As relayed by TechCrunch and many other outlets, Apple has announced it’s delaying the release of its CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Media) scanning features. Here’s the statement Apple PR fu… | Continue reading
Apple’s negotiation strategy, and anticipating a September hardware event. | Continue reading
This week’s episode of Upgrade was a “call-in show,” in which we answered audio questions sent in by listeners. I’ve heard from a few people who wondered how we put the show… | Continue reading
Late Wednesday, Apple said that, prompted by an investigation from the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), developers of “reader” apps—a category that Apple has previously defined as pr… | Continue reading
China’s new limit on video games for those under 18, the software features that are gone but not forgotten, Apple Watch exercise accuracy, and our writing on paper vs. typing preferences. | Continue reading
The gang’s back together and it’s an Apple Watch show again. | Continue reading
On iOS, translate an Apple News URL into a real one via Shortcut. A Six Colors subscriber writes: If you have an Apple News link, is there a way to get the internet source link from it? Apple News … | Continue reading
It’s the first-ever Upgrade Call-In Show! This week, Myke and Jason answer listener questions about Apple, themselves… and popular dance steps. Go ahead caller–we’re listeni… | Continue reading
I picked up the Sonos Roam on a whim. As we’ve gotten prepped to move to our new house, I’ve decided to switch up my TV audio setup from my old stereo receiver and bookshelf speakers to… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced it has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening experience with search and browse functionalit… | Continue reading
Great resource from Jim Salter at Ars Technica that runs through the basics of three useful command-line programs: grep, sed, and awk: Trying to read the man pages for the utilities most frequently… | Continue reading
The design of Safari 15 on the iPhone has gone to a better place, but Stephen Hackett reminds us that trouble on the Mac and iPad remain: The ordering of the UI elements at the top of the screen… | Continue reading
Here at Apple, we know how important browsing the web is to our customers. It’s how many of us pay our bills, manage our health care, and attempt to figure out exactly what an ‘updog’ is. So when i… | Continue reading
Ted Lasso, upcoming Macs, and Apple’s gross lobbying efforts. | Continue reading
Whether we see ourselves one day carrying foldable phones, our thoughts on drone and robot delivery, changing the rules of copyright, and designing our own computers. | Continue reading
Apple, in its iOS 15 beta 7 release notes: iCloud Private Relay will be released as a public beta to gather additional feedback and improve website compatibility. (82150385) Essentially, Apple has … | Continue reading
Apple has put TestFlight for Mac into public beta testing. After years on iOS, in June Apple announced that its tool for beta-testing apps would come to the Mac this year. It’s been missing i… | Continue reading
Notes in macOS Monterey includes a lightweight tagging feature. What do you think of when you think of the apps Apple includes with macOS and iOS? Are they too simple, too complex, or just right? D… | Continue reading
This week we kick off our annual fundraising for St. Jude, ask listeners to call in with their questions, and discuss how Apple approaches putting features in–and taking them out–of its… | Continue reading
My thanks to Tempo for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Tempo is an email client with a calming interface, with unique features designed to remove email anxiety and put you in control. Tempo delive… | Continue reading
Dan’s got an Existence Reveal, Apple shows some restraint regarding OS features, and built-in iOS apps get smarter. [We’re taking next week off. The Six Colors Podcast will return Sept.… | Continue reading
Apple has spent a long time moving its operating systems and the apps that run on them closer together. Take a look at Apple-built apps like Music, Photos, Notes, and Reminders and you’ll see… | Continue reading
As someone who wasn’t that familiar with the wildly popular software platform Roblox, this video by People Make Games was incredibly enlightening. It’s a remarkable piece of journalism … | Continue reading
Lex has a list of topics, some of which he even remembers. | Continue reading
A few months ago, I volunteered to be interviewed by Italian student Federico Monaco for his thesis project about Web accessibility for the color-blind. (I am red-green color-blind.) The results of… | Continue reading
Can anonymity online be a good thing? The first smart home device someone should buy. Our technology collection habits. The “technology anachronisms” in our lives. | Continue reading
Ashley Carman at The Verge details a lot of complaints about Apple Podcasts Subscriptions: But in the months since Apple Podcasts’ announcement, podcasters say the platform has failed them in vario… | Continue reading
What does it mean to be a native Mac app in the era of SwiftUI, Catalyst, and Electron? Also: the fallout from Apple’s child-protection announcements, it’s a Ted Lasso Christmas, and ho… | Continue reading
This week Six Colors is being brought to you by Tempo. Tempo is an email client with a calming interface, with unique features that will help remove email anxiety and put you in control. Tempo deli… | Continue reading
If you can’t move the preferences window because it’s fake, you might be running an Electron app like 1Password 8. I’ve used AgileBits’s 1Password for more than a decade. I&… | Continue reading
My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring Six Colors this week. TextSniper is a bit like the Live Text feature that will be rolling out with macOS Monterey, but with fewer limitations–and you ca… | Continue reading
How Apple’s technical ambition and corporate focus on privacy turned into a PR disaster. | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern sat down with Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi in a video interview to talk about the child safety features Apple recently released. Stern do… | Continue reading
If you’re thinking of cutting the cord–or if you’re on one over-the-top TV service and considering alternatives–I highly recommend Suppose, which will let you list all the c… | Continue reading
We answer some member questions before delving into an actual serious issue. | Continue reading
Fubo’s Quad Box interface is great for sports. Though I’ve just cut the cord and dumped traditional cable TV, the truth is, I’m cheating. I’ve subscribed to what’s cal… | Continue reading
The tech we can’t seem to let go of, what annoyances we’d fix with $50, our feelings on smart TVs, and how automated photo-surfacing apps work (or don’t) for us. | Continue reading
There are plenty of whiz-bang features in Apple’s upcoming OS updates, but to my mind, Live Text is the one poised to fundamentally change our interactions with technology. Once upon a time p… | Continue reading
This is a good interview between Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch and Erik Neuenschwander, head of Privacy at Apple, about Apple’s announced child-abuse-related features. A highlight: We have … | Continue reading
Funny and incisive piece from Amanda Mull at The Atlantic about the bad design of the CDC’s vaccine cards: But let’s hold our focus on the most important point of inquiry: What’s the deal wit… | Continue reading
This week Myke and Jason discuss Apple’s child safety announcements. Also, Apple rediscovers its online store, and streaming services keep trying to build new franchises. | Continue reading
TextSniper is a lightning-fast OCR app that can extract text anywhere on your Mac’s screen and automatically save it to your clipboard so that you can paste it into a live document or anywhere you … | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Jim Salter on a novel eavesdropping method devised by security researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: The Cyber@BGU team—consisting of Ben Nassi, Yaron Pirutin, Tom… | Continue reading
Rich Mogull and Glenn Fleishman have a detailed look at Apple’s announcement of multiple software changes involving photos and illegal material: Apple’s announcement headlined these changes a… | Continue reading
A special Thursday edition. Mac Pro, Google’s new chip and phone, and two writers talk about programming. | Continue reading
The return of our pandemic tech setups, our thoughts on Citizen’s premium Protect offering, whether we’ve replaced complicated tech with something less complicated, and how we do — or d… | Continue reading
And I thought they looked good on the outside! Earlier this week, Apple announced a range of new GPU options for the Mac Pro, adding support for AMD’s RDNA2 architecture via its own MPX modul… | Continue reading
Another week, another special guest. James Thomson has a shocking confession that will leave you reeling. | Continue reading