Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Ears Are Weird
- Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
- Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
- μm is a “micron”
- The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
- iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed
- A19 vs. A19 Pro
- A19 Pro benchmarks
- The N1 is in every new iPhone
- The whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau
- Casey’s memory problems corner
- ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)
- The mmWave antenna window is back
- Logo placement on Apple’s cases
- Some funny renders from iPhone case makers
- Theories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors
- iPhone Air
- Will it bend?
- 17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)
- Max Tech’s discoveries
- The Air does not have stereo speakers
- The Dynamic Island is lower than on other phones
- The USB-C port is not vertically centered
- No Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie camera
- The new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensor
- No LiDAR scanner
- Air & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2
- Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution
- iPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off
- Apple Watch
- Satellite data requires a cellular plan
- Jason & Greg Pierce agree
- Is “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?
- Underscore’s observations about the Ultra
- AirPods
- Ear shapes (via Tirial)
- About that “2×” noise reduction
- The new AirPods Pro case is not smaller
- “New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chip
- Live translation is on-device (not in ☁️)
- Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts
- Safari on iOS 26’s compact toolbar
- Tahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test page
- Post-show: John’s red dot
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation
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A Long T-Shirt
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- iPhone event
- Post-show:
- Apple trade-in
- ✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s competing implementations for the new Siri
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Shorts-Compatible Body Type
- Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
Settings→Apps→Safari
- Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
- Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.)
- Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.)
- So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan)
- How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time by D. Griffin Jones
- Fun fact: you can add it to the Health app! (via Niv Ben-Porath)
- A truly hilarious story from Anonymous
- Developing “product sense” (via Joseph Kibe)
- Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
- iPhone 16 exit interview
- iPhone event preview
- Crossbody strap
- Apple Natural Titanium Milanese Loop (Marco’s summer watch band)
- Post-show: Smaller e-ink note-taking tablets
- Members-only ATP Overtime: US government buys 10% of Intel
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Athletically Engaged
- Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
- Follow-up:
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
- Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
- 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
- Help with Trackpad dragging
System Settings→Accessibility→Pointer Control→Trackpad Options…→Dragging Style→Three Finger Drag- …or
Drag Lock
- Masimo comes for [more] blood
- UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
- Studio Display with A19
- Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
- Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
- Apple’s Hide my Email feature
- An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
- Anecdote from David Beck
- Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
- Interactive logo
- Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
- “TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
- Maijin Bu on TechWoven
- …and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
- Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
- Ask ATP:
- What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
- Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
- How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
- Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
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Warning Stories
- Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
- Follow-up:
- Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
- ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
- Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
- John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
- 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
- Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
- 😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
- A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
- Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
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- Ask ATP:
- Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
- How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
- Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs
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