Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on f… | Continue reading
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite line is a little more appealing on the outside. The ebook giant has released two new model of its most popular… | Continue reading
Earlier this year, I lauded the return of one of my favorite Safari extensions, Arne Martin Aurlien’s Safari Keyword Search. Now that extension has been updated to version 2.0 and is embarkin… | Continue reading
iOS 15 is here and Myke and Jason share their opinions about new features! Also we’ve got a lot of Apple Event follow-up, and now that Ted Lasso has won eight Emmy Awards, it’s time to … | Continue reading
[This story contains material from the forthcoming update to my book “Take Control of Photos, Second Edition.” If you’d like a deep dive into every feature in the Photos app for M… | Continue reading
Widgets can be placed anywhere, not just in the left column. And I’ve reduced my home screen to a single page thanks to the addition of App Library. I’ve spent the last three months usi… | Continue reading
What is there to say about an operating system fifteen years after release? Fifteen years after the classic Mac OS was released, it was just two years away from its successor, Mac OS X, coming on t… | Continue reading
My thanks to Daylite, the award-winning CRM and productivity app made for Mac-based small businesses, for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Daylite seamlessly integrates with Apple devices–not… | Continue reading
A new home is a blank slate: an opportunity to start over, to hopefully do things better this time—and probably, ultimately, to end up with the same mess as always. But in this era of smart home te… | Continue reading
Dan bought a new iPhone. Jason wants to buy a new Apple Watch. An iPad pricing conundrum. And to those who dream of a unified Apple color system, keep watching the starlight. | Continue reading
AppleInsider reports that Geekbench users are uploading scores for the iPhone 13 that show a 10 percent increase over the iPhone 12 in single-core performance, and a 21 percent increase in multi-co… | Continue reading
Dylan Patel, in a post with a laughably doom-and-gloom headline that nevertheless makes some interesting points about Apple’s chipmaking division and the A15 processor: It appears Apple has n… | Continue reading
We’re feeling blue. By which we mean the blue shade of the new iPhones. | Continue reading
The last time we used the full capabilities of the iPhone’s video camera, the Apple products we still want to see this year, whether we’re tempted by the Apple Watch Series 7, and all t… | Continue reading
Good morning! (Photo: Apple) Dan’s got the quick reactions to Tuesday’s Apple event covered, but I had a few notes left on the cutting-room floor that I wanted to get out before shiftin… | Continue reading
As a subscriber to the iPhone Upgrade Program for lo these many years, I’ve been glad to see that Apple has streamlined the process year after year. What once required you to go into a store … | Continue reading
Apple announced new iPhones, Apple Watches and iPads on Tuesday, and this is our quick reaction to the news. What color is the saddest rainbow? Why was Joz locked out of Apple Park one night? Why i… | Continue reading
Sure seems like Apple’s got the whole “slickly produced video” thing down to a science, doesn’t it? As expected, today’s event saw the wraps taken off the new iPhone 1… | Continue reading
Apple released a bunch of software updates Monday to counteract dangerous security vulnerabilities in its operating systems. Ivan Krstic, head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture wrote: … | Continue reading
This week, Six Colors is being sponsored by Daylite, the award-winning CRM and productivity app made for Mac-based small businesses. Daylite is the only CRM and productivity app that seamlessly int… | Continue reading
If you can read only one legal analysis about the ruling in the Epic-Apple lawsuit, let it be John Voorhees’s at MacStories: While the decision is undeniably a win for Apple in many respects,… | Continue reading
It’s another emergency draft! In this bonus episode, Jason and Myke predict what will happen at Tuesday’s Apple media event. What form will the new iPhones take? Will a new Apple Watch make a… | Continue reading
On Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued her judgment and counter-judgment on Epic Games’s lawsuit against Apple. The result largely favors Apple, to the extent that Apple released a st… | Continue reading
Breaking Apple legal news, and what we’re excited about for next week’s Apple event. | Continue reading
Marvel has revamped its Unlimited app, and The Verge’s Chaim Gartenberg has the details. One big part of the push are “Infinity Comics”, which are designed vertically, to be scrol… | Continue reading
What will Apple announce next week? I guess we’ll find out next week, because we don’t know. | Continue reading
Daniel A. Gross, writing for The New Yorker: The high prices of e-book rights could become untenable for libraries in the long run, according to several librarians and advocates I spoke to—librarie… | Continue reading
How we’d upgrade our tech setups if we had the space, the tech parts of our emergency preparedness plans, our thoughts on cashierless “just walk out” stores, and whether we would … | Continue reading
Tim Cook reportedly wants to usher in one more new product category before retiring. Here, he can be seen practicing hailing a driverless cab. (Or just greeting a keynote audience. Your call.) For … | Continue reading
It’s official: Apple’s next product-launch event will come on Tuesday, September 14 at 10 a.m. Pacific. Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak announced it on Twitter and the emailed invita… | Continue reading
As Jason and Myke wait for the announcement of an iPhone launch event, they discuss Apple’s curious set of incremental changes to App Store policies, what those changes mean, and how they inf… | Continue reading
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