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OpenAI Adds iCloud Calendar and Mail Plugins and Dot Texting
OpenAI continues to add features to its ChatGPT app on a regular basis, but there are a couple of recent Apple-specific updates worth mentioning. First, OpenAI…
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MacBook Pro with Touch: A Mac for the iPad Generation
Ever since I got my hands on the very first iPad Pro all the way back in November 2015, I’ve gotten used to a certain type of computer interaction that Steve…
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Apple Kicks Off Touch on Mac Developer Resources with Videos and Labs
Source: Apple As part of the introduction of Touch on the OLED MacBook Pros today, Apple has begun rolling out resources for developers. Apple’s press release…
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Apple Brings Touch to the Mac with New OLED MacBook Pros
Source: Apple. Apple today introduced newly redesigned 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros featuring tandem OLED displays that support Touch. The new MacBook Pros…
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Apple Creator Studio to Add MotionVFX, AI Assistants, and MCP Support in November
Source: Apple. In November, Apple Creator Studio will get its biggest update since its release in January. There’s a lot here, so let’s break it down by app…
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Apple Updates the Entry-Level 14-Inch MacBook Pro with the M6
Source: Apple. Apple also introduced a new 14-inch MacBook Pro today featuring the M6 chipset. This entry-level MacBook Pro retains the design of the current…
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Apple Updates the iMac with the M6, Starting at $1,499
Source: Apple. Apple’s daily hardware drops continued today with a refresh to the iMac. The new iMac upgrades from an M4 to an M6 chip, with the base model…
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Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 27.2 with Apple Pencil Support for iPhone Duo and Smarter Siri
The iPhone Duo now supports the Apple Pencil (USB-C). It’s been just six weeks since iOS and iPadOS 27 were released, but Apple just introduced version 27.2…
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Today on AppStories: iPhone Duo First Impressions and Apps
Today on AppStories, Federico and I share our first impressions of the iPhone Duo and share our experiences in New York and London, where we learned more about…
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The New iPad mini Adds OLED with a Larger 8.5-Inch Display
Source: Apple. Apple today announced an update to the iPad mini, one of my favorite iPads. The new mini features an 8.5-inch OLED display, a landscape Center…
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Goodnotes: Take Your Architectural Ideas from Desk to Job Site [Sponsor]
Goodnotes architectural plans, site photos, and annotations on iPad and iPhone Many architects still think best with a pencil in hand. A floor plan starts as a…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 534
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: Trying to Get Work Done on the iPhone Duo, by Federico…
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Apple Investigating Options for Extending Web Content Under iPhone Duo’s Safari Controls
Jen Simmons, writing at the official WebKit blog: Safari 27.1 does bring one change to users. Now, when someone holds iPhone Duo partially folded like a book…
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A Day with the iPhone Duo: First Impressions
I spent Wednesday in New York, interviewing developers about their iPhone Duo apps. It was like a little slice of WWDC dropped among Manhattan’s skyscrapers…
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Building for iPhone Duo, in App Developers’ Own Words
I spent yesterday in New York City interviewing developers about their iPhone Duo apps and the experience of building for such a new and different device. The…
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iPhone Duo Review Roundup: Great Hinge, Messy Apps, and Everybody Misses Face ID
iPhone Duo reviews are out today, and while I was hoping that this year I’d get to review this hybrid device under embargo, it hasn’t happened (I hope it will…
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Perplexity Computer’s Local-First Approach to Agents
Source: Perplexity. Today, Perplexity announced a local-first mode for Computer where the model and agent work entirely on your Mac whether you’re online or…
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Apple Announces October 28 “Pro and Tell” Event
In a post by Greg Joswiak on X, Apple has said it will hold an ‘Pro and Tell’ in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 am Pacific. Judging…
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ChatGPT Dots Gain Widget and New Shortcuts Actions
Late Friday, OpenAI updated the ChatGPT app on iOS and iPadOS with a new widget for your Dot and Shortcuts actions that let you control it three ways. The…
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SaneBox: Clear the Clutter, Keep What Matters [Sponsor]
You’ve set up Focus modes for work and weekends, built Shortcuts for repetitive tasks, and rearranged your Home Screen until everything is perfect. But then…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 533
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: Apple and the Lunatic Fringe, by John Using a Clipboard…
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an Over 800 Billion Parameter Model That Can Run Locally on Multiple M5 Ultra Mac Studios
Meta just released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal large language model with a mixture-of-experts architecture. It has over 800 billion…
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Why Aren’t AI Labs’ Apps Better?
