On Wednesday Amazon and Apple announced that Apple TV+ will be available inside Prime Video as an add-on subscription: Later this month, Apple TV+ will be available via Prime Video in the U.S. … | Continue reading
Walgreens is not a sponsor of this episode.… | Continue reading
How we prepare our tech for emergencies, the headphones we like best, our file organization systems, and outfitting our home theaters for spooky season.… | Continue reading
We discusss how Apple is so influential that even its simplest moves can make or break companies and industries. Also: Apple plans a big Halloween week, and there’s an immersive thriller coming to Vision Pro.… | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
Nick Heer comments on a spectacularly weird New York Times story titled “Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?,” which is actually about how Apple has ratcheted up contacts-sharing security in iOS 18: What I do not understand is granting Bier’s objections the imprimatur of a New York … | Continue reading
Sometimes there are bugs that happen and hit wide swaths of devices causing serious problems for users, and other times a teeny tiny thing breaks and it only affects a handful of people.… | Continue reading
Brian Williams will bring live news to Prime Video, but what’s the future of streaming news? Also: More cable bundles include streaming services; Amazon programs a night of game shows; Netflix’s coming compensation crunch; and a Diamond/MLB update.… | Continue reading
Our preferred devices for listening to music out loud, recent frustrating tech-related customer service experiences, current social media habits, and examples of technology that have recently impressed us.… | Continue reading
From The Verge’s Victoria Song, a fascinating and disturbing project that turns Meta’s smart glasses into a system for immediately doxxing people: In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classma … | Continue reading
Lex and Moltz will wait for AR contact lenses. Dan wants off this ride.… | Continue reading
It’s rare that I find a new app that immediately becomes part of my workflow, but it’s just as rare that an app as useful as Croissant comes out.… | Continue reading
Jason and Myke break down Meta’s preview of its Orion AR glasses project and what it says (or doesn’t say) about the future of Apple’s Vision product line.… | Continue reading
Meta’s Orion prototype. (Image: Meta) The game is to create a wearable, augmented-reality device that takes everything that’s great about a smartphone and overlays it on your vision, making the entire world a smartphone canvas.… | Continue reading
My thanks to 1Password for sponsoring Six Colors this week. 1Password wants you to understand the details about how laws like GDPR can affect your business.… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin reporting on the latest guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology about good passwords: A section devoted to passwords injects a large helping of badly needed common sense practices that challenge common policies. … | Continue reading
Pour one out for the venerable Apple-focused website iMore, which is ceasing publication: Dig out your old iPod and fire up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing sad news. … | Continue reading
I’m happy to announce that the latest edition of my ebook about Apple’s Photos app, Take Control of Photos, Fourth Edition is now available. This new edition covers the new stuff added by Apple this year, which turned out to be a lot—especially on the iOS and iPadOS side.… | Continue reading
Some interesting news regarding Masimo, the company that is locked in disputes with Apple over its patents for blood oxygen sensors that has led to that feature being removed from the Apple Watch in the U.S.:… | Continue reading
We have the new phones. And we have thoughts on the new phones.… | Continue reading
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