Apple helps College Station Police find owner of stolen iPhone

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Tech company Apple helped College Station police track down the owner of a stolen iPhone earlier this month. Officers arrested William Curtis, 19, last December for selling stolen phones. Police say Curtis admitted to getting the phones from a known burglar in the area. College Station Police subpoenaed Apple for the name associated with one of the phones sold to the ecoATM at Post Oak Mall. Officers used that information to contact the victim earlier this month.

Apple iOS 12.1.3 Continues iPhone Cellular Data Problems

US cellular giant Sprint, which has over 50M subscribers, has warned iPhone X, iPhone XS and iPhone XR owners, in particular, about network issues after Reddit users quickly spotted the connection between upgrading to iOS 12.1.3 and lost connectivity. Disabled WiFi calling and changed cellular data to data only. #nodice" - source"@AppleSupport Ever since I've updated to ios 12.1.3 both mine and my wife's iphone xs max has no cellular signal (No Service) at all." - source"Since updating my #iPhoneXsMax to iOS 12.1.3, I've had nothing but connectivity issues. After all, the rollout of iOS 12.1.2 ultimately impacted users as far apart as Malaysia, Bangalore, Denmark, Colombia, Egypt, India and the Philippines. It is also worth pointing out that iOS 12.1.3 contains no new features.

iFixit selling $30 iPhone battery replacement kits through 2019 after Apple ends discount program for official repairs

as informed in If you can remember what happened a year ago, the BatteryGate furore led Apple to reduce the cost of iPhone battery replacements from $79 to $29. Apple ended the discount at the end of 2018. iFixit today announced that they are not ending their price match and will continue selling their iPhone battery replacement kits for $29.99 through 2019. It transpired that Apple performed 11 million battery replacements, ten times their usual run rate. When Apple dropped its prices last year, iFixit matched them by selling its battery kits for $29.99. Apple currently offers battery replacements for $49 on iPhone SE, 6, 6s, 7, and 8 ($69 for iPhone X, XS and XR).