Ben Davis (co-host of one of my favorite new podcasts this year, Nerd Snipe) has a fascinating take on a question I’ve seen many in the Apple community ponder…
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HomeView Points to Siri AI as the Next Developer Platform
Source: Apple. Yesterday, Wired reported that third-party apps with CarPlay functionality would be available on Apple’s new HomeView device. That struck me as…
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Apple Teams Up with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric to Offer the Apple Home Collection
Source: Apple. Apple revealed today that it has partnered with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric on the Apple Home Collection, a range of smart home…
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The Apple TV 4K Gets Siri AI, an A19 Chip, and a $299 Price Tag
Source: Apple. Apple also updated the Apple TV 4K today. Last updated in 2022, the Apple TV 4K’s fourth-generation update is focused on bringing an improved…
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Apple Reveals HomePod mini 2 with New Colors, Richer Sound, and Siri AI
As part of today’s announcements related to Home (including the brand new HomeView, which we’ve covered here), Apple also announced HomePod mini 2, an update…
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Apple Unveils HomeView: A Smart Home Display Powered by Siri AI
Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced the highly anticipated HomeView, a Siri AI-powered device for controlling your HomeKit devices and accessing other apps…
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Apple Kicks Off Indie Games Week with Six New iPhone and iPad Games, Plus No Man’s Sky Preorders
Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced Indie Games Week, a celebration of some of the best games from independent game studios. To kick things off, the company…
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Crickets: Bring Your Family’s Morning Alarms Together [Sponsor]
Getting your whole family up and pointed in the right direction every morning isn’t simple. Everyone’s on a different schedule, and schedules change day to…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 532
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: Building iOS Apps with Multiple Claude Accounts, T3…
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Our Favorite Indie Apps for iOS 27, Vol. 3
We have another collection our favorite indie apps that take advantage of Apple’s latest OS features. Today, we’re highlighting: Haven, Structured, Capture…
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Apple Announces October 2026 Event
In a post by Greg Joswiak on X and email to creators and media outlets, Apple has said it will hold an ‘Experience’ in Tribeca, New York on Tuesday, October 13…
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MacStories Setups: A Summer of Workflow Refinements and Experimentation
We’re back with another MacStories Setups update. I swear Federico and I didn’t coordinate our purchases this summer, but you’ll notice that both of us began…
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MacStories Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Roundup
Amazon’s Big Deal Days for Prime members has begun, and we’ve collected some of our favorite deals offered. As usual, we’ve kept our picks simple, including…
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Deflector Turns iOS 27 Notification Triggers into a Shortcut Launcher
Deflector for iOS. In my iOS and iPadOS 27 review, I wrote about one of the more interesting additions to the Shortcuts app for power users: automation…
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iPhone Duo App Submissions Are Open
Source: Apple. Yesterday, Apple announced on its developer blog that it has begun taking App Store submissions for iPhone Duo apps. The new foldable phone will…
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GoodLinks: Read Later and Do More with Your Articles [Sponsor]
It happens to all of us. You come across an article you want to read, but you’re in the middle of something and don’t have the time. GoodLinks gives those…
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Apple Announces Plan to Impose New Full Disk Access Controls on Mac Developers
Today, on its developer blog, Apple announced plans to “…introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this…
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OpenAI’s Dots: A First Look
Source: OpenAI. Earlier this week, I was at OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference where it launched Dots, a personal agent that lives inside the ChatGPT app. I set…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 531
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: How Agents Changed The Way I Manage Email, by John This…
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How I Used Notion, Agents, and Local AI to Research and Organize My iOS 27 Review
My Notion setup (left) and Desk, my custom system for the iOS and iPadOS review. The process for this year’s iOS and iPadOS review was, on the surface, similar…
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Monthly Log: September 2026
In this month's edition of the Monthly Log: Encountering the Builders of DevDay, by John Making Sense of My Agents with a Notion Board, by Federico This Story…
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Frames CLI 1.5.0, Now with iPhone 18 Pro and (Experimental) iPhone Duo Support
The updated Frames CLI also supports proportional scaling for iPhone Duo. The Frames CLI – the companion command line interface to my Apple Frames shortcut I…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 530
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: The iPhone Duo and AI Tides That Lift All iPad Boats, by…
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Our Favorite Indie Apps for iOS 27, Vol. 2
It’s time to get back to our favorite indie apps that take advantage of Apple’s latest OS features. Today, we’re highlighting: Bear, Gentler Streak, The…
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Apple Music Hall Opens in Battersea Power Station
Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a state-of-the-art live venue in London’s Battersea Power Station. The intimate concert…
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
The M5 Ultra Mac Studio. For the past few days, I’ve been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM. I’ll cut to the…
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LookAway: The Screen Breaks Your Eyes Deserve [Sponsor]
Hi, I’m Kushagra, the indie developer behind LookAway. It’s very easy to get into the flow, lose track of time, and end up sitting for hours in front of a…
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MacStories Weekly: Issue 529
This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts:Dropover, by John20 Twenty Shortcuts Built with the New…
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The iPhone 18 Pro Camera: Apple Reference Image and Tyler Stalman’s Review
In the wake of last week’s Surprise and Shine event, Apple published a post on its Security Research blog about Apple Reference Image, a way to verify that a…
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Chance Miller on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4
Apple Watch reviews are out and Chance Miller at 9to5Mac has an excellent, in-depth look at both the Series 12 and Ultra 4. One of the things that Chance…
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ChatGPT Is Surprisingly Thorough at Planning Running Routes
Every now and then, I go looking for new running routes to mix things up, which was why I was intrigued by this post by Simon Willison, who gave ChatGPT Work…
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Our Favorite Indie Apps for iOS 27, Vol. 1
With our annual OS reviews out of the way, Federico and I will be covering our favorite indie apps that take advantage of Apple’s latest OS features. We have…
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TestFlight Fixes and Wishes
Just as I was heading into the final stretch of review season, TestFlight was updated to reverse an update I wrote about in July. That update added search…
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watchOS 27: The MacStories Review
I haven’t been this excited about an Apple Watch in a long time. Last week, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, which will be…
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macOS 27: The MacStories Review
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Mary Shelley, introduction to Frankenstein (1831) Every OS…
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Our OS 27 Review Extras: eBooks, Shortcuts, and the Making of the iOS and iPadOS 27 Review
Today we published not one, but three reviews covering four OSes: Federico’s iOS and iPadOS 27 review, which is packed with special interactive touches John’s…
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iOS and iPadOS 27: The MacStories Review
After years of relentless building, it’s good to see Apple sweat the details again.
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You’ve been paying a tax on being healthy. Four dollars here for hydration, five there for sleep, another subscription for fasting, another for habits, and…