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The Happened-Throughout-Your-Day Edition Sunday, June 15, 2025

Why 2025 Will Be The Year To Start Your Apple Journal, by Nathaniel Pangaro, How-To Geek

With the Journal app, you can give your entry a title and then start writing underneath it with no limit. But while this first starts to sound similar to writing in the Notes app, it’s what you can add in that takes the app to the next level.

When writing your journal entry, you can tap into different apps to add data from them that happened throughout your day.

I Tried A Fingertip Lens That Claimed To Gave My iPhone A 1200x Zoom – But It Won’t Replace My Microscope Any Time Soon, by Chris Rowlands, TechRadar

It would be better marketed as an optical toy instead of a serious scoping tool. Re-framed as an affordable plaything, I think the iMicro has plenty going for it. A stick-on lens that gives your smartphone the power of 400x magnification? That’s enough to make it entertaining for a few weekends.

Apple Will Let Third Party Music Apps Show Animated Artwork On The iPhone Lock Screen, Not Just Apple Music, by Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac

The new API is called MPMediaItemAnimatedArtwork, and is testable right now in the developer SDK. This means an app with currently playing media can provide an animated video clip to the system for display on the lock screen, as well as placeholder artwork while the video loads.

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Okay, which third-party podcast player is going to be the first to do animated full screen artwork on the lock screen, and which podcast is going to be the first to have animated artwork for their podcast or episode or chapter?

Can't be long, right?

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I am so going to not expand the album art to full screen on my iPhone's lock screen if it is going to be animated. Especially if I am working with headphones plugged into my ear to avoid distractions.

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Thanks for reading.