It’s official: As of the latest macOS Monterey beta–version 12.0.1, which makes me wonder if they’ve locked version 12.0 on the new MacBook Pro models and everyone else will jump … | Continue reading
Apple’s Unleashed event wrapped up in under an hour today, and it wasn’t short on news: new MacBook Pros, brand new Apple silicon processors, new colors of HomePods, and, uh, some music… | Continue reading
Apple fans, excited for macOS Monterey? So are we! Daylite is an award-winning CRM and productivity app made exclusively for your Mac, and it’s now Monterey ready! Daylite goes beyond the ess… | Continue reading
One of the most interesting aspects of moving from an apartment you rent to a house you own is the freedom it gives you in terms of what smart home tech you can adopt. There are some things that ju… | Continue reading
Tamara Shopsin’s novel Laserwriter II (MCD) will be published on October 19. It’s a funny and quirky book about ’90s-era Apple products and the people who fix them at New York Cit… | Continue reading
Almost every year since 2007, I’ve gotten a new iPhone.1 Some years promise big improvements over the past—others are more incremental. But 14 years into the iPhone’s life, those big up… | Continue reading
Surprise! Jason and Myke predict what will happen at next week’s Apple media event. What ports will be on the much-rumored MacBook Pro? Will it appear in familiar colors, or will Apple branch… | Continue reading
MacBook Pros; Shortcuts and other betas. | Continue reading
How we share passwords, a subscription service we wish we could give up, our external storage setup, and the tech we once wrongly dismissed. | Continue reading
I know a lot of people who have been monitoring the progress of macOS Monterey and hoping that there might be more changes in store to the Safari interface before the final version ships, possibly … | Continue reading
There’s an Apple event next week! So naturally we spend time talking about writing apps instead. | Continue reading
David Smith is a prolific app developer, and has created several popular apps focused on the Apple Watch. And yet when it came time for him to take an extended backpacking adventure outdoors, he ch… | Continue reading
It’s official: there will be another Apple media event this fall, and it’s Monday, Oct. 18 at 10 Pacific. New MacBook Pro models are likely to be the star of the show. We’ll have … | Continue reading
Left to right: Kobo Libra H2O, Kindle Oasis, iPad mini, Boox Nova Air. Many years ago, the Internet handed around an old Radio Shack newspaper ad and pointed out that the smartphone could now repla… | Continue reading
Apple Watch Series 7 pre-orders lead to more Apple color confusion, Apple’s App Store rules may need to skate to a puck that’s headed for a courtroom, and Myke takes his iPad mini on a … | Continue reading
Me, back in 2015: Google to iOS users: thanks for using our apps, please enjoy Android UI conventions— Jason Snell (@jsnell) October 8, 2015 Jeff Verkoeyen, staff engineering lead for Google … | Continue reading
Who watches the Apple Watcher? Deep thoughts for a Friday. | Continue reading
Back in August, we passed the 10th anniversary of Tim Cook being named CEO of Apple, and of course, this week marks ten years since the passing of Steve Jobs. A lot of water has gone under the brid… | Continue reading
Many years ago, when I first started writing about Apple on the MacUser blog, one of my first recurring features was a series I called “Under the Gavel”, in which I rounded up legal cha… | Continue reading
Facebook went down, so we spend our time talking about Steve Jobs and the Apple of yesteryear. | Continue reading
“Squid Game” and Netflix’s international strategy, the difference between a hit and a franchise, “Law & Order” and TV network brand extensions, successes and failu… | Continue reading
Our paper document approach, our thoughts on Facebook and whether we think it will change its ways, the single-purpose robot we’d have in our homes, and the rate at which we replace and/or up… | Continue reading
The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini aren’t for everybody. Apple’s higher-end iPhone Pro line offers a high-refresh-rate display and a telephoto camera and a few other features that make th… | Continue reading
Andrei Frumusanu of Ananandtech takes a deep dive into Apple’s new A15 processor: Apple’s initial vague presentation of the new A15 improvements could either have resulted in disappointment, … | Continue reading
