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
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