After taking a deep dive into the new Passwords app in Sequoia, I’m delighted with it. Unless you’re convinced that you need your secrets protected by another password, I think you should look carefully at it, as it could save you the subscription to a third-party password manager. This article looks inside it to explain which secrets it gives access to, as they can become confusing.
It’s always sad to see a longstanding Apple-focused publication close its doors, but at least iMore’s archives will remain online. I’d be interested to learn more about what drove this business decision—like AnandTech, iMore was owned by publication aggregator Future PLC.
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As we found many years ago, serving ads to eyeballs is a tough business, and I assume that a conflation of factors reduced iMore’s revenues to the point where it was no longer sustainable to generate content.
I respect MKBHD and his work immensely. He presents as a driven craftsman whose work ethic and character have pushed the tech industry forward. He's an inspiration to many creators (including myself). I am continuously awe-struck at what he can produce and admire his temperament under what I can imagine is ungodly amounts of social pressure (including, from yours truly, a stupid coffee cup). But any wallpaper app aiming to celebrate creators must hold itself to a much higher standard. This was a huge and disappointing miss.
Apple TV+ will once again be making the iconic "Peanuts" specials available to non-subscribers for a limited time this holiday season.
Starting today, you can tuck your phone away in your backpack and use the new AllTrails compass feature on your watch whenever you need navigational guidance. You can also track your activity stats on your watch in real time via AllTrails if you want to keep an eye on how long you've been out on the trail, watch your pace, heart rate and how much elevation you've gained. You can even see how much time you have left before you can get back to the trailhead and take your hiking boots off.
Today, I find myself listening to quite a few long notifications while wearing my AirPods Pro, and Siri kept asking me whether I want to listen to the long messages, and I have to either nod or shake my head.
I find that I don't like to do these gestures. I could't get them just right for the phone to understand what I meant, while the AirPods Pro just went beeps and boops. Eventually, I guess, the whole thing timed out, and my music / podcast / audiobook resumes. No, I don't like this at all.
Is this Siri refusing to read long messages new to iOS 18? I can find the settings to turn off head gestures, but I can't find the setting to tell Siri to just read all the messages all the time, instead of tellling me there is a long message and waiting for my permission to read me the long message. Siri, you already interrupted my audio entertainment, just read the whole messages, will you?
(If I turn off the head gestures thing, Siri will wait for me to speak 'yes' out loud before reading the messages, it seems.)
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