Apple Information+ introduces Quartiles, a brand new sport, and Offline Mode for subscribers

Could 13, 2024

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Apple Information+ introduces Quartiles, a brand new authentic spelling sport, and Offline Mode for subscribers

Apple Information+ launched Quartiles, a brand new authentic spelling sport, and a brand new Offline Mode that routinely supplies latest and customized Information content material for subscribers after they’re not related to Wi-Fi or a mobile community. Each options can be found with iOS 17.5 or later for Information+ subscribers.¹

“We’re all the time working to enhance the expertise for our Information+ subscribers,” stated Lauren Kern, editor-in-chief of Apple Information. “Our new day by day phrase sport Quartiles is a enjoyable addition to our in style crossword choices. And Offline Mode makes it simple to entry the lots of of magazines, newspapers, narrated articles, and extra included in a Information+ subscription — irrespective of the place you might be.”

Quartiles challenges gamers to kind phrases by choosing tiles containing two to 4 letters, and customers accumulate factors primarily based on phrase size. New puzzles can be found every day, and gamers also can select to share a Quartiles puzzle with different Information+ subscribers.

Quartiles is the newest addition to the Puzzles assortment out there to Information+ subscribers. With iOS 17, Apple launched a day by day crossword and mini crossword puzzle for Information+ subscribers within the U.S. and Canada. Information+ subscribers also can entry a brand new Puzzles Scoreboard to see customized stats and streaks for every puzzle, together with their remedy fee and their longest streak.

Apple Information+ subscribers can now take pleasure in Offline Mode on iPhone and iPad to routinely obtain High Tales, Apple Information Right this moment audio briefings, full journal points and narrated articles from Information+ publishers, and puzzles to entry later, with out Wi-Fi or a mobile connection. When the gadget is again on-line, downloaded content material will routinely refresh, and downloads will probably be optimized to maximise area on the gadget.

About Apple Information
Apple Information presents thousands and thousands of individuals within the U.S., U.Ok., Canada, and Australia entry to high quality journalism from quite a lot of prime publications, curated by its workforce of editors, and is probably the most used information app within the international locations the place it’s out there. A subscription to Apple Information+ is offered for $12.99 per thirty days and consists of entry to lots of of prime newspapers and magazines, together with The Wall Road Journal, Vogue, The New Yorker, Individuals, The Athletic, and extra; a catalog of narrated audio articles from Apple Information+ publishers, out there to hearken to within the Apple Information and Apple Podcasts apps; and a day by day crossword and mini crossword puzzle created in partnership with The Puzzle Society, and authentic spelling sport Quartiles.

1. Quartiles is offered to Information+ subscribers within the U.S. and Canada.

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