Software History

Shortcuts 2.2, the second major update to Apple’s automation app following October’s 2.1 release, has been released on the App Store today. The new version of Shortcuts, which has been available to developers for testing via TestFlight for several weeks now, brings a variety of smaller refinements and bug fixes; more importantly, it extends Shortcuts’

The Dependency Manager for iOS & Mac projects.

I remember when I bought my first iPhone, Twittelator was the first Twitter client I downloaded from the App Store. Back then I wasn’t writing for MacStories, and I didn’t know about Loren Brichter’s Tweetie. I used Twittelator for months: it was a great app that had everything I needed. I saw no point

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Tapbots’s long-awaited iPhone Twitter client just hit the App Store.

Starting next week, your in-app events can be discovered right on the App Store, giving you a whole new way to showcase your events and expand their reach. You can now create in-app events in App Store Connect and schedule them to appear on the App Store. These timely events, such as game competitions, movie premieres, and livestreamed experiences, can encourage people to try your app, provide existing users with new ways to enjoy your app, and give former users reasons to return. Events will appear on the App Store on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 starting October 27, 2021.Learn about in-app events

When iOS 4 landed on the iPhone and iPod touch, a lot of people expected there to be this explosion of multitasking applications that would enable us to do things like automatically copy information to our Pastebot clipboard. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. Private APIs are still a sorry subject for developers in Apple’s community, so

Thanks to a MS-DOS emulator called iDOS 2 on the App Store, you can install Microsoft Windows 3.1 on your iPad—then play classic Windows games or simply shock your friends. Here’s how to set it up.

iOS 15 brings new ways to stay connected, powerful updates that help users focus and explore, and intelligent features to get more done with iPhone.

Useful additions, but not flashy ones

When I reviewed iOS 7 last year, I took a different approach and tried to consider Apple’s redesigned OS from the perspective of someone who uses iPhones and iPads for work and personal tasks on a daily basis. I noted that a new structure enabled developers to make more powerful apps, and I concluded hoping

As announced at Apple's "California Streaming" media event on September 14, the public release of iOS 15 will be on Monday, September 20....

The History of iOS 14 | iOS 14 - 14.8 Features & Changes in Each UpdateiOS 14 came & went quickly but it did bring a ton of new features & changes that we ha...

Siri Shortcuts are a powerful new feature in iOS 12 that allow your app to expose its functionality to Siri. This enables Siri to suggest...

An iterative update after a major overhaul.

The other day a colleague and I were trying to remember how to get the icon art for iOS apps to help write notes. We though we remembered a way to get them out from examining the package. Later I w…

When a company stumbles, it's often not because it made a bad decision. It's because it made a decision that benefited itself rather than its customers.

How new laws and organizing workers could change the company forever

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You need to pick your priorities, but you can still find a great phone at this price.

Thoughtful, savvy indy iOS Devs.

Pastebot, the excellent clipboard / data management utility from Tapbots, has just been updated to version 1.4 which, among other things, adds support for the much requested clipboard in the background. How that works, however, is a little different from what the developers originally had in mind. Due to Apple’s restrictions when it come to persistent

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The annual Apple Design Awards recognizes technical and design excellence for iPhone and Mac apps. This year's ceremony recognized several great applications.

Tony Fadell doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. His parents were neither engineers nor scientists, but his grandfather gave him a passion for both building things and for design. His grandfather recognized his love for computing and offered to match whatever the then 11-year old Fadell had to help him buy his first computer—an Apple II.