Apple and Perplexity rumors, the F1 coupon fiasco, our thoughts on device battery health, and whether Apple should build a chatbot.…
Apple Sports adds a more customizable home screen (left) that lets you reorder your favorite leagues (center) and adds tennis coverage (right). Apple just updated the Apple Sports app to version 3.0.…
Like the machine says, “Screenshot of a workflow automation tool with steps for receiving images, resizing, and describing them.” Of all the features I’m excited about using in macOS 26, the one that most intrigues me is the Use Model action in Shortcuts.…
With the announcement that macOS Tahoe will be the last Mac OS version to support Intel Macs, Apple’s preparing to close the books on the third chip transition in Mac history.…
Can Apple buy its way out of trouble? We discuss the promise and pitfalls of Apple acquiring an AI powerhouse… or literally anything else.…
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.…
I know we all like to get a good memento mori jolt now and again, particularly when the world is in turmoil! (That’s sarcasm.) But as I grow older, I can’t avoid thinking about my digital legacy, or that of my parents, as I am the executor named in their wills.…
Kenneth Chang and Iera Hwang of the New York Times take a deep dive into the unique data challenges of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is powered by a 3.2 gigapixel camera: Each image taken by Rubin’s camera consists of 3.2 billion pixels that may contain previously undiscovered asteroids, dwarf planets, supernovas and galaxies. …
Last week’s Six Colors podcast was recorded entirely on iPads running iPadOS 26, mine in California and Dan’s in Massachusetts. The podcast is usually just for Six Colors members, but you can listen to it here if you want.…
My thanks to Turbulence Forecast for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Whether you want to keep your nerves in check, are flying with kids, or even want to know the best time to get out of your airline seat for a dash to the bathroom, Turbulence Forecast is the easiest way to know in advance just how smooth or bumpy your next flight is going to be.…
This year, John Voorhees and I returned to the scene of the crime—the place where we got a demo in 2024 of Swift Assist, a feature that never shipped that we could’ve sworn we saw demoed live—to see the updated Xcode with AI assistance.…
Another Worldwide Developers Conference is in the books, and after a week of keynotes, briefings, and travel, I’ve finally had a chance to sit and zoom out to the 35,000-foot view of the company’s latest announcements.…
They should have given it a theatrical run. Apple has largely tied major revisions of tvOS to the launch of new Apple TV hardware over the years.…
Our interest in drones and how we’d use them, household standards for wearing Bluetooth headphones, whether we install OS betas and on which devices, and the rare app or service where we don’t mind seeing ads.…
Federico Viticci of MacStories got to sit down with Apple’s Craig Federighi to discuss iPadOS last week, which is a tremendous thing to see, and you can read all about it: After all the talk over the past 15 years about the “post-PC era”, why have we come full circle to reusing features and UI metaphors that the Mac got right decades ago? …
Clipboard history in Spotlight on macOS Tahoe. A couple of years ago, I recalled that in the early days of Mac OS X, I built up an entire array of utilities that allowed me to use my Mac just how I wanted it.…
John Voorhees of MacStories took Apple’s new Speech framework, available to all developers, for a spin in the macOS 26 beta and got great results in making audio transcripts: It’s still early days for these technologies, but I’m here to tell you that their speed alone is a game changer for anyone who uses voice transcription to create text from lectures, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more. …
Zaz splits WBD, the neverending Paramount sale, listener letters, and TV picks! [Downstream+ subscribers also get: Apple TV stasis, Clooney on CNN, and the Great Netflix User Migration.]…
The Summer of Fun begins with loads of WWDC follow-up, including some big-picture reflections on last week and a discussion of some of our favorite features in Apple’s beta OS releases.…
Six Colors is sponsored this week by Turbulence Forecast, the easiest way to know in advance just how smooth or bumpy your next flight’s going to be.…
iCloud Photos requires mysterious files and processes and often consumes huge amounts of storage space. Six Colors subscriber John writes in with a question about one aspect of this: I have photos set to optimize storage, and it’s currently (according to DaisyDisk) using 60GB of my 500GB MacBook Air.…But …
You may not know it, but there’s an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it’s about to get even more powerful.…
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.…
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin: The import/export feature, which Apple demonstrated at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. …
On Thursday there was a Six Colors Zoom call for Backstage-level members and contributors alike. Glenn Fleishman asked Jason Snell and Dan Moren about Spotlight. He wondered about the discoverability and the intuitiveness of some of these features.…
