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Apple Support:

If one of these messages appears, iOS or iPadOS diagnostics detected an issue on your iPhone or iPad that might require repair.

Contact Apple Support if one of these messages appears on your iPhone or iPad:

• Cellular Issue Detected
• Ultra Wideband Issue Detected
• Apple Pay Issue Detected

You might see these messages on the Home Screen or in Settings > General > About under Parts and Service History.

I’ve had the pleasure of reading this over the weekend, and I think it’s my favorite of Viticci’s iOS reviews. Grab your iPad, find a comfy chair and enjoy.

Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site.

Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications, new customization options, and much more. Unite apps also serve as a great alternative for resource hogging Electron apps or half-baked Catalyst apps.

Some examples of apps you could create in mere minutes with Unite:

• A Gmail web client that behaves like a native mail client.
• A status bar app for Apple Music or Overcast
• An isolated workspace for apps that may track you like Facebook
• A Google Meet app that works efficiently without using Chrome
• A fully featured Instagram app.
• A Robinhood, Figma, or Roam Research app for your desktop.

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Tasha Robinson at Polygon with some good news about my favorite Pixar movie:

The home-video company Criterion announced Thursday that Pixar Animation Studios’ feature WALL-E will join the Criterion Collection in November, as the first Disney or Pixar movie to receive a Criterion release. The Criterion edition will be released Nov. 22, with pre-orders opening Oct. 18.

Criterion, a curation company that preserves, restores, and releases movies of particular cultural impact and importance from around the world, has almost no animated movies in its roster. WALL-E will join Watership Down, the French sci-fi film Fantastic Planet, and Wes Anderson’s stop-motion movie Fantastic Mr. Fox in the company’s limited animation lineup. In addition to being the company’s first Disney or Pixar film, WALL-E is the only CG animated film currently in the company’s library.

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This weekend’s MPU is out early:

Apple has announced its slate of iPhones and Apple Watches for the year and has major software releases right around the corner. This week, David and Stephen discuss the company’s announcements and review iOS 16.

Garth Beagle has uploaded something pretty special to the Macintosh Garden:

A (mostly) complete collection of After Dark modules, pre-installed, ready to go, using an install of After Dark 4.0.3. Tested on a color-capable Macintosh with System 7.1 and Mac OS 7.6.1.

We recorded this week’s Connected episode just a few hours after Apple’s “Far Out” event:

Apple has announced the iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. Also new: the Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Series 8 and all-new Apple Watch Ultra. An update to the AirPods Pro was also thrown into the mix. This week, the guys cover the news and see how their predictions looked after Apple’s September event.

Apple Support:

Emergency SOS via satellite can help you connect with emergency services under exceptional circumstances when no other means of reaching emergency services are available. If you call or text emergency services and can’t connect because you’re outside the range of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage, your iPhone tries to connect you via satellite to the help that you need.

When you use a satellite connection, the experience is different than sending or receiving a message via cellular. In ideal conditions with a direct view of the sky and the horizon, a message might take 15 seconds to send, and over a minute to send under trees with light or medium foliage. If you’re under heavy foliage or surrounded by other obstructions, you might not be able to connect to a satellite. Connection times can also be impacted by your surroundings, the length of your message, and the status and availability of the satellite network.

Emergency SOS via satellite will be available with an iOS 16 software update coming in November 2022.

Bookmark this one for future use:

Find out how to transfer an eSIM or physical SIM from your previous iPhone to an eSIM on your new iPhone. You can also convert your physical SIM to an eSIM on your iPhone.

The One True John has taken iCloud Shared Photo Library out for a spin:

Having gone through the process of setting up an iCloud Shared Photo Library, I have to say I’m very impressed with how well the feature has been architected. So far, I’ve only added Jennifer and one of my sons to my iCloud Shared Photo Library, but the initial setup process didn’t take long, did a good job of explaining my options, and went smoothly, adding both of them to a library of 25,000 of my photos featuring our kids and extended families.

I look forward to taking a sabbatical to combine my photo library with my wife’s.

It’s kind of amazing how short-lived this feature ended up being.