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New Gesture Controls in Development for Future Apple Watches

Recent patent applications from Apple reveal plans to introduce a variety of new gestures designed to enhance the way users interact with the Apple Watch and possibly other wearable devices…

Next-Gen MagSafe: Apple Explores Data Transmission & User Authentication

Apple’s recent patent application reveals an ambition to evolve MagSafe beyond its current scope. Currently, MagSafe enables users to charge their iPhones and connect MagSafe-compatible accessories like cases. However, Apple…

Could a future Apple Watch battery move to give the wearer haptic feedback?

It’s clear that Apple has an eye on potentially making the battery in its Apple Watch move, as a means of giving the wearer of the device haptic feedback. This…

Apple seeks patent for an iPhone case that would automatically customize the device’s UI for various uses

Can you imagine a future in which you might place your iPhone on a speaker dock, and its main graphical user interface (UI) automatically changes to one showing a set…

Apple has a patent approved for under-display Touch ID for the iPhone

Speculation is ramping up that under-display Touch ID could eventually debut on the iPhone, as Apple has secured another patent for an under-display fingerprint scanner. Apple filed for this patent…

New Apple patent application suggests a health-oriented version of AirTags

A patent application by Apple, just published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has put forward the idea of an iDevice that would communicate with one or…

Apple Makes Patent Application for Person-to-Person Payments

Having already introduced Apple Pay to enable cardless payment to any of a large range of businesses, evidence has surfaced that Apple is now working towards allowing iPhone users to…

Apple’s Just-Published Patent Application: Siri for Mac OS X

In 2011, Siri was integrated into iOS. It has been three years since her appearance, and she has not yet made it to the Mac OS. That may soon change….