Apple 37 posts

I just love the awkward Apple Music interactions on macOS... a link inside Apple Music will open Safari, only to take you back to Apple Music. lol

Between power outages and an exploding garage door spring, I still managed to get a build of Tapestry to TestFlight for the traditional push-to-prod-on-friday. We work on the app almost every day. It gets regular updates. It reads your RSS and your Mastodon and your Bluesky. It's pretty good on iOS. (Less good on macOS, I admit, but there's only one of me and it's rather a large project and macCatalyst is literally *the worst*.) Anyway, you should buy it or sponsor it: https://tapestry.iconfactory.com/

Last week's LookUp update for macOS included a bunch of new features, including the ability to annotate words with notes; origin maps, and pronunciation tips. More updates next week.

fellow iOS and SwiftUI devs, I have spent all week fighting Locked Camera Session Extension and written up my findings, issues, workarounds, and dead ends... if anyone has any ideas (or any of my Apple friends see this), please help! Full post: https://notes.jazzychad.net/post/16a2bdefbe51c93cade89a7c6ceb3bf1

Tonight's vibe-y prototype, a little sticky notes app, based on a dribbble concept I came across : https://dribbble.com/shots/13875895-Stickies-macOS-Big-Sur-app-inspired-by-SwiftUI

In this week’s Club @macstories Weekly column, I detailed what’s impressed me about Xcode’s new Claude agent integration and how it has sped up work on my first iOS app. https://www.macstories.net/club/kicking-the-tires-on-agentic-coding-in-xcode/ Read this and more with a Club MacStories subscription: https://www.macstories.net/club/

Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/13/apple-shares-ios-26-adoption-stats/ http://www.techmeme.com/260213/p17#a260213p17

I built Claude Code Remote, an advanced companion shortcut for Claude Code that lets you type or dictate requests from your iPhone. Except…I didn't build it. My upcoming generative AI system did. And it showed me the future of Shortcuts automation. My story: https://www.macstories.net/club/claude-code-remote-a-companion-shortcut-for-claude-codewhich-was-generated-by-ai/

Another thing Tahoe broke that I don't understand. Toggling Dock Hiding with a shortcut no longer works, at least for me. Anyone else? These things really bug me.

📝 Got some doctors appointments today to figure out next steps for my radiation treatment. Spent last night making my screens and phone bigger text so I can overcome my issues with my vision being a slightly bit fuzzy. While there is a lot of negative things going on with Apple, I really do appreciate their accessibility features.

Finally upgraded my old AirPods Max I got back in 2020. I’d probably get 6 hours total on a single charge; they were starting to go. The blue is so gorgeous and goes so well with my blue MacBook Air. 😄 I had an opportunity to get them new for $299 so I couldn’t pass that up.

Good video on how Liquid Glass and the flat design it was built on were a wrong turn for Apple https://youtu.be/ejPqAJ0dHwY

Behold the majesty of my work calendar! I'm using Notion Calendar right now because it's free and quite excellent. I'm just assessing the market right now, but are there any calendar apps you find truly spectacular at the moment? Do not say Apple Calendar, I have tried and tried, and it suuuuuuuuucks for me 😅

FB21947758 Selecting Top Paid Safari Extensions in the App Store shows the top free Safari extensions

Apple's stock dropped 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following FTC scrutiny of Apple News and reports about delays with Siri (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/apple-stock-worst-day-ftc-siri.html http://www.techmeme.com/260212/p62#a260212p62

A US jury finds Apple did not infringe Optis' 4G wireless technology patents, after two earlier trial verdicts Optis had won were overturned (Blake Brittain/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/apple-fends-off-4g-wireless-patent-lawsuit-third-trial-2026-02-12/ http://www.techmeme.com/260212/p60#a260212p60

How many macOS can you run.. top one is UTM running macOS 26.1, the other window is screen sharing to my other Mini which is runs the latest 26.x betas. All being run on M4 mini running 26.2. #macdev

Episode 590: Nooooo (Marked as Resolved) What's old is new again: some iPhone displays are tinted green, Jony Ive is using aluminum, and Apple is struggling with shipping a more intelligent Siri. http://relay.fm/connected/590

Does Instagram Reels make iOS 26.3 Safari freeze for anyone else? It happens with StopTheMadness Pro disabled, so not my fault!

I just made Safari hang on iOS 26.3 Too bad there’s no spinning pinwheel on iOS

Apple Photos desperately needs a way to mark recent photos or an album to keep on-device. There’s never a better time to sit and edit/sort photos than on the plane home from a trip, but all I have are low-res thumbnails of half of them 😒

Never thought I'd see this: An official YouTube app for the Vision Pro! https://www.macstories.net/news/google-releases-youtube-app-for-apple-vision-pro/

A nice surprise for Vision Pro users. https://www.macstories.net/news/google-releases-youtube-app-for-apple-vision-pro/

User interface sketches for my app Metaballs on Apple Vision Pro

YouTube app on Vision Pro at long last 🙌🏻

YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/12/youtube-app-apple-vision-pro/ http://www.techmeme.com/260212/p36#a260212p36

🎙️ New Primary Tech Show is out! YouTube is now on  Vision Pro, AI ads are out of control, Jony Ive's Ferrari, and better Siri is delayed for how long?? Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/primary-technology/id1723943281?i=1000749457854 YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQp7RJ6rjDQ

YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro https://www.theverge.com/tech/878097/youtube-apple-vision-pro-visionos-app

At least 26.3 brings improvements to the Reduce transparency accessibility setting. The edge blurs and transparency are now actually gone and replaced by solid white background, just like on iOS. It does not look good, mind you, it’s the absolute bare minimum they could do, but at least the OS feels a bit less chaotic in use like this. #LiquidGlass

📊 Poll time! Vibe coding or agentic engineering, I am curious what the Apple developer community is doing with LLM-assisted programming, now that Xcode has integrated it. I know the wider Mastodon community has strong opinions on this stuff, but do you personally intend to use these tools? Has your opinion changed either way over the past year? (You can pick multiple options)

If you ever want to get an overview of Apple's org structure, it's well documented here https://www.apple.com/au/support/systemstatus/

US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted "leftist outlets" and suppressed conservative ones (Michael Acton/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/0c25de53-4668-4ddf-9e28-f8c4fc34940e http://www.techmeme.com/260211/p55#a260211p55

iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android https://www.theverge.com/tech/877587/ios-26-3-released-transfer-to-android

Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri https://www.theverge.com/tech/877494/apple-siri-ai-overhaul-ios-personalized

Apple Creator Studio Usage Restrictions https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/02/11/apple-creator-studio-usage-restrictions

👨‍✈️ If you want to try my little Arena game, ported from Unity to SpriteKit/Swift via OpenAI's Codex, in the state it is now, here's a notarized build for macOS Sonoma or higher (multiplayer isn't hooked up) Edit: updated with some more niceties like gamepad support, screen scaling, projectile textures, respawn screen and more https://hccdownloads.s3.amazonaws.com/Arena-b4-notarized.zip

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