What Makes a Great Modern Shortcuts Action? 
This week, Federico and John consider what it takes to create a great set of modern Shortcuts actions using examples of what Apple is doing in its own apps and what some of our favorite third-party apps are already doing to make Shortcuts accessible to a wider audience and more useful to power users.
Repurposing Quick Note for iPad as an Obsidian Launcher As part of the process of writing my annual iOS and iPadOS review, I constantly re-evaluate Apple’s default apps and how they’ve changed over the past year. One of the apps I’m always keeping an eye on is Notes, particularly on the iPad because of its system-wide Quick Note capturing feature, which lets you capture...
2022 OS Preview: watchOS 9
This week, John is joined by Alex Guyot to talk about Alex’s MacStories origin story and walk through all of the changes coming to watchOS this fall as part of the MacStories Summer OS Preview series.
How iOS and iPadOS 16 Are Affecting Our Lives
Wiping Significant Locations from iOS’ Intelligent Suggestions Silvia and I recently bought our first house in Rome (hence why I couldn’t go to WWDC this year and why my schedule has been all over the place for the past four months), and, as part of our move, we obviously ended up with a new address. In addition to all kinds of paperwork...
Our ‘Recently Added’ Apps
2022 OS Preview: The System Apps (Part 2)
This week, Federico and John conclude their in-depth look at changes coming to Apple’s system apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including Home, Notes, Reminders, and Shortcuts.
2022 OS Preview: The System Apps (Part 1)
This week, Federico and John continue the MacStories Summer OS Preview Series with part one of their in-depth look at changes coming to Apple’s system apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including Weather, Clock, Safari, Mail, Messages, and Photos.
Club Members Dive into Lock Screen Customization Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: Earlier this week on our Discord server, I asked our members who have installed the iOS 16 beta to share some examples of the custom Lock Screens they’ve set up so far. The resulting thread is a fascinating look at how early iOS 16...
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