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Apple is not entirely guaranteed that the update would fix the unresponsive issue on the iPad Pro.

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It is a big day for Apple and an even bigger (or should we say hectic) day for Apple fans as the company has pushed out a number of updates not just for its iPhone, but the Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac computers as well. The risk of an HSTS bypass is that a site that should only be available over SSL/TLS is accessible over a nonencrypted connection, where an attacker could easily view a user’s data traffic.

A total of 54 security flaws were patched with the 10.11.2 update for Apple’s OS X desktop operating system; the update for OS X incorporates security patches for components shared with iOS. The CVE-2015-7015 vulnerability in Apple’s CoreGraphics library impacts both iOS and OS X and was reported by security researcher John Villamil of the Yahoo Pentest Team.

iOS 9.2 also fixes an issue where Live Photos could have gotten turned off after restoring from an iCloud Library backup. To do so, you will need to tap the dedicated iCloud button. Apple did eventually update its support document with a message that noted, “iOS 9.2 or later might prevent this issue from occurring in the future”. PanGu is said to be working on a more permanent and stable solution for the users of iOS 9.1, while some believe that they may already be working on an iOS 9.2 jailbreak that will feature backward compatiblilty with the iOS 9.1 firmware. The files do not count against users’ iCloud storage quotas, but the attachments stored in iCloud expire after 30 days. With 3D Touch support for iBooks, you can now peek and pop up pages from your notes, bookmarks, table of contents or also from search results within a book.

Apps of the year for the iPad were also announced, with The Robot Factory taking app of the year, and Prune winning Game of the Year. Apple Music also did some restructuring to its platform, allowing users to begin creating playlists immediately after selecting a song, as well as bringing the most recently changed playlists to the top of the streaming service.

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The new update to iOS 9, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, allows users to improve their music playlists, save songs offline and browse Classical music.

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