Our Top Amazon Early Black Friday Picks I Finally Tested the M5 iPad Pro’s Neural-Accelerated AI, and the Hype Is Real Apple Announces 45 App Store Awards Finalists for 2025 MacStories Setups Update: An Apple Gear Refresh, Dual-Screen Gaming, and HomeKit iPadOS 26.2 Beta Restores Drag and Drop Gestures for Split View and Slide Over...

This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John kick off their holiday app and automation experimentation season a little earlier than usual with a mix of apps, automations, and services. On AppStories+, Federico and John look ahead, considering the future of Shortcuts and automation. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro...

Next week is Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. and with half of the Weekly team here, we’ve decided to take a short break to unwind with family and friends. We’ll still publish the Monthly Log next week, and Weekly will return the following week on December 5. In addition to a little time off,...

Willow is a new AI-powered dictation app for the iPhone and Mac that includes a bunch of features like automatic editing and formatting, style matching, contextual awareness, an AI mode for cleaning up simple messages, whispering and noise environment optimizations, and more. The first 200 readers who use the code MacStories200 on their Macs will...

Jonathan shares lost features he’d like Apple to bring back, Federico breaks down how he uses Shortcuts to add notes to his Notion daily notes, and John explains how he used a Claude Skill to filter one million Black Friday deals, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord...

Apple Introduces a Mini App Partner Program Featuring a Reduced Commission Edge Light Brightens Your Video Calls in the macOS Tahoe 26.2 Beta Picmal Streamlines Batch Conversion and Compression on the Mac Apple and ISSEYMIYAKE Introduce a Limited-Edition iPhone Pocket Google and Epic Games’ Settlement Is Far from a Done Deal...

This week, Jonathan recommends MD Vinyl, Federico gives Apple Music’s migration tool a spin, and John explains his week number workflow for organizing documents, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, and a recap of MacStories articles and this week’s episodes of MacStories podcasts....

This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, John and Federico spin a Saturday morning of iPhone app cleanup into a full-blown digital declutter across all devices with the help of some of their favorite apps. Then on AppStories+, Federico has more to share from his ongoing Typing Mind experiments, and John explains how he’s...

This week on MacStories podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John look at the hype surrounding AI browsers to see if there’s any there there. Then, on AppStories+, Federico explains his experiments with lightning fast alternative AI models in Typing Mind. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Overcast Pocket Casts Castro Spotify YouTube NPC: Next Portable Console...