Apple’s new Pro Display XDR comes with an optional nano-texture glass, which is etched at the nanometer level to cut down on reflectivity and glare for a matte look.

The nano-texture glass costs an extra $1,000, and as it turns out, it also impacts how the Pro Display XDR can be cleaned.

According to an Apple support document, the Pro Display XDR with nano-texture glass must be cleaned only with the dry polishing cloth that Apple provides. No water or liquids should be used to clean the glass.

Apple warns that Pro Display XDR owners should never use any other cloths to clean the glass, and if the included dry polishing cloth is lost, Apple Support should be contacted so another cloth can be ordered. There’s no word yet on what Apple is charging for replacement cleaning cloths.

Apple also has specific instructions for washing the polishing cloth, which includes using dish soap and water, rinsing thoroughly, and then letting it air dry for at least 24 hours.

The standard Pro Display XDR glass can be cleaned with a standard microfiber cloth and a small amount of water, while the casing can be cleaned using a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth.

Since its announcement, the Pro Display XDR has been the butt of multiple jokes as Apple is charging $4,999 for the display, and an extra $999 for its stand. The need for a specific Apple-designed cleaning cloth isn’t likely to help the situation.

Apple’s Pro Display XDR, which is meant to be used alongside the Mac Pro, is available starting today. Pro Display XDR orders with standard glass will start arriving to customers on December 20, but the Pro Display XDR with nano-texture glass won’t be available until January 21 at the earliest.

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Edison Software, makers of Edison Mail for iOS and Android, today debuted Edison Mail for desktop Macs. The developers say the app aims to eliminate common frustrations with desktop mail, all within a minimalist UI that’s designed to save time managing emails.

Edison Mail for Mac includes all of the features that make the mobile apps popular, including One-Click Unsubscribe for junk messages, Block Sender, Custom Snooze, Undo Send, and automatic Read Receipt Blocking to prevent advertisers from tracking your email actions.

Email “power user” features are also built-in, including Dark Mode to reduce potential eye strain, Swipe Gestures to manage mail faster, and a Unified Inbox that makes Edison compatible with nearly all email providers to manage unlimited email accounts all in one place. Edison Mail for Mac supports use with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook, iCloud, and many other mail providers.

Edison Mail for Mac also introduces new features that are designed to maximize mailbox efficiency for desktop users. New Keyboard Shortcuts are available in three settings — default Edison Mail shortcuts, shortcuts users are already familiar with from other mail providers, and the ability to create custom shortcuts.

Elsewhere, Threading allows users to view all of their emails on the same subject together (even for non-Gmail accounts that don’t support Threading), while new Email Templates aim to simplify the task of sending repeated emails with the same content.

Additionally, the ability to Search Settings allows users to find a setting item they’re looking for (“‌Dark Mode‌” or “Font,” for example) and other items, instead of having to navigate through all options.

According to the developers, the Mac app has been built for existing users of its mobile apps who requested a desktop version. As such, the new Mac app is available by invitation to current Edison Mail users on iOS and Android, rolling out throughout December and beyond. Everyone else can sign up to be invited to use the app at http://mail.edison.tech/mac.

Today, Edison Mail also released a new version of its app for iOS and Android featuring Assistant – a new feature to preview your upcoming meetings, travel, bills, missed calendar invitations, and forgotten subscriptions all in one place.

Assistant lives in the upper right corner of the Edison Mail inbox screen, where users can tap to see what they’ve got on their schedules in the coming days. Calendar integration includes the day ahead, events that users may have forgotten to RSVP for, bill payment reminders, and travel reminders and information.

Lastly, regular readers may recall that Edison was one of the mail apps found to have been letting their employees read customer emails to optimize smart features. For the record, Edison Software says it has since stopped the practice and deleted any data related to it.

For anyone who still has privacy concerns, both the mobile and desktop apps include options for users to opt-out of data sharing and fully delete any data from both the Edison app and the company’s servers.

Edison Mail is available to download for free for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. [Direct Link]

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In a new support document, Apple has indicated that iOS 13.3 includes improvements to further minimize junk messages in the Messages app.

If you are trying to send a message to someone and you see an alert on your device that says the message was delivered as junk, Apple has provided some potential solutions to get around that:

– Ask the person that you’re trying to message to add your phone number to their Contacts.

– Ask the person that you’re trying to message to send you a message to start the conversation.

