{.app-collection} [[ryan]] Obscura 2 Obscura is an excellent manual camera app that offers advanced photography tools in an intuitive and delightful interface. Version 2 of Obscura introduced the Control Wheel, the app’s primary navigation tool by which you scroll through camera settings. I love using the Control Wheel because it offers haptic feedback with every...
Testing and Tweaking My Toolset in September
[[ryan]] September is a very busy month if you work in journalism and cover Apple. It’s the month all of Apple’s software platforms receive major new releases, and along with those OS debuts, app developers often release a flurry of updates to their apps taking advantage of the latest APIs and OS features. September is...
Our Favorite Watch Apps, Vol. 4
{.app-collection} [[ryan]] It’s been one week since the Apple Watch Series 4 landed on the wrists of early adopters, and as such I thought now would be a great time to highlight some of the best apps watchOS has to offer. Whether you’re brand new to the Apple Watch, or you’re simply interested in getting...
Accessing Control Center Inside Apps on watchOS 5
[[ryan]] Every time a new major version of an Apple OS launches, there are a variety of smaller features and improvements that may get easily missed. One of the best watchOS 5 features you likely don’t know about is that you can now access Control Center not just from your watch face, but also from...
Q&A
Question: I have an Apple Watch Series 1, which works perfectly for me, and an iPhone 7. I would like to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 12. I know that I cannot upgrade to watchOS 5 though. Will the Watch work with iOS 12 on my iPhone? (Pedro) [[ryan]] First off, if your Watch is...
Morning Reader
[[ryan]] Morning Reader is such a simple app, with not much to it, that there really isn’t a lot I can say about it – except that, if you’re a tech news junkie like me, you should download it right now. I use Morning Reader every day, multiple times a day to find out what...
Moving with the Aid of Apple Notes
[[ryan]] As I write this, I’m riding the subway in New York City, having just arrived at my new home last night. My wife Jess and I moved this week from Texas, where we’ve both lived our whole lives, to the radically different urban environment of New York City. It goes without saying, but this...
Apple’s Plan for TV
[[ryan]] Apple’s history with the TV industry has been long and storied. For quite a while, rumors swirled that the company was working on a proper television set, and Steve Jobs even confirmed the rumors to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. He said, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to...
Twitter
[[ryan]] Let me say up front that I’m a big fan of third-party Twitter clients. Tweetbot and Twitterrific are both excellent apps that I’ve used at different times in the past, and I hope Twitter the company stops making it harder and harder to build a third-party client. That said, I’ve now been using the...