This week on the podcast: Myke is away, so Stephen and Federico are relaunching every shirt from the show’s archives. Then, the guys talk through iOS 18.4 and Ticci’s new WiFi. Lastly, Stephen chats with Connected headphone expert Merri about her new Powerbeats Pro 2. It’s always … | Continue reading
John Siracusa has a new Mac app out today that can scan your drive and reclaim space taken up by duplicate files. It works atop some cover features of APFS, and has an excellent icon. In the app’s documentation, he writes: Hyperspace searches for files with identical contents wit … | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. … | Continue reading
Start Monday off right: with some beige upgrades. | Continue reading
This week on MPU, David and I talk about failed purchase migrations, talk more about notifications, experience the power of old-school blogging, and discuss something new in the Sparks driveway. | Continue reading
Earlier this month, the UK government demanded access to encrypted data stored on Apple servers. This demand was worldwide in scope, and would have required Apple building a backdoor into its encryption scheme for iCloud and related services. Today, Apple has responded by announc … | Continue reading
I just hope DOGE doesn’t find the machine. | Continue reading
Stephen Nellis at Reuters, writing about Apple’s new cell modem: The C1 subsystem is the most complex technology Apple has ever built, with a baseband modem manufactured with advanced 4-nanometer chipmaking technology and a transceiver made with 7-nanometer technology, Johny Srou … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: There’s a new iPhone in town. It’s not what you think… Beyond the new 16e, the guys discuss the end of Humane, the future of Siri, and quite a bit of feedback. | Continue reading
As predicted, there is a new iPhone out today; the iPhone 16e is here: Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price. iPhone 16e delivers fast, smooth performance and breakthrough battery life … | Continue reading
Casey Liss: Since shortly after Callsheet was released, my #1 request from my users has been the same thing: pins are great, but can we have multiple lists of pins? Today is the day. Over the last few days, Callsheet 2025.2 has been quietly rolling out to users. While there is a … | Continue reading
Jay Peters, writing at The Verge: Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a su … | Continue reading
Unite 5 for macOS takes your web experience to the next level, transforming websites into feature-rich Mac apps. Powered by a completely redesigned WebKit browser, Unite 5 offers a more immersive and customizable browsing experience. What sets Unite 5 apart? We’ve gone beyond jus … | Continue reading
On this episode of the show: Michael Hyatt returns to talk with Stephen and David about the various tools in ChatGPT, including the ability to build custom GPTs. Michael also shares some of his other favorite AI-powered tools and some of his concerns about the future of AI. | Continue reading
Chris Welch at The Verge: Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming giant has confirmed that’s exactly the case. Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has t … | Continue reading
I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about Apple Account purchase migration over the last couple of days, and I suspect Apple’s support folks have too. To help clarify things, Apple has updated its documentation, as spotted by Zac Hall. Apple has expanded things to look at if you’r … | Continue reading
On today’s episode of Under the Radar, Underscore and Marco put into words something I’ve been struggling with for a while. The whole thing is spot-on. | Continue reading
Tim Cook, on X: Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch Is this an M4 MacBook Air, or as John Gruber suggests, a total revamp of the iPhone SE? Something else? Speaking of Gruber, don’t miss his post on Apple’s ads popping up on X a … | Continue reading
This week on the world’s greatest podcast: Stephen thinks he deserves a new title for changing the world, Stephen has a new page on his blog, and Stephen ordered Merri some new headphones. Also: Federico has a theory and Myke is in a new group chat. [On Connected Pro,] I uncover … | Continue reading
Aisling Mäki, with some much-needed good news: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has partnered with the World Health Organization to distribute life-saving cancer medicines to children in countries with lower pediatric cancer survival rates. The partners first announced the G … | Continue reading
At the urging of David Sparks, there’s a new page up on 512 Pixels. I intend to update it a couple of times a month. | Continue reading
Apple Support, in a new article dated today: If an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated to a primary Apple Account to consolidate them. Connected listeners will know I recently went through an ordeal with my setup because I was not usin … | Continue reading
After months of rumors, Apple has released a new version of its Powerbeats Pro earbuds. My wife Merri is a huge user of the original Powerbeats and when I told her new ones were coming, she did something very unusual — she asked me to order her a pair on launch day. So we’ve got … | Continue reading
