(Podcast) Upgrade 358: Apple Watch Extreme or Whatever

This week we talk the future of the Apple Watch–new materials, new shapes, and all the sensors Apple wants to put on your body–and the risks Apple might face by not learning the right l… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Rewiring my brain with Quick Note (Member Post)

To my surprise, as much as anybody’s, I’ve ended up using Apple’s Notes app a lot over the last several years. I use it when I want to jot down things about my novels, when I’m taking notes f… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: June 18, 2021

WWDC hangovers, the Globe key, and some live pinging. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Think Globally: The iPad’s new universal keyboard shortcuts

I’ve seen the future of the iPad, and it’s hidden under a key. The future of an entire platform is a lot to pile on a single plastic square, but here we are. Down in the bottom left cor… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Quick Tip: Timestamp a ping

If you’ve spent any amount of time troubleshooting network connections, you’ve probably used good old ping. But as I discovered recently, sometimes you need a little more information ou… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 346: It Has Been a While

This episode is brought to you by internet interruptions. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 403: I Am a Tiny Kitten Hanging on to a Tree

Apple’s new podcast subscriptions, our favorite under-the-radar WWDC news, the last game we got into, and which big tech companies we’d break up. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 357: Collaborative Calculating

WWDC 2021 is over! This week we discuss a lot of the hidden details of Apple’s announcements, and share our first reactions to using the first developer betas. (Jason isn’t mad at Safar… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

More depth on iPadOS 15 multitasking ↦

TechCrunch’s Mathew Panzarino got an interview with Apple marketer Bob Borchers and exec Sebastien Mariners-Mes in which they addressed the changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15: “It was a ver… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Safari 15 to bring huge UI changes

When Apple’s annual updates ship this fall, Safari will be at version 15. Each new version of Apple’s browser is marked by security and performance improvements, but this year Safari is… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: June 11, 2021

Did anything happen this week? Oh, just a few things. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Coherence X4

My thanks to Coherence X4 for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Coherence X4 allows you to turn any website into a chromium-powered app on your Mac. You pick a site, enter a name, and pick an icon, … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

2021 Apple Design Awards announced ↦

Apple announced the winners of its annual design awards today, and it’s a really impressive collection of iPhone and iPad apps1. Here are the winners: Apps Inclusivity: Voice Dream Reader Del… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: MailKit set to offer new Mail extension possibilities

For many years, power users have been able to use plug-ins to extend the capabilities of macOS’ built-in Mail application. And for years, those users have been accustomed to those plug-ins br… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Apple dips its toes into Matter’s smart home

The early years of smart home tech have been a morass of competing standards and technologies, often hindering broad adoption by consumers who don’t want to figure out which devices work with… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

‘Shortcuts for Mac: The Future Is Now’ ↦

John Voorhees provides a really good overview of how far Shortcuts has come: The second thing that struck me about Monday’s announcement is how well Shortcuts has been set up to succeed on the Mac.… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Dark Sky iOS app lives another year ↦

If you thought the addition of precipitation alerts and a redesigned Weather app in iOS 15 meant that Dark Sky, which Apple acquired back in 2020, was not long for this world…well, it’s… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: New App Store Features Coming in iOS, iPadOS 15

When iOS and iPadOS 15 launch later this year, the App Store will have new tools for developers to optimize their product pages to better stand out in the busy marketplace. The first tool to do thi… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 402: Sacrificed to the Monterey Gods

Our thoughts on Spatial Audio in Apple Music, if we’re excited about Shortcuts on the Mac and our other WWDC favorites, if SharePlay will convince us to use FaceTime, and how we feel about Un… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Who needs keys and a wallet when you have an iPhone?

Last year Apple introduced Car Keys, which allows Apple devices to unlock and start cars that are equipped with the proper technology. While it was clear that the first wave of cars to support this… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 345: Recovery Buddies

Apple made a lot of WWDC announcements…but first we talk about Nintendo, Playdate, and audio. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The accessibility impact of Apple’s latest announcements ↦

Steven Aquino, writing at Forbes, has an excellent round-up of all the things that Apple announced which have implications for accessibility. In particular, Steven does a good job of looking at fea… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Apple takes the first steps to a password-less future

I bet there’s nothing you like more than dealing with passwords. Coming up with strong passwords, remembering them, saving them to password managers, entering verification codes. Is there any… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: For SF Symbols, Cyan is the new Teal

I’ve sort of fallen in love with SF Symbols, Apple’s library of thousands of iconographic representations that’s intended to let app developers build interfaces without custom art… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: iPhone and iPad support for Web Extensions could drive new interest

