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The long awaited Apple Arcade and Apple TV+ will launch this fall, but what are they? The technology giant seeks to compete with the likes of Netflix video and Steam gaming. After teasing the services since March, Apple finally revealed the release details at their 10th of September event, showing off flashy trailers for exclusive content. Read on to find out what these services are, how much they’ll cost, when they’ll release, and why you should be excited.

The new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro are finally here! Along with the Apple Watch Series 5, and a new iPad. Now the big question is when can we get our hands on all the cool tech Apple just unveiled? And how much will it cost us? We’ve got the release dates and prices for everything Apple just announced.

With a shift to services like Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus, Apple Arcade, and the Apple Card, fans of Apple have been asking, what's next in terms of hardware innovation? Today, Apple announced its iPhone 11 series, the Apple Watch Series 5, and the iPad 7 along with the release dates for Apple TV Plus and the Apple Arcade. But are the new camera and hardware upgrades worth the high cost of investment? Read on to learn the specs, release dates, and the prices of everything Apple announced, plus what Apple left out and where we think the brand is headed next.

Apple announced today an update to its low-cost consumer-level iPad with a hardware refresh to bring its processing and display capabilities closer to last year’s iPad Pro specs.  This 7th-generation iPad now sports a larger 10.2-inch Retina display and a peppy A10 Fusion CPU to take better advantage of the additional load iPadOS will demand from Apple’s tablets. Like the iPad 6, the new iPad will also support the original Apple Pencil. Two of the more interesting new features that have made its way into this entry level device is Apple’s Smart Connector, and support for external USB drives. These new hardware inclusions means that this new iPad can use the same keyboard accessories as the iPad Pro. This new iPad is priced starting at $329 and is available for pre-order today.

Setting up a new iPhone can feel like a hassle, especially if you're worried about how to transfer your data or keeping your current phone number. Luckily, you don't need to transfer a SIM card to port your phone number or to transfer your old messages, contacts, and photos to a new iPhone. If you've created a backup of your phone, have your Apple ID handy, and the contact information for your carrier, then you're close to finished with setting up your new iPhone. Here's everything you need to know about how to transfer your data and how to port your phone number to your new device.

With the Files app, you can store notes, images, documents, and other files to your iPhone and browse those items on other devices like your iPad or your Mac. To access items stored in the Files app, you'll need to enable iCloud Drive on your iPhone as well as your Mac or any other device you want to use to browse the Files app. Let's get started with how to access the contents of your iPhone's Files app on multiple devices.

The iPhone's camera is such a handy and versitile tool that I find myself favoring it even when I've got expensive photography equipment gathering dust in my office. Setting the exposure is as easy as tapping on the point in the image you want to meter, tapping the sun icon that appears next to that point to reveal the brightness slider, and then dragging the brightness slider up or down. That way you can make the darks a little darker or the lights a little lighter, and create the image you want every time. The Camera app doesn't give you exposure settings in f-stops, or let you adjust aperature or shutter speed directly. For that you'll need a third party app. However, it does let you adjust which part of the frame the auto-exposure meters quickly and easily. Here's how to do it.