News concerning the expansion of Apple Pay has been coming at a rapid pace today. This morning, the service launched in Canada and expanded to Tesco Bank and TSB in the U.K. Then, Apple revealed that more than 100 new banks and credit unions in the United States now support its mobile payment solution. Now, Apple has announced that the service will soon be supported at Dominos and Cinnabon, two popular food chains in the United States....

New Yorkers (and the tourists who come to the city) love their Apple gear, it seems, and five stores in Manhattan just isn’t enough. Just last night we reported that Apple was planning to open a new Store in the New World Trade Center complex. The race to #6 after Soho, Meat Packing District, 5th Avenue, Lincoln Center, and Grand Central is on as ifo Apple Store reports that Apple is planning to open a sixth store on the island in a former bank building on Madison Avenue next year....

First, here are the numbers: 35.1 million iPhones (up 88 percent YOY) 11.8 million iPads (up 151 percent YOY) 4 million Macs (up 7 percent YOY) 7.7 million iPods (down 15 percent YOY) Apple is reporting another record quarter as the company releases its fiscal Q2 2012 earnings shortly before its earnings call with investors this afternoon. The company blew expectations out of the water and announced $39.2 billion in revenue with a quarterly net profit of $11....

Later today, at about 4.30 PM ET, Apple will announce its financial earnings results for fiscal Q2, including the latest three-month sales numbers for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Although Apple is still going to post profits in the billions, still one of the most successful companies the world by all metrics, investor expectations are low as the company guidance indicates it will report its first decline in year-over-year quarterly revenue since 2003....

One refreshed Mac lineup that we expected to see today regarded the Mac Pros. While Apple did not mention them onstage during its keynote this morning, its website is now updated to include new CPU options for the machine that otherwise appears to remain largely unchanged. The new $2,499 base model of the Mac Pro will come with one 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive....

Apple has re-released last month’s minor iOS 9.3.2 software update after pulling it due to customer complaints of bricking iPad Pros. The updated version features build number 13F72 and is available through official channels now. Updating a bricked iPad requires connecting it to iTunes on a Mac or PC using the Lightning cable. The issue only affected some 9.7-inch iPad Pros, but resulted in bricked devices when trying to update to the minor software update....

Over a year after the initial issue, Apple is still facing pushback over its decision to slow down older iPhones in conjunction with aging batteries. Today, a consumer watchdog group in the UK announced that Apple has agreed to notify customers if future iOS updates will affect an iPhone’s performance. As noted by CNBC, the UK Competition and Markets Authority started investigating the issue in early 2018. This came after Apple admitted in December of 2017 that it throttled older iPhones in conjunction with battery age....

For a while now Apple has been providing its official WWDC app for iOS, which allows developers to watch live and recorded videos of its Worldwide Developers Conference every year, and also navigate around while attending the conference live. With more recent years, Apple has been publishing other types of content to this app, including technical videos of new features in recently released hardware such as new iPhones or iPads. It looks like this change has prompted Apple to rename the WWDC app to simply be called “Apple Developer”....

Last month, Apple introduced new iWork suites for both OS X and iOS. The new applications feature entirely new designs and are built-up a new 64-bit architecture for increased speed. However, as we previously noted, many long-time iWork users have found that the new versions lack several features that have existed in previous releases. Today, Apple has responded to these complaints and has said that it will be restoring several of the missing features over the course of the next 6 months....

Apple is rolling out a fix for the iCloud Calendar spam issue that has plagued users over the past few weeks. On iCloud.com, the company has added a new Report Junk feature. This lets users remove spammy invites from their calendar and reports the sender to Apple for further investigation. The feature is currently only available on Apple’s iCloud.com Calendar web app but it is likely to roll out to the iOS and Mac native Calendar in a future software update …...

