Stories Automation Academy: Leveraging Reminders to Make Saving Tasks to Things More Reliable On-the-Go Home+ 6.2 Adds a Battery Smart Section and Widget Fantastical’s Widgets Pair Interactivity with Superior Design Is Apple’s Translate App Still Getting Lost in Translation? Apple Announces a New, More Affordable Apple Pencil That’s Coming in November Announcing the Club MacStories...
Home Screen: Tim Nahumck
Mastodon: @Nahumck. Club MacStories member. When widgets were first introduced all the way back in iOS 14, it completely changed my Home Screen. At the time, I used a long press with most app icons to gain more functionality. When the behavior of Shortcuts automations and the aesthetic Home Screen phase started, I incorporated better...
Home Screen: FlohGro
Mastodon: @FlohGro. Senior Software Developer from ?? Germany. Check out my Website where I share things I create around Drafts and other Apps I use. Customizing my Home Screen is a never-ending story for me – this year was no different due to the new interactive widgets. During the beta period, I played around with many...
In This Issue
This month, John ranks the Apple Watch Ultra bands and shares his plans to ramp up his home automation projects....
Watch Faces, Podcasts Management, Non-Apple iPhone Cases, and More
Johnathan: This week on the Club MacStories Discord, members have been busy getting to grips with their new iPhones, sharing new setups, problem-solving lots of automations, and trying many, many different actions for the new Action button. Among the other highlights, itsmesofia asked about everyone’s new watch face setups and got lots of great replies....
The Making Of the iOS and iPadOS 17 Review Animations and Artwork
Michael Steeber Mastodon:@michaelsteeber. Website:michaelsteeber.com. I was thrilled when Federico invited me back for a second year to create the iOS and iPadOS 17 review artwork. I’ve had concepts in mind since last year’s review that I hoped to get another opportunity to try. There are only so many ways to present iPhones and iPads in...
Using a Simple Automation to Get Charging Alerts Across My Apple Devices
Jonathan Reed Mastodon: @jonathanreed. Designer at design.studio Charging is one of the most essential yet boring parts of owning a mobile device or computer. This is true despite Apple recently making it more useful, as Federico pointed out in his iOS and iPadOS review this week. However, charging becomes frustrating when you have multiple devices...
In This Issue
Federico has more on the making of his annual iOS and iPadOS review, plus two Club MacStories+ and Club Premier-exclusive Obsidian plugins, Michael Steeber explains the making of the animations and 3D art he created for the review, Jonathan shares a simple automation for sending battery charge alerts to his devices, plus the usual Links,...
In This Issue
This month, Federico plunges into the darkest, most complex corners of home automation while John explains his approach to collecting classic Nintendo games....