Glenn Fleishman, freelance journalist, book author, editor, and comics and type historian, joins Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users to share what he’s up to and some of his favorite workflows.
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In this episode of Automators, Rosemary and I explore Moom 4 and other window management tools for macOS.
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In this week’s episode: A YouTube app for Vision Pro is removed from its App Store, several Apple rumors are floating, Meta gets a big fine, and I help you tame your notifications in this week’s recommended Labs Video.
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Dark Noise is one of my favorite applications. I first used it years ago as my go-to white noise generator. (I particularly like the thunderstorm sound.) Over the years, I’ve become friends with the developer, Charlie Chapman, who does all the right things with his application.
So it’s no surprise to me that he recently released a version that now gives you Dark Noise controls in Control Center. If you haven’t played with Control Center on iOS 18 yet, you really should. It gives us all of the stuff we’ve been asking for for years now. It’s fully customizable with multiple screens, and while I haven’t nailed down my Control Center strategy just yet, I’m having a great time figuring it out.
The iFixit teardown of the iPhone 16 is interesting. Apple is continuing to creep towards better repairability each year.
A constant problem for folks who like to crack their phones open is glue. Specifically, there’s a lot of adhesive inside these devices, and getting rid of it to do any repair is time-consuming and messy. Apple solved that with the battery in the new iPhone by using electrically activated adhesive. You apply a low-voltage current to it, and the battery pops out. It’s an interesting technology that I didn’t even know existed.
If you’d like to learn more about what’s inside your phone, check out the full iFixit video below.
With iOS 18, you can now change your lock screen widgets. In this video I demonstrate how to do that and share a few strategies for making the most of it.
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Now that we’re officially in October, I can’t help but think a bit about the 18.2 beta coming to iOS later this month. According to the rumors, we’re going to get several new Apple intelligence features including Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, and personal context awareness for Siri. We’re also supposed to get the auto-sorting feature in Apple Mail. These are big features and represent a step up over the Apple Intelligence features we saw with 18.1.
The next six months, in general, will feel like a slow burn toward Apple intelligence. Apple’s put a lot of wood behind the arrow about how important Apple Intelligence is for them but we still need to see the more advanced features work. This feels like a big bet for Apple, and I’m curious to see how it plays out. We’ll get our next big indication with 18.2 later this month.
Stephen and I talk about Apple’s new hardware on this episode of Mac Power Users. Then, we take a tour of macOS Sequoia, iOS and iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11.
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Ryan Christoffel, over at 9to5Mac, wrote an excellent article about how we are at an interesting crossroads over Macs with cellular chips. Specifically, Apple seems closer to releasing their own cellular chip and a lot of folks, myself included, have used that event as the hypothetical tipping point where Apple starts putting cellular chips in Macs.
If they don’t have to pay a fee to some other manufacturer, why not? Right?
If Apple doesn’t start putting cellular chips in Macs after they start shipping their own cellular chip, I have to wonder if they’ll ever do it.