Is that a Mac? Nope, it’s iPadOS 26 running on a Studio Display. Some of us have spent an awful lot of time pondering the iPad’s use cases as a professional productivity device.…
The Steve Jobs Archive has remastered his classic Stanford commencement address for its 20th anniversary: It’s not an obvious candidate for a classic. A commencement address by a college dropout. …
French media company Canal+ announced this week that it’s working on a documentary about French motorcycle racer Johann Zarco at the French Grand Prix, which would probably not be notable for most people were it not for how it was made: Produced in collaboration with Apple and MotoGP, a competition organized by Dorna, this new documentary event is the first Apple Immersive Video production filmed entirely with the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera. …
Lex has the big news and then, if we have time, we’ll talk about WWDC and whether or not Apple’s funny.…
My visionOS 26 persona. The side of my head really does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple needs to keep pushing toward that future at every opportunity.…
The most contentious decision about tabs since the soda got discontinued. For a company that’s long been known for its “my way or the highway” philosophy when it comes to design, some of Apple’s latest interface choices have abandoned that approach in favor of the realization that, well, change is hard.…
Six Colors subscriber Lindsay writes: I use Dropbox for storing all my work and personal files and syncing between my three Macs. The plan was to move my Dropbox folder and my Apple Photo Library to the external SSD, leaving the internal SSD mainly for Applications. …
Live from Apple Park (mostly). Apple’s new Spotlight for Mac, how iPadOS 26 will change our iPad usage, Apple’s latest improvements to messaging, and the Liquid Glass redesign.…
Software is more than just a new version number: at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled out expansive updates across its platforms, with a brand new Liquid Glass design, access to AI models for third-party developers, and new .…
Shortcuts for Mac adds support for LLM actions. So last year’s WWDC was too bold, too loud, too defensive. And, as it turned out, too aggressive in promising features Apple couldn’t deliver.…
Live from Cupertino, Jason has his in-person reactions to Apple’s WWDC announcements. And in London, Myke dangerously installs betas while reacting to momentous iPad and Mac news.…
It’s the end of an era! Five years after the introduction of Apple Silicon on Macs, and two years after the company fully transitioned its product line to the new architecture, the end of the road is in sight: the company announced on Monday that this year’s release of macOS Tahoe will be the last to support Intel-based Macs.…
Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.…
On an Apple TV, you can enable play history just as on other devices linked to your iCloud account. A couple of questions related to syncing your TV app usage across devices have come across the transom.…
Bill Atkinson, who was instrumental in creating the Mac, has died, according to his personal Facebook page: We regret to write that our beloved husband, father, and stepfather Bill Atkinson passed away on the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2025, due to pancreatic cancer. …
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick was frustrated with his task manager, so he built his own using AI tools:  This is the core problem with all productivity software: you’re renting someone else’s vision of how work should happen… So I decided to build exactly what I needed: daily planning like Intend, but with integrated future task management, and none of the philosophical baggage (some of which may be great for others, but didn’t mesh with me!). …
My thanks to WhisperType for sponsoring Six Colors this week. WhisperType brings high-quality speech-to-text transcription to the Mac with a clever twist: It’s designed for people who love using the keyboard.…
Stephen Hackett just took a deep dive into the story of the Power Mac G5, which introduced the “cheese grater” design also used by many years of Intel-based Mac Pros.…
Left to right: HOMERUN (not part of season 2), Dig Dig Dino, Fulcrum Defender. Last week, Panic rolled out season 2 of games for its Playdate game handheld.…
While the rest of the world has already ushered in the new year, in the Apple world the year starts on Monday of WWDC week, when Apple opens its annual Worldwide Developers Conference and sets its agenda for the next year.…
Pressure is rising.…
Whether repairability affects our buying choices, what we’d want from a rumored HomePod with a screen, what we’re looking forward to at WWDC next week, and our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 and whether standalone handhelds appeal to us.…
Very nice WWDC vibes from John Voorhees at MacStories: I’m far more optimistic than I was after WWDC 2024. I don’t expect AI to replace our friends in the indie developer community; far from it. …
One of the features I’m hoping will be introduced next week at WWDC is Apple giving app developers access to its AI models. Yes, Apple’s models need to improve, and hopefully we’ll hear something about that.…
Six Colors subscriber Ampsonic—an excellent source of questions—asks: Why do some names turn red in Messages when a non-iOS user is added? It’s all about hegemony!…
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