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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETA few weeks ago, reports emerged that Apple Watch Series 9users were experiencing unintended touches and swipes on their displays, causing the screen to jump about and behave erratically without any input from the owner.Dubbed 'ghost touches,' this issue has caused mayhem for users, ranging from the embarrassment of making accidental calls or sending typos in messages, to more severe issues such as being locked out of their device completely because they couldn't enter their…

Have you been finding your Apple Watch reacting to taps and touches that aren’t there? Update your Apple Watch to watchOS 10.4, and the most annoying bug of the last few weeks will finally disappear. Originally spotted back at the start of February, “ghost touch” is a name for a mysterious phenomenon where some Apple Watch screens jumped around erratically without user input. Ghost touch was causing major issues for some Apple Watch users, leading to false touch problems. Even the best Apple Watches were affected,…

Today, Apple is releasing watchOS 10.4 to Apple Watch users. After a minor update available with watchOS 10.3, this new version has several new features, including important tweaks. The first of them is the addition of 28 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers and gender variants represent the majority of new emojis. They can be used in iMessage and other messaging…

With watchOS 10.4 launching soon, Apple has now released its RC version. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one has some interesting new features that users should be looking forward to trying.The first of them is the addition of over 100 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers, and gender variants represent the majority of new emojis. They can be used in…

With watchOS 10.4 expected to launch in early March, Apple is nearing its testing cycle end with beta 4. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one has some interesting new features that users should be looking forward to trying.The first of them is the addition of over 100 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers, and gender variants represent the majority of new…

With watchOS 10.4 expected to launch in early March, Apple continues its testing cycle with beta 3. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one has some interesting new features that users should be looking forward to trying.The first of them is the addition of over 100 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers, and gender variants represent the majority of new…

With watchOS 10.4 expected to launch in early March, Apple continues its testing cycle with beta 2. While watchOS 10.3 was a minor update, this one has some interesting new features that users should be looking forward to trying.First of them is the addition of over 100 new emojis. Although the new figures include a lime, shaking shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes, skin tone modifiers and gender variants represent the majority of new…

A few days after releasing iOS 17.4 beta 1 to developers, Apple is now seeding macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. Although it’s unclear what changes the company is bringing to these operating system updates, one of them is possibly new emojis.With iOS 17.4 beta 1, Apple is adding over 100 new emojis, when you include skin tone modifiers and gender variants. The new additions include a Lime, a head shaking vertically, a phoenix bird (Moltres, for Pokémon fans), and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be…

iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., an app development company. Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collecting data in the background, but this technique gets around that protection. The data is unnecessary for processing notifications, the researchers said, and seems related to analytics, advertising, and tracking users across different apps and…

After a packed watchOS 10.2 update, Apple is releasing a small watchOS 10.3 version to Apple Watch users. The main change is a new Unity Bloom face celebrating Black History Month.Last week, Apple announced it would release on January 23 a new Apple Watch Black Unity Sport Band, including this new Unity Bloom watch face. The company says this collection is inspired by “the resilience and beauty of the Black community,” with Blooming flowers and vibrant colors representing Pan-Africanism, and symbolizing…