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Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro, and Rogue Amoeba’s 20th anniversary.…

Joanna Stern, at The Wall Street Journal:…

Jay Peters and Alex Cranz, writing for The Verge:…

Today is the last day of September, and thus the last day of Relay FM’s annual fundraising drive for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude is simply an amazing institution: they both provide world-class treatment for kids with cancer free of…

Sidhartha Shukla, reporting for Bloomberg:…

Fantastical now includes Focus filters and Lock Screen widgets. Get Fantastical today and get more productive!  ★ 

Speaking of AirPods Pro, MacRumors also has a story today that first-generation AirPods Pro will be getting the new adaptive transparency mode with iOS 16.1, which is still in beta. This was announced during the keynote event this month as a feature for the…

Sami Fathi, reporting for MacRumors:…

September and October are usually the busiest months of the year, for the obvious reason that it’s the season when Apple holds its biggest product announcements of the year. But I haven’t mentioned these openings for a while, and I’ve still got a few…

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:…

Mark Spoonauer, writing for Tom’s Guide:…

Neale Van Fleet, writing for the Rogue Amoeba blog:…

Speaking of Rogue Amoeba, here’s Paul Kafasis:…

Joe Rossignol:…

My thanks to Warp for sponsoring last week at DF. Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app. Warp’s input area is a real text editor so users can use IDE keyboard shortcuts to write commands. It…

Future Yankees captain Aaron Judge is sitting at 60 home runs on the season. The legitimate single-season record belongs to Yankees legend Roger Maris at 61. What a game for Apple to land on Friday Night Baseball.  ★ 

It *almost* feels more like having an adorable little iPhone Nano strapped to my wrist than a huge Apple Watch.

Nilay Patel returns to the show to talk about Apple’s “Far Out” event, the iPhones 14, and The Verge’s redesign.…

Federico Viticci has some screenshots showing the tweaked battery-with-digital-percentage display in 16.1 beta 2. In 16.0, you could either have the remaining charge displayed graphically, as a “meter” within the battery icon, or digitally, as a numeric…

ForecastAdvisor:…

Delightful new weather app for iPhone and Apple Watch. If you, like me, miss the infographic-based layout of the late great Weather Line, I dare say you must check out Mercury Weather. Great presentation, and I’m particularly digging the dearth of settings.…

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com, in an interview with Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar for AIGA’s Eye on Design:…

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors:…

Sami Fathi, reporting for MacRumors:…

Kyle Wiens, writing for iFixit:…

Especially fun when you recall that the two Steves had been commissioned by Atari to create Breakout.  ★ 

Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app. Warp’s input area is a real text editor so users can use IDE keyboard shortcuts to write commands. It groups command input and output together so users can…

My thanks to iMazing for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. iMazing is a native Mac — and Windows — app that enhances local management of iOS and iPadOS devices with powerful and convenient features beyond what Apple provides in its own…

There are two super interesting innovations with the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. There aren’t any interesting innovations with the iPhone 14 or 14 Plus — which fact itself is actually pretty interesting, strategically.

Sarah Perez, reporting for TechCrunch:…