Apple’s 27 OSes are rolling out today, and there’s a lot of great stuff to read:
As is tradition, I have made and cataloged a whole bunch of screenshots of the new version of macOS.
Golden Gate is the 24th version of macOS that I have documented this way. It’s a lot of work, but I love having the screenshot library as a resource for folks to use and enjoy.
If you haven’t looked through the library in a while, you should check out my new-ish comparison tool. You can type what you are looking for, and the page will surface related screenshots, sorted by age. It is a lot of fun.
Mark Gurman has good news for Apple Store visitors:
In many stores, Apple will replace the video walls with dedicated Genius Bars, marking a return to a familiar element from an earlier era. The design resembles the Genius Bars of the past but with an all-wood look. There will be two counter heights for accessibility, while the wall behind the bar will include storage drawers and large posters highlighting new products.
Something remarkable happened over at Relay’s campaign for St. Jude.
We have now raised more than $5 million for St. Jude since we started this project in 2019.
If you had told me back then that this would be possible, I would not have believed you. The Relay community has proven me wrong, and I’m so thankful for it. Let’s keep the party going.
This is Relay’s dent in the universe.
The eve of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders seems like a good time to look back at the iPhone 17 family’s adoption. Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith.
Generally, they followed the usual adoption pattern and overall did very well, ending at around 20% of total usage.
With the exception of the Air really struggling to find market share. For comparison, the 16 Plus ended its first year at around 1.4% (vs. the Air’s 0.3%).
This is one of my favorite pages across Apple’s various websites. I mean, just look at this drawing of the iPhone 17 Pro:
In the shadow of Apple’s Surprise and Shine event, we grade our predictions and talk through the news.
Many picks were made. One Chairman will be named.
Who will win? Who will fold?
Ahhh, the Duo-ality of the Rickies!
Kate Matthews has an on-going project that I just love:
I’ve been sketching size comparisons for the new iPhone models since 2017, so in 2026 I’m celebrating ten years of iPhone size sketches!
This is just a sample of what awaits you:
Well, this little Easter Egg in Apple’s 27 OSes is fun. If you go into Settings → Appearance → Liquid Glass and scroll down far enough in the example content, an old friend appears:
This 3D version of Clarus can also be found within macOS 27 Golden Gate:
My thanks to Federico Viticci for sending this my way!
If you have an iPhone, you’ll want to check these out.
Thankfully, there’s some time between now and when the iPhone Duo ships next month.
The new starting prices for the three models now look like this:
- iPhone 16: $799 (+$100)
- iPhone 17e: $699 (+$100)
- iPhone 17: $899 (+$100)
- iPhone Air: $1099 (+$100)
So that’s a $100 price hike on all four existing models in Apple’s iPhone lineup. With the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple has discontinued the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.
If you have tried moving entries from Day One to Apple’s Journal app en masse, you have no doubt hit a wall. Journal has no AppleScript support, no public API, and very limited Shortcuts support.
I assumed this would remain unsolved until Apple created an importer for Journal, but then I saw Brian Stucki link to this project on GitHub.
I made an extra backup of my Day One data and then threw nearly 3,000 Day One posts at it, and the CLI just worked.