How much space do duplicate files take up on your iPad? In theory, they use no extra storage. Thanks to the design of the Apple File System (APFS) used on iOS and macOS, duplicating a file doesn’t ...

Apple Filing Protocol is one of Apple's original file-sharing technologies. Its client software will soon be gone from macOS forever. The year after Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it introduced ...

Apple has officially deprecated the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) client in the latest update for Mac computers, and the feature will be “removed in a future version of macOS.” The change will break ...

An Apple patent filing has been published over at the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office, detailing a new kind of wearable that could be the basis of a future AI interface. The “wearable loops” ...

Apple has filed for a patent (number US 20250028179 A1) for “lens mounting structures for head-mounted devices.” It involves the rumored “Apple Glasses,” an augmented reality/virtual reality ...

Apple has been granted a patent for an “enhanced virtual touchpad.” It would work with gaze and gesture input systems for a Mac. Obviously, many different types of user interface devices and methods ...

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