SF News Months Later, Apple Launches Repair Program For iPhone 'Touch Disease' Remember the "touch disease" phenomenon among iPhone 6 Pluses that came to light, ever so coincidentally, right around the time of the iPhone 7 launch? That was back in late August, and at
SF News Apple Announces September 7 Event For iPhone 7 Release Just As Class Action Is Filed Over iPhone 6 'Touch Disease' The presumed release event for the iPhone 7 is now officially on the books for September 7, right after Labor Day, as is customary for Apple's annual release schedule. As Recode reports, in
SF News Many iPhone 6 Owners Complaining Of 'Touch Disease' Rendering Touchscreens Unusable A flaw in the interior workings of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is creating an epidemic of "Touch Disease" in which the phones stop responding to any touch pressure at all, rendering
SF News Local Man Claims His iPhone 6 Plus Exploded In His Pocket It's still unclear what causes this to happen, but iPhones occasionally explode and burn people, and this happened to local car mechanic Kevin Abuyaghi KRON 4, who reported the story, discuss how he's
SF News [UPDATE] Womp Womp: Big Mystery Event At Bill Graham Just Another Apple Unveiling It's still not exactly confirmed or elevated beyond well substantiated rumor, but Hoodline claims to have a 'trusted source" who says that the big-deal event taking shape at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium the
SF News The CIA Has Been Trying To Crack iPhone's Security Encryption For Years A new piece on The Intercept, following on a secret, annual, CIA-sponsored hacker "Jamboree" devoted to "exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics," suggests that U.S. spies have been intent on
SF News Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now
SF News AT&T Park Data Usage Just Might Melt The Stadium On Friday When the Giants finally come back to town for Game 3 of the World Series on Friday, data-usage records at AT&T Park are expected to be broken. The record was already
SF News Where To Try Out Apple Pay, Assuming That Store Location Has Read The Memo Today's rollout day for Apple Pay, the new touch-payment system that came built in on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and will also be included in the upcoming Apple Watch. And as
SF News New iPads Ahead? Apple Announces October 16 Event "It's been way too long" reads the invitation Apple sent to tech media today, presumably to unveil some sort of new iPad type thing. Perhaps that line was intended somewhat ironically, as media
SF News New iPhones Don't Bend So Easily At All, Says Consumer Reports; British Punks Show Otherwise Maybe #bendgate is over as quickly as it began, but in a boon for Apple and its loyalists, Consumer Reports has rushed out a highly scientific report that proves that you can't bend
Arts & Entertainment Video: Conan Mocks 'Flaccid' iPhones Does your new iPhone 6 Plus have trouble staying hard? You've likely heard the stories about #bendgate/#bendghazi. Well, Conan took a funny jab at the issue last night. Meanwhile, Apple has come
SF News iPhone 6 Pluses Are Bending In People's Pockets Be honest. You were just waiting with bated breath to find out what the first public disaster with the iPhone 6 would be. Wait no longer! They bend. The smartphones, which are roughly
SF News Size Matters: Campers Line Up For The iPhone 6 "What if it sucks?" I asked Tim Noguera, 26, of San Francisco. "That's impossible." Tim and his friend, Nicholas Bertelsen of Denmark, happily sat behind a rope outside Apple's flagship store in San
SF News Apple Recommends Pre-Ordering iPhone 6, Still Has A Few Models Left For In-Store Pickup; Also, The Reviews Are In We don't yet know how rabid the on-the-ground eagerness will be come Thursday night/Friday morning at the downtown S.F. Apple Store (or at Apple Stores around the Bay Area). But Apple
Arts & Entertainment On This Day In 1985, Apple Forced Steve Jobs Out. On This Day In 1997, He Came Back. If we were believers in numerology,* we might ascribe some significance to today's reports that sales of the iPhone 6 appear to have exceeded Apple's wildest expectations. September 16 isn't just a day
SF News Here's What A Shipment of 195,000 New iPhones Looks Like Arriving From China As you've probably heard, pre-orders of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have been huge basically double what they were for the iPhone 5 just in the first 24 hours. So, as Apple
Arts & Entertainment If You Have iTunes, You Have U2's New Album Whether You Want It Or Not [Updated] At Apple's big event this week where it announced the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, the company also launched something else — U2's latest album Songs of Innocence. After Bono and the band closed
SF News iPhone 6 Goes On Pre-Sale, Larger Version Already Sold Out The new, almost iPad-mini-sized iPhone 6 Plus is already sold out for pre-sale on Apple's website and those rabid customers will now have a three- to four-week wait (and counting) for their big
SF News Apple Unveils Watch, New Larger iPhones [Live-Blog] Apple's biggest and most anticipated unveiling in at least two years is happening this morning in Cupertino, and news correspondents from the East Coast have been standing outside the large, mysterious white cube
SF News What We Know About The iWatch, Allegedly Debuting Tomorrow As we warned you a couple weeks ago, Apple is having one of their big media unveilings tomorrow in San Francisco, and it's likely to include both the iPhone 6, and the long-awaited
SF News Apple Coyly Invites Reporters To Cupertino For Rumored iPhone 6 Unveiling Well, it appears to be official: Apple has just contacted members of the press, with an invitation for a September 9 media event, one that's expected to be the unveiling of the newest
Arts & Entertainment Video: Second City Brilliantly Skewers iPhone 6 Rumor Mania Look, I'm excited about the upcoming release of the iPhone 6 too, especially because my husband's 4 is baaarely limping along and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy him a new
SF News Bigger iPhone Might Arrive In August Rumors abound, but according to several sources, it looks like Apple will finally unveil a new iPhone this August. The Cupertino-based company will probably, maybe, most likely release a larger 4.7-inch iPhone
SF News Your Next iPhone Will Probably Be Five Inches According to the latest chatter from the Wall Street Journal, Apple has decided that size does matter and will offer a second, larger screen iPhone later this year in order to compete with
