Apple Recalls AC Wall Plug Adapters for Six Countries

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Apple today announced a voluntary recall of AC wall plug adapters designed for use in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Continental Europe, New Zealand and South Korea. In very rare cases, affected Apple two-prong wall plug adapters may break and create a risk of electrical shock if touched. These wall plug adapters shipped with Mac and certain iOS devices between 2003 and 2015 and were also included in the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit. Apple is aware of 12 incidents worldwide.

The recall does not affect any other Apple AC wall plug adapters designed for Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, United States or any Apple USB power adapters.

An affected wall plug adapter has 4 or 5 characters or no characters on the inside slot where it attaches to an Apple power adapter. Redesigned adapters have a 3-letter regional code in the slot (EUR, KOR, AUS, ARG or BRA).

Apple is asking customers to stop using affected plug adapters.

You can visit the link below for details on how to begin the exchange process.

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Apple is Raising App Stores Prices in 7 Countries Including SINGAPORE & WhatsApp Messenger is Now Free !!!!

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Apple has announced that it’s raising App Store prices in seven countries including Canada, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, and South Africa. The changes are being made due to foreign exchange rate fluctuations.

Developers were sent an email notifying them that the prices changes will take affect within 72 hours.

Here’s the details…


Subscriptions will not be interrupted in Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, and Singapore. Shortly before their existing subscription renews, subscribers in these territories will receive an email from us to let them know about the price increase with the option to turn off their subscription. Subscribers in Russia and South Africa will need to resubscribe at the new price. Israel will not be impacted, as auto-renewable In-App Purchase subscriptions are not supported there.

Two new low-price tiers will be available for the Canadian and New Zealand App Store: Alternate Tier A and Alternate Tier B. We’ll automatically update the prices for existing apps and In-App Purchases that already use the Alternate Tier A and Alternate Tier B price tiers.

Proceeds for the Romanian App Store have increased to account for the VAT (Value Added Tax) decrease from 24% to 20% effective Jan 1, 2016. Retail iprices on the Romanian App Store have not changed.

 

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WhatsApp Messenger is dropping its $1/year subscription fee and will be completely free to use. The company, now owned by Facebook, made the announcement earlier today.

We’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we’ve asked some people to pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we’ve grown, we’ve found that this approach hasn’t worked well. Many WhatsApp users don’t have a debit or credit card number and they worried they’d lose access to their friends and family after their first year. So over the next several weeks, we’ll remove fees from the different versions of our app and WhatsApp will no longer charge you for our service.

WhatsApp Messenger is Now Free

So how will the app earn money? WhatsApp says it’s not planning to introduce third-party ads.

Starting this year, we will test tools that allow you to use WhatsApp to communicate with businesses and organizations that you want to hear from. That could mean communicating with your bank about whether a recent transaction was fraudulent, or with an airline about a delayed flight. We all get these messages elsewhere today – through text messages and phone calls – so we want to test new tools to make this easier to do on WhatsApp, while still giving you an experience without third-party ads and spam.

With nearly a billion users, dropping the subscription fee is a major loss in revenue for Facebook; however, it’s unlikely that the company would make the move without having a good monetization plan in place.

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Apple Confirms Issue With Battery Percentage Not Updating on the iPhone 6s & 6s Plus !!!

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Apple has confirmed that there is an issue with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus that could prevent the battery percentage from updating.

The issue affects those who have changed the time on their device manually or change time zones when traveling.

If you change the time on your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus manually or change time zones when traveling, you might notice that the battery percentage doesn’t update. 

The company suggests following the steps as a way to address the issue:
● Restart your iPhone.
● Go to Settings > General > Date & Time and make sure that Set Automatically is turned on.

Apple says it’s investigating the cause and a solution. Let us know in the comments if you’ve noticed a problem with your battery percentage indicator.

 

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