What does DropTask do?
DropTask lets you quickly create new tasks and send them off to Apple Reminders, Todoist, or OmniFocus.
Write your task name and details in plain language, and DropTask will pick them out and send them to your task manager.
Where does DropTask run?
DropTask runs on iOS/iPadOS/watchOS 26 and later. DropTask for macOS requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later and runs on both Intel and Apple silicon machines.
Learn more about DropTask.
When you attach a place, DropTask sends the place name to Apple’s Maps service for coordinates, along with your home or work address as the search center, under Apple’s privacy policy. Beyond that, the place goes only to the app you’re sending the task to, and the results aren’t kept.
DropTask lets you quickly create new tasks and send them off to Apple Reminders, Todoist, or OmniFocus, without the distraction of your to-do list. Write your task name and details in plain language, and DropTask will pick them out and send them to your task manager.
For Apple Reminders users, DropTask includes watchOS complications and widgets that show how many tasks you have left in your day.
It runs on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad and is currently available on TestFlight. If you check it out and have feedback, let me know!
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In September 2025, Apple released macOS 26 Tahoe, advancing the version number to match its new convention of aligning releases with the next calendar year.
Tahoe introduced Liquid Glass to the Mac. Despite sharing a name, the user interface was different in some notable ways to its iOS and iPadOS cousins. Beyond the new design, Tahoe brought with it an overhauled Spotlight that doubled as an automation tool thanks to Shortcuts, the ability to customize folders with colors and emoji, Live Activity support, Control Center customization, and more.
In fall 2026, Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate. It was the first version of macOS to support only Apple silicon Macs, dropping the handful of Intel machines its predecessor, Tahoe, supported.
Like its more mobile operating system cousins, a headline feature of Golden Gate was a revised version of Liquid Glass. The Mac had taken the short end of the stick in 2025, and Golden Gate rights just about all the wrongs introduced in Tahoe.
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October 2026 feels like September 2.0, between winding down the St. Jude campaign and the launch of the iPhone Duo, which we marked with the return of Check the Weather!
We are thrilled with how the campaign went this year, and moving the Podcastathon to the end of the month was 100% the right move.
I usually take some time off in October, and this year was no different, despite things being so busy. We spent the week before last in southern Utah, visiting Zion National Park among others. Everything in that part of the country is beautiful, and I’m still stunned at what we were able to see. More importantly, it was a great week of family time.
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I think September is finally over. John Ternus, I swear if you announce one more thing this year, we all might collapse.
I have DropTask ready to go. The iOS app has been “In Review” for 36 hours as of this writing, while the Mac version has been “Waiting for Review” for several days. Maybe one day it will launch.
The AI-generated images below was created on January 24, 2024, using Apple Intelligence’s Image Playgrounds application on macOS Sequoia 15.2.
For this image, David’s contact information was selected, and Image Playground was asked to make an image with him as an astronaut, in the “Animation” style.
For this image, I then selected my contact information was selected, and Image Playground was prompted to make me a cowboy in front of a mountain range, in the “Illustration” style:
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Hello. My name is Stephen Hackett. I live in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I have three children, a dog named Eva Corndog and a cat named Albert Queso.
I make podcasts and write for a living. I’m the co-founder of the Relay podcast network, where I host several shows. You can learn about these projects and more below.