Dan’s inbox has it’s own gravitational field.… | Continue reading
With the Dynamic Island expanded as a song plays, you can select the scrubber with VoiceOver, and flick up or down to move through the track.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.. | Continue reading
How you read Apple’s financial results really depends on what you want to see in them. We break down the numbers, ponder the state of Apple’s deisgn group, and reconsider what Apple may or may not be folding in the near future.… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.… | Continue reading
With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Whether you want to save audio from individual applications like Safari or Skype, hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, and even the entire system audio output, Audio Hijack can handle it.… | Continue reading
Cue up your best Ken Watanabe gif because the kaiju of Apple rumors are going head to head! Samsung announces it’s getting into… some kind of reality, but it doesn’t matter because Apple’s going out of business.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get a … | Continue reading
As always, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spend an hour talking to investment analysts about the company’s just-completed quarter. And as always, we’ve got a transcript! Here i… | Continue reading
Apple on Thursday announced its fiscal first-quarter results, and it was a step backward. The company’s year-over-year revenue fell $6.7 billion, though with total revenue of $117.2 billion it was still the company’s second largest quarter ever.… | Continue reading
Our thoughts on an app aiming to be “the TikTok for text,” whether we’re bothered by AI-generated content when it’s accurate and useful, Apple’s rumored foldable iPad, and our home speaker setups.… | Continue reading
Folding iPads, folding notebooks… wait, notebooks already fold.… | Continue reading
Special guest Dan Moren joins John Gruber to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.… | Continue reading
It wouldn’t be the release of a brand new Apple product without the release of a brand new -gate to go along with it. Unlike power adapters and headphones, the company continues to bundle in controversy with every single purchase.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Becom … | Continue reading
We break our brains processing wild rumors of folding iPads and Siri-driven VR app development. Demonstrating the interactive power of UpgradeFeedback.com, Myke hears from many listeners who love t… | Continue reading
The M2 Mac mini and MacBook Pro reviews are in, Ivory is here, and details of the Apple headset?! Our collective cups runneth over. “You made the car too good.”… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community … | Continue reading
My thanks to Clay for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clay is a thoughtful relationship manager designed specifically for macOS and iOS. Clay makes it easier to connect with people, to be more generous and responsive with our fellow humans who are core to our own personal and pr … | Continue reading
Just the other day, I was lamenting one of my big frustations with Mastodon—that links to posts, unlike tweets, don’t display nicely in Messages. Instead you get a preview that shows the poster’s profile image and their name, rather than the actual text or image of the post itsel … | Continue reading
Whether we spec up our Macs, our philosophy on menu bars, what we use for pointing devices, and our screen sizes of choice.… | Continue reading
New Apple hardware and our not-so-long wait for Ivory is over.… | Continue reading
Netflix shows Disney how CEO transitions happen, as Reed Hastings is elevated to chairmanship and Greg Peters becomes co-CEO. Julia has analysis of Netflix’s earnings report, we discuss streaming Oscar nominees, and we answer your amazing letters!… | Continue reading
Sometimes when the universe force quits a Twitter client, it launches a Mastodon client. Rising from the ashes of the recently departed Tweetbot, developer Tapbots has officially launched its much-anticipated client for the federated social network, Ivory, for iPhones and iPads.… | Continue reading
As a part of Data Privacy Week, on Tuesday Apple announced a privacy-themed session at its retail stores and released a video highlighting privacy features in iOS. The video, which the company post… | Continue reading
Jason’s spent most of the last week with an M2 Max MacBook Pro, so it’s time for his full review. We also discuss the M2 Mac mini and the second-generation HomePod. And what does the fu… | Continue reading
New Macs are here. We’ve got ’em. Join Jason and Dan at approximately 2pm PT / 5pm ET on YouTube for a live look at the new hardware, and we’ll answer your questions!… | Continue reading
With today’s release of iOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura 13.2, Apple added yet another additional security feature, allowing users to secure their Apple IDs with hardware security keys. If you̵… | Continue reading
As someone who’s recently been spending more time with a MacBook Air both hooked up to an Apple Studio Display and on its own, I’ve definitely noticed that what works in one setup isn’t always the best answer for all display configurations.… | Continue reading
