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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.
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Interesting Links

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding streaming console games on iOS devices, and while it’s certainly useful that the Xbox app will allow games to be streamed from a console, this is not the same as streaming directly from Microsoft’s servers, which is prohibited by App Review Guidelines. (Link) Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale, which...

Interview: Tanmay Sonawane

Twitter: @tanmays. Website: tanmay.me. Creator of Soor,an iOS music app. Soor offers widgets that enable significantly more functionality than what’s found with the widget for Apple’s Music app. How did you decide what functionality to include, and what to leave out, when developing Soor’s widgets? Right from the day that iOS 14 beta 1 dropped,...

In This Issue

Tempo: Workout Log for Runners, Volume 3 of apps with iOS 14 widgets, 10 more giveaways, an interview with Soor developer Tanmay Sonawane, Mail for Mac and Twitter for iOS tips, automating Hue lights, plus the usualLinks, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories podcast episodes....

Previously, On MacStories

Sticky Widgets Brings Simple Sticky Notes to Your Home Screen iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Betas Reveal New Emoji Coming Soon Pixelmator 2.6 Adds Pointer Support and More Than 70 Keyboard Shortcuts for iPad Users Deliveries Modernizes with Improvements in Every Corner of the App Justin O’Beirne Details Apple’s Update to Its Maps Data in the...

Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John explore the many terrific music widgets available for iOS and iPadOS 14. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover Sticky Widgets, GoodLinks, Pixelmator, Deliveries, new emoji, and the UK and Ireland Maps update, plus two music Unwind picks....

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In This Issue

This month, Federico explains how he’s using Soor’s widgets and Magic Mixes, John shares his first impressions of the Nike edition of the Series 6 Apple Watch, and Ryan experiments with a new task management system....

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Our thanks to YOUMAKER for sponsoring MacStories this week.