– On your device, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and make sure that only your phone number is selected under Start New Conversations From. If your Apple ID is selected, the messages will be delivered as junk.

– If you’re on an iPad or iPod touch, turn on Text Message Forwarding from your iPhone.

iOS 13.3 was publicly released earlier today.

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Apple today shared a new video in its ongoing “Shot on iPhone” series, showing off the photographic capabilities of the iPhone 11 Pro.

Shot in the Al Kharrarah Desert in Saudi Arabia, the video features a group of Saudi riders racing through the sand dunes in ATVs and on dirt bikes.

In one of the toughest terrains of Saudi Arabia, see how a group of Saudi riders have taken themselves to the limit. Captured in 4K and featuring the triple-camera system, the ‌iPhone 11 Pro‌ is ready for action.

Apple has shared dozens of “Shot on ‌iPhone‌” photos and videos over the course of the last several years, updating the content with the launch of each new ‌iPhone‌ model.

Apple’s ‌‌iPhone 11 Pro‌‌, which is used for the newest ad, features a triple-lens camera with the best wide-angle sensor Apple has released so far along with a telephoto lens and a super wide-angle lens for better landscape shots.

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There was a serious AirDrop bug in iOS 13.2.3 that let attackers overwhelm nearby iPhones with files, causing them to lock up, reports TechCrunch. Apple addressed the bug in the iOS 13.3 update, and the details of how it works are now public.

AirDrop is designed to allow users to share files with one another, and depending on settings, it can be restricted to contacts, no one, or any nearby iPhone. Kishan Bagaria discovered the AirDrop bug in iOS 13.2.3, finding that he could lock up nearby iPhones that were able to accept files by flooding them with multiple files in a row.

When receiving an AirDrop file, an ‌iPhone‌ or iPad blocks the display until the incoming request is accepted or rejected. iOS did not limit the number of requests that a device can accept, so with repeated message requests, an attacker was able to send files over and over again to cause the iOS device to get stuck in a loop.

Devices with AirDrop set to “Everyone” were primarily vulnerable to the attack, which is not the default AirDrop setting. AirDrop is limited to Contacts, and the “Everyone” setting must be manually enabled.

As of now, though, the bug no longer works and Apple has limited the number of AirDrop messages that can be sent to an iOS device in quick succession. Given that this wasn’t a traditional security vulnerability, Apple will not provide a common vulnerability and CVE score, but has instead acknowledged it in a separate section of the security support document.

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Expercom has revealed a few notable discounts on Apple’s new Mac Pro, which just launched earlier today. The retailer is taking up to $2,500 off custom built configurations, and $430 off the base Tower model of the Mac Pro.

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This means you can get the 2019 Mac Pro for $5,569.00, down from Apple’s current $5,999.00 price tag for the base model. Expercom’s shipping does take longer than Apple’s, however, and you’ll have to wait as long as three to four weeks for the Mac Pro to arrive. Check out some of the models on sale below.

Mac Pro Sale

• 3.5GHz 8-core 32GB/256GB storage with the Radeon 580X – $5,569.00, down from $5,999.00
• 3.3GHz 12-core 48GB/1TB storage with the Radeon Pro Vega II – $9,505.00, down from $9,935.00
• 3.2GHz 16-core 96GB/1TB storage with the Radeon Pro Vega II – $11,115.00, down from $11,545.00

The retailer even has a high-end Mac Pro at $49,616.00, down from $50,046. Apple is offering a deal where Apple Card users can get 6% Daily Cash back on Apple purchases made through December 31, but Expercom’s deals are definitely solid for anyone without an Apple Card.

For more deals, head to our full Deals Roundup.

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Ahead of the release of the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, Apple gave several of the machines to prominent tech YouTubers to test out, and their first impressions, overviews, and unboxings of the ‌Mac Pro‌ are now available.

MKBHD, iJustine, and Jonathan Morrison were each able to spend a couple of weeks with the ‌Mac Pro‌ and Pro Display XDR, using the setup for video editing workflows. YouTubers were provided with higher-end machines featuring the 28-core Intel Xeon W processors, 384GB RAM, 4TB SSD, an Afterburner Card, and two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs.

MKBHD had a few interesting ‌Mac Pro‌ tidbits to share, including details on the inclusion of a new memory management interface that shows an overview of memory management with how the memory is arranged, along with an overview of PCI slots.

