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Apple Music users on Android who’ve dug around and gained root access have woken up to a shock — The Apple Music app doesn’t work anymore. AssembleDebug noticed the access restriction and posted it to X with some screenshots to show what’s happening.Instead of their music libraries and millions of tracks to listen to, rooted users will just get an error message that reads “Only Available on Unrooted Devices Apple Music is no longer available on rooted devices”. No more tunes from the Apple Music app for you, lest ye…

Last updated: March 6th, 2024 at 05:57 UTC+01:00 If you use Apple Music on your Galaxy phone or tablet that is rooted, you won't be able to stream music anymore. It has been revealed that Apple has now started checking the root status of Android-based devices, and Apple Music only works on devices that aren't rooted. Latest Apple Music beta version for Android doesn't work on rooted phones The latest beta version of Apple Music (4.7) for Android is checking if your Galaxy (or other Android) device is rooted. If it…

We’ve known for a while that Google does not like rooted Android devices. This is one reason why the company is blocking RCS for rooted phones. However, it’s not the only company that’s against rooted in the devices. Apple Music does not work on rooted Android devices. Rooting your device brings several benefits to the Android smartphone experience. It allows you to tweak the software to your liking, uninstall certain services, get rid of bloatware, use modded versions of Android that extend the life of your phone years…

For quite some time now, many people have been reporting on Reddit that Rich Communications Services (RCS) has stopped working in Google Messages on their Android smartphones that either have an unlocked bootloader or are rooted. Now, Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it is indeed the case as it has blocked RCS in Google Messages on Android devices that have an unlocked bootloader or are rooted. According to the company, it has taken this step to fight spam and fraud. “As we fight spammers and fraudsters, we…

What must be a very small subset of Android users should be very angry with Google for blocking RCS support in Google Messages on their smartphones. These users have rooted their phones to run a different version of Android than the one the device shipped with. We’re no longer in the early years of Android, when rooting phones was quite popular, allowing consumers to run custom Android builds on their devices. If that’s related to security, I don’t think there’s a problem with Google blocking RCS on rooted…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2023, 24 states had laws or regulations in place prohibiting transgender students from participating on public school athletic teams consistent with their gender identity. These bans mean that a person whose sex assigned at birth was male but who identifies as a girl or woman cannot play on a girls or women's athletic team at a public school in that state. …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Not long after the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2023 decision to ban the use of race in college admissions, people began to ask questions once again about the fairness of legacy admissions. Legacy admission is a practice in which colleges give a preference to the children of graduates when deciding which…

The company behind a popular restaurant in LoHi is suing what it calls a new “knock-off restaurant in the neighborhood” and demanding the newcomer change its name. Edible Beats, an employee-owned restaurant group, runs Root Down in LoHi, Vital Root in Berkeley and four other locations. It takes issue with Rooted, a restaurant that opened in May at 3940 W. 32nd Ave. in the West Highland neighborhood. “Rooted…intentionally and blatantly copies the Root Down and Vital Root restaurant concepts and, incredibly, opened its…

The Roman philosopher Seneca once proposed an interesting test of literary merit. “When things stand out and attract attention in a work you can be sure there is an uneven quality about it,” he wrote. “One tree by itself never calls for admiration when the whole forest rises to the same height.” The novels of Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13 at the age of 89, illustrate this idea that the best writers are consistently excellent. In the many tributes to his lyrical and philosophical gifts that have been published over…

via Miramax Winning a pair of Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director would typically open the floodgates to even more prestige pictures, but Chloé Zhao has decided the best course of action that comes with nabbing two of the most prestigious trophies in the industry is to get weird. While her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut didn’t exactly go according to plan after Eternals was blighted by the pandemic, under-performed at the box office, and gained the unwanted distinction of being both the…