Nerdy Details: The Apple iPhone 16’s Camera Control Button

Apple Weather Is Delivering Spurious ‘Excessive Heat’ Warnings to Users Who Are Nowhere Near the Heat Wave

From the Annals of Going Back to the Well Way Too Many Times

Juno for YouTube Removed From the App Store

Christian Selig (tweet, Mastodon, Hacker News): For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t appr…

Pinning iCloud Drive in Sequoia

Howard Oakley: The reason for this bizarre and annoying interface is the way that pinning is implemented. When you pin files individually or in groups of up to ten, each file gains its own pinning extended attribute, of com.apple.fileprovider.pinned…

Migrating the TelemetryDeck SDK to Swift 6 Mode

Cihat Gündüz: And this summer at WWDC 2024 the longest session of them all was migrating your app to Swift 6 for a reason. This major new update to the language brings a new level of safety – namely data-race safety – which is awesome news for more …

Local Network Privacy on Sequoia

Collin Allen: Running into a Sequoia bug where third party binaries running under a launchd agent are denied local network access despite approving the privacy prompt. This has the effect of making my iOS app’s CI unable to deploy successful builds,…

At the Behest of Russia, Apple Has Purged Nearly 100 VPN Apps From the App Store

At the Behest of YouTube, Juno Has Been Removed From the App Store

We Won’t Have Taylor Lorenz to Kick Around Anymore

Modernizing the Original ADB Keyboard From the Apple IIGS

Hurricane Helene and Messages via Satellite

Ryan Christoffel: Hurricane Helene has caused massive damage and taken over 100 lives across several US states. Many thousands of people are without power and/or cell service. But in the wake of the storm, reports have surfaced about a key iOS 18 fe…

Swift Concurrency and Objective-C

Paul Haddad: Anyone know why calling the following in a MainActor class/func MyTest.increment(1) { result in NSLog("result=\(result)") } crashes (asserts) when building with Swift 6? I get that its not happy that the completion is coming in on anoth…

Epic’s Document Request and Apple’s Injunction Challenge

Anthony Ha (Hacker News): Apple faces a looming deadline to produce what it says are more than 1 million documents related to recent App Store changes.On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the company’s attempt to extend that deadline, describing…

Sequoia’s Warning When Turning Off Bluetooth

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News): Does this prompt appear monthly? No, that would be far too convenient. So how often? Every. Single. Time. You. Try. To. Disable. Bluetooth.Have I mentioned that Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on p…

The Talk Show: ‘Shipping vs. Shipping’

Simon Willison on NotebookLM’s Automatically Generated Podcasts

‘Our Unevenly Distributed Future’

Pete Rose Dies at 83

Relay for St. Jude Is Approaching $1 Million

‘The iPhone Content Machine: A Visual Essay’