People make us laugh, challenge us to improve, support us when things are tough, and celebrate with us once they get better. They’re core to our personal and professional success, but being more generous, more responsive, more conscientious with them?… | Continue reading
Here’s what the new M2 MacBook Pro is not: new. Yes, it’s powered by a new generation of Apple silicon, but it’s very much the same laptop that was updated for the Apple silicon era in 2021.… | Continue reading
In 2005, when Apple first introduced the Mac mini, it was a carefully designed, strategic product: a low-cost computer aimed primarily at luring customers from the Windows PC hegemony with the promise that they could save even further by using all of their existing accessories, t … | Continue reading
This week answered the philosophical question: what if they held an Apple event and nobody came? Even if it was because nobody was invited. And speaking of not invited, some favorite apps have been uninvited to the Twitter party.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become … | Continue reading
Sean Heber of The Iconfactory makes the death of Twitterrific official: Since 2007, Twitterrific helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. It was the first desktop client, the first mobile client, one of the very first apps in the App Store, an Apple Design award winner … | Continue reading
Hansen Hsu, Curator of the Software History Center at the Computer History Museum, in a press release: The release of the Apple Lisa was a key turning point for the history of personal computers. W… | Continue reading
Whether we’re using AirTags and other item-tracking tech, how we have (or haven’t) used ChatGPT for work, our thoughts on a touchscreen Mac, and the discontinued tech we’d like to see revived.… | Continue reading
New Macs and defunct apps.… | Continue reading
The HomePod…lives! In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Apple announced the second-generation HomePod with support for spatial audio, smart home automations using Siri, and a slightly refined design.… | Continue reading
TidBITS’s Adam Engst does yeoman’s work in breaking down what looks suspicious about emails with annotated screenshots: I’ve been examining phishing attempts for so long that it’s hard for me to imagine what might fool someone else, so I wanted to share some recent attempts that … | Continue reading
You may be surprised to discover that inside each of these buttons is a different button.At some point, when I was reconstructing the automation that turns on and off the floor lamp in my living room for the third or fourth time, it dawned on me that I was sold a bill of goods re … | Continue reading
As expected, Apple on Tuesday took the wraps off updates to its MacBook Pro and Mac mini lines, featuring as their centerpiece the new M2 Pro and M2 Max processors. The MacBook Pro update is basica… | Continue reading
Does the report that Apple may build a touchscreen Mac laptop mean that the futures of the Mac and iPad are about to converge–or is nothing much really going to change? Then Jason and Myke th… | Continue reading
Last Thursday evening, Twitter shut off API access to many of the most popular third-party Twitter client apps. It’s an unsurprising, but ignominious, end. Here’s The Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry, who thought up the now-disabled Twitterrific app and materially contributed to f … | Continue reading
The Apple headset cometh (but later-eth), Eddy Cue wants to sell you some hot Apple content, and get your dirty fingers off my screen! Headset-ing into 2023 If Apple has its way, 2023 will be the year of the Apple headset.… | Continue reading
To change text size for notifications, open Control Center’s Text Size option on the Home screen or Lock screen,and choose Home Screen Only.There’s a joke I tell a lot: if you encounter an article whose headline includes the words “secret features” and “iOS”, chances are you’re a … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s very reliable reporter Mark Gurman says that Apple is working on touchscreen Macs: Apple Inc. is working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, a move that would defy long-held company orthodoxy and embrace an approach that co-founder Steve Jobs once called “e … | Continue reading
Starting in iOS 15, you can adjust accessibility settings on a per-app basis. Here’s a quick walkthrough of how the feature works and why you might want to use it.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and commun … | Continue reading
Our overpowered tech devices, the return of personal blogging, the last time we took our tech in, and the Apple services we subscribe to.… | Continue reading
If you’ve spent any time at all over on Mastodon, you’ve probably heard about Ivory, a new client for the social network from Tweetbot developer Tapbots—probably in the context of “Man, they opened like two thousand new testing slots for the Ivory beta and they were all gone with … | Continue reading
It’s all headsets now.… | Continue reading
It’s a new year, so it’s time to consider the lessons of 2022 and make some predictions for streaming trends in 2023. Plus: was “Glass Onion” a success for Netflix? Is your … | Continue reading
Apple SVP Eddy Cue, in a post on Apple’s Newsroom site: 2022 was a groundbreaking year for entertainment. At some point over the past year, you probably discovered a new app, a new song, a new TV show or movie, or game.… | Continue reading