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Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

Shake: Bug, Feedback, and Crash Reporting Tool for Your Mobile App [Sponsor]

Shake eliminates the headaches and hassles of processing bug reports in your mobile app. Tracking down bugs and fixing them is critical to your app’s success, but too often, identifying and resolving them is an inefficient mess. With the Shake SDK, you can streamline the process and get better data, allowing you to resolve more issues quickly and effectively.

Just add Shake to your app, and your users can submit a comprehensive bug report in seconds simply by shaking their device. Shake eliminates incomplete, vague bug reports so often submitted over email, social media, and word of mouth. With Shake, your users not only can communicate problems with screenshots but with screen recordings and markup tools, all presented inside your app.

Bug reports and crash reports are supplemented with loads of useful data that’s delivered instantly and automatically to a beautifully designed web dashboard that lets your team chat about the reported bugs, review logs, assign priorities, and tag them. Shake also integrates seamlessly with the other tools you already use, like Jira, Slack, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Trello. Developers can customize Shake to suit their particular needs delivering any variable value they want from users’ devices too. It’s a powerful set of tools that will help you debug issues in your apps 50 times faster than before.

Shake is free to try without any time limitations on its standard features, and you can upgrade to a premium plan any time to add more attachments per bug, unlimited tags and bug reports, and full activity history for up to 30,000 MAU. Try Shake today to learn how fast, efficient bug reporting and tracking can accelerate your app development process.

Our thanks to Shake for sponsoring MacStories this week.


Club Perks

ETA Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we have 20 copies of ETA 3.0, which was updated this week with an all-new Apple Watch app and is featured in this week’s App Debuts. This is a first-come, first-serve giveaway, so the first 20 members to click the button below will receive a code that can be...


Up Next, On MacStories’ Podcasts

Next week on AppStories, Federico and John look at Apple’s evolving approach to the way HomeKit devices and entertainment features are incorporated into the company’s OSes. This week on MacStories Unwind, we recap the week at MacStories, including stories on the features coming to HomeKit devices and tvOS this fall, upcoming FaceTime changes,...


Club Member Scott Willsey’s iPad Home Screen

Twitter: scottaw; Web: scottwillsey.com. Semiconductor industry old man, sometime programmer and Linux admin, full time iPad Pro and Mac afficianado. I have been all in on the iPad since getting myself an iPad Air 3rd generation and then graduating to a 2020 12.9” iPad Pro and now a 2021 12.9” M1 iPad Pro. Like all...


Previously, On MacStories

Apple Rolls Out Updated Apple Maps with Nationwide Look Around, Improved Navigation, and More in Italy FaceTime’s Audio and Video Take a Leap Forward With Apple’s Upcoming iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS Updates Apple Announces September 14 Event Apple’s Fall OS Updates Promise Deeper HomeKit and Entertainment Integration...


Announcing A Special Club MacStories+ Apple Event Town Hall

Earlier this week, Apple announced a special event that’s scheduled for Tuesday, September 14th. We’ll be covering the event on MacStories and following up with event-related content in MacStories Weekly later in the week, but we’re doing something more this year. As part of the Club MacStories+ Discord community, we hold monthly Town Hall live...


In This Issue

The cross-platform OS features that John is using most, what an Apple event day is like at MacStories, an ETA giveaway, Club member Scott Willsey’s iPad Home Screen, Club member Mac S’s desk setup, plus an announcement about an upcoming Club MacStories+ Town Hall and the usual Links, App Debuts, spotlight on the Club MacStories+...


Reader Setup: Mac S.

Twitter: @mmaaaacc. Detroit City FC supporter. Current Z Fold user. Favorite hobby: Endlessly scrolling through Steam library and never choosing anything. I live with a roommate, and while our apartment isn’t small, its layout is such that it necessitates my setup be part of our shared space; combine that with a remote job, and that...


Quill: Messaging to Make Your Team Better [Sponsor]

Quill is the messaging app and service that puts you, your time, and your focus first so you and your team can work together better.

With Quill, you’re in control of what messages you see and how much you see. That helps you stay focused and on task without constantly being interrupted. At the same time, though, Quill makes it easier than ever to get involved in the conversations and decisions that need your input.

Quill accomplishes all this by focusing conversations around threads instead of channels. You don’t need to follow a channel to be part of a thread. You can join one simply by starting a thread or being mentioned in one. It’s a simple, elegant solution that keeps conversations from getting mixed and muddled together. You can also decline to follow threads in the channels you do follow to cut down on the noise.

Push notifications are off by default for all channels and threads. Instead, events show up in the Activity Feed. Get caught up whenever works best for you instead of being interrupted and distracted. Of course, when something is truly urgent, you can send a priority mention, and the recipient is sent a push notification immediately.

When you see a thread you want to follow in the Activity Feed, you can follow it right then and there. You can also retroactively create a thread, split one thread into two, quote messages, move direct messages to public channels, and a whole lot more. Quill’s unique approach and features make it perfect for individual productivity while also facilitating remote collaboration among distributed teams.

To learn more and try Quill for free, visit quill.chat today. Messaging has never been more easy and natural.

Our thanks to Quill for sponsoring MacStories this week.