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What we can expect from Apple in the upcoming year Wow. What a year it’s been for Apple. The iPad Pro, Apple Pay, Apple Music, Beats 1 and, of course, the Apple Watch, have given us plenty to talk about over the past 12 months – and these releases do more than just hint at what might be coming up in 2016. Apple Watch Apple hasn’t exactly bet the farm on its Watch. It was launched with appropriate fanfare, but the company’s played it slow and sure since then. In store display areas are discreet, and overshadowed by its longer-established lines. Perhaps it realises that a fair few of us are waiting for the first revision. Expect that to come in 2016 – around April, when the original model will be 12 months old. If anything appears between now and then it’s likely to be another big-brand collaboration, like the one it rolled out with Hermes back in September. Jumping in bed with a sports brand like Nike – with whom Apple has worked before – would be a logical fit, and...

New mode will let you lock out personal information If you carry around sensitive information on your iPhone, you could soon have one less reason to panic. Apple has filed a patent to activate ‘panic mode’ when unlocking your iPhone using a designated finger. Once your iPhone is unlocked using the secret panic mode method, the device would automatically limit access to personal information, reset the device altogether or activate preset actions. Since Touch ID can register several different fingerprints, the patent suggests that iPhone users could designate a specific fingerprint to unlock the iPhone in ‘panic mode’. This would then make your left thumb your secret ‘panic finger’. According to the patent, using this finger would alert your iPhone you are in distress or in an emergency situation, and your phone would respond accordingly. Panic mode would give iPhone users a new range of security settings when forced to unlock their devices using Touch ID. For exampl...