Marques Brownlee Previews Industrial Design of Nothing’s ‘Phone (1)’

Twenty Years of Flying Meat

Festival of Artisanal Software: Summer 2022

SummerFest: The new season brings new plans, fresh projects, and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, these great tools will help. As is…

Finding the “To” Address in iOS Mail

Matt Birchler: Mail helpfully shortens the “To” value to just me, which is fine, but I would expect to be able to tap on my name and see which email address this was sent to. Instead, I get this[…] It just loads my contact card with all my emails li…

Testing SwiftUI for Mac After WWDC 2022

Sarah Reichelt: In December 2019, I wrote a series of articles about using SwiftUI to build a Mac app. And in July 2020, I re-visited the sample app to apply the new SwiftUI features made available in macOS BigSur. Now that macOS Ventura and Xcode 1…

Flag Icons to Change the Input Source

John Gruber: [As] part of a company-wide effort to decouple national flags as icons to denote languages, the Input menu in MacOS now uses two letter codes instead (“US” for U.S. English, “GB” for British, etc.). [The] new policy does make sense for …

Verified Brand Logos in Apple Mail

Joe Rossignol: iOS 16 and macOS Ventura add support for the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard in the Mail app, helping users to easily verify authenticated emails sent by brands by displaying the brand’s logo alongside the …

Rick Olivieri, ‘Prince of Steaks’, Dies at 57

★ Two New Apps I Wanted to Flag for You

Two third-party developers have come to the rescue, with similar apps that restore the “pick a flag to change input sources” functionality.

★ Two New Apps I Wanted to Flag for You

Two third-party developers have come to the rescue, with similar apps that restore the “pick a flag to change input sources” functionality.

Kottke, on Sabbatical

Mail Merge Returns to Pages After Nine Years

Limiting iMessage’s Disk Usage

Steve Troughton-Smith: It blows my mind that Apple lets Messages-in-the-cloud suck up all the available local storage without giving you any real way to cap or reduce its size on disk without deleting the masters in iCloud. Can’t uninstall either. T…

SwiftUI Scrolling Finally Works on tvOS

Daniel Saidi: One example where SwiftUI ended up costing me both time and money, was the first tvOS project that I did on my newly started company.[…]Scrolling with HStack, VStack (and in SwiftUI 2), LazyHStack, LazyVStack, LazyHGrid, LazyVGrid just…

iOS 16 Automatic Verification

Joe Rossignol: Tapping on images of traffic lights or deciphering squiggly text to prove you are human will soon be a much less common nuisance for iPhone users, as iOS 16 introduces support for bypassing CAPTCHAs in supported apps and websites. […]…

Broken Renewal of MAS Receipts

Lukas Kubanek (FB9789052, tweet): I started integrating on-device App Store receipt validation into my Mac app, currently not utilizing StoreKit for any kind of in-app purchases. I followed the documentation and employed a check that calls exit(173)…

iOS 16 Will Let Users Bypass Captchas in Supported Apps and Websites

Kottke, on Sabbatical

iOS 16 Will Let Users Bypass Captchas in Supported Apps and Websites

Mail Merge Returns to Pages

Dan Moren: The feature was originally included in Apple’s word processing software, but got the axe in 2013’s version 5.0, when Apple redesigned its iWork suite to give even footing across the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms. In the interim, Mail M…

SwiftUI Change Log

Kuba Suder: I made a thing: SwiftUI Index/Changelog - an alphabetical index of all SwiftUI views, modifiers, property types etc. + changelog for each version, auto-generated from official documentation. See also: Code Workshop and SDK News. Previous…