Apple has created a new four-month program called Path to Apple Card to help customers improve their credit scores so they qualify for the card. (Link) With many people staying home during the global pandemic, Amazon Prime has introduced Watch Party, a new feature that allows subscribers to the video streaming service to watch movies...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, special follow-up coverage of the Apple Design Awards. Today on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John cover the Apple Design Awards, new details about the Apple Watch, Big Sur’s redesign, additions to Apple Maps’ Look Around feature, The New York Times’ departure from Apple News, plus AppStories, Club MacStories, and...
In This Issue
This month, John wonders whether Sidecar is a grand touchscreen Mac experiment, Stephen considers the design changes coming to the Mac with Big Sur, and Ryan shares some of the apps he’s switching to while testing iOS and iPadOS 14....
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Interesting Links
Google is changing the default length of time it saves data collected about you to 18 months for newly-created accounts, although it can be shortened to as little as three months if you prefer. (Link) Less than a year ago, Tyler Blevins aka Ninja moved to Microsoft’s Mixer videogame streaming service, kicking off a bidding...
MacStories Unplugged
[[unplugged_artwork]] After a long week with too little sleep, John explains the Illinois cicada invasion, Federico gets ready to write his iOS and iPadOS 14 review, we preview some of our summer plans for MacStories and the Club, and we explain why we hope that WWDC will return to being an in-person event next year....
Previously, On MacStories
A GoodLinks Read and Listen Later Shortcut and Custom Action Apple’s WWDC 2020 Design Sessions David Smith on Sleep Tracking in watchOS 7 and Its Likely Effect on Sleep++ Everything Changing in Apple Notes and Reminders in iOS and iPadOS 14 Apple Silicon Macs Will Add a New Boot and Recovery Mode The Talk Show...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John cover updates coming to Messages, Home, Notes, Reminders, and Safari this fall. Today on MacStories Unwind, wewrap up WWDC by talking about the broad themes of the conference, the OS overviews on MacStories, other news from the week, plus AppStories, the Club, and some Unwind music...
In This Issue
A collection of Ryan’s favorite featuresacross every OS announced at WWDC,Federico shares hisfirst iOS and iPadOS 14 shortcuts, John dives into the workflows he used to keep up with the firehose of information during WWDC, an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged,plusWeekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming MacStories...