He said that he has two main takeaways after using the ‌Mac Pro‌ for a few weeks: “It’s really quiet and it’s really fast.” In a rendering test, the ‌Mac Pro‌ did in four minutes what it took the 16-inch MacBook Pro 20 minutes to do and the iMac Pro 12 minutes to do.

iJustine focused on the new accessories that come with the ‌Mac Pro‌, including a black Magic Mouse, a black Magic Trackpad, and a black and silver Magic Keyboard.

iJustine also provided an interesting visual comparison between the old ‌Mac Pro‌ tower and the new ‌Mac Pro‌ machine, which have quite a few design similarities.

Morrison said that the Pro Display XDR with its nano coating technology is a “game changer,” though you need to see the display in person to really appreciate it. He too highlighted the ‌Mac Pro‌’s quiet operation, saying that it was near silent even with “every core lit up.”

The ‌Mac Pro‌ is “far beyond what most of us need” according to Morrison.

Additional hands on experiences, benchmarks, and reviews should be forthcoming now that the ‌Mac Pro‌ is available to order. The first machines purchased today will be arriving to customers starting next week.

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Executives from Apple and Facebook were grilled over their encryption policies in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, with senators threatening encryption regulation.

According to Reuters, senators told Apple and Facebook that the two companies need to find a way to make encrypted data available to law enforcement for investigations.

“You’re going to find a way to do this or we’re going to go do it for you,” said Senator Lindsey Graham. “We’re not going to live in a world where a bunch of child abusers have a safe haven to practice their craft. Period. End of discussion.”

Facebook earlier this year said that it would extend end-to-end encryption across all of its messaging services and has since faced blowback from U.S., UK, and Australian government officials who have requested backdoor access.

Apple faced a major encryption battle with the United States government in 2016 when it refused to provide the government with the tools to unlock the iPhone owned by the San Bernadino shooter.

Apple at the time argued that adding backdoor access to the ‌iPhone‌ would weaken it for everyone and that criminals would quickly gain access to any backdoor tools that Apple established.

Facebook privacy chief Jay Sullivan was at the hearing with Apple privacy chief Erik Neuenschwander, and even amid scrutiny from regulators, the two companies were still at each other’s throats, with Neuenschwander and Sullivan each suggesting lawmakers focus scrutiny on the other company’s business.

Sullivan pointed out that Facebook does not build devices or operating systems, while Neuenschwander said that Apple doesn’t have “forums for strangers to contact each other” and doesn’t see Apple “scanning material of our users to build profiles of them.”

Apple has been staunchly against creating backdoors for government access and has warned of the dangers of weakening encryption. Apple does cooperate with law enforcement by providing relevant iCloud data in law enforcement investigations when requested.

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Apple today updated its holiday shipping policies to ensure that people are able to order and receive gifts ahead of when Christmas, Hanukkah, and other celebrations begin, with the company now offering faster free shipping options.

For in-stock Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch orders, Apple is offering free same-day courier delivery in cities where courier delivery is available. Other products will cost $9 for courier delivery, which is Apple’s standard courier pricing.

For orders where courier delivery is not available and for items that don’t qualify for free courier delivery, Apple is offering free next-day delivery on any in-stock item ordered by 3:00 p.m. on December 23. That deadline means that any item ordered by that time will arrive before Christmas on December 25.

Apple is also offering holiday returns right now, which means anything purchased between November 15, 2019 and December 25, 2019 can be returned until January 8, 2020.

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Apple today released the Mac Pro, its high-end modular desktop machine designed for professional users. While the base ‌Mac Pro‌ machine is priced starting at $5,999, there are many other upgrade options available.

Right now, the ‌Mac Pro‌ maxes out at 4TB of SSD storage space, but in the future, Apple plans to expand that to 8TB. On the specs page, Apple says that an 8TB SSD storage option is “coming soon.”

Pricing is not available on the component, but given that the 4TB option costs an additional $1,400, it’s likely to be expensive. Apple first introduced 8TB SSD storage options in the MacBook Pro, and in that machine, the upgrade costs $2,200 over the base 1TB storage option.

Apple also currently provides Radeon Pro 580X, Radeon Pro Vega II, and Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards, but in the near future, Apple will also offer both a single or double Radeon Pro W5700X GPU with 16GB GDDR6 memory.

There is no word yet on pricing, and no clear information on when we can expect the new upgrade options to be available. Those who want the specific GPU or the 8TB of storage should wait to order.

‌Mac Pro‌ models ordered today will ship out between December 19 and December 27.

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