Tuesday Morning News

IOS 8.1 was released overnight. Apple users in the US get Apple Pay, and everyone gets the Camera Roll back, in addition to the usual miscellaneous bug fixes. ICloud Photo Library and SMS Relay are two of the other headlining features of the release, as covered by MacStories, and 9to5Mac also has a roundup of the changes in iOS 8.1.…


Originally published at: http://appletalk.com.au/2014/10/tuesday-morning-news211014/

Was this attempted on a US account?

Nah, you don’t need a US iTunes account to use Apple Pay. Change the region in Settings and Passbook will let you add credit/debit cards, although you’ll probably find it only works with cards issued by one of the supported banks.

SMS Relay doesn’t need Handoff to work.

Seconded, thirded and fourthed on Pocket Weather.