For once, a timely support document:
When you have Unlock with iPhone turned on, unlocking your iPhone unlocks your Apple Watch as long as you’re wearing it. An issue in iOS 14.7 affects the ability of iPhone models with Touch ID to unlock Apple Watch.
If you experience this issue, just type the passcode directly on your Apple Watch to unlock it. This is required only one time, as long as you keep your Apple Watch on your wrist. If you forgot your passcode, you need to reset your Apple Watch.
If you use Alfred and Reminders, Robb Knight has some good news for you.
These are the two most interesting tweets about the Macintosh Performa … maybe ever.
Think it’s possible that the Macintosh Performa name was a portmanteau of performance and the Latin “pro forma?” I never made this connection before. pic.twitter.com/QJlC9q2owa
— Michael Steeber (@MichaelSteeber) July 18, 2021
The Performa debuted three years after Andy spun out with General Magic, and he wouldn’t have been involved in hardware product line naming anyway. “Performa” was intended to evoke performance, both computational and artistic. The Latin phrase had nothing to do with it.
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In my series 2001 Revisited, I’m covering Apple’s major announcements from 20 years ago. On July 18, 2001, Steve Jobs presented the keynote at Macworld New York, less than two months after WWDC 2001.
This event took place a couple of months after the first two Apple Stores opened, and Jobs seemed eager to show photos of them off before announcing four new stores:
This would bring the total number of Apple Stores to six, with a goal of 25 being set for the end of 2001. To share his excitement about this, Jobs ran a video showing off the concept.
We’re halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for my 2022 Apple Hardware Calendar and I could not be more thrilled by the results so far: over 800 backers so far. If you haven’t checked it out, I would love for you to consider pledging.
Need to run an emulated Apple II in a browser to run The Print Shop to make some PDFs? This website is for you.
We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. More than 80M people in the US listen to a podcast weekly, and this critically acclaimed podcast app makes it easier for fans to discover podcasts and customize their listening experience. Pocket Casts has been recognized by The New York Times, WIRED, The Verge, and other top publications for its exquisite design and user-friendly features.
On this week’s episode of Connected, I have to whisper with an accent and Apple has to keep re-thinking Safari 15. Meanwhile, Myke still isn’t using MagSafe and Federico’s text editor has gone global.
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Apple has reworked much of Safari 15’s user interface as of today’s beta releases. Tabs have returned to their own row below the address bar, on the Mac at least:
The tabs look a little too much like touch targets on the Mac,1 but I can live with that given what we had in the first two betas, when Apple smashed together tabs and the address bar.
Most people think of Microsoft in the 1990s as a juggernaut in the software industry, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have some … weird … products that made it to market.
When MagSafe was introduced with the iPhone 12 line in the fall, there was a lot of chatter over if Apple would make an external battery pack that would work with the system. Now, many months later, we have the answer: the $99 MagSafe Battery Pack.
According to MacRumors, this battery accessories clocks in at just 1,460mAh, in line with the previous Smart Battery Case. As far as charging speed, this is what Apple says: