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October 2026

  1. iPhone 18 Pro Review: Apple’s priciest Pro phone ever poses a challenge for upgraders
  2. Typo found on 42-year-old spaceship
  3. ‘A Mac for the iPad Generation’
  4. Designing Mac apps for touch and multitouch
  5. Quick thoughts about the new MacBook Pro
  6. Clockwise 680: A Sick, Twisted Kind of Joy
  7. Designed in California 15: Building the Band (Part 3, Origin of the iPod)
  8. Sorry, new developers, it’s vibecodetown
  9. Apple clears the decks ahead of its biggest announcement
  10. ‘The Real Kevin Bacon’
  11. Filmlog: For the love of movies, now on the Mac
  12. The Rebound 622: Cut That Baby!
  13. Upgrade 643: The iPhone Duo Review
  14. Apple announces new iPad mini
  15. TSMC factories rise in the Arizona desert
  16. Critiquing is the way to learn to write ↦
  17. This Week in Apple: Open and shut reviews
  18. iPhone Duo: 24 hours in the Splash Zone
  19. (Sponsor) Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV
  20. 25 things you need to know about the product that changed Apple (and the world) (Tom's Guide/Jason Snell)
  21. 25 things you need to know about the product that changed Apple (and the world)
  22. Apple Music honors the iPod with… an iPod ↦
  23. The iPod, which set Apple on its course, turns 25
  24. The one guy who manages most of PHP distribution is a volunteer, of course ↦
  25. Is the beloved iPad mini the best iPad?
  26. iPhone Duo reviews in a nutshell
  27. Silly season
  28. Clockwise 679: Emotional Support Tabs
  29. Designed in California 14: Digital Hub (Part 2, Origin of the iPod)
  30. The Rebound 621: Hey, Can I Check Out Your Thing?
  31. App Report: Help is on the way
  32. Upgrade 642: iOS is Weird Now
  33. Get a handle on Finder file and folder names
  34. Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV
  35. HomeView versus Recipe Blog SEO
  36. Charting Apple TV pricing
  37. ‘Take Control of Photos, Fifth Edition’
  38. This Week in Apple: The pre-order thrill is gone
  39. A $299 Apple TV: Is that all there is?
  40. Fun! With! Preorders!
  41. HomeView is simple, and that’s a good thing
  42. Clockwise 678: Sliced by the Bleeding Edge
  43. The $299 product and the $299 product
  44. Share your location in Messages, now for a custom period
  45. New Siri Remote’s Find My feature limited to N1-equipped iPhones
  46. Designed in California 13: The MP3 Revolution (Part 1, Origin of the iPod)
  47. The Rebound 620: Giant Honkin’ Things in the Back
  48. Third-party HomeView apps? Think CarPlay
  49. Upgrade 641: A Fashion Chimney
  50. AirTag Silencer, Silenced
  51. New Home Collection banner offers Apple-influenced accessories
  52. New Apple TV 4K adds Siri AI support
  53. New HomePod mini 2 offers Siri AI–but not yet
  54. Apple announces HomeView smart display
  55. App Report: Apps worth grabbing
  56. Apple’s new home hub is ‘HomeView’
  57. Is Apple coming home to stay?
  58. This Week in Apple: Spooky season is upon us
  59. Security dilemmas and a fair-use chill
  60. Designed in California 12: Ron Johnson and the Genius of the Apple Store
  61. OpenAI silences familiar voices
  62. Apple sets homecoming for Oct. 13
  63. Clockwise 677: A Nice Cave Somewhere
  64. App Report: All that Jazz
  65. FCC filings for LG/Apple smart home devices uncovered
  66. Designed in California 11: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: Advisor to the Chairman (Part 7)
  67. Spotify opens new front in war on fair use
  68. Lex authors the apps, but Claude writes the code
  69. Is your secure iMessage conversation actually secure?
  70. Apple’s new parental controls are having a messy roll out
  71. The Rebound 619: How Am I Supposed To Launder This Money?!
  72. Upgrade 640: Moving Through Space
  73. Secretive helps you keep your SSH keys secret, keep them safe
  74. Apple is changing Full Disk Access in macOS
  75. This Week in Apple: Feeding the rumor monster
  76. Support St. Jude and watch the 2026 Relay Podcastathon
  77. October surprises, silenced AirTags, and new Kindles
  78. Amazon introduces new Kindles and accessories
  79. Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence
  80. ‘Shop Different’ Review: The Genius of Retail
  81. ‘Shop Different’ Review: The Genius of Retail (The Wall Street Journal/Jason Snell)

