Daring Fireball

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In my review, I wrote about creating a Shortcuts workflow for the iPhone 15 Pro Action button that showed a menu on screen offering options to launch the Camera app or toggle silent mode. After publishing, I came up with something better:…

12 hours of nonstop fun and nonsense to raise money for one of the best causes in the entire world: curing childhood cancer and helping families affected by it. They’re already approaching half a million dollars raised this year. Don’t be cheap: give…

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:…

1:00am photos outside Apple Store Walnut Street here in Philadelphia (mirrored on Threads). Video killed the radio star; pre-order killed the campouts.…

The Wall Street Journal informs us that Apple silicon was easy, but cellular modems are uniquely difficult.

Michael McWhertor, reporting for Polygon on what I consider the most eye-catching of the revelations from Microsoft’s botched document upload to the FTC:…

Allison Johnson, The Verge:…

Victoria Song, writing for The Verge:…

Martin Feld’s Really Specific Stories is a podcast series “about tech podcasting, its devoted community of producing and listening fans, and the value of a medium based on open RSS”. I never find it comfortable talking about my work, but Feld is a lovely…

The Associated Press:…

Titanium, computational photography advances, the Action button, and an innovative new connector called “USB-C”.

Multi is a new macOS collaboration layer that makes any app multiplayer.…

At this point AirPods Pro 2 are as much better than the original AirPods Pro than the original AirPods Pro were from just-plain AirPods. They’re far more than wireless earbuds — they’re clever, powerful, delightful computers you put in your ears.

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. In the few short months since ChatGPT debuted, hundreds of AI-powered tools have come on the market. But while AI-based tools have genuinely helpful applications, they also pose profound security…

MacOS 14 Sonoma is coming next Tuesday, September 26, but all the other annual new major versions of Apple’s platforms are out today: iOS and iPadOS 17, WatchOS 10 (which really rejiggers the way WatchOS is organized), tvOS 17, and the iOS 17 “firmware”…

Paresh Dave, writing for Wired:…

Panos Panay, on Twitter/X:…

Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac:…

Dr. Drang:…

The Super Bowl of technology.

I came away from Tuesday’s keynote with the impression that, like Apple, Hermès would no longer be making leather Apple Watch straps. But that’s not the case. Apple itself is only selling Hermès watches with fabric and rubber straps, but Hermès itself…

For those of you short on time, these synopses from The Verge are great.  ★ 

Alexandra Bruell and Lindsay Ellis, reporting for, I swear, The Wall Street Journal:…

There were rampant rumors pre-event that Apple was going to raise the prices for the iPhone Pro models this year, but they didn’t. They did, however, eliminate the 128 GB $1099 iPhone Max model. There’s a 128 GB iPhone 15 Pro for $999, but the entry model…

Today’s a travel day for me, flying home from San Francisco. While I’m working on a column regarding yesterday’s event, Dithering subscribers already have my short take, with an episode Ben Thompson and I recorded this morning. One spoiler: I think we…

It seems like every company is scrambling to stake their claim in the AI goldrush — check out the CEO of Kroger promising to bring LLMs into the dairy aisle. And front line workers are following suit–experimenting with AI so they can work faster and do…

In sports terms, the Pro models are the offense, and the non-pro models are the defense. And it’s defense, they say, that wins championships.

CNBC has another excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk, this one telling the tale of Musk and his cousins moving thousands of servers from a data center in Sacramento to another in Portland:…

Ian King and Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:…