Which Apple Watch faces we use, our feelings on Apple tying the new iPhone to AI features, where we get our phone wallpapers, and how we’re using the Action button.… | Continue reading
When the EU enacted GDPR in 2018, executives and security professionals waited anxiously to see how the law would be enforced. And then they kept waiting…and waiting…but the Great European Privacy Crackdown never came.… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke share their first thoughts about the iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10, live and in person!… | Continue reading
My thanks to StopTheMadness Pro for sponsoring Six Colors this week. (Big week!) StopTheMadnessPro is a major upgrade to the beloved Safari extension StopTheMadness that stops website annoyances and privacy violations.… | Continue reading
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the green room at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, getting ready to start this year’s 12-hour podcast telethon in support of St.… | Continue reading
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Mediterranean, the European Commission and the DMA are back: Today, the European Commission has started two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets … | Continue reading
The Verge’s Victoria Song writes the only black Apple Watch Ultra 2 review you need: This is the Apple Watch Batman would buy. Never mind that it’s a mini brick on my wrists. … | Continue reading
Our view on Instagram’s new “Teen Accounts” and their direction, thoughts on Qi2, charging speeds, and MagSafe, our favorite new feature in Apple’s latest platform updates, and the update we like least or will need time to adapt to.… | Continue reading
10 years! Of this?… | Continue reading
Independent journalist Tim Culpan reports that TSMC, Apple’s Taiwan-based chipmaking partner, is now producing A16 chips at its new fab in Arizona: TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in production, and Apple is ready to be the first cab off the rank with mobile processors made us … | Continue reading
Here at Six Colors, we dropped our iOS, iPadOS, and macOS reviews, along with a piece about Photos, on Monday. Our good colleagues at MacStories are also busy releasing stuff that’s worth your time: Federico Viticci on iOS 18 John Voorhees on macOS Sequoia Jonathan Reed on watchO … | Continue reading
Will Carroll re-joins for a mega Sports Corner episode. We discuss the power of the NFL and the future of highlights. [Downstream+ subscribers also get: sports rights, Diamond bankruptcy, Venu doom, and tangents.]… | Continue reading
All of Apple’s new operating systems are here, and we discuss our favorite new features—and acknowledge the elephant waiting in the wings. We also spend a little time celebrating the tenth birthday of both Upgrade and Six Colors.… | Continue reading
Left to right: The new initial Photos view, which combines the Library (top) and Collections (bottom); the new Collections area provides ample opportunity for discovery; each Collection comes with a Movie and a curated selection of photos. … | Continue reading
Perhaps more than any of Apple’s other operating systems, iOS is about balance. For many people, their iPhone is their primary computer—in some cases, their only computer.… | Continue reading
Handwritten notes can now be edited, copied and pasted, and more (left). Writing out math equations is easy (right). This year, there’s good news on the iPadOS front: A bunch of features that in recent years might have been limited to iOS are also available in iPadOS 18!… | Continue reading
When I go to concerts, I always feel bad for the opening acts. No matter how good they are, no matter how hard they try, they’re just not the reason the audience is there.… | Continue reading
StopTheMadness Pro is a major upgrade to StopTheMadness, the beloved Safari extension for iOS and macOS that stops website annoyances and privacy violations. When websites try to block your copy and paste, block your contextual menu, block your keyboard shortcuts, play videos wit … | Continue reading
The Verge’s Emma Roth reports: Apple’s new sleep apnea detection feature has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration — and Watch Series 9 or Watch Ultra 2 owners can use it starting today. … | Continue reading
Flying home. Taken with an iPhone 6, a few hours before Six Colors launched. Ten years sure seems like a long time. Ten years ago the iPhone got physically big for the first time.… | Continue reading
Matt Birchler ran a lot of battery tests and found that the conventional wisdom that Chrome kills Mac battery life just doesn’t hold up: Using Chrome would leave you with 54% of your battery remaining, and Safari would leave you with about 50% left in the tank. … | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. This is something like what IT and security professionals feel when a software vendor hits them with an outrageous premium for Single Sign-On (SSO), o … | Continue reading
The iPhone Pro and the Apple Watch get bigger.… | Continue reading
