Apple Loop: iPhone 16 Pro Details Leak, Hidden iPad Hardware, Android’s Latest Win Over Apple
Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines from Apple, including the latest iPhone 16 Pro leaks, iPad Pro’s privacy hardware, Apple’s delayed AI rollout, the lack of hardware at WWDC, Apple’s hidden hardware, Android defeating Apple’s security promise, and “I’m A Mac” man returns.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the many discussions around Apple in the last seven days. You can also read my weekly digest of Android news here on Forbes.
Tucked away in the iPad Pro is a new feature designed around user privacy. Apple devices, like many in the industry, indicate if a microphone or camera is active. With little fanfare, Apple has set this to be a feature powered by hardware rather than software, as Guilherme Rambo explains:
“Fun fact about the M4 iPad Pro: it’s the first device to support and use Apple's new Secure Indicator Light (SIL) mechanism. When using the microphone or camera, the corresponding indicator dot is effectively rendered in hardware (using the display), making it a lot less likely that any malware or user space app would be able to access those sensors without the user’s knowledge.”
