iOS 15.2 Beta Includes the ‘Communication Safety’ Messages Feature for Children

America’s ‘Wokeness’ Divide Is Not About Level of Education

Apple Business Essentials

Unity Is Buying Weta Digital for $1.6 Billion

Apple Business Essentials

Unity Is Buying Weta Digital for $1.6 Billion

There’s Actually an Apple Angle From the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

Apple Business Essentials

WSJ: Apple Plans Car Crash Detection for iPhone and Watch

Johnson & Johnson Honcho Alex Gorsky Joins Apple’s Board of Directors

Apple Denied Anti-Steering Stay

Adi Robertson (PDF, tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Epic v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the company’s motion for a stay. “Apple’…

Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now?

Warren Sklar (of Mac To The Future, In Touch With iOS, and more) joins Simon and Nick to chat over the goings on this The post Essential Apple Podcast 243: Can I do the twirling thing now? appeared first on MyMac.com.

Disk Utility in Monterey

Howard Oakley (user guide): I’ve been on the look out for nominations for the title of the most improved utility of the year. I’m delighted to announce not just a nomination, but an outright winner: Disk Utility 21.0, bundled with Monterey. After fo…

Accessibility Exemption for E-book DRM

Damon Beres (via Hacker News): Advocates for the blind are fighting an endless battle to access ebooks that sighted people take for granted, working against copyright law that gives significant protections to corporate powers and publishers who don’…

Federighi and Cook on Sideloading

Chance Miller (tweet, video, Slashdot, MacRumors): Last month, it was announced that Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi would attend and speak at Web Summit 2021, which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. In a keynote delivered today, Federigh…

Peloton Blames App Tracking Transparency

Tim Hardwick: Peloton has become the latest company to blame Apple’s ad-related privacy changes in iOS for negatively impacting its business, according to a new report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Best known for its at-home exercise equipment and onl…

Pixel 6 Fingerprint Scanner Is Not Good

The Fox Sports NFL Crew on Aaron Rodgers

Facebook, But Not Meta, Ends Face Recognition

Juli Clover: Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition system and will delete the facial data of more than 1 billion of its users, Facebook parent company Meta announced this morning.People who opted in to Face Recognition will no longer be aut…

TestFlight for Mac Officially Launches

Juli Clover: Apple today informed developers that they can invite people to try out early versions of Mac apps prior to release using the TestFlight platform, marking the end of a beta test that’s been ongoing since August. Previously: TestFlight Fi…

A Year of Platformer on Substack

Casey Newton (Hacker News): When I started Platformer with the mailing list I accumulated while writing my previous newsletter, there were around 24,000 of them. Twelve months later, there are 49,604 people subscribed to Platformer’s free list, and …