It is one of the world's most popular messaging apps, used by more than two billion people around the globe. But within days, WhatsApp will stop working on three popular phones that are used by millions. From May 5, anyone still using a trio of Apple devices will no longer be able to send or receive messages on the app. After this date, only devices running the iOS 15.1 operating system or newer will be supported. The affected devices are the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 Plus.

A Few months back, the student in class captured the image of the notes made by the other student in front of him and used iOS 15's recent text-recognition feature to highlight text, and copy and paste it into his notes. This instance was tweeted by @juanbuis, who shared the video of a student making the most of iOS 15's Live Text OCR feature. This cool OCR or Optical Character Recognition feature that the above student opts for is generally used to pull up the information from the text or documents and then convert it into the machine's language. Recently, the popular app developer Alessandro Paluzzi has also seen that Twitter is working on an OCR (optical character recognition) feature for the description of alt text. In his tweet, Alessandro Paluzzi shared the demonstration of how this twitter feature will function through a short video. At Dwarf AI we too want to make this super cool technology to be easily accessible by other businesses.

The iOS 15.6 launch comes just a few months before Apple's iOS 16 is set to be released – which typically happens in the fall. The tech giant is adding'automatic verification' with its upcoming iOS 16 that lets users to pass annoying CAPTCHAs CAPTCHAs – that's'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart' – are these are the tests that ask you to select objects from a group of pictures Users can customize the lock screen by pressing and holding to bring up a selection of widgets, each showing a different photo, and swiping to the one they fancy. With the new lockscreen, notifications have been moved to the bottom of the screen, meaning they no longer cover the entirety of the display. They also now roll in from the bottom of the lock screen, and iPhone users can choose to hide them and look at them later. Information displayed on the lockscreen, such as time and date, also appear behind the subject in a photo rather than in front – meaning display info won't obscure the beloved lockscreen photo of your family member. Another feature that is set for iOS 16 is the ability to bypass the annoying CAPTCHAs that make users prove they are in fact human and not a robot. CAPTCHAs – that's'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart' – are these are the tests that ask you to select objects from a group of pictures. The tech giant is adding'automatic verification' with its upcoming iOS 16, set to launch this fall, which automatically and privately verifies the device in use and its Apple ID account in the background.

Right when mask mandates are lifting around the country. Still, the pandemic isn't over, and wearing a mask in public can help prevent the spread of Covid-19 (you should get vaccinated, boosted, and tested regularly too). Unfortunately, this new Apple feature (enabled via iOS 15.4) is only available for anyone with an iPhone 12 or later. With the feature turned on, you no longer have to take your face mask off for Face ID to work or resort to typing in your PIN. Here, we walk you through how to set it up--and alternate methods for anyone using an older iPhone.

Apple has finally rolled out its much-anticipated iOS 15.4 update, allowing iPhone users to unlock their smartphone while wearing a mask. The update also includes 37 new emoji, including a pregnant man, a motorcycle tyre, a slide, a disco ball, a troll with a club, coral, kidney beans and a low battery. There's also a new'gender neutral' voice for its smart assistant Siri, called Quinn, recorded by a member of the LGBTQ community. 'iOS 15.4 offers the ability to use Face ID while wearing a mask, a new Siri voice option, expanded language support for Visual Lookup, new emoji, and much more,' Apple said. Here's a look at the key features in iOS 15.4, which is available now on the iPhone 16s or later.

Apple has begun rolling out iOS 15.4. The highly anticipated update adds a handful of features many iPhone users have been waiting to try out since the company first began testing them back in January. Among the most notable is the option to unlock your device while wearing a mask, making it so that you don't need an Apple Watch to unlock your phone without removing a face covering or inputting your passcode. Once you've installed iOS 15.4, you'll need to activate it manually in the Face ID and Passcode section of the Settings menu. Apple has also released iPadOS 15.4. It introduces another highly anticipated feature: Universal Control.

Apple has quietly confirmed that the much-anticipated rollout of its iOS 15.4 update is coming sometime next week. It also includes 37 new emoji, including a pregnant man, a motorcycle tyre, a slide, a disco ball, a troll with a club, coral, kidney beans and a low battery. There's also a new'gender neutral' voice for its smart assistant Siri, called Quinn, recorded by a member of the LGBTQ community. Apple's confirmation follows the unveiling of new products on Tuesday, including the third generation phone in its'budget' iPhone SE line, starting at £419 ($429). Since the start of the pandemic, getting Face ID to automatically recognise our face to unlock our iPhones has been a bugbear as we've had masks over our faces.

Apple has confirmed it will roll out iOS 15.4 next week. One especially useful feature that'll hit iPhones in the coming days is another way to unlock your device with Face ID while wearing a mask. You'll no longer need an Apple Watch to unlock your phone without removing your mask or punching in your passcode. Apple has been testing the feature in public betas since January. You'll need to activate it manually in the Face ID & Passcode section of Settings.

Apple has developed a new Siri voice, now available in the beta versions of its iOS 15.4 software, that doesn't sound obviously male or female. The decision to introduce a gender-neutral voice is one that sees the tech giant taking yet another step away from the criticism that, historically, digital assistants have reinforced unfair gender stereotypes. Over the years, industry observers and experts argued how the creation of voice assistants with female-sounding names -- like Alexa, Siri and Cortana -- which also speak with female-sounding voices, implied that women should be the ones to do your bidding at any time and even take your abuse. A U.N. study additionally called out the female voiced-assistants and their submissive and sometimes even flirty and coy styles. More problematically, the decision to make so many of the virtual assistants female by default was likely driven by a lack of diversity in the teams responsible for building our everyday technology.

While Siri is best known for its original, female voice, users will soon be able to opt for a new'gender-neutral' voice, called Quinn. Apple is launching the new voice in its next iOS update, which was released to developers this week. The tech giant has confirmed that the new voice was recorded by a member of the LGBTQ community, but did not offer any further details. 'We're excited to introduce a new Siri voice for English speakers, giving users more options to choose a voice that speaks to them,' Apple told Axios. While Siri is best known for its original, female voice, users will soon be able to opt for a new'gender-neutral' voice, called Quinn. While the new voice is simply called'Voice 5' on the iPhone, its filename refers to the voice as Quinn, according to iOS developer Steve Moser.