Placing your phone face down is a small change that can have surprising ripple effects on your digital well-being and device health. Here are five solid arguments for putting your phone to bed, screen-first.
I know we all like to get a good memento mori jolt now and again, particularly when the world is in turmoil! (That’s sarcasm.) But as I grow older, I can’t avoid thinking about my digital legacy, or that of my parents, as I am the executor named in their wills.
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While I am not a lawyer and this is absolutely not legal advice, this question plays into the larger issue of preparing for your or someone else’s incapacity or death if you or they want to have their digital footprint carried into the future.
iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to all compatible iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state, with no Mac or PC required.
With the second beta, what’s under Control Center is much more opaque, making it much easier to read at a glance.
Apple has added a new toggle to show the menu bar background in macOS Tahoe 26 beta 2. The option was added after beta 1 arrived with no menu bar background and no toggle to restore it.
Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of tradition.
watchOS 26 is adding a new "Show Data When Locked" setting to the Apple Watch.
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There is one exception: Apple says data from the Health app will never be visible in complications when an Apple Watch is locked, regardless of the toggle's position.
Apple didn't give the new ringtone a special name, and it's just listed as "Alt 1" as an option if you tap into Reflection.
Starting today, Apple said the My Number Card on the iPhone can be used to print official documents at convenience stores in Japan, and to access the My Number Portal to receive online government services. In the future, users will also be able to present a My Number Card on the iPhone at hospitals and pharmacies in Japan.
Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 14.4, with an AI-powered Distraction Removal tool that allows you to remove people and reflections from images.
Sophiana’s purpose is to help reporters’ stories transition from prose to vertical video. Here’s how it works: Launch the app and tell it a bit about yourself. Are you a solo practitioner or part of a newsroom? A journalist, author, academic, or something else? Is your ideal tone more friendly, professional, or urgent? Then you paste in the text of a story you’ve written. The app then sends your story to OpenAI’s GPT-4o with a prompt informed by your style preferences and Smith Galer’s experience. OpenAI will return a set of three potential openings to frame your video. (You can ask it for more if you’d like.)
Essentially, Apple created a new containerization framework to provide control over containers, container images, and processes. This new framework also features sidecars, which are containers that run alongside other containers to add features like logging and monitoring of the primary container.
This is big because it gives developers everything they need to work with and run containers without having to install third-party software (such as Docker). This leads to better integration with MacOS, better performance from containers, tighter security, and a vastly improved experience.
Can Apple not see the Control Panel is not usable in the first beta, but has to wait until the feedback comes in and adjust in beta 2?
Or maybe this is intentional so that everyone will applaud for listening and adjusting quickly?
Or maybe I am thinking too much?
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