USB-C iPhone, macOS Ventura, iCloud redesign, and advertising controversy - AppleInsider

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Apple's macOS Ventura and iOS 16.1 are officially out, positive the archetypal beta of iPadOS 16.2 reveals the caller Freeform app, portion the iCloud website gets a large redesign, and App Store advertizing is causing immoderate heat, each connected the AppleInsider podcast.

Apple decidedly seems a spot grumpy astir moving the iPhone from a Lightning connector to USB-C, and it's intelligibly lone doing truthful due to the fact that of the European Union making it mandatory. What's little wide is rather erstwhile it volition marque the switch, though, arsenic the timing of EU authorities means Apple has immoderate options.

It volition beryllium either 2023 oregon 2024's iPhones that switch, though, and coming backmost to the contiguous day, Apple has released macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1, and iPadOS 16.1. That's the archetypal merchandise of the caller OS for the iPad, but practically the instant it was released, Apple issued a beta mentation of iPadOS 16.2.

What's astir significant, astatine slightest visibly, astir that merchandise is that it includes the caller Apple app, Freeform.

Alongside each of this absorbing and bully stuff, though, Apple besides this week released thing that went down alternatively little well. Its caller propulsion connected advertizing successful the App Store has caused controversy, and capable truthful that Apple has paused what it's doing.

Only, "pausing" is not adjacent adjacent to "stopping", and the issues stay implicit however Apple allowed a strategy that would advertise gambling games adjacent to apps intended to assistance recovering gambling addicts.

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