Big Sur suggests that Face ID may reach Mac in the future.

References to a “PearlCamera” feature matching the codename “Pearl” of Face ID for iOS devices have been discovered, including mentions of “FaceDetect” and “BioCapture” that strongly suggest that Face ID is coming to Mac.

There’s no word yet on when Face ID could make its Mac debut, but we’ll likely hear more as work on the feature progresses.

Apple Periscope Telephoto Suppliers Aligning for iPhone 2022

2022 is a long way off, but Apple is already looking to the future with its iPhone roadmap, and a new report from leading analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims Apple is working to find vendors that can provide periscope telephoto camera lenses for those phones.

Periscope lenses generally use prisms or mirrors to refract light at the lens sensor for enhanced optical enhancement within the limitations of a slim smartphone body. Some manufacturers like Samsung and Huawei are aggressively searching for periscope lenses on their phones, and it appears Apple is working on its own implementation.

Apple Glasses patent suggests that any surface could become a virtual touch interface

While we’ve heard a lot of tidbits about Apple’s augmented / virtual reality headphone projects, we still don’t have a detailed picture of what the products will look like and how they will work.

However, a recently published patent application reveals that Apple has been studying how it could turn everyday surfaces into virtual touch interfaces. Apple proposes that the icons and buttons can be projected in AR on a table, for example, where the user can approach and interact with them. The Apple patent suggests that infrared heat detection could be used to determine where on the surface the user has touched.

A separate patent application describes how a future Apple Pencil could include a color sensor that would allow it to take real-world color samples that could then be transmitted to a paired device like an iPad. The feature would be great for art-centric applications as it makes it easy to capture accurate colors from real-world objects.

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