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.

Juli Clover's Articles

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ConnectSense HomeKit-Compatible Smart Outlet Available for Pre-Order

Friday October 2, 2015 9:58 am PDT by
Now that HomeKit has been available for several months, additional HomeKit-connected products are beginning to trickle out. ConnectSense is the latest company to announce a launch date for HomeKit-compatible product, and its Smart Outlet was today added to Apple's list of HomeKit products. Priced at $79.95, the Smart Outlet plugs into an existing outlet and offers two Wi-Fi connected sockets...
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Display Bug Affecting Some iPhone 6s Users Who Restored From iPhone 5/5s/5c Backup

Thursday October 1, 2015 5:29 pm PDT by
Since the iPhone became available for purchase on September 25, a growing number of former iPhone 5, 5c, and 5s users who transferred their content to their new devices via iCloud are experiencing a display bug that causes certain apps to look zoomed in on the iPhone 6s screen. Users on both the Apple Support communities and the MacRumors forum have run into this issue, and we've also received ...
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Experian Hack Affects Millions of T-Mobile Credit Applicants

Thursday October 1, 2015 4:07 pm PDT by
Experian today announced that one of its business units experienced a serious data breach, with hackers acquiring personal information for approximately 15 million T-Mobile users, as T-Mobile was the Experian client that was affected by the hack. While credit card information was not obtained, data acquired from T-Mobile includes names, dates of birth, addresses, and Social Security numbers....
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Apple Expands Bay Area Presence With New 'Second Spaceship' Lease

Thursday October 1, 2015 3:27 pm PDT by
Apple has acquired additional land in the Bay Area, inking a deal with Landbank Investments for an upcoming 770,000 square-foot campus at Central and Wolfe in Sunnyvale, California. According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple has leased the property for an undisclosed amount of money. The upcoming campus is notable because current plans call for an amorphous design that eschews the ...
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Many AT&T iPhone Users Unable to Download Apps and Stream Music Over LTE

Thursday October 1, 2015 1:51 pm PDT by
A growing number of AT&T subscribers on the MacRumors forums appear to be having issues downloading apps and streaming music over LTE, with some claiming AT&T is throttling App Store downloads and Apple Music content. When connected to Wi-Fi, users report that apps download normally, but over LTE, app downloads do not progress. Other users are reporting issues streaming content from the Apple...
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Amazon to Cease Selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast Over 'Prime Video' Incompatibility

Thursday October 1, 2015 10:56 am PDT by
Amazon plans to stop selling some streaming video devices that compete with its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, reports Bloomberg. It will no longer offer Google's Chromecast or Apple's Apple TV for sale in its online store. Amazon today sent an email to marketplace sellers notifying them of the upcoming change. The site plans to disallow new listings for the product and remove existing inventory ...
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Apple Releases Second OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Public Beta

Thursday October 1, 2015 10:05 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the second beta of OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan to public beta testers, just days after releasing the second beta to developers and a week and a half after seeding the first public beta. Today's second beta comes just after the public launch of OS X El Capitan. The beta is available to those who are participating in Apple's Beta Testing program and can be downloaded through the...
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'Tweetbot 4' Debuts With Universal iPad Support, Split-Screen Multitasking and New Activity View

Thursday October 1, 2015 9:11 am PDT by
Tapbots today launched its long-awaited Tweetbot 4 update, which brings a slew of important changes to the popular Twitter client. Most notably, today's update expands support to the iPad, making Tweetbot 4 a universal app for the first time and bringing an updated look to the tablet version of the app. Tweetbot 4 on iPad, landscape mode Tweetbot for the iPad has not been updated since June...
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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a Copy of Macphun's Apps, Now With OS X El Capitan Photos Integration

Thursday October 1, 2015 7:01 am PDT by
Macphun, the company that makes several popular photo editing apps for Mac and iOS, today updated some of its Mac apps with support for OS X El Capitan and the new Photos extension. In OS X El Capitan, third-party photo editing apps from the Mac App Store are able to share their tools with Photos, making it possible to edit images with these apps without ever leaving the Photos app. ...
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Logitech Debuts New 'Logi Circle' Home Monitoring Camera

Wednesday September 30, 2015 5:14 pm PDT by
Logitech today announced its entry into the home security and monitoring market with the Circle Portable Home Connection Camera, which is debuting under its new Logi brand. The palm-sized Circle is a connected camera that's designed to let users monitor and interact with pets, children, and people at home while away. Through a companion app, the Logi Circle streams HD video to an iPhone or...
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Apple No Longer Signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9

