Dr. Drang, bouncing off my recent post on Reminders:
If you have the Move tool in your Mail toolbar, you can select all the messages you want to move, click on the Move tool, and select the appropriate folder from the drop-down menu. Because the menu is long, this may seem no easier than dragging and dropping, but it is. The key is that once the drop-down menu is active, you can start typing the name of the folder and it will be selected. Boom.
Every summer, I take some time with Apple’s updated stock apps. Many of them are quite good, and meet the needs for the vast majority of users.
I fully understand that sometimes you and I are not the vast majority of users, and that third-party apps can often better fit our needs.
Every year, I feel the call of Reminders. It looks nice, is integrated with the system in a bunch of fun ways, and unlike my normal app Todoist, is easy to use with Siri.
Yesterday morning, I got obsessed with the 10-day forecast section of the Apple Weather iOS app—specifically, how it presents each day’s temperature range. I still don’t understand the logic behind it.
The blog post is impressive, but the footnote contains a straight-up murder:
Several readers on Mastodon told me the alignment was fine on their phones and suggested Larger Text/Dynamic Type as the reason the charts on my phone are messed up. They were absolutely right. I bumped up my text size so long ago I’d forgotten all about it, but I should’ve known to look into that before posting. Interestingly, moving my text size down just one tick got all the bar ends to match up. The colors still seem a little off to me, but I’ll need to zoom in and look more carefully.
Answer a few questions to find the best Mac for you.
The questions cover your use cases, where you plan on using the machine, what sort of peripherals you may use, and your budget.
No matter what answers I gave it, I could never get it to recommend a Mac Pro.
Leading into WWDC, I shared some concerns I had when it came to thinking about how Apple would integrate AI into its products.
Tim Cook has spoken to Josh Tyrangiel at The Washington Post about how the company went into this endeavor. Here’s Cook:
We went into this saying, “These are our values, and we can’t veer from them.” And we took the time and the depth of thinking to come out with a product that we’re proud of. We knew that we had to do things outside of the device because of the size of the language models that we’re working with, so we needed to have a level of invention on the cloud. And fortunately, we were able to build it upon things that we had, like Apple silicon.
Props to The Basic Apple Guy for grabbing these screenshots. Like the default wallpaper, none of these seem to be actual image files that anyone can find in the file system.
macOS Sequoia has been announced and it comes with a couple of colorful new default wallpapers and one based in the forrest that I really like.
Download full-sized copies here:
There are new operating systems, but Apple has made some slight changes to the base system requirements for each OS:
iOS 18 brings no changes in compatibility:
iPadOS 18 seems to drop the 6th-generation iPad. RIP, buddy.
Sequoia drops support for the 2018 MacBook Air, which can run Sonoma:
These are always fun:
I am sure working on these things is hard and complicated, but it looks like a lot of fun, too:
“It’s inspiring to see how developers are using our technology to create exceptional apps and games that enhance the lives of users,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “This year’s winners have demonstrated how apps can create powerful and moving experiences — and we’re excited to celebrate their hard work and ingenuity at WWDC this year.”
Seven different categories recognize one app and game each for delight and fun, inclusivity, innovation, interaction, social impact, visuals and graphics, and a new spatial computing category. Winners were chosen from 42 finalists.
Silo may be my favorite show on TV+ so far, and I hope we get a lot more of it.