Web extensions got a big overhaul for the Mac last year, and though the uptake has not exactly been gangbusters, the potential for a bigger impact landed this year when Apple announced that they wo… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: macOS Monterey further blurs lines between Mac, Catalyst, and iPad apps

How one can define what a “Mac app” is has gotten more complicated as time has gone on. In the early days of Mac OS X, developers could choose between Cocoa, Carbon and even Java. As th… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: More cowbell

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more machine-learning based audio analysis. The bulk of Tuesday’s WWDC session, “Discover built-in sound classification in SoundAnal… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Testflight on Mac, Xcode Cloud promise better betas

TestFlight on the Mac at last. Apps don’t spring, full-featured, onto our devices. App developers have to put the code and all the other assets together and create that thing–and itR… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: watchOS 8 to shave time off everyday interactions

With watchOS 8, Apple isn’t setting out to radically change the experience of using an Apple Watch, but the new capabilities the release will give developers will make it feel more dynamic an… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: ShazamKit lets Apple and Android developers add audio recognition

Shazam! It ain’t just a movie starring Sinbad.1 Apple integrated the song-recognition service into Siri back in iOS 8; four years later, it bought the whole company. Last fall, iOS and iPadOS… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The FBI created a secure messaging company to roll up criminals ↦

Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin: The FBI teamed up with Australian Federal Police to target drug trafficking and money laundering. They “strategically developed and covertly operated an encr… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: tvOS 15 will let you sign into apps with on an iPhone or iPad

Now that Apple has shipped an improved remote for the Apple TV, it might seem like your tvOS woes are over—but even with a better input device, entering login credentials by picking one letter at a… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: iCloud Private Relay plugs a few more privacy loopholes

When Apple’s latest operating systems debut this fall, many of their users will benefit from a whole new kind of built-in privacy protection in the form of iCloud Private Relay. While your ac… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Shortcuts for Mac

For years, automation on the Mac has been an onion of sorts. Automator and its ability to create Quick Actions, Folder Actions and even Applications has given Mac users the ability to create workfl… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Automating my blog posts with Shortcuts… on the Mac ↦

Last month I wrote about how I’ve been building automations on iOS that were hard to replicate on macOS, and why that led me to believe the Mac needed to adopt Shortcuts: The more I use Short… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Sponsor) Coherence X4

Coherence X4 allows you to turn any website into a chromium-powered app on your Mac. Simply pick a site, enter a name, and pick an icon, and Coherence will turn the app into an isolated application… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: I love it when a platform comes together

There was a time when Apple rolled out the next versions of its operating systems and the story went like this: The iPhone and iPad added a bunch of new features, and the Mac got a few of its own a… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 356: This Is Not for You, Developers

Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2021 keynote, which brought Apple’s various devices together in some surprising ways. Were the changes to iPadOS exciting or disappointing? Are we excited a… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Federighi on Apple’s latest privacy features ↦

Speaking to Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi detailed a little more about the privacy-related announcements Apple made at i… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: Platforms State of the Union emphasizes saving and valuing time

While Apple’s keynote focuses largely on the company’s consumer audience, the Platforms State of the Union is where things start to get technical, really targeting the core WWDC audienc… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

WWDC 2021: My favorite features that didn’t make the keynote cut

Even with a nearly two-hour keynote, Apple didn’t have time to discuss all the new features coming to its platforms in the next major updates. So I’ve gone through and pulled out an eve… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Can Apple change the narrative with WWDC?

With just hours to go before the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, I find myself wondering if Apple—a company that has long maintained an unparalleled mastery of sto… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: June 4, 2021

Anticipation on the precipice of WWDC week. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Is WWDC a hardware event? (Member Post)

If you ask a bunch of people in Apple community if WWDC is a hardware event or not, you’ll get a bunch of different answers, but I think most people consider WWDC to be a software event mostl… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Fun With Charts: More speculation about Apple silicon

Will new MacBook Pros be announced at WWDC next week? Your guess is as good as mine. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t mind thrilling developers with new power laptops, since they are so often th… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple revamps AirTag privacy measures, will build Android app ↦

Apple says it’s adjusting how AirTags deal with privacy implications, in a statement provided to CNET’s Ian Sherr: The tech giant said Thursday it’s begun sending out updates to i… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Twitter Blue subscription launches in Australia, Canada ↦

Twitter: Starting today, we will be rolling out our first iteration of Twitter Blue in Australia and Canada. Our hope with this initial phase is to gain a deeper understanding of what will make you… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 401: You Over-Clevered It

Our hopes and dreams for Apple’s WWDC, feelings on the iPad’s Center Stage feature, ephemeral social media feelings, and who we’re rooting for in the Apple Design Awards. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago