Leaked Mac screenshots reveal details of Apple’s upcoming news subscription service

As Apple is prepping to launch subscriptions inwards the News app, i developer took too shared a few screenshots showing the upcoming subscription service inwards the News app for Mac.

The images were taken yesteryear developer Steve Troughton-Smith from yesterday’s 5th beta of macOS 10.14.4, revealing a few previously unknown tidbits almost the service. For starters, publication subscriptions inwards the News app could characteristic their ain sections or tabs such every bit Following, For You, History, Magazines, My Magazines, Saved too Subscription.

One tangible create goodness of UIKit on the Mac is that Apple straightaway has the chance to whorl out its novel News journal service on macOS twenty-four sixty minutes menses too engagement alongside the iOS version. I human face forrard to seeing whether they accept wages of that

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) March 12, 2019

We also know that digital magazines volition hold upwards divided into xv categories: Automotive, Business & Finance, Crafts & Hobby, Entertainment, Fashion & Style, Food & Cooking, Health & Fitness, Home & Gardening, Kids & Parenting, Men’s lifestyle, News & Politics, Science & Technology, Sports & Recreation, Travel too Women’s Lifestyle.

You’ll hold upwards notified when novel issues are available.

Next, macOS volition notify subscribers when novel digital issues of their favorite magazines are available. The same notification service was discovered before on iPhone too iPad yesteryear agency of prior iOS 12.2 betas. It seems publication issues tin flame hold upwards stored offline too most of the code is written inwards Apple’s modern Swift programming language, according to Troughton-Smith.

Texture, straightaway owned yesteryear Apple, offered unlimited access to 200+ magazines for $10 per month.

Despite existence called Apple News Magazines, the service volition host digital newspapers, too. Texture, the digital journal app Apple purchased inwards 2018 to serve every bit a footing for its novel service, provided access to 200+ pop magazines inwards the shape of scanned pages or PDF files.

It’s unclear if subscribed publications inwards the News app, traditionally PDF-based on iPad, would instruct reformatted for interactivity too the iOS shape constituent or if Apple News Magazines powerfulness become far alongside PDFs alone to add together optimized formatting too interactivity downwards the road.

Another affair nosotros don’t know nevertheless is whether this’ll hold upwards an all-you-can-eat service.

You’ll shortly hold upwards able to subscribe to digital magazines too newspapers via the News app.

For to a greater extent than or less context, the Texture app used to accuse a apartment monthly fee of 10 bucks inwards central for unlimited access to digital magazines similar People, The New Yorker, Time, National Geographic, Shape, Newsweek too more. Apple’s service may repackage too offering the same content every bit Texture, at the same or a slightly higher/lower price. Another possibility: Apple could permit us alternative too cherry-pick the magazines nosotros desire to subscribe to.

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— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) March 11, 2019

Apple today confirmed it volition hold upwards holding a press termination on March 25, alongside invite graphics suggesting a rigid focus on an upcoming TV subscription service and, quite possibly, journal subscription offerings inwards the News app. We also await other announcements similar next-generation AirPods along alongside an updated budget iPad too a fifth-generation iPad mini.

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