September 2026

  1. The Back Page: Know when to fold ’em
  2. Clockwise 676: Mad at a Supermarket
  3. Numbers update get statistical and trigonometry functions, and Apple tells you what they all are
  4. Designed in California 10: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: The Bake-Off (Part 6)
  5. The Rebound 618: Green Man and The Lime
  6. Upgrade 639: I Know How to Go to Sleep
  7. Why Stolen Device Protection makes Passwords safer
  8. This Week in Apple: Siri-ous money
  9. Imagining the next MacBook Neo
  10. Coherence X6
  11. Chips, bugs, and Apple Watch
  12. One week with Apple Watch Series 12 (and just getting started)
  13. The history of Apple Cards
  14. Apple renews Qualcomm patent deal
  15. Support St. Jude and watch the 2026 Relay Podcastathon
  16. App Report: Tiny delights
  17. Clockwise 675: I’m Very Used to Suffering
  18. The Rebound 617: HairTag
  19. Designed in California 9: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: Who’s NeXT? (Part 5)
  20. When your Mac just won’t let go of the Wi-Fi connection
  21. Upgrade 638: I Stared Directly into the M6
  22. COHERENCE X6: Turn websites into Chromium-powered Mac apps that behave like Mac apps
  23. Apple adds mode to temporarily limit the iPhone 18 Pro Max battery for shipping
  24. M6 Mac mini review: Tiny, pricey, and powerful
  25. This Week in Apple: With beta-ed breath
  26. New iPhones, new watches, and OS updates
  27. SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba
  28. Unsealed documents show Microsoft, OpenAI executives all too aware of ethical concerns
  29. David Pogue tests Siri AI
  30. Apple showing off iPhone 18 Pro at final ‘Friday Night Baseball’ game of season
  31. Clockwise 674: The Eyes Will Be Pretzels
  32. The Rebound 616: I’m Down With A P P
  33. Designed in California 8: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: To Be, or Not? (Part 4)
  34. App Report: The apps that go with you
  35. Apple ties iCloud+ pricing to video summaries
  36. Upgrade 637: My Job Is to Eat the Marshmallow
  37. Lex Friedman keeps Strategery alive
  38. iOS 27 Review: Little things mean a lot
  39. macOS 27 Golden Gate Review: Bridging the Tahoe gap
  40. Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource: Play Any App’s Audio, Anywhere You Want
  41. This Week in Apple: Trio the screens, Duo the price
  42. John Ternus and the iPhone Duo arrive
  43. Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV
  44. Your Apple Watch isn’t recording audio, it’s flowing it
  45. Should your Apple Watch always be listening?
  46. Backstage Zoom: iPhone event reactions
  47. The Rebound 615: What’s Wrong With You Guys?
  48. Don’t call it an iPad
  49. John Ternus enters, with folding phones and AI watches
  50. Upgrade 636: Opening a Book Backward
  51. The iPhone Duo: Tradeoffs, but fewer than feared
  52. Clockwise 673: Respect the BIG DUCK
  53. Bloomberg: iPhone Duo to start at $2000, offer Apple Pencil support
  54. Migrate to Apple Passwords from your current secret-keeper
  55. CarPlay on GM cars: Not dead yet?
  56. Designed in California 7: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: Plan Be (Part 3)
  57. Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly block ads on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV
  58. This Week in Apple: Counting Apple CEOs
  59. The Ternus era kicks off and Apple’s upcoming announcements
  60. Clockwise 672: OnlyMolars
  61. The Rebound 614: That’s People
  62. Designed in California 6: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: Copland (Part 2)
  63. Designed in California 5: Apple’s Mac OS Crisis: The End of the Road (Part 1)
  64. Diagnosing sentiment in my typo-reporting workflow
  65. App Report: AI to the rescue! No… really

August 2026

  1. Upgrade 635: The 2026 September Event Draft
  2. The Back Page: Tim out!
  3. Blast from the past
  4. How to tap into network debugging

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