I opened Logic earlier today to edit an interview for Relay members, and was presented with this ad for the iPad version of the app: Gross. | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. … | Continue reading
🚨 Breaking News: On this episode, David and Stephen dive into Apple’s vast sea of notification settings. They also cover best practices and where Apple has gotten things wrong. Open this alert to hear more! 🚨 | Continue reading
This blog post by Doug Brown blew my mind a little: This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a crash and sav … | Continue reading
This was an article sent to 512 Pixels members last month. Learn more about membership here. At the end of every year, I publish a photo on Instagram cataloging the Field Notes notebooks I used over the previous 12 months. This was this year’s picture: Every year, I get questions … | Continue reading
This week on the show: The guys reflect on the Vision Pro’s first year and then talk about things that matter more, like the recent resurgence of read-it-later apps and Apple’s new Invites app. | Continue reading
Apple has a new iPhone app in the App Store for creating custom invitations to events and managing guests. Invitations include the date and time of the event, location, a preview of the weather, and yes, you can use Image Playgrounds to create artwork for the event: From the app … | Continue reading
Jason Snell is back at it, for the 10th annual report card: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. … | Continue reading
This week on MPU: Stephen and David have been using Apple’s AI features since they showed up in betas last year. Today, they share their findings and talk about what’s worth your time — and what’s not — when it comes to Apple Intelligence. | Continue reading
Jason Snell: Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter of 2025, which covers the last three months of 2024. As expected, it was an all-time revenue record at $124.3 billion, up 4% from the year-ago previous recordholder. Probably most notable i … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: Legacy Stephen is back, and Federico has been wired in to the saga of DeepSeek. | Continue reading
John Voorhees, writing at MacStories: Sotheby’s is auctioning the estate of renowned designer Karl Lagerfeld. The auction house, which is auctioning the estate’s assets in multiple lots includes several collections of classic iPods and custom iPods… Just look at some of these thi … | Continue reading
David Pierce, with some news that is going to make some folks very excited. Here he is, writing about Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky: He sold his most recent startup, a messaging app called Beeper, to Automattic last year and left the company in the fall. Since then, he’d thought … | Continue reading
This week on the podcast: David has updated the Productivity Field Guide for 2025. This week, he and Stephen discuss what’s new in the course, what changes he has made to his various production workflows, and more. | Continue reading
I am so happy with how Relay’s brand refresh went. We’ve been working on this for a long time. We even dropped the FM which is something I once swore I would never do, but as soon as we tried it, I knew it had to go. | Continue reading
There’s a new employee on the severed floor. I wonder if the innie or the outie attended Trump’s inauguration earlier this week after helping pay for it. | Continue reading
Colin and Samir host some very interesting interviews on their YouTube channel. They each lost their homes in the L.A. fires and their video talking about it is really tough, but puts a real human voice to the tragedy so many people are facing right now. As expected, a good bit o … | Continue reading
This week on an unhinged episode of Connected: Federico has a new mail client, Myke is concerned about software releases, and Stephen shares a recent interaction with AppleCare’s iCloud support team. On Connected Pro, we designed the Hurleys the perfect iPad for use their baby nu … | Continue reading
MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, or what any of this has to do with everyone’s favorite Apple blog, I’d refer yo … | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – … | Continue reading
This week on Mac Power Users: Our iPhones are always with us, making the Home Screen very valuable real estate in our lives. This week, the guys share their home screens and Focus modes and how their devices help keep them on track. On More Power Users, we talked through our Cont … | Continue reading
Joanna Stern has written about this before, but in her email newsletter this week, she addresses the fact that Apple Intelligence continues to misgender her spouse: Here’s a notification for you, Apple: There is no husband. Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries … | Continue reading
Apple’s “intelligent” notification summaries have been …uhhhhh… making things up as LLMs often do, and after repeated complaints from the likes of the BBC, Apple is changing how they work. Chance Miller has details: Here are the changes included in iOS 18.3 for Apple Intelligence … | Continue reading
I’m pumped about this version of my favorite weather app: Live Activities Now you can opt to have Live Activities start automatically when precipitation is in the area! They’ll be started via a notification about 15 minutes before rain or snow begins, then you’ll continue to rece … | Continue reading