On this week’s high tales: iPhone 12 rumors, a Good Keyboard with trackpad, Apple’s first ARM Mac, and way more. Learn on for all of this week’s greatest information.

In line with from The Information, Apple is planning to launch an iPad keyboard with a built-in trackpad this yr.The iPro Good Keyboard with trackpad is anticipated to be “manufactured from supplies related” to the present Good Keyboards. This means it can characteristic a material design, doubtless nonetheless with fabric-covered keys and material palm rests.

Apple is rumored to have an iPad Professional refresh within the works for this spring, and you’ll learn the entire rumors in our full roundup right here.

HomeKit router help made its technique to Amazon’s Eero brand this week, marking the primary rollout of the characteristic. Apple describes HomeKit router help as including “extra safety to your private home equipment by controlling which companies and gadgets they impart with on your private home Wi-Fi community and over the Web.”

Elsewhere, Apple launched the third developer beta of iOS 13.4 this week. The replace reveals the existence of a brand new characteristic known as “OS Restoration. This seems to be a brand new technique to restore an iPhone, iPad, and different Apple gadgets with out the necessity to join them to a pc. Discover the total particulars in our protection right here.

Apple and Johnson & Johnson are teaming up to conduct a brand new well being research to find out if the iPhone and Apple Watch can cut back the chance of stroke. The research might be carried out over three years together with two years of engagement and one yr of information assortment. It’s the newest instance of the Apple Watch getting used to analysis research.

A brand new report this week urged that the iPhone 12 might feature support for the 802.11ay standard. 802.11ay makes use of 60GHz spectrum to supply high-bandwidth device-to-device knowledge switch. It might enhance iPhone-to-iPhone knowledge transfers, akin to by way of AirDrop, but it surely might produce other implications as properly.

Final however not least, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo issued a new investor observe this week wherein he predicted that Apple’s first Mac with a processor designed in home is about to be launched throughout the first half of 2021. Which means that Apple’s first ARM Mac could possibly be coming as quickly as subsequent yr, however different particulars stay unknown as of proper now.

These and the remainder of this week’s high tales beneath.

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iPhone |

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High Apple tales, retail |

Apps |

HomeKit |

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