I often link to stories about how people used Find my iPhone to recover a lost or stolen iPhone or iPad. Unfortunately, however, if your device is stolen, there is a good chance that you'll never recover it again. But that doesn't mean that there isn't anything that you can do. Mikah Sargent of iMore recently had his iPad stolen, and he did not recover it. Nevertheless, he does offer good advice for what to do if your device it stolen. Read this now so that you will be prepared in case you are a victim in the future. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- New York attorney Nicole Black interviewed New Orleans attorney Jim Nieset to discuss how he uses his iPad in his litigation practice, including in mediations.
- California attorney David Sparks threw caution to the wind and installed the first beta of iOS 10 on his iPhone, primarily so that he could try out the first beta of watchOS 3 on his space gray 42mm aluminum Apple Watch. This has resulted in some crashes — after all, we are talking about early beta software — but he confirms that the improvements in watchOS 3 are real. I especially like his idea of setting up three watch faces: one for work, one for fitness, one form home. That way, he can swipe between them quickly to get exactly the information and complications that he needs at different times in the day. I plan to do this too. But I'm especially happy to hear that current third party apps, without any specific improvement for watchOS 3, are running so much better on the current Apple Watch software. This is great news.
- Florida attorney Katie Floyd reports that BusyCal is now available for iOS.
- Zac Hall of 9to5Mac reviews the August Doorbell Cam, a smart doorbell. You can use your iPhone to see who is at the door when they ring the doorbell, or when motion is detected.
- Stacey Higginbotham of The Wirecutter picks the SkyBell HD is the best smart doorbell camera.
- I normally don't link to posts on Mac software, but I'll make an exception for Jason Snell's Hands on with macOS Sierra, the update to macOS that will be released this Fall. Obviously, his thoughts are worth reading if you use a Mac. But even if you don't, the article is an interesting read to see how many features are coming to, or being improved on, the Mac that also have so much importance on the iPhone and iPad: Siri, iCloud, an update to Photos, Continuity, Picture-in-Picture, Messages, Notes — almost every single feature that Snell mentions has some sort of iPhone connection.
- If you are interested in space and you have an Apple TV, you'll want to check out the new NASA app for Apple TV. Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac discusses the NASA app.
- The new Photos app in iOS 10 can look at your pictures and recognize over 4,000 difference scenes and objects, so that you can search for things like "beach" or "football" or "wine" and the app will find pictures containing those items. Kay Yin came up with a list of all of the items that Photos can understand. There are tons of common items, and quite a few obscure ones too, such as baklava, kilt, and ukulele.
- There is a rumor that in an upcoming iPhone — perhaps the model to be released this Fall — Apple will not include a headphone jack, instead having folks use Bluetooth or the Lightning port for headphones. John Gruber of Daring Fireball explains why Apple would do this even though the move may seem unpopular at first.
- Apple has not shown off many iPad-only features in iOS 10, but Federico Viticci discusses the features that we know of so far. Note, however, that Apple will likely release a new iPad later this year, and when it does so, we may learn of additional iOS 10 features for the iPad that require the latest hardware.
- David Pogue of Yahoo discusses the 82 coolest features coming to Apple devices later this year.
- Do you ever see a small icon at the top of your Apple Watch and wonder what it means? Apple has a nice support page that explains every one of those status icons.
- Dennis Sellers of Apple World Today reviews The Stylus Sling, a strap for your iPad that holds an Apple Pencil.
- And finally, according to Ramona Shelburn of ESPN, when the Cleveland Cavaliers had lost the first two games of the NBA finals and LeBron James was looking for a way to inspire his team, he played a portion of the commencement address that Steve Jobs gave to Stanford University 11 years ago on June 12, 2005. I linked to this video in October 2011 when Jobs died, but it is so powerful that it is worth linking to again in case you haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I watched it again last night, and it is still great. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
