This week, Federico and John conclude their annual OS wishes series with a look at what they want to see in macOS this year at WWDC.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- Sourcegraph – Universal Code Search. Move fast, even in big codebases. Try it now.
- Instabug – Empower mobile teams to monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues and ship better mobile apps.
Links and Show Notes
Our macOS 13 Wishes
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This week, Federico and John tackle iPadOS and the changes they’d like to see come to iPad this year, and they revisit some of their Shortcuts wishes for 2022.
- RevenueCat – Subscription management built for mobile apps.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- Sourcegraph – Universal Code Search. Move fast, even in big codebases. Try it now.
Links and Show Notes
Our iPadOS Wishes
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Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: Nate, the winner of the Best Media Shortcut category for Automation April, shared a MacStories-themed red icon for iPod Shuffle, their winning shortcut. John shared an interesting idea on how to combine Obsidian and Bike, which he reviewed earlier this week. Member Marc looked...
This week, John and Alex tackle their watchOS 9 wishes, and then Federico and John are joined by Myke Hurley to consider what they’d like to see added to tvOS 16.
- Sourcegraph: Universal Code Search. Move fast, even in big codebases. Try it now.
- Instabug: Empower mobile teams to monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues and ship better mobile apps.
Links and Show Notes
watchOS
- Alex Guyot’s most recent watchOS reviews:
tvOS
- A sampling of Myke Hurley’s tvOS coverage on Relay FM’s Connected:
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This week, Federico and John kick off their annual ‘OS wishes’ series with a look at their wishes for iOS 16, including everything from system-level features to the iPhone’s built-in apps.
- Sourcegraph: Universal Code Search. Move fast, even in big codebases. Try it now.
- Instabug: Empower mobile teams to monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues and ship better mobile apps.
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Our iOS 16 Wishes
- Context:
- Wishes
- Interactive Widgets
- More Widget Sizes
- The Lock Screen
- Notifications Redesign
- More Home Screen Wishes
- Multitasking
- Files
- Keychain and Reading List
- Music
- Notes
- Share Sheet
- Reminders
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I have a theory: when it comes to Reminders, Apple cares more about tagging than they do about traditional lists. Think about it: regular lists have been essentially left untouched for the past several years; meanwhile, tags have been implemented cross-platform, in two apps (Notes and Reminders), and they are at the foundation of smart...
This week, Federico and John revisit the state of gaming on Apple’s platforms considering hardware, OS support, services, and the games themselves.
- Pillow – Sleeping better, made simple.
- Sourcegraph – Universal Code Search. Move fast, even in big codebases. Try it now.
- Instabug – Empower mobile teams to monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues and ship better mobile apps.
Links and Show Notes
- MacStories Controller Coverage
- Apple Controller Rumors
- Controllers
- Streaming Games on Apple Platforms
- App and Game Preservation
- App and Game Preservation Coverage on MacStories
- Games John Is Currently Playing on iOS
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Yesterday, I tweeted about an issue I’ve noticed with Shortcuts’ ‘Match Text’ action in the latest iOS and iPadOS 15.5 betas: all my shortcuts that try to match text with regular expressions are now failing since the app keeps asking me to confirm which text I’d like to match, without ever exiting this loop. I’m...
I was recently going through my email to turn a few messages I received into Markdown documents I needed to send John, and after doing some manual copy and paste and hopping back and forth between Spark and TextEdit a few times, I realized: Why am I not automating this? So, as is often the...
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