iPad mini (2021) review: Small packages

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite line with new backlight, bigger screen

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Safari Keyword Search hits 2.0, comes to iOS

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 372: A Wrestling Match With App Icons

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

What’s new in Photos in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey

[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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iPadOS 15: A closer look

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Review: iOS 15 does a lot with a little

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Daylite

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Rebuilding my smart home: Amping up home theater audio (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: September 17, 2021

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

A15, fast and slow ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s chip operation and the A15 ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 358: Frenchy Blue

We’re feeling blue. By which we mean the blue shade of the new iPhones. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 416: The Waterfall Feature

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

A few extra notes about Apple’s September 14 event

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

AT&T iPhone Upgrade Program units ship with an eSIM

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 371: Midnight Is Starlight’s Best Friend

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Quick reactions to Apple’s iPhone 13 event

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Latest Apple updates fight zero-click exploits ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Daylite

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

‘What Does It All Mean?’ ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 370: The 2021 September Event Draft

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple bests Epic, but change is coming to the App Store

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: September 10, 2021

Breaking Apple legal news, and what we’re excited about for next week’s Apple event. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Updated Marvel Unlimited adds vertical comics and better following features ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 357: I Stopped Punching You

What will Apple announce next week? I guess we’ll find out next week, because we don’t know. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Getting ebooks from your library is still fraught ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 415: We Come Bearing Internet

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s car project has a long track record (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s “California Streaming” next week

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 369: The One With How Titles Are Made

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple delays CSAM scanning rollout ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: September 3, 2021

Apple’s negotiation strategy, and anticipating a September hardware event. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Tools we used to make a “call-in” podcast

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple to let “reader” apps link to their sites

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 414: Doctor Pin Dan

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 356: The Pain Wall

The gang’s back together and it’s an Apple Watch show again. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Tip: Reform wayward Apple News links (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 368: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Review: Sonos Roam is a worthy travel companion

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple to revamp classical music offering with Primephonic acquisition ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Command line 101: grep, sed, and awk for newbies ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The Safari 15 fight isn’t over (for Mac and iPad) ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The Back Page: Introducing Safari 15’s Brand New Interface, Which We Got Right on the First Try (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 355: We Share The Same Queen

Ted Lasso, upcoming Macs, and Apple’s gross lobbying efforts. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 413: Not My Parcel, Not My Roof

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iCloud Private Relay will launch as optional beta ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

TestFlight for Mac (finally) lands ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago