Apple Confirms WWDC 2015 Keynote to Be Held Monday, June 8 at 10 AM PT

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Apple revealed the schedule for next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference this morning, and as its done in past years, Apple will kick things off with a keynote on Monday, June 8 at 10 AM PT (1PM ET). While many have believed the conference would start with the keynote, Apple WWDC app update today confirms it. Apple also began sending media invites out to select journalists and members of the press, confirming the event’s date and time.

The keynote will likely be led by Apple CEO Tim Cook, with SVPs Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller (if theres new hardware). Similar to last year, Apple is teasing developers with over a 170 secret TBA developer sessions. The title of the sessions are most likely secret because they rely on some information that will be announced at the keynote (software or hardware).

WWDC 15 is expected to be jam packed with new iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 announcements. Both betas are expected to go live on Monday for developers. Additionally, Apple’s Music Streaming service is rumored to be announced as well as an entirely revamped Apple TV box and service.

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New Google Photos App is Now Available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch [Download]

The new Google Photos app is now available to download for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The new service offers unlimited, free storage of your photos and video in the cloud.

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, searchable and organized by the people, places, and things that matter. Google Photos is like having your own personal assistant to help you make the most of your photos. 

FEATURES:
• VISUAL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places, and things that appear in your photos. Looking for that fish taco you ate in Hawaii? Just search “Hawaii” or “food” to find it even if it doesn’t have a description.

• AUTO BACKUP: Keep all your photos and videos safe and accessible from any device. Choose free, unlimited cloud storage available at high quality, or store up to 15GB original size for free (shared across your Google account).

• SAVE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE: Google Photos can help you clear safely backed up photos and videos from your device so you never have to worry about deleting a photo to make space.

• BRING PHOTOS TO LIFE: Automatically create montage movies, interactive stories, collages, animations, and more.

• EDITING: Transform photos with the tap of a finger. Use simple, yet powerful, photo and video editing tools to apply filters, adjust colors, and more.

• SHARING: Share hundreds of photos instantly with shareable links and use whichever apps you’d like to share.

You can download Google Photos from the App Store for free. To learn more about the service, click here.

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*** IMPORTANT NOTICE *** ( MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR IPHONE FROM CRASH )

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A bug in the way iOS handles certain unicode text causes the iPhone to crash when receiving a message. The string of text has been making its way around the Internet after it was first discovered on Reddit earlier this afternoon.

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لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ

If you send the string of text to anyone with an iPhone, the device will respring and reboot. Jailbroken users will be forced in Safe Mode. If the Messages app was opened to the list view, then the Messages app will become useless as opening it will always result in a crash.

Oddly enough, if you have the conversation window open already and receive the text, the phone will not crash; therefore, in order for the crash to work, the user must not have the conversation thread open (the crash works everywhere else including the lock screen, notification center, and banners).

Speculation on Reddit leads many to believe the bug is caused by the way iOS process unicode text, specifically in notification banners. The banner reportedly attempts to present the incoming text and then “gives up” thus causing the crash.

If you’re stuck with your Messages app constantly crashing after receiving the text there are a couple of fixes. Most involve sending a message outside of the messages app (through Share sheets or through Siri). Below are two examples of ways to solve the issue:

1) Launch the photos app, send a random photo to the person who sent you the text, then go into iMessage and delete the conversation. 

2) Use Siri to send a message to the person who just sent you the string. After Siri confirms and sends the message, open the Messages app and the problem should be resolved. 

To prevent anyone from restarting your iPhone through the message again, you can turn off alert/banner message previews, or completely turn off message notification banners (Settings > Notifications > Message).

No word on how long this bug has been present in iOS but we’re sure Apple will release a fix soon.

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