Wednesday September 30, 2015 4:27 pm PDT by
Apple today stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and the first version of iOS 9 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, meaning users can no longer upgrade or downgrade to those versions of iOS using iTunes. Apple is now signing iOS 9.0.1 and iOS 9.0.2 only. Users who have upgraded to iOS 9 are now unable to downgrade back to the last version of iOS 8, iOS 8.4.1. Released in August, iOS 8.4.1 was a minor...
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Apple Bans iFixit Developer Account and Removes App After Apple TV Teardown

Wednesday September 30, 2015 1:01 pm PDT by
After the new fourth-generation Apple TV was announced on September 9, Apple provided developers with Apple TV Dev Kits to be used to create tvOS apps for the device. Teardown site iFixit took apart one of those Apple TV units meant for developers and has now run into some repercussions for doing so. According to a post on the iFixit blog, the teardown, which unveiled all of the internal...
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Review: Xistwear's Stretchy Bands Look Great With the Stainless Steel Apple Watch

Wednesday September 30, 2015 12:47 pm PDT by
Six months after the Apple Watch launched, there are dozens if not hundreds of different third-party band options on the market, allowing users to customize their watches with looks beyond what Apple offers. Xistwear has created a line of stretchy stainless steel Apple Watch bands in a range of colors that look great with the Apple Watch and can be purchased for less than Apple's own metal bands, ...
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Apple Releases OS X 10.11 El Capitan With Improved Spotlight Search, Enhanced Performance, and Revamped Apps

Wednesday September 30, 2015 10:43 am PDT by
Apple today released OS X 10.11 El Capitan to the public, making the newest Mac operating system available for free to Mac users around the world. OS X El Capitan went through eight developer betas before the golden master version of the software was released on September 9. OS X El Capitan is still rolling out to users, but it can be downloaded using the Software Update function in the Mac...
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Apple Releases Safari 9 for OS X Yosemite and Mavericks Users

Wednesday September 30, 2015 10:17 am PDT by
Ahead of the official launch of OS X El Capitan, Apple's newest operating system, Apple today released Safari 9.0 for OS X Yosemite users. According to Apple, today's update is recommended for all people running OS X Yosemite and includes improvements to privacy, compatibility, and security. The update adds El Capitan-centric features including a new mute audio feature for Safari tabs and...
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Apple Releases iOS 9.0.2 With Bug Fixes, Performance Improvements

Wednesday September 30, 2015 9:59 am PDT by
Apple today released iOS 9.0.2, a minor update that introduces bug fixes and performance improvements to iOS 9. The iOS 9.0.2 update comes one week after the release of iOS 9.0.1, the first update to iOS 9, and two weeks after iOS 9 was released to the public on September 16. iOS 9.0.2 is available immediately to all iOS 9 users as an over-the-air update. Like iOS 9.0.1, iOS 9.0.2 is a...
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Apple Seeds Third iOS 9.1 Beta to Developers

Wednesday September 30, 2015 9:58 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the third beta of iOS 9.1 to registered developers for testing purposes, three weeks after seeding the first iOS 9.1 beta following its fall "Hey Siri" event and one week after releasing iOS 9.0.1, the first minor update to iOS 9. Apple has also just released iOS 9.0.2, another minor update to iOS. The new beta of iOS 9.1, build 13B5130b, is available as an over-the-air...
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Google Maps for iOS Gains Apple Watch App

Tuesday September 29, 2015 1:09 pm PDT by
Google today updated its Google Maps app for iOS to version 4.11.0, adding support for the Apple Watch. As of today, there's a Google Maps app that delivers directions on Apple's wrist-worn device. Along with a new Apple Watch app, today's update also includes a tool for comparing estimated travel times across driving, transit, walking and biking directions, and it adds a feature for calling...
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A9 Chip Manufacturing Split 60/40 Between TSMC and Samsung, Not Segmented by Device Size

Tuesday September 29, 2015 11:46 am PDT by
Teardowns of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have revealed two different A9 chips inside the devices, one created by TSMC and one developed by Samsung, which is slightly smaller in size, having been manufactured on a 14-nanometer process instead of a 16-nanometer process. There was early some speculation that the chips were divided by model, with the iPhone 6s getting the smaller Samsung chip and...
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Apple Seeds Second OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 Beta to Developers

Tuesday September 29, 2015 11:12 am PDT by
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming OS X El Capitan update to developers for testing purposes, more than a week after releasing the first OS X 10.11.1 beta and one day before the scheduled public release of OS X El Capitan on September 30. The new beta is available through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store and through the Apple Developer Center. The first...