The iPhone 13 and iPad mini are out and MacBook Pros may be on the way shortly, so it’s time for us to answer your questions! It’s an extended #askupgrade covering new hardware, how to … | Continue reading
A couple weeks back, while I was in the throes of working on my iOS 15 review, I noticed a weird bug: my phone was no longer responding to “Hey Siri” requests. If I held the home button… | Continue reading
If you’re looking to order an Apple Watch Series 7 after last month’s announcement, mark your calendars: Apple announced on Monday that preorders for its latest smartwatch open this Fri… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media d… | Continue reading
Justin Hamilton: Today, I released a new app called Affirmations. It’s a self-care tool I made that delivers compliments and positive reminders to you. I specifically designed the foundation of the… | Continue reading
Via Merlin Mann and Gabe Weatherhead, I discovered this presentation by Florian Haas about the right and wrong ways to run a distributed workforce: Distributed teams are better than localized teams… | Continue reading
Mimestream is a Mac app reminiscent of Apple Mail, but it uses the Gmail API. I’ve been using Mailplane as my email client for something like a decade. Unfortunately, back in June the makers … | Continue reading
This week Six Colors is sponsored by Boom 3D, immersive audio for everything you listen to on your Mac (or PC). Boom 3D offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media like movies, musi… | Continue reading
Apple has released a quick update for iOS 15: iOS 15.0.1 includes bug fixes for your iPhone including an issue where some users could not unlock iPhone 13 models with Apple Watch. In addition, it f… | Continue reading
iWork updates and new iPhones. | Continue reading
Brandon Katz of The Observer has a good overview of Apple TV’s current subscriber base, how Apple’s strategy of focusing on building a high-quality catalog of originals is going, and wh… | Continue reading
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Team, At Apple, our values are strong. We care about the environment, we look out for workers across our supply chain, and we pride ourselves on creating a welc… | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce Downstream, a new fortnightly podcast I’m co-hosting with Julia Alexander about the future of streaming media. Tech and entertainment companies are vying for our a… | Continue reading
Is Amazon’s new Astro robot cute or menacing? What are our biggest family tech support challenges? How do we revisit our photos? And what do we use for video chatting? | Continue reading
Keynote will let you place live camera (left) and device screen capture (right, Mac only) on slides as standard objects. You’ll need to bring your own device frames, though. On Tuesday Apple … | Continue reading
Myke and Jason review the iPhone 13 and iPad mini, settle on their preferred iPhones, and wonder if Apple should appoint a Color Czar. | Continue reading
Boom 3D for macOS and Windows offers an enhanced audio experience with all kinds of media–movies, music, games, and more. A zero-distortion volume boost, and instant enhancement of ordinary s… | Continue reading
It was 20 years ago that I reviewed Mac OS X 10.1 for Macworld. I remember writing this article under the redwood tree in my backyard–the same place I wrote my iPad mini review earlier this w… | Continue reading
Dan’s waiting for a new iPhone. Jason’s got four, and an iPad mini. We wrote a lot of words this week, so many words that we no longer understand words. | Continue reading
The cameras, they get better every year. When it comes to iPhone upgrades, Apple is incremental. So are iPhone reviews. Those of us who review iPhones are, for understandable reasons, focused on wh… | Continue reading
For power users and people who like to tweak their devices, the arrival of Safari Extensions in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 is a huge step forward. Dan has already written about Safari Keyword Search, whi… | Continue reading
iOS 15 and a surprising amount of discussion about Gandalf. | Continue reading
What size iPad we prefer, our assessment of Apple Arcade two years in, the new iOS 15/iPadOS 15 features we love, and our most recent Apple purchases. | Continue reading
In 2020, Apple sold an iPhone Leather Wallet that attached via MagSafe and held three credit cards. I bought one and have used it for a year, and I like it! But this year, Apple has revised the wal… | Continue reading