Apple released iOS 13.1.3 and iPadOS 13.1.3 this week to fix more bugs — the fifth version of iOS 13 released since 13.0 was released on September 19, 2019. And it looks like Apple is getting close to the release of iOS 13.2, which will add new features. One feature planned for iOS 13.2 is Deep Fusion, a technology that will improve the detail in photos when there is a medium amount of light, such as indoors. This week, Jason Snell reviews Deep Fusion for Tom's Guide based on the beta version of iOS 13. Another new feature is support for the new Emoji that are coming out in 2010, which I previewed in July. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Josh Ginter of The Sweet Setup explains why he picks Lightroom as the best app for editing photos on the iPad. It's a good article that also discussed some of the other great iPad apps for editing photos, but I wish that he had included more than just a passing reference to the fact that Photoshop is coming to the iPad in just a few weeks (early November, according to a recent Bloomberg report). When it comes out, Photoshop for iPad may immediately become the best app for editing photos. Having said that, it may be that the same Adobe Creative Cloud subscription will get you access to both apps; we'll know more about that when Photoshop for iPad is released.
- Matt Birchler of The Sweet Setup offers advice for using Microsoft PowerPoint on an iPad. I prefer to use Apple's Keynote app when I give presentations, but sometimes I need to work with a PowerPoint deck, and the iPad app is very good.
- If you want to add an audio headphone jack to an iPad Pro without using a multi-port adapter, Steven Sande of Apple World Today reviews the $25 Satechi Type-C to 3.5mm Audio Headphone Jack Adapter.
- If you use an iPad Air 2 and you find iPad OS 13 to be really slow, Adam Angst of TidBITS has advice for speeding it up.
- The iPhone 11 Pro does a great job taking pictures. Federico Viticci of MacStories provides some great examples from an iPhone 11 Pro photo tour of his hometown of Rome, Italy.
- Reed Albergotti of The Washington Posts explains that clever kids have found ways to circumvent the Screen Time function on the iPhone, which is supposed to allow parents to restrict what kids can do on an iPhone during certain hours of the day.
- That article in the Washington Post links to this article by Chris McKenna which describes 12 tricks that kids use to circumvent Screen Time and explains how you can protect against just about all of them. Kids these days are pretty smart; if only they could devote that brain power to studying for tests instead of circumventing parents. (And while you are at it, you kids get off my lawn...)
- Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac reviews the RapidX MyPort, an interesting wireless charger that can stand on your desk, but can also turn into a portable battery with wireless charging.
- Charlie Sorrel of Cult of Mac has tips for using the Dock on the Apple Watch, which you access by pressing that large button on the side. There are some good tips in there, including a trick I had forgotten — double-press the digital crown button on the side to switch between the last app that you used on the Apple Watch and the app that you use most frequently on the Apple Watch (which for me is the Overcast app).
- Apple's new Maps data, which came to parts of the South in August and parts of the Northeast earlier this month, has now come to West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and parts of Illinois, as reported by Oliver Haslam of iMore.
- And finally, here is a story that I probably wouldn't have believed if it wasn't captured on video. A man dropped his iPhone X while on a roller coaster in Spain and someone else managed to catch the iPhone in mid-air as it was falling. And the whole thing was recorded because the roller coaster has cameras that record your ride. Impressive.
