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This week on the podcast: Federico has an M5 Ultra Mac Studio review unit and shares what local AI looks like on macOS today — and in the future.

David Smith: I have launched and withdrawn more than 50 apps from the App Store over the years, but never have I had a withdrawal sustain the consistent attention that Geneva Moon (and its astronomically accurate complications) has.

We are flying through September, and our St.

Doug Brown has dug up something previously lost to time.

Life is full of trade-offs.

This week on the podcast: Apple’s 27 OSes are out, but a new beta is already overshadowing them.

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Apple’s 27 OSes are rolling out today, and there’s a lot of great stuff to read: Federico’s epic iOS and iPadOS review.

As is tradition, I have made and cataloged a whole bunch of screenshots of the new version of macOS.

Mark Gurman has good news for Apple Store visitors: In many stores, Apple will replace the video walls with dedicated Genius Bars, marking a return to a familiar element from an earlier era.

Something remarkable happened over at Relay’s campaign for St.

David Smith: The eve of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders seems like a good time to look back at the iPhone 17 family’s adoption.

This is one of my favorite pages across Apple’s various websites.

In the shadow of Apple’s Surprise and Shine event, we grade our predictions and talk through the news.

Kate Matthews has an on-going project that I just love: I’ve been sketching size comparisons for the new iPhone models since 2017, so in 2026 I’m celebrating ten years of iPhone size sketches!

Well, this little Easter Egg in Apple’s 27 OSes is fun.

If you have an iPhone, you’ll want to check these out.

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors: The new starting prices for the three models now look like this: iPhone 16: $799 (+$100) iPhone 17e: $699 (+$100) iPhone 17: $899 (+$100) iPhone Air: $1099 (+$100) So that’s a $100 price hike on all four existing models in Apple’s…

If you have tried moving entries from Day One to Apple’s Journal app en masse, you have no doubt hit a wall.

Sam Gold on Mastodon, writing about the one version of OS X that allowed a user to put something to the left of the Finder icon in the Dock: [In] Lion DP1, you could set defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-left-of-finder -bool YES and get this. that…

Usually, there isn’t much news in August, but this year we got new desktop Macs and Tim Cook’s last day as CEO.

Apple’s iPhone event takes place next week, so we have gathered to make our picks.

Myke Hurley: Today is September 1, 2026 — the day that John Ternus becomes CEO of Apple.

Tim Cook, on X (gross): Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO.

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…it is also smaller than the one that shipped with the Pro Display XDR, but I guess having a zillion-dollar monitor has to come with some perks.

2012 was a weird time for iPad fans.

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Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest?

I am thrilled to announce Relay’s 8th annual fundraiser for St.

The Trump EPA has made a proposal that would lift requirements that force states to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data center construction projects.

Apple’s iPhone event is scheduled for September 9.

Apple’s Polishing Cloth is now just $9.

There’s big news in the land of small desktops.

As is our annual tradition, Myke and I have published a Q&A to mark Relay’s anniversary.

Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park at the Pew Research Center: Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021.