Apple’s Beats Electronics and Bose have settled a lawsuit over noise-cancelling headphone technology and asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to end its investigation into the matter. Bloomberg reports: Bose and Beats in joint filings told a U.S. court in Delaware they’ve settled their claims, and asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its investigation… Bose originally sued Beats Electronics in July not long after Apple announced its $3 billion deal to acquire the headphone maker....

Apple has added an additional TV provider to its list of partners supporting its Single Sign-on feature for iOS 10 and tvOS 10. Cable ONE joins ten other providers that let customers authenticate once through the Settings app to access content in paid video apps. The full list of TV provider partners now includes these eleven providers: Cable ONE CenturyLink Prism DIRECTV Dish GTA GVTC Communications Hawaiian Telcom Hotwire MetroCast Service Electric Cablevision Sling TV Big name TV providers like Comcast and Verizon are still not yet supported....

Apple has today announced the official name of its spaceship campus: Apple Park. The new headquarters complex had previously been referred to as Apple Campus 2. The 1,000-seat auditorium will be named the Steve Jobs Theater. The company also revealed the timeline for employees to move into the campus, as well as sharing a few high-resolution images (below) … Apple began hiring staff for the campus back in November. Apple Park, the company’s new 175-acre campus, will be ready for employees to begin occupying in April....

Apple has announced today that developers will be required to provide new privacy details to users in the App Store starting December 8. These privacy “nutrition labels” were first introduced at WWDC over the summer, with Apple saying the goal is to better inform consumers of the privacy practices of individual applications. In a post on the Apple Developer webpage today, Apple confirmed that the new privacy details will be required for new apps and app updates to the App Store starting on December 8....

Alongside the second beta of iOS 8, Apple has provided an update to the OS X Yosemite Developer Preview. Yosemite brings many new features to the Mac, including a new design, Continuity features, and enhanced applications. We’ll update this post with new discoveries in the new preview as they are found. You can let us know what you find at tips@9to5mac.com. – PhotoBooth application has returned: – The new Photo Booth and Screen Share icons:...

Update: Tim Cook has tweeted a message saying (in Turkish) ‘We celebrate the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in Turkey with great photographs taken by young talents.’ Apple has posted three new Shot on iPhone ads to its Apple Turkey YouTube channel. The fifteen-second spots are special in that all three videos have been taken by 11-year old children using an iPhone 7. The clips include quirky uses of perspective and slow-mo to create some clever sequences....

The Morning Show, one of the first original series to be released by Apple’s new Apple TV+ streaming platform, provides an interesting look behind the scenes of a morning news program after the male co-host has been fired for alleged sexual misconduct. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, the star-studded cast helped get The Morning Show plenty of chatter before it launched. And now that the first few episodes of the series have officially been made available to the public, garnering mixed reviews thus far, we can see how it deals with issues like feminism, sexual assault and misconduct, and the portrayal of the media, personalities, network executives, and others....

Later this month, Apple will be seeding an updated version of its mobile point-of-sale (EasyPay) system software to Apple Store employees. This update, numbered version 12.3, will allow retail employees with EasyPays to capture Apple Store payment card codes from customer iPhones and iPod touches running Passbook. While Apple’s EasyPay software should be ready for Passbook this month, some sources noted that the current EasyPay hardware, at least at some retail stores, may not be capable of scanning iOS device displays....

Apple has quietly removed customer reviews for products from its online store sometime this month. This means that potential buyers can no longer see reviews of products sold via Apple’s online store before they buy, while those who have already bought are unable to leave reviews. Apple sells numerous different products through its online store, including its own products and accessories, as well as items from third-party companies. Up until now, a “Ratings and Reviews” section would appear under the product listing, allowing customers to read other shoppers’ thoughts on that particular product....

Apple releases two reports each year on how customer data is requested by governments and private parties as part of its privacy effort. While the reports are generally fairly general, the latest report released this week includes a notable change from previous versions… Apple’s latest “Report on Government and Private Party Requests for Customer Information” covering the period between July 1 and December 31 last year includes one declassified national security letter during the six month period, which The Verge notes is a first for this disclosure report....