Apple has just scored a patent that is one of the most simple yet ingenious ideas we’ve seen in a while: a proximity-sensitive volume adjuster on a phone. The patent describes how a number of phone sensors could be used to detect proximity to the user and then adjust volume…
Your Mac or MacBook’s in the next room, and the speakers are still up. You know this because its dings and squawks wake you up. You can silence your Mac from any iOS device in one click with this setup.