Apple’s annual software updates have implications throughout time. They reach back to older devices, some years making them more performant and usable or, alternatively, removing support for them altogether; they deal, obviously, with the products people are using and buying right now; and, perhaps most interestingly, they hint at what we might see from the company down the road.…

Nice overview from Jonathan Reed at MacStories of Apple’s watchOS 27 updates. Like some of Apple’s other platforms—cough, cough, tvOS—the Watch didn’t get a huge amount of time during the keynote, but there are some good tweaks there.…

Live from Apple Park just hours after the WWDC keynote, Jason and Myke offer their in-person reactions to Apple’s announcements, including Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, platform improvements and refinements, and features for kids.…

We discuss Apple’s WWDC 2026 announcements. Some of them weren’t even about AI.…

Siri’s long-awaited overhaul made its public debut today during Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote, as Apple outlined its vision for a more capable version of its virtual assistant that’s powered by a new generation of Apple Intelligence.…

One of my favorite bits of most Apple events is picking out the little things that Apple doesn’t talk about in its keynotes. At WWDC 2026, however, a lot of those little details did get mentioned—but if you blinked, you might have missed them.…

Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy. And most tools for turning websites into apps still feel more like wrappers than real Mac software.…

Apple’s built-in screen sharing support for Mac-to-Mac connections has always been a help for those of us with remote setups: headless Macs acting as servers, an office and home Mac, or the laziness of having Macs in different parts of your house you want to access without standing up.…

I noted Jason’s post awhile back about his reading routine with interest. My ears perked up again at the announcement of the audio newsletter for Six Colors members.…

This week, Rogue Amoeba is sponsoring Six Colors. Their strange name has been synonymous with audio software on the Mac for over two decades. (How did I not could come up with the response AMOEBA when I was on Jeopardy!…

I’m a bit in awe of Parish Khan’s Mac Cable Bandwidth Calculator, an interactive web site that lets you visualize the combination of cable and Mac you need to drive particular displays, based on their resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.…

In a preview of our new Designed in California podcast, we take you back to 1976 and recount Steve Jobs’s numerous attempts to sell Apple or, at the very least, get someone to make an investment in the fledgling company.…

Next week is WWDC, which has always represented Apple’s connection to its community of third-party developers, and in recent years has also served as the official start of Apple’s annual operating-system cycle.…

WWDC expectations, how we squeeze more life out of older gadgets, our search engine habits, and the next craft projects tech will help us with.…

This week we talk about what we expect to see next week and the similarities between kids and meteors.…

In an absolutely horrible development for users and historical tech, Microsoft will let perfectly functioning old software suddenly break due to an expiring certificate. Tim Hardwick at MacRumors reports:

Microsoft has actually renewed the suite’s certificate, but the fix can only be delivered through a software update.

Have you ever really looked at your Photos, man? There’s much depth there—just keep looking. I’m not stoned; I’m just thinking about Apple’s two ways of demonstrating depth in Photos to simulate adding a sense of layers or dimensionality to images you took with one or more cameras on your iPhone.…

Longtime tech writer and columnist and Friend of the Site Andy Ihnatko, who I have known since I started in this business (he was a columnist at MacUser!),…

Emily Lin Zhang makes a real statement in the title of her new 30-minute documentary, “The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum“—that it’s unsolved! I’d argue strongly that her dogged research has largely filled in the missing pieces of the story of where the run of seemingly Latin text used by designers to act as placeholder (or “Greeked”) text in mock-ups since the late 1960s came from.…

It’s time for our 11th annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? For the third straight year, what will Apple’s AI story be?…

This week, Rogue Amoeba is sponsoring Six Colors. Our strange name has been synonymous with audio software on the Mac for over two decades, even if Jason couldn’t come up with the response AMOEBA when he was on Jeopardy.…

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that Myke Hurley and I are launching a Kickstarter for a new podcast, Designed in California.

Myke and I have been discussing Apple in depth every week for more than a decade on the Upgrade podcast.…

9to5Mac reports on an X post from a “reliable source” that provides some new images of the four colors rumored to be available on the iPhone 18 Pro:

A new set of iPhone 18 Pro dummy units is giving us our best look yet at the all-new colors Apple has planned for this year.

“Star City,” Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” spin-off, has just premiered. I’ve seen the first five episodes and really like it. It’s accessible even if you haven’t seen “For All Mankind” or if you’ve stopped watching that show.…

Every year at WWDC, Apple kicks off a new cycle of operating system updates that will change the faces of the devices we use every day for the next year.…

Whether we’ve bought anything from social media ads, if we’d use a dumb phone, our thoughts on screenless fitness trackers like Whoop and Fitbit Air, and tech hardware that feels purpose-built for us.…

It’s our 600th episode and we are very on top of it, we assure you! This episode is two — TWO (2) — episodes running the length of three!…