Apple, Tips and Tricks

In what seems to be another cautionary tale about using secure passcodes, a visitor to Disney World recently encountered tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit card charges after her Apple Watch slipped off her wrist.

According to WDW News Today, a woman visiting Disney World’s EPCOT lost her $1,300 Hermès Edition Apple Watch after it fell through a grated floor on the slow-moving The Seas with Nemo & Friends ride. The guest was reportedly “fidgeting with her Apple…

Electronic
waste or e-waste refers to what happens to our electronics when we throw them
away. And we throw away a lot – up
to 50 million metric tons a year worldwide, and growing. There are some
huge problems with this, too: Many electronic devices have toxic materials that
don’t belong in landfills without risking poisoning nearby soil and
groundwater. Those that are “recycled” are too often sent overseas to be burnt
or melted into scrap, releasing all those toxins into the environment and
causing even…

A strange iPhone bug is causing iMessage and FaceTime to be randomly deactivated for some people using an eSIM instead of a physical SIM card.

It’s unclear exactly why this is happening, but after Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman highlighted the problem with his own iPhone on T-Mobile, several folks chimed in on Twitter to share how they’d encountered similar issues on other carriers, including Verizon and AT&T.

The problem appears to be unique only to recent iPhone models where…