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In 2021, Apple had one billion iPhone users.
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There are 1.65 billion active iPhone devices worldwide.
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In 2021, the company earned approximately $71.6 billion from the sale of iPhones.
The technology industry is constantly changing and more when it comes to starting a new year, As an example, Apple has announced the new functions that will arrive this 2023 for its iPhone.
According to the company’s 2021 figures, Apple has one billion iPhone users. So this figure is similar to the installed base, which is different from the number of iPhones sold to date.
From 2007 to the end of 2018, when Apple stopped reporting the number of units sold, 1,468 million iPhones have been sold. The current figure will be around 2 billion units.
In this sense, and among its data shared in its annual reports, the brand founded by Steve Jobs highlights that America is its largest regional market, with net sales of US$51.5 billion in the company’s first quarter of fiscal 2022.
These are the new functions of the iPhone
It was learned that Apple’s iOS operating system will have several changes to deliver new features, where even the version of iOS that is active (16.2) will give way to iOS 16.3 and iOS 16.4 until the arrival of the new iOS 17 operating system together to the next generation of devices with iPhone 15.
Among the releases for Apple smartphones are pop-up notifications from the web, where users can keep track of the services offered by the web pages that allow them to use these alerts on their devices, just like any other app.
In this sense, the Safari application would also present new functions that will reach users in the following months and before the launch of the new operating system, such as groups of tabs in the browser, additional extensions, among others.
The next feature is Apple Pay Later, which is part of an enhancement to Apple’s virtual wallet feature, Therefore, the “pay later” function will be added, which will allow qualified users to make purchases and divide their payments equally up to the next six weeks after the purchase is made.
This function will be able to offer this service without the need to charge commissions or interest, according to the macrumors website, which also maintains that payments made in online purchases will be included, either through web pages or in applications within an iPhone or iPad .
The third tool is emergency SOS via satellite in more countries, which one of the functions of the iPhone 14 that allows people to use a satellite connection in case of accidents to ask for help through a system of short text messages, will have a new extension that will enable it in more countries in addition to those already known as the United States and Canada.
And finally there is the security keys for Apple ID, which a function directed to further strengthen the verification of the identity of users, in addition to the double authentication factor for users, could arrive in the first months of 2023 to all users. apple devices. In that sense, with this feature, unlocking people’s Apple ID will require an additional device that must be configured as an access “key”.
And this is how technology companies continue to work to improve the experience and services that they provide to their users every day, since devices and the digital world have become a world widely used by everyone globally.
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