Jonny Evans

If you use both Apple and Windows devices, you should also be using iCloud for Windows. It’s an app for your Windows system that enables you to access iCloud data and features from your PC. To get started, first download the app from Microsoft’s App Store. Microsoft iCloud for Windows is avalable in MIcrsofot’s App Store. What is Apple’s iCloud? iCloud is an essential component across the Apple universe. It’s used to share iCloud Drive files, sync contacts, devices, and other personal data,…

Faced with maturing markets and political uncertainty across the world’s most developed economies, Apple chose to invest in the next boomtown — India. It’s looking like an insanely great move. When it made the move, many people didn’t seem to understand the significance. I can still remember some of the prejudiced messages I received when I pointed out the significance of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first visit to the nation and proselytized to the future opportunity. The Shantaram Now, less than a…

Apple at the moment is facing a lot of regulatory pressure, both in Europe and in the US, which leads people to wonder why it wasn’t more flexible in the run-up to the current battles? Let’s be clear: there’s 100 billion reasons why it has put up such a fight. Apple’s pivot to the provision of services has been an amazing success story for the company. (Remember when in 2016 Apple CEO Tim Cook promised the company would double its services business by 2020?) Apple’s services income growth has…

Mac, iPad, and iPhone users can choose to automatically install system security patches as they are released with a new Apple feature called Rapid Security Response. Rapid Security Response aims to secure Apple’s platforms with automated security updates. The idea is that if every user automatically installs such patches, the entire ecosystem becomes inherently more secure. Announced last year at WWDC 2022, Apple began testing the feature in October. During beta testing, it shared four content-f…

If you or your employees are working from home while our governments lurch awkwardly through the current crisis, then there are several security considerations that must be explored. Your enterprise outside the wall Enterprises must consider the consequences of working from home in terms of systems access, access to internal IT infrastructure, bandwidth costs and data repatriation. What this means, basically, is that when your worker accesses your data and/or databases remotely, then the risk to…

Apple’s introduction of Voice Control in macOS Catalina is life-transforming for many users, a convenience for some, and a little fun for others. Here is an introduction to using Voice Control on a Mac running macOS Catalina when it’s released. How to enable Voice Control on your Mac Apple says Voice Control is more capable of understanding the context of what it is asked. Built on Siri’s accurate voice recognition engine, it’s been tweaked for use in dictation and can be used with all your appl…

Things have changed in the iOS economy. While it’s still possible since the 2008 App Store launch for relatively inexperienced developers to create hit products, it’s a lot less likely. And while you still get stories of young developers making it, for the most part it’s all about the big dev firms. I’ve been thinking about this for a bit, and thought I’d try to put together a few ideas that may help people thinking about making an iPhone or iPad app. Start where you mean to finish If you haven…

Apple has at last introduced a new tool that lets you request and download everything the company knows about you, including all the data it gathers and retains when using the company’s retail outlets, iCloud, apps, products, and services. Why is this tool available? In part, Apple has made this information available to bring it into line with Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation, laws designed to better protect individual privacy in an online age. Google, Facebook, Twi…

Apple says iOS 13 is now installed on more than half of the world’s active iPhones. I’ve been exploring the latest version of iOS since it was announced at WWDC 2019 and curated a collection of some of the tips I’ve found since then. These should help you be more productive and efficient while on the go. The new Undo One of the most welcome improvements in iOS 13 is the transformed Undo/Redo function: Undo: Swipe right with three fingers on the screen. Redo: Swipe left with three fingers on the…

Many business professionals require highly secure messaging solutions, particularly when they travel. Apple’s iMessage will soon offer a new secure identity verification system enterprise professionals might find useful. It’s called Contact Key Verification. What is Contact Key Verification? Apple actually announced the system in 2022. It is now expected to go live across the Apple ecosystem with the release of iOS 17.2 and updates for Macs and iPads. Contact Key Verification is “designed to det…