Juli Clover
Juli is the Managing Editor at MacRumors, and has been covering Apple news and rumors since 2010. She oversees MacRumors' guides, roundups, how tos, reviews, and giveaways in addition to covering daily news. Her work is regularly highlighted on Techmeme and cited by tech publications and news sites.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
Juli Clover's Articles
First Impressions From New iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Owners
It's already Friday, October 23, in Australia and New Zealand, which means some customers who purchased an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro already have their new devices in hand. We've seen dozens of reviews of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro from media sites, but now first impressions from regular Apple customers are available.
Image via MacRumors reader Boardiesboi
New iPhone 12 and 12 Pro owners are...
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A24 Film 'Bride' With Scarlett Johansson Coming to Apple TV+
"Bride," a new movie from Apple and film studio A24, is coming to Apple TV+, reports Deadline. Described as a "genre-bending" film, "Bride" will star Scarlet Johansson.
The plot follows a "brilliant entrepreneur" who creates a woman to be the ideal wife. She rejects her creator and is "forced to flee her confined existence, confronting a world that sees her as a monster." While on the run,...
First iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Orders Arriving to Customers in New Zealand and Australia
Apple customers in Australia and New Zealand are always the first to get their hands on new devices on launch day because of differences in time zones, and the 2020 iPhone models are now arriving in those countries.
Image via Instagram, from a new iPhone 12 Pro owner in New Zealand
It's Friday morning in Australia and New Zealand, and customers who pre-ordered an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro are...
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 115 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.
Safari Technology Preview release 115 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Audio, JavaScript, Web API, Media, ...
Apple Discouraging People From Lining Up for iPhone 12 Launch With In-Person Reservation System
With the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro launching in the middle of a global pandemic, Apple is coming up with ways for people to purchase their new devices safely and without unnecessary exposure to the virus.
Apple has been allowing iPhone 12 orders to be placed for in store pickup, and in some locations, is implementing a bank teller-like Express system that allows for minimal exposure to...
Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of watchOS 7.1 to Developers
Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming watchOS 7.1 update to developers for testing purposes, a little over one week after seeding the third beta and more than a month after releasing the watchOS 7 update.
To install the watchOS 7.1 beta, developers need to download the proper configuration profile from the Apple Developer Center. Once the profile is in place, the...
Apple University Dean Shares Deep Dive Into Apple's Organizational Structure
Apple University dean and vice president Joel Podolny today wrote an in-depth article on Apple's organizational structure for Harvard Business Review.
Titled "How Apple is Organized for Innovation," Podolny's piece delves deep into Apple's structure and how that has helped it grow over the years. Starting back when Jobs took over the company when he returned to Apple 1997, Podolny explains...
GameClub Brings PC Game 'Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank' to iPhone and iPad
GameClub, a subscription-based gaming service that revives classic iOS games, recently expanded into PC and console titles, promising to bring popular console and desktop games to mobile platforms.
Today, GameClub is debuting its first PC to mobile game, Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank. Available on PC and Mac, this is the first time that Chook & Sosig has been expanded to iPhone, iPad, and...
Apple Updates iMovie and GarageBand for iOS With New Features
Apple today updated iOS video editing app iMovie to version 2.3, introducing a number of new features to the app. There's support for viewing, editing, and sharing High Dynamic Range videos from the Photos library. There's also an option to import and share 4K videos at 60 frames per second.
Titles can be customized using built-in fonts with easy tools for adjusting title style and...
Apple Expanding 'Express' Retail Store Setup That Offers Safer Purchase Options
Apple is planning to expand a new "Express" store format that will make it easier and safer for customers to purchase new Apple devices, including the iPhone 12 lineup, reports Reuters.
Image via PopVox co-founder and CEO Marci Harris on Twitter
The Express store format features a wall built around the front of the main Apple Store with temporary sales counters that are protected by...
Teardown Video Confirms iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Use Same 2,815mAh Battery
With the iPhone 12 launching on Friday and in just a few hours to Australia and New Zealand, hands-on videos, teardowns, reviews, and other iPhone-related content has been coming out. A new teardown video delves into both the iPhone 12 and the 12 Pro, confirming battery life for both models and giving us a closer look at their internals.
The video from Io Technology is in Chinese, but ...
Top Five Reasons to Buy a HomePod Mini
Apple last week introduced a new $99 HomePod mini, which is a more affordable alternative to the full-size HomePod that's been around since 2017. The HomePod mini isn't shipping out until November, but on paper, it sounds great for those who have been eyeing a HomePod but haven't wanted to shell out $299.
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Halide Developers Launch New 'Mark II' Photography App
The developers behind the Halide camera app today announced the launch of Halide Mark II, a new photography app that combines everything from Halide with the technology that was introduced in Spectre, an app for capturing long exposure photos, also from the makers of Halide.
Mark II is described as an "elegant, intuitive camera" that can be used by casual photographers while also providing...
Airbnb Working With Jony Ive's 'LoveFrom' Company
Apple's longtime head of design Jony Ive left the company back in mid-2019 to start his own company called LoveFrom, and one of Ive's first clients is Airbnb.
Airbnb today announced that it is working with Ive's LoveFrom company on a "special collaboration" that will include a multi-year relationship to "design the next generation of Airbnb products and services."Today, I'm thrilled to...
Apple Lobbies for Tax Breaks for Manufacturing More Chips in United States
Apple is seeking tax breaks from the U.S. government for domestic chip production, which suggests Apple may be aiming to move more iPhone manufacturing to the United States.
According to Bloomberg, second and third-quarter lobbying disclosure reports indicate that Apple lobbied officials from the Treasury Department, Congress, and the White House on tax issues that included "tax credits for...
Short Form Video Service Quibi Shutting Down
Short form video streaming service Quibi is shutting down, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and The Information. Employees and investors were notified about the impending shutdown over phone calls that went out this afternoon.
Quibi, which launched in April, is similar to Netflix or Hulu but it provides video content in shorter 5 to 10 minute snippets for $4.99+ per month....
Some Defective Apple iPhone 12 Cases Shipping Without Speaker Holes
At least two customers who have purchased iPhone 12 cases have received defective cases that do not have speaker holes, which obscures the sound.
Photo by Reddit user zarnold16
There have been two separate threads on Reddit from iPhone 12 customers who purchased a case and received one without speaker holes.
One customer was told by an Apple advisor that the case wasn't meant to have...
iPhone 12 Models Use Qualcomm's X55 Modem
Apple's iPhone 12 lineup appears to be equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 modem, which is in line with rumors that we heard about the new devices prior to their launch.
An iPhone 12 teardown video on Chinese social networking site Weibo gives a close look at the L-shaped logic board and the modem chip.
The X55 offers support for both 5G mmWave networks and 5G Sub-6GHz networks, along ...
Apple Buys Rights to 'The Velvet Underground' Documentary
Apple today announced that it has purchased the worldwide distribution rights to "The Velvet Underground," a documentary from Todd Haynes.
Haynes' documentary follows 1960's band "The Velvet Underground," which was headlined by Lou Reed and once managed by artist Andy Warhol. "The Velvet Underground" was known as the "house band" at the Factory, which was Warhol's studio that served as a...
Belkin Debuts Compact 'Boost Charge Pro' 60W GaN USB-C Power Adapter
Belkin today announced the launch of the Boost Charge Pro USB-C GaN Wall Charger 60W, which it says is the smallest GaN 60W solution on the market.
The new USB-C Boost Charge Pro 60W charger joins Belkin's lineup of other gallium nitride (GaN) power adapter options. GaN technology has become widespread over the last few years and allows for much smaller power adapters that take up less space ...
