Associate Editor
Jacob Siegal is Associate Editor at BGR, having joined the news team in 2013. He has over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, and helps to lead our technology and entertainment product launch and movie release coverage.
After months of beta testing, iOS 16 finally launches today on iPhones all around the world. iPhone owners typically update their devices whenever a new update arrives, but in case you need any extra convincing, we decided to put together a list of the best reasons to update to iOS 16 as soon as it …
As Apple announced last week at the iPhone 14 event, iOS 16 is now available to download. The update rolled out to the public on Monday, September 12, bringing a fresh coat of paint to Apple’s mobile OS ahead of the iPhone 14 launch on Friday. As long as you have a compatible device, you …
If you didn’t follow the leaks ahead of Apple’s event, you probably weren’t prepared for just how different the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro turned out to be. In years past, the iPhone 14 probably would have been called the iPhone 13S. The iPhone 14 looks identical to the iPhone 13, and even uses …
During its September event earlier this week, Apple revealed that the A16 Bionic chip will be exclusive to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. This was yet another fact that the leaks nailed. Prospective buyers are now likely wondering just how much more powerful the A16 chip is than the A15. …
Three years later, Disney is finally inviting fans back to D23 Expo this weekend. The fan event begins on Friday afternoon and lasts through Sunday, during which time Disney will reveal the future of its biggest franchises. If you want to watch along, look no further, because we’ve embedded the streams for every day below, …
Apple’s AirPods are some of the best wireless headphones on the market, but they are also prohibitively expensive for some consumers. Those consumers might be tempted to turn to third-party retailers for a discount. AirPods are on sale all the time, but depending on where you shop, there’s a chance that you could end up …
If you have been waiting for the right time to try out Disney Plus, this might be the time. In celebration of Disney Plus Day on Thursday, Disney is offering one month of Disney Plus for $1.99. The discount is available for new and returning subscribers, so even if you canceled a subscription previously, you …
Hours after announcing the iPhone 14 on Wednesday, Tim Cook dashed any hope that Apple would bring support for RCS messaging to its devices. At Vox Media’s Code Conference this week, someone in the audience asked Cook how Apple founder Steve Jobs would feel about introducing the RCS standard in iMessage. “I don’t hear our …
Eventually, we hope to stop having to warn Android owners about infected apps that might be on their phones. Unfortunately, today is not that day. Last month, the security firm Fox-IT discovered trojans on Google Play posing as legitimate apps. Google removed the apps, but not before more than 60,000 Android users downloaded them.
Apple rolled out the iOS 16 release candidate (RC) build on Wednesday after the iPhone 14 launch event concluded. Providing it doesn’t contain any major bugs, this will be the final version of the software that developers will receive prior to the public launch. If you’ve been keeping up with Apple news, you know that …
