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This week’s top stories: MacBook Pro throttling, new emoji coming to iOS, 5K wallpaper gallery, more

Chance Miller | Jul 21 2018 - 6:36 am PT

In this week’s top stories: Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro has a thermal throttling problem, new emoji coming to iOS later this year, Bluetooth 5.0 explained, and much more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news…

Last week, Apple made a surprise announcement of brand new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models, including a top of the line Intel Core i9 option. This week, however, early testing has shed light on how the 15-inch MacBook Pro struggles to handle the heat generated by the new processor, resulting in significant performance throttling.

The issue was first brought to light by a YouTube video from David Lee, who noted severe throttling while exporting a video with Adobe Premiere. Then, our own Jeff Benjamin found similar results when using Apple’s own Final Cut Pro.

Meanwhile, Apple celebrated World Emoji Day this week in full force. The company unveiled over 70 new emoji coming to iOS and Mac this fall, including red hair, superheroes, and lobsters. The company also gave its Leadership webpage a Memoji themed overhaul in celebration of the big day.

In iOS news, Apple released the fourth developer beta of iOS 12 this week, as well as the third public beta. Additionally, a handy Reddit user provided us with some stunning 5K wallpapers directly from the demo iPad Pro models in Apple Stores.

We also have a bit of positive MacBook Pro with Touch Bar news. Early reviews of the new models started to come out this week, and they were overwhelming positive. Reviewers praised the new True Town display, as well as huge improvements in speed. Our full review roundup is here.

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This week’s top video |

Happy Hour Podcast #182 |

This week Benjamin and Zac discuss the newly announced 2018 MacBook Pro hardware upgrades, higher RAM and SSD storage upgrades, Apple’s T2 chip in the iMac Pro and MacBook Pro, Hey Siri and True Tone, iFixit’s keyboard discovery, the 6-core i9 thermal throttling issue, the state of HomeKit doorbell cameras, and the latest changes in iOS 12, watchOS 5, and macOS Mojave betas.

9to5Mac Happy Hour is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

9to5Mac Daily |

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

Making The Grade |

Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying and managing 100s of Macs and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple’s products work at scale, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for students.