When Apple says it expects regulators to approve something soon, it means soon. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid software device, Hearing Aid Feature, intended to be used with compatible versions of the Apple Air … | Continue reading
How we open our phone cameras, our post-Apple event spending plans, whether we want a robotic smart speaker, and what a new iPhone button of our dreams would do.… | Continue reading
The BBC’s Charlotte Edwards and Theo Leggett on the European Court of Justice’s ruling in a long gestating case about Apple paying (or not paying) taxes in Ireland: The original decision covered the period from 1991 to 2014, and related to the way in which profits generated by tw … | Continue reading
I’m just back from Cupertino and a morning spent at Apple Park, including a visit to the Steve Jobs Theater. You didn’t get to see it, but we were greeted by Tim Cook, who came out on stage to say “Good Morning” at least six times (!)… | Continue reading
From the iPhone 16 to the Apple Watch Series 10 to the AirPods 4 to the other AirPods 4, and with the release of Apple Intelligence hanging over it all, we break down the announcements from the September Apple Event.… | Continue reading
Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class.… | Continue reading
Larry Ellison’s ownership of Paramount and what it might mean for CBS News; why Netflix and Apple just don’t get movies; Hallmark’s new streaming service; the rise of Tubi and FAST; and streaming’s lack of curation.… | Continue reading
In the old days, we knew about what Apple would do so far in advance, they’d print it and mail it out and it would still be breaking news. … | Continue reading
Baby’s first AI usage.… | Continue reading
Our preferred external storage solutions, favorite collaboration tools, motivations for smartphone upgrades, and thoughts on the potential for a Skynet-level AI scenario in our lifetime.… | Continue reading
Dan wrote last week about how reports that Apple had laid off 100 people in the Books group. The news seemed to strike most observers as a regrettable, but understandable business decision.… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke preview what will happen at next week’s Apple event. What new features will the new iPhones have? How will the Apple Watch transform?… | Continue reading
Wired‘s Kate Knibbs reports that many major publishers are blocking Applebot-Extended, the company’s crawler bot that helps train Apple Intelligence: WIRED can confirm that Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Vox Media, … | Continue reading
AppleVis won’t shut down August 31 as announced earlier this summer. The highly-regarded site, which provides news, community forums and a directory of accessible apps aimed at blind and visually impaired Apple users, has been acquired by Be My Eyes, which plans a September relau … | Continue reading
Jason talks to Stephen Hackett about his recent deep dive into the world of the Macintosh Performa line, which was sold from 1992 to 1997. Over that time period, nearly 50 models were sold wearing the name.… | Continue reading
Introducing the Rebound Fellow program.… | Continue reading
How we purchase and read e-books, pet tech we’ve tried, our favorite accessibility features, and the tech features we’d add or remove with our magic wands.… | Continue reading
The next chapter of Apple Books’s life is looking a little bleak. In a report at Bloomberg (paywalled, naturally), Mark Gurman says that the company has laid off about a hundred people, primarily in the team behind Apple Books and the Apple Bookstore.… | Continue reading
Finn Voorhees broke his iPhone screen and Apple fixed it. All of a sudden he was banned from Snapchat: After restoring from a backup and beginning to log back into all my accounts, I encountered an unexpected problem. … | Continue reading
Almost nobody who follows Apple for its products (rather than its stock performance) will care, but the company announced on Monday that longtime CFO Luca Maestri is ascending to godhood, er, leaving his job as CFO to become something different: Chief Financial Officer Luca Maest … | Continue reading
It’s time once again for the biggest event in Apple’s calendar. Apple on Monday announced a special event kicking off at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern on Monday, September 9.… | Continue reading
We bring the Summer of Fun to a close with our opinionated rating of 60 different Apple app icons.… | Continue reading
Nellie Andreeva and Peter White reporting for Deadline: Ted Lasso fans, this is not a drill. In a major step toward the long-awaited fourth season of Apple TV+’s hugely popular soccer comedy, the series’ studio Warner Bros. … | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. The folks at 1Password recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco and were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems.… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Sarah Jeong on the Google Pixel 9’s new “Magic Editor” generative AI feature, and the future it will deliver: Even before AI, those of us in the media had been working in a defensive crouch, scrutinizing the details and provenance of every image, vetting for